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

Hawksmoor
UK-based Hawksmoor Investment Management has appointed James Brent as its board chairman, with David Kempton standing down from the role, but remaining as a non-executive director. Brent was appointed to the board in January 2018 as a NED.

Brent is an entrepreneur based in the South West. Previously, he spent 25 years with Schroders, progressing from being the bank’s youngest-ever director to Citigroup’s global head and chairman of real estate and lodging. He holds a number of public sector positions, including that of chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.

Carey Olsen
Carey Olsen has appointed Sam Stevens, an international arbitration specialist, to join its dispute resolution practice as counsel, Stevens, a Bermudian, will return and be based at its Bermuda practice, 

Stevens, who takes up his post in March, has particular expertise in international arbitration, joins after more than six years at DLA Piper where he practised in both its Dubai and Singapore offices. Prior to DLA he worked at international law firms Norton Rose Fulbright in London and Clyde & Co in Dubai.

Carey Olsen Bermuda currently has a team of 16 fee earners with more arrivals expected in the early part of this year.

Waverton 
Waverton Investment Management has appointed Robert Healey from Daiwa Capital Markets where he was a director. Healey joins Waverton’s fixed income team to work on private client and charity fixed income portfolios. He will also work alongside Jeff Keen on the firm’s Global Strategic Bond Fund and Sterling Bond Fund.

Healey has more than 28 years of experience in bond markets. Prior to Daiwa Capital Markets he was head of euro fixed income corporate trading at Lloyds Bank International and has held senior positions at both Rabobank and Standard Chartered. He holds an MBA in accounting and finance, strategy, economics and marketing and has extensive regulatory experience. 

Renaissance Capital
Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Risana Zitha as chairman of the board of directors of Renaissance Capital (South Africa) and head of investment banking for Africa.

Zitha will coordinate the board’s work and supervise relations with stakeholders, and will report to Renaissance Capital co-chief executives Ruslan Babaev and Anna Vyshlova. At the investment bank, he will be in charge of client coverage and deal origination and execution, and will report to acting global head of investment banking Dmitry Gladkov. Zitha will be based in London.

Prior to this, Zitha was a former managing director in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley. He has more than 18 years of experience in the industry. He has executed mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions across multiple sectors, including transport, energy, utilities and natural resources. In addition to being a Sloan Fellow pursuing a master’s degree in leadership and strategy at the London Business School, Zitha has a BA in economics from Dartmouth College in Hanover.