People Moves: 24th February – 22nd March

• Hearthstone Investments has hired former Architas head of UK Cedric Bucher as CEO
• Robert Mirsky has been appointed head of asset management for EisnerAmper’s London Office
• Andrew Hales joins Essencia Capital this month after a nine-year stint at investment manager and regulatory umbrella provider Hutchinson Lilley Investments
• MJ Hudson has appointed former Harneys partner Sean Scott as a partner in its hedge fund practice
• HSBC Alternative Investments Limited has selected Tim Williams as head of real estate investment
• EQT and the EQT Ventures Fund has hired Martin Eriksson as executive in residence
• Amundi has selected Cristina Matti as head of European small and mid-cap equities and country strategies
• Macquarie Capital has appointed Erik Jorgensen as MD in its European Principal Investment business
• Toscafund Asset Management has hired Patrick Carey to work on its nascent private equity strategy
• Shirin Dehghan is joining the scale-up focused tech VC, Frog Capital, as partner on the investment team
• The head of global strategy at Brevan Howard Asset Management Luigi Buttiglione has left the firm after 10 years, becoming the latest in a line of senior partners to leave the UK hedge fund
• Lochiel Crafte the head of State Street Global Advisors Asia-Pacific business has been promoted to a role overseeing global sales, filling a post left empty after a management reshuffle last year
• Fidelity International has added Kim Politzer to its European real estate business as director of research
• Man Group’s discretionary arm GLG has appointed credit analyst Andrew Freestone to portfolio manager after five years at the firm
• Jim Campbell, manager of JPMorgan European Smaller Companies investment trust has stepped down from his role after 23 years
• Intermediate Capital Group has appointed Andrew Sykes as NED
• Anthony Orso, co-founder and former chief executive at Cantor Commercial Real Estate has left the firm to join Newmark Knight Frank
• Stanhope Capital has named former Cambridge Associates London head Alex Kershaw as a partner within its portfolio management team
• Principal Global Investors has named Frank Richter to lead its German and Austrian operations
• Arnaud Langlois has joined Lombard Odier Investment Managers to run a global equity fund
• Aviva Investors has appointed Colby McVey as client solutions director
• Prudential Funds named Brian Reid as an independent director for certain mutual funds offered by PGIM Investments
• LGIMH has named Kathleen Gallagher as NED

• Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European president has stepped down
• Craig Coben has been promoted to vice-chairman of global capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch doing away with the title in the process
• Stephen West one of Barclays MDs who worked on overhauling the bank’s sprawling technology systems has quit joining Macquarie
• Indrajit Bardhan global head of prime for Credit Suisse has departed the bank
• HSBC has appointed a new head of its team serving private equity clients in the US, Mark Epley has joined as head of HSBC’s financial sponsors group
• Sue Hayes has been appointed to the newly created role of group MD – retail finance at Aldermore
• Scott Duffy, head of physical and structured crude and products trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch has left the firm
• BNY Mellon Corp has appointed Katherine Starks as head of its asset servicing business in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and central and eastern European region
• Citigroup has selected Roberto Costa as MD for consumer and retail investment banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Credit Agricole has employed George Kalbin to work on its financial institutions syndicate desk
• Credit Suisse has appointed Paul Galietto head of global prime services to replace Indrajit Bardhan
• JP Morgan Chase & Co has confirmed former Bank of America Merrill Lynch executive Paul Wheeler has joined its oil and gas investment banking team
• Citigroup has appointed Laura Coady head of the EMEA structured finance syndicate desk
• Bank of America has promoted two investment bankers to be co-heads of U.S. mergers and acquisitions, Kevin Brunner and Ivan Farman
• Citigroup has appointed Andrew Truscott MD in its UK investment banking team
• Arne Groes has been appointed global head of primary and credit markets at BNP Paribas
• Martin Egan, who was previously co-head of global head of primary and credit markets, has been appointed vice-chairman, global markets client board at BNP Paribas
• BNP Paribas has promoted Fred Zorzi as global head of primary markets
• Citigroup has named Melvyn Merran as European head of credit trading for exchange-traded funds
• Moelis & Co has appointed Robert Glauerdt as MD
• Standard Chartered has hired Freddy Boom as head of industrials, services and transportation, international corporates for its North America department
• Yves Jacob has been hired as Societe Generale’s as global head of coverage for public sector entities
• Ignacio Blasco has been named MD in Houlihan Lokey’s Madrid office working in capital markets advisory
• Alexandre Fleury, global head of exotics trading, and Florent Sabot, head of exotic equity trading for EMEA and Asia, have both departed Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Citi Private bank appointed Thomas Schlaus as Zurich team leader covering family offices
• HSBC has named Mark Ma as director in its leveraged and acquisition finance team
• Chris Roberts is to join Moelis and lead the equity capital markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa