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By Owen Wild
LONDON, Oct 8 (IFR) - Sam Dean is to return to Barclays inthe New Year as chairman of global finance and risk solutions,according to an internal memo seen by IFR.
Dean, the former global head of equity capital markets atthe firm, began a sabbatical late last year for personalreasons. Americas ECM chief Brian Reilly took over the globalpost temporarily, and has now been confirmed in the position ona permanent basis.
In the new role, Dean will work with certain importantclients across financing, not just ECM. He will also takeresponsibility for attracting and retaining talent, a positionin which his personal experience will prove beneficial.
Building the European ECM team from scratch in the past fiveyears means Dean has a huge amount of experience in hiring andseeing how teams develop. He has become increasingly interestedin this area during his sabbatical, looking at how the industryadapts to the differing needs of "generation Y" analysts andassociates working their way up the business.
Dean has championed high performing juniors and acceleratedthem through the business at Barclays, with current co-head ofEMEA ECM Tom Johnson the most notable example. Johnson joinedBarclays as a vice president in ECM in late 2009 and within fouryears assumed his current role running the EMEA group.
Dean will work with co-head of investment banking JoeMcGrath and Richard Taylor and GFRS head John Langley. He isexpected to return full-time in February 2015. (Reporting by Owen Wild; Editing by Gareth Gore)
