The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Emirates NBD
Emirates NBD, which has a private banking operation, has appointed Miguel Rio Tinto as chief information officer to lead the group’s information technology division, and Evans Munyuki has been appointed as chief digital officer to lead the group’s newly-established digital office.

Rio Tinto joins Emirates NBD from McKinsey & Company’s Iberia office, where he was a partner responsible for major IT and digital transformations for financial institutions across Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. 

Before joining Emirates NBD, Munyuki was at Barclays Africa and IBM (USA and Africa). 

KKR
KKR, a global investment firm, has appointed Jacques Veyrat as a senior advisor to support KKR’s investment activities in France.

Veyrat currently manages his own company, Impala SAS, a diversified investment company with around €1 billion net asset value, active in energy, manufacturing, consumer brands, and asset management. 

Before founding Impala in 2011, Veyrat served as chairman and chief executive of the global merchant and commodity company Louis Dreyfus Group, and of telecoms company Neuf Cegetel before its acquisition by SFR.

Carey Olsen
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has continued the expansion of its finance practice in the Cayman Islands with the appointment of attorney Adam Bathgate as counsel.

Bathgate specialises in all aspects of finance and corporate work, with particular expertise in the areas of leveraged and acquisition finance, fund finance and structured finance. His experience includes working for Clifford Chance in Munich and London before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2010 to work at another offshore law firm.

Associate Hannah Diss has also joined Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands finance team, relocating from Dentons in the UK. She focuses on aviation leasing and finance, export credit finance and Islamic finance. 

Unicorn Asset Management
UK-based Unicorn Asset Management, the independently-owned fund manager,has appointed Alex Game and Max Ormiston to the role of assistant fund manager of the Unicorn UK
Growth Fund and the Unicorn Outstanding British Companies Fund, respectively.

Game will work alongside the Unicorn UK Growth Fund lead manager, Fraser Mackersie.

Ormiston will support director and senior fund manager, Chris Hutchinson.

Both Game and Ormiston have been members of the Unicorn investment team since joining the firm in 2014. They will both continue in their current roles working alongside Chris Hutchinson on the management and development of the Unicorn AIM inheritance tax portfolio service.

Schroders
Global investment manager Schroders has appointed Sir Damon Buffini to its board, effective 1 February. 

He will also be a member of the nominations committee.

Buffini spent over 25 years in private equity joining Schroder Ventures in 1988. He was managing partner of Permira from 1997 to 2007 before becoming chairman. After retiring in 2010, he remained a senior advisor until 2015. 

He is a governor of the Wellcome Trust, chairman of the National Theatre, senior independent director of the PGA Tour and was chairman of the Government's Patient Capital Review.