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The Carnrite Group has added Senior Director, Geoff Angulo, to its team. Angulo brings over 25 years of experience in energy banking and management consulting.
“We have worked with Geoff before, and are excited to add him to the team. He is a great addition to our growing group,” said Alan Carnrite, CEO.
Angulo is an executive with over 25 years of experience in the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. In his most recent role at Jefferies LLC, Geoff led the execution of more than USD38 billion of oil and gas industry transactions, including asset acquisitions/dispositions, corporate mergers
Chicago-based alternative in investment firm Victory Park Capital (VPC) has appointed John Martin as senior advisor. Based in Chicago, Martin will support VPC’s private credit strategies, leveraging his thirty years of experience in the investment industry.
“Victory Park Capital has built a world-class private credit business with a highly talented and dedicated group of individuals, and I have an immeasurable amount of respect for the firm,” says Martin. “I look forward to working closely with this accomplished team to create sustainable value for the firm’s clients.”
Martin served as managing partner and co-CEO of Antares Capital, LP, a private
JP Morgan Asset Management has appointed Meg McClellan as Head of Private Credit in the firm’s Global Alternatives group, effective 1 January, 2020, to lead the firm’s major expansion in Private Credit.
In the newly-created role, McClellan will oversee the firm’s Global Special Situations, Infrastructure Debt and Commercial Mortgage Loan businesses and lead the firm’s development of new private credit solutions. She will be responsible for private credit platform growth, both organic and inorganic. McClellan currently serves as JP Morgan Asset Management’s Chief Financial Officer.
With USD146 billion in alternative assets under management, JP Morgan Asset Management has built one
FundRock Group has appointed Simon Gunson as Managing Director of its UK entity, FundRock Partners Ltd.
Gunson has worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years and has extensive knowledge of the European Funds market and the Funds Services business in particular. He has worked with clients internationally on business acquisitions, new fund structures and established outsourced service models. Prior to joining FundRock, he held senior positions at Citi and JPMorgan within their Funds Services business and also at Threadneedle Asset Management within the Operations and Product Development functions.
Xavier Parain, Group CEO of FundRock, says: “We are delighted
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has confirmed the appointment of Dr Wolfgang von Rintelen to the Exchange Management Board of EEX.
Von Rintelen, who joins current Board Members Steffen Koehler and Tim Greenwood, replaces Dr Tobias Paulun who has resigned from the office as of 6 December 2019 to stronger focus on EEX’s global growth strategy in his function as Chief Strategy Officer of EEX AG.
Von Rintelen joined EEX AG in April 2005 as Director of Legal and Compliance. In December 2005 he was appointed as Head of Market Surveillance and has been an active
High growth algorithmic trading company, Vanguard Capital AG, has appointed Ritabrata Bhattacharyya (Rito) to its Senior Management team.
Bhattacharyya brings with him 15 years of experiences as a professional quantitative trader, investment strategist and technologist. Having consulted leading global hedge funds in quantitative modelling and delta-neutral alpha-generation techniques, Bhattacharyya will play a key role in furthering the company’s vision to raise a new standard in trading financial markets using high growth algorithmic trading strategies and strong risk management.
Having earned a Master’s degree in Engineering and Computational Biology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Bhattacharyya went on to
Guernsey Finance CEO, Dominic Wheatley (pictured), is to stand down from his role after five years. Wheatley will leave the promotional agency on the 30 June 2020, having been in the role since December 2014.
Chairman Lyndon Trott says: “The board is grateful to Dominic for his commitment and performance over the last five years. We move forward from a positive base with a strong team and strategy established, and on the back of very positive outcomes during 2019.
“I shall be focused on recruiting the very best successor to work with the board to set and deliver the
Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan has appointed Joshua M Kaplan as a partner in its Estate Planning and Administration Practice. He joins from Dechert.
With more than a decade of experience in private wealth matters, Kaplan advises clients on a broad range of issues, including estate planning and administration; estate, gift and GST tax planning; business succession planning; charitable giving; and life insurance.
Kaplan’s clients include hedge fund and private equity fund managers, for whom he provides guidance in connection with estate planning issues related to fund formation, ownership and disposition. He regularly advises institutional clients regarding fiduciary issues and
State Street Corporation has appointed Brian Franz as chief information officer (CIO). Franz, who joins the Company in January 2020, will report to Chief Operating Officer, Lou Maiuri and become a member of State Street’s Management Committee, its senior-most strategy and policy making group.
Franz comes to State Street from Diageo PLC, a publicly traded multinational company, where he most recently served as chief productivity officer leading information technology, enterprise operations and business service functions across the company. Franz joined Diageo in 2008 as global chief information officer having served as CIO for PepsiCo International and in a number of
Mediolanum Banking Group has officially opened it new European Asset Management Headquarters in Dublin. The Irish operations of Banca Mediolanum comprise Mediolanum International Funds Limited (MIFL) and Mediolanum International Life Dac.
Mediolanum Banking Group has had a presence in Dublin since 1997. MIFL is responsible for the design, development, investment management and distribution of investment funds distributed to approximately 1.5 million clients in Italy, Germany and Spain whose needs are served by over 5,200 Family Bankersâ. A local 40-strong investment team manages cEUR42 billion of assets from the Dublin office.
MIFL is the R&D centre for investment management within
