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July 9 (Reuters) - The following financial services industryappointments were announced on Wednesday. To inform us of otherjob changes, email moves@thomsonreuters.com.
GOLDMAN SACHS
The investment bank has hired London-based oil marketer RoyGolender as vice president of energy sales from Barclays Plc, a company spokesman said.
At Barclays, Golender spent four years in commodityderivatives sales, according to his LinkedIn profile.
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO
The investment banking company has appointed DorotheeBlessing as vice chairman of investment banking in EMEA and headof investment banking for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Prior to this, Blessing was a partner and managing directorat Goldman Sachs Group Inc, where she was co-head of itsGerman region investment banking business.
WARBURG PINCUS LLC
The private equity firm said it appointed Michael Walsh, theformer head of a Visa Inc payment management unit, as anadviser in its technology, media and telecommunicationsinvestment team.
DEUTSCHE ASSET & WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The asset and wealth management division of Deutsche Bank AG, has hired five executives in the United States.
Deepak Khanna was named head of U.S. large-cap valueequities and joins from Lord, Abbett & Co. J.J. Wilczewski wasappointed co-head of the fund's Global Client Group andpreviously worked as head of advisory solutions at Aon Hewitt, adivision of Aon Plc.
Thomas Clarke was named head of the division's Lending &Deposit Products, Americas and joins from JPMorgan Chase & Co. The fund also hired two private bankers, Matthew Coombeand Patrick Menerey, both of whom join from Comerica Bank'sWealth Management Division.
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP (BNY MELLON)
The wealth management division of the bank hired Jay Peasleeas senior wealth director.
Peaslee was a wealth management adviser at the PrivateClient Reserve of U.S. Bank, a part of U.S. Bancorp. Hewas responsible for high net worth business development andrelationship management.
NATIXIS
The French lender named Eddie Leung as its regional head ofinsurance coverage for the Asia-Pacific. Leung was previously atHSBC, where he worked in the global banking and marketsdivision.
AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC
The independent brokerage firm hired financial adviser JohnPoulton to join its Providence, Rhode Island, office. Poultonjoins from Morgan Stanley where he managed $125 millionin client assets.
NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC
The asset management firm appointed Anton Kwang as a seniorportfolio manager for the Asia Pacific region to be based inHong Kong.
Kwang was previously the lead Asia Pacific portfolio managerfor the global real estate funds of Standard Life Investments,the investment management division of Standard Life PLC.
BARCLAYS PLC
Barclays appointed Jeroen Reyes Stolker as head of trade &working capital for the Middle Eastregion. Stolker joinedBarclays in 2007 in Europe. Before moving to Dubai he was basedin Madrid, leading the business development and productmanagement areas of Trade and Working Capital International.
BOFA MERRILL LYNCH
Bank of America Merrill Lynch named Claudio Piron and AdarshSinha as co-heads of its Asia rates and currencies strategyteam. While Piron was head of EM-Asia fixed income and FXstrategy, Adarsh was leading the G10 FX strategy, Asia Pacific.Piron will be based in Singapore and Adarsh in Hong Kong. Theywill work to help realize the synergy between its EM and G10coverage in Asia, the bank said.
Rohit Garg will join the company in September as Asia FX andrates strategist, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia.
Garg joins from BNP Paribas and will be based in Singapore.
DIAM INTERNATIONAL
The London-based company, a part of Asian asset manager DIAMGroup, has appointed Anthony Catachanas to its EMEA businessdevelopment team as senior business developer.
Catachanas joins from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, wherehe was responsible for global bank relations as well aswholesale and institutional business in the UK, Greece, Cyprus,Belgium and Luxembourg.
LIBYAN INVESTMENT AUTHORITY
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) appointed AbdurahmanBenyezza as acting chief executive and chairman of the board.
Benyezza is already a director at the LIA board and senioradviser to the Libyan oil and gas ministry. He was minister ofoil and gas from November 2011 to November 2012.
Abdulmagid Breish, previously chairman and interim CEO, wasasked to step down following an inquiry under the PoliticalIsolation Law passed by the General National Congress in 2013,LIA said.
INFLEXION PRIVATE EQUITY
The UK-based private equity firm appointed Jon Andrew asvalue enhancement director with immediate effect.
Andrew will work alongside the investment team. He hasearlier worked as managing director of the value enhancementgroup at UK-based private equity firm LDC, part of the LloydsBanking Group Plc.
BTIG LLC
The institutional trading and related brokerage servicesprovider appointed Dane Leone as a director and diagnostics andlife sciences analyst.
Dane joins BTIG from Macquarie Capital, where he coveredhealthcare and consumer stocks along with U.S. equity strategy. (Compiled by Rohit T.K. and Amrutha Gayathri in Bangalore)
