This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates from Gen II Fund Services, Nuveen, PWC Luxembourg, Robeco, Candriam and Ark Invest.
Gül Poslu
Gül Poslu (photo) has been named head of Benelux at Nuveen, a global asset manager with over some 1.200 billion in assets under management.
Poslu has more than 15 years of asset management experience and joins Nuveen from Goldman Sachs, where she was executive director institutional clients & head of consultant relations. Her other previous roles include senior business development at Achmea Investment Managers, investment manager at PGGM and trading risk analyst at ING Bank.
Based in Amsterdam, Poslu will be responsible for developing and maintaining Nuveen’s relationships with institutional clients across Benelux. She will also work closely with the broader global client group team and expand Nuveen’s partnerships with clients in this region. She will report to Romina Smith, head of continental Europe at Nuveen, who is based in Germany.
Richard Browne
Richard Browne has been appointed head of client services for Luxembourg at New York-headquartered private equity fund administration provider Gen II Fund Services.
Browne joins from Credit Suisse Fund Services, where he was head of private asset fund administration, and will be responsible for developing Gen II’s expanded full service offering, including ManCo and depositary capabilities.
Established in 2009, Gen II arrived in Luxembourg with the acquisition of the institutional business of fund services, management company and corporate governance solutions provider Crestbridge in April.
Delphine Berlemont
Delphine Berlemont has been named as the new head of human resources at PWC Luxembourg. She will report to Roxane Haas, people leader on the country leadership team at the firm.
Berlemont brings more than 25 years of experience in HR and finance, to support the firm’s people strategy, having held various leadership positions in HR at Amazon in Luxembourg, at Deloitte and at ING Luxembourg. She started her career in 1998 as an external auditor until she turned to her passion in 2009: managing human resources.
“The HR function is an extremely critical one, and ever more so in a rapidly changing world with accelerated technological advances and the required skill sets that are needed to harness those advances, while always maintaining a human touch and excellent client service,” Haas said in the announcement.
Diliana Deltcheva, Richard Briggs and Nicholas Sauer
Diliana Deltcheva, Richard Briggs and Nicholas Sauer will join Robeco, enabling it to expand its emerging markets offering. Robeco has pulled the three portfolio managers, specialists in emerging market bonds, away from Candriam.
With the expanded team, Robeco prepares for the launch of sovereign bond strategies in both hard and local currencies in the second half of this year. The strategies are to complement Robeco’s existing emerging market investment solutions, namely Asian bonds and emerging credits.
Paul Spells
Paul Spells has been appointed as director of northern European sales at ARK Invest Europe. He previously worked at Circa5000, where he was head of ETF sales UK. Prior to that, Spells was sales director at Orpheus Partners and business development manager at LGBR Capital.
In his new role, Paul will report directly to James Thomas, head of sales at ARK Invest Europe. The appointment comes shortly after ARK Invest Europe launched its first three European Ucits ETFs.
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