By Philip Wright
LONDON, June 16 (IFR) - Mark Lewellen is to become sole headof debt capital markets (DCM) and the risk solutions group(RSG), EMEA, at Barclays at the end of June.
He is currently co-head with Chris Rees, who is moving backto Scandinavia for family reasons. The pair will work with theleadership team over the next few weeks to facilitate thehandover.
Rees has been an investment banker for almost 20 years, thelast eight at Barclays. He initially led corporate risk advisoryfor Scandinavia, Benelux and Switzerland, subsequently assumingresponsibility for RSG for Northern Europe and then beingappointed co-head of RSG Europe. With the combination of the DCMand RSG businesses late last year, he became co-head of DCM/RSGEMEA alongside Lewellen.
Joining Barclays in 2000, Lewellen went on to become head ofEMEA corporate DCM, was appointed head of DCM for the region in2013 and assumed his current role in September 2014. Prior toBarclays, he was at UBS Warburg. (Reporting by Philip Wright; editing by Alex Chambers, JulianBaker)