Bay Street Buzz

This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.:

“Former Head of Lehman’s Calgary office, Tim Kitchen has taken on the role as the new Head of Investment Banking for Barclays Capital Canadian Office.

CIBC World Markets realigns:

Splitting up its Investment, Corporate and Merchant Banking teams…

Geoff Belsher, the former Head of Lehman Canada (Barclays Capital Canada) is the new Head of Investment Banking

Merchant Banking will be led by Paul Farrell (Canada), and Mark Hastings (U.S.)

Laura Dottori-Attanasio, formerly National Bank of Canada’s Chief Risk Officer will lead Corporate Credit

Darcy Browne joins as Managing Director, FX Institutional Sales coming from RBC Capital Markets

Several BMO Capital Markets appointments:

Dan Barclay has been promoted to Head of Canadian M&A

David Sawyer joined from Silver Point Capital as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Restructuring

Tom Krasnewich joined the Investment Banking Industrials Group in Chicago as Managing Director. Tom was previously at Deutsche Bank

Also in Chicago, Matt Anderson, who currently works in the Commercial & Industrial group, is joining the Metals & Mining team as a Director

Bob Nguyen moves from the Debt Capital Markets desk in Toronto to the Financial Institutions team as a Vice President, Investment Banking

Lee Westerfield is moving from Equity Research Media & Entertainment in New York into a new role as Managing Director in the Business Services & Media Group

Jonathan Dubroff is returning to the Investment Banking Business Services & Media team in New York as a Vice President after a two year visit to Barclays Capital

Hari Sambasivam has joined National Bank Financial as a Special Situations Analyst. Hari was previously a Biotechnology Research Analyst at Merrill Lynch Canada.

Also from Merrill Lynch Canada, former Mining Research Analyst Alka Singh joined Rodman & Renshaw in New York.

Todd Johnson, Institutional Equity Salesperson, left CanaccordAdams to join Paradigm Capital.

Naomi Ebata also joins the Paradigm desk from CIBC World Markets.

Jon Hykawy, former Technology and Alternative Energy Research Analyst left Research Capital to join clean tech company, Catch the Wind.

Linda Lebrun moved to Wirth & Associates, as a Senior Investment Analyst, previously Linda was at Jennings Capital as Special Situations and Industrial Products Analyst.

TD Securities brought back Trader Jason Meiers from Epic Capital where he was a Portfolio Manager.

Several changes at Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) and Brookfield Properties (BP):

Brookfield Properties’ Chief Executive Officer Ric Clark has been promoted to oversee the Global Real Estate Group at BAM

Former Managing Partner at BAM, Steve Douglas will take over Mr. Clark’s role at BP

Dennis Friedrich, President and COO of BP’s U.S. commercial operations becomes President and CEO

Former Senior Vice-President Paul Schulman takes over the COO role of BP’s U.S. commercial operations

Tom Farley becomes President and CEO of BP’s Canadian commercial operations.

Jan Sucharda takes over the COO role of BP’s Canadian commercial operations and will continue to oversee the Canadian office division’s strategic initiatives and the company’s fund initiatives

Pierre Matuszewski is now Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale (Canada).

RBC Dominion Securities hired Deutsche Bank energy banker Jeremy Low in London as a Director in Oil and Gas.

Debashish Shaw left VantagePoint Venture Partners’ Canadian office in Montreal to join UpClick as a Corporate and Business Development Analyst.

Laurent-Philipp Zarruk has joined the Global Credit Division at RBC Capital Markets as a Portfolio Analyst – Asset Based Lending; he was previously a Real Estate Analyst for Cushman & Wakefield in Montreal.

Bill Vlaad, bill@vlaadco.com
647-426-3890 (Direct)”

MRM