This week’s overview of transfers, appointments, promotions and other people news includes updates from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, Gen II Fund Services, Robeco, and Dubai-based GSB.
Jeffrey Dentzer
Jeffrey Dentzer (photo, left) has been appointed CEO of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), a Luxembourg bank owned by Chinese financial group Legend Holdings. Dentzer, who was named deputy CEO in January 2024, takes over from Marcel Leyers, who has been named chair of the board of directors, the bank announced on 22 May 2024.
Previously, Dentzer served as chief of Luxembourg market & CIB and was a member of the management board, where he led retail banking, wealth management, and corporate and institutional banking activities. BIL is 90 percent owned by Legend Holdings, based in Hong Kong.
Dentzer will replace Marcel Leyers (photo, right), who has been CEO of BIL since May 2019. Leyers has retired from executive management and has been appointed chair of the board of directors.
In his new role he takes over from Jing Li of Legend Holdings, who has served as interim chair since March 2023 and will now become vice-chair of the board. Leyers began his career at BIL in 1983, working as a relationship manager and later as head of corporate and institutional banking from 2011. He joined the executive committee in 2013.
Matt Le Noury
Matt Le Noury has been head of operations at Gen II Fund Services as the global service provider continues to expand its proposition and grow its team across Europe. He previously served as European head of private asset administration at Crestbridge.
The firm said Le Noury will play a key role in supporting Gen II’s expansion strategy in Europe by overseeing the business’s drive for operational excellence across Gen II’s European locations including Jersey, UK, Luxembourg and Ireland.
With more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and accounting, he is a qualified chartered accountant with expertise in private asset fund administration and accounting, and an in-depth knowledge of industry technology solutions.
Erik van de Weele
Erik van de Weele has joined Robeco as director of institutional and wholesale business development for Belgium and Luxembourg. He announced this via LinkedIn. Van de Weele worked at the Dutch branch of Allianz Global Investors for the past five years, the last 2.5 years of which as head. Before that, he was, among other things, director of sales at Janus Henderson Investors (Emea) and account manager at ABN Amro Asset Management.
Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones has been hired by Dubai-based financial services group GSB as senior debt advisor, a move that is said to expand the firm’s global wealth and advisory business.
Jones joins the company from Enness Global, where he served as a securities lending associate and corporate finance associate for over two years in Dubai. Prior to that, he was a finance broker at Raymond Jones & Company.
He has several years of experience advising international clients, specialising in complex debt financing transactions across corporate and real estate finance, as well as securities-backed lending.
David Smylie, group head of GSB Private, said Jones will be a key member of the GSB Private operation. Jones, he said, will strengthen the firm’s in-house, market debt and finance brokerage under the guidance of the division’s co-heads Jon Urquhart and Ryan Dixon. GSB was founded by Ross and Alison Whatnall in April 2021.
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