Sector developments and company hires

EMEA
Kingswood Holdings has appointed Lindsey McMurray and Howard Garland to its board from Pollen Street Capital. The move is as per the terms of the investment completed in September, which saw up to £80m committed by way of an issue of irredeemable convertible preference shares to certain investors and funds managed or advised by Pollen Street.  McMurray founded Pollen Street in 2013 and is the managing partner, as well as chair of its investment committee, while Garland is a partner of Pollen Street and focuses on investing in financial services businesses and credit opportunities.

Niels Bodenheim has been appointed as head of alternative credit at NN Investment Partners, as of 13 January 2020, overseeing assets under management of €40bn. He will report to Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, cio at NN IP. Bodenheim joins from bfinance, where he held the role of senior director - private markets. Prior to this, he spent 14 years at GE in various executive roles.

North America
BMS Capital Advisory has appointed Alex Orloff as director of capital markets analytics, reporting to its ceo Romulo Braga. Orloff will lead the development of qualitative investment diligence and quantitative market analytics for issuers and institutional investors. He was previously founder of Sybella Research and before that held a variety of positions as a senior analyst and portfolio manager, including in ILS at Twelve Capital.

Megan Messina has joined Symphony Asset Management as director, portfolio strategist - structured credit in New York. Messina was previously md, co-head of global structured credit products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which she left in 2016. Prior to her nine-year stint at the bank, she was a director at Citi in global structured credit products and before that credit derivatives trading.