UPDATE 3-MOVES-Citigroup, Piper Jaffray, William Blair
(Adds Citigroup, Piper Jaffray)
Jan 10 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@reuters.com.
CITIGROUP
Citigroup Inc (C.N) named Carl Levinson as its head of productivity improvement and re-engineering, according to an internal memo. Since September 2005, Levinson has served as executive of Citi's consumer lending group, which includes CitiMortgage, CitiFinancial Auto, Citi Home Equity and The Student Loan Corp.
PIPER JAFFRAY
Piper Jaffray said Michael Brinkman has joined the investment banking team to expand its health care practice on the West Coast. He will be based in the Palo Alto office.
WILLIAM BLAIR
William Blair & Co named nine new principals to the firm: Michael Abrahamson for institutional sales and trading; Daniel Daul and Jonathan Skinner for corporate finance; Kyle Harris, Jack Murphy and Corey Tobin for equity research; Mark Leslie and Ken McAtamney for investment management; and John Salvino for private client advisers.
CITIZENS FIRST
Citizens First Corp (CZFC.O) said Steve Marcum, formerly chief financial officer, left the company, effective immediately. It also promoted three senior officers; Todd Kanipe to executive vice president-credit administration and finance, Kim Harmon to senior vice president and principal accounting officer, and Dawn Forbes to vice president of finance.
MERCER
The provider of consulting, outsourcing and investment services, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc (MMC.N), said Eric Gelfgren has joined its European responsible investment team as a principal, based in Stockholm.
Mercer also appointed Susanna Jacobson as a responsible investment analyst based in London.
GRANT THORNTON
The business and financial advisers named Martin McGrath as a partner. McGrath has previously served as general manager of the IBM Canada business unit for the public sector and health care.
BANK OF IRELAND
Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking said Graham Dodd, Sonya Lovieno and Tony Tozzi will join it to create a technology and telecoms team. (Compiled by Ed Leefeldt in New York and Sharangdhar Limaye in Bangalore; Editing by Andre Grenon)










