UPDATE 1-MOVES-Arnold & Porter, Deutsche Bank, ING Real Estate
(Adds Arnold & Porter, Deutsche Bank)
May 6 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Wednesday. To inform us of other job changes, e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
ARNOLD & PORTER LLP
Law firm Arnold & Porter said Marcus Asner, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined the firm's white collar criminal defense practice as a partner in New York. Asner worked with the U.S. Attorney's office from 2000 to 2009, and served as chief of the major crimes and computer hacking/intellectual property unit from 2007 to 2009.
DEUTSCHE BANK AG (DBKGn.DE)
Deutsche Bank has hired Greg Starkins away from Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) to head up its U.S. aerospace and defense investment banking unit, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters. According to the memo, Starkins started his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch in 1996. He will report to Paul Stefanick, Deutsche's global head of industrials.
DEVELOPMENT CREDIT BANK
The bank named Murali Natrajan as managing director and chief executive officer. Prior to this assignment, Natrajan served as a global head for SME banking at Standard Chartered Bank.
ING REAL ESTATE
The multi-manager business of ING Real Estate has hired Matt Day to join the UK Fund Management Team in mid June. Day was previously head of RREEF's UK Multi Manager business.
AXA INVESTMENT MANAGERS
The firm hired Rob Bailey as head of sales, UK. Bailey previously was a UK Sales Director, before being appointed head of UK retail sales in 2006 and head of UK Sales in 2009 at AXA.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (RBS.L)
The bank made three new senior appointments to complete a management shake-up and further distance the part-nationalised bank from the era of former chief executive Fred Goodwin. Brian Hartzer will join from the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ.AX) and take responsibility for the UK retail, wealth and Ulster Bank divisions from Gordon Pell, the bank said.
The bank, now 70 percent owned by the government, also said on Wednesday that Paul Geddes, currently CEO of UK Retail, would join the bank's executive committee as CEO of RBS Insurance. Chris Sullivan, current CEO of Insurance, will become CEO of the UK Corporate Banking division. [ID:nL6563018]
MOELIS & CO
The boutique U.S. investment bank hired one time Morgan Stanley (MS.N) banker Kasim Kutay to develop its European healthcare practice, making its fourth senior European appointment in less than two weeks. [ID:nL6958984]
EVOLUTION SECURITIES
The independent investment bank named Ian Harwood as chief economist.
Harwood most recently worked at Dresdner Kleinwort, which he joined in 1994 and where he was head of economics and strategy and chief economist for over 14 years.
HCC INSURANCE HOLDINGS (HCC.N)
The insurance provider named John Molbeck as chief executive officer. In addition to his new position as CEO, Molbeck will continue as president.
AVIVA (AV.L)
The insurance group appointed Leslie Van de Walle as an independent non-executive director, effective May 6.
HELPHIRE GROUP PLC (HHR.L)
The UK-based company said it appointed Ian Wardle as finance director, effective immediately. Wardle joins from Camden Group Services, a Barclays Private Equity-sponsored business, where he was the CEO. (Compiled by Isheeta Sanghi in Bangalore and Jessica Hall in Philadelphia)
