Credit Suisse in London has hired Dennis Geelan as a director in the private banking division's UK investment solutions group. His role will be to deliver the bank's investment solutions to UK and international private clients, working with product specialists across all asset classes and services but concentrating on managed assets, hedge funds, structured products and private equity. He will also help develop UK-specific investment vehicles with the bank’s wealth planning group. Mr Geelan joins from Merrill Lynch, where he was a regional sales manager, responsible for the sales and marketing strategy of sales advisors to institutional and private clients in the Middle East and Africa. Earlier Mr Geelam worked for J&W Seligman in London and New York, and Lord Abbet.