Must-know promotions, exits, and hires at firms like JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Deutsche Bank

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Here's a rundown of news on hires, exits, and promotions from the past week.  Are we missing anyone? Let us know.

  • Deutsche Bank nabbed two new managing directors from its competitors this week.
    • Richard Robinson joins the bank as an incoming managing director and vice chairman in global industrials. Robinson will be based in New York and report to John Anos, global co-head of industrials at the German lender. Robinson was most recently the co-head of basic materials in the Americas region at Morgan Stanley, a firm where he spent 21 years.
    • Priyanka Verma has joined the bank as a managing director and Americas Head of Pharma Services & Diagnostics, the firm announced in a press release Thursday. She'll report directly to Nick Richitt, Deutsche Bank's global co-head of digital and healthtech coverage for healthcare investment banking. Previously, Verma was a managing director in HSBC's healthcare investment banking group.
  • BlackRock recruited Dalia Blass to lead its external affairs, the firm announced in an emailed statement seen by Insider on Friday. Blass comes from the Security and Exchange Commission, where she led the investment management division, and in her new role will oversee BlackRock's global public policy group, social impact and corporate sustainability teams, and a new group to research stakeholder capitalism. She'll start on June 17 as a senior managing director and the head of external affairs, and she will report directly to CEO Larry Fink.
  • JPMorgan hired another ex-Marcus executive, Sherry Ann Mohan, to be chief financial officer for business banking, CNBC first reported. Mohan, who will start August and report to business banking CEO Sarah Youngwood, was previously at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and most recently the CFO of the consumer business, including the Marcus brand and Apple Card.
  • Fixed-income giant Pimco hired made two key hires this week, the company announced in a press release.
    • Brett Condron joins the firm from Blackstone, where he was senior managing director and global head of individual investor solutions for the firm's alternative asset management division. In his new role as managing director, Condron will report to Gregory Hall, Pimco's head of US global wealth management.
    • Pimco also hired Tracy Wills-Zapata as executive vice president to lead alternative sales within its US global wealth management division. She joined from Wells Fargo, where she was a managing director of investment solutions consulting within the bank's private wealth management group.
  • Barclays poached seasoned banker David MacGown from Credit Suisse this week, the bank said in a statement. MacGown served as head of balance sheet and capital structure advisory within its financial institutions group. He joins Barclays as a managing director in the financial institutions group.
  • Tia Counts is the new chief diversity and inclusion officer at stock index giant MSCI, the firm announced Thursday. She steps into her new role after only six months as JPMorgan's global head of diversity and inclusion for the bank's wealth and asset management business.
  • Raymond James hired away 19-year Bank of America veteran Olivia Tong to be a managing director and senior research analyst in the firm's equity research division, according to a Wednesday press release. Tong, who is based in New York, will cover companies in the consumer household, personal care products, and beauty spaces.
  • Piper Sandler announced two new managing director hires.
    • Richard Singh joined the firm as a managing director within its healthcare investment-banking group. Singh will be based in the boutique bank's London office. Previously, he was a partner at Gleacher Shacklock LLP, focusing on healthcare, and prior to that, he worked in healthcare services and life sciences at Citigroup.
    • Chris O'Brien has joined the firm as a managing director in technology investment-banking, where he will be based in the boutique bank's Boston office. Previously, O'Brien was head of industrial software within the technology investment-banking group at KeyBanc Capital Markets.
  • Laide Majiyagbe has been appointed head of financing and liquidity at BNY Mellon's securities finance, liquidity services, and collateral segregation businesses, per a press release. She joins BNY Mellon from Goldman Sachs, where she spent 14 years serving in a variety of positions, most recently as global head of liquidity projections in the firm's corporate treasury division.
  • Bridgewater Associates CFO Jon Dalby is leaving the world's largest hedge fund to become the CFO of NYDIG, an institutional Bitcoin firm, according to a press release.
  • Bacchus Capital announced that Steven Latimer has joined the firm as an MD and head of its operations in the Americas. Latimer will be based in Toronto and work with new and existing clients. Among his priorities will be working with the firm's investment-banking team in the US and internationally, and supporting the firm's venture capital business in the region, the company said in a press release.
  • DE Shaw spin-off Arcesium announced two key hires this week.
    • Brian Dalia, former head of North American sales at SimCorp Coric, joined Arcesium as a senior vice president spearheading the sales effort for its institutional asset management practice. 
    • Matt Weisman has also joined as vice president on the institutional asset management sales team after 10 years at Broadridge.

Meredith Mazzilli, Reed Alexander, Dan DeFrancesco, Bradley Saacks, and Rebecca Ungarino contributed to this report.

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