Sector developments and company hires

Aon has named Joanna Parsons as strategic growth leader of UK capital advisory within the firm’s reinsurance solutions business, reporting to Ben Love, UK strategic growth leader for reinsurance solutions. In her new role, Parsons will help clients to understand the value of different growth, capital and reinsurance strategies, including in the securitisation space. Based in London, Parsons joins Aon from Claypole Partners, where she was founder and director, advising firms on strategic planning, process improvement and investor relations in the context of sustainable business growth. Before that, she held senior roles at ABN AMRO, HSBC and RBS.

In other news….

EMEA

Connor Daly has been appointed as the new CIFC head of European credit in its growing London office. Daly will join CIFC to oversee its European investment business, serving as md and senior portfolio manager. He will focus on expanding the firm’s existing European corporate credit investment platform, and will report directly to CIFC ceo and cio, Steve Vaccaro. He marks the latest hire to its 2018-opened London office as the firm continues the expansion of its European operation, and joins CIFC from Onex Credit where he operated as head of European cedit.

HIG Bayside Capital has promoted Mathilde Malezieux to md. Malezieux has over 16 years of investment banking and distressed investment experience. She previously worked at Nomura where she focused on European senior and mezzanine debt investments.

Howden Group has acquired TigerRisk Partners, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industry. The transaction significantly enhances the scale and depth of Howden’s reinsurance and capital markets offering and creates a much-needed fourth global player in the reinsurance market.

Leadenhall Capital Partners has promoted Lorenzo Volpi to deputy ceo. Volpi joined the firm in July 2010 from Aon and has been leading its business development function since then. He will maintain his responsibilities as head of business development and will attend some of Leadenhall’s governance bodies, including the management board and valuation and reserving committee.

Richard Sinclair has set up shop as a securitisation and structured finance advisor, advising financial institutions and corporates in issuer or arranger roles regarding structuring, management and refinancing of transactions. Based in Paris, he was previously md, securitisation and global co-head of conduit management and funding at Crédit Agricole. Sinclair’s involvement with ABCP began in November 1996 as a senior securitisation structurer at Crédit Lyonnais. Before that, he worked at HSBC and Geodis.

Dagmar Kent Kershaw is set to assume the role of chair of the board of Volta Finance, following the retirement of current chair Paul Meader – who has been a board member since 2014 - at the end of July. Kent Kershaw is currently a non-executive director of the company and chair of its risk committee. Following her promotion, she will also assume the role of chair of the company’s nomination committee, while the risk committee will be dissolved. Additionally, the Volta Finance board has appointed Yedau Ogoundele as an independent non-executive director, with effect from 1 July. Ogoundele has over 25 years’ experience in financial markets, developing fixed income activities and leading financial services businesses. She was EMEA head of market specialists at Bloomberg and has also worked at Credit Agricole and Natixis in various roles, including in CLO structuring and secondary loan trading.