UPDATE 2-MOVES-Citigroup, Jefferies, CIT Group, Grant Thornt
ju4 wa4i dia4n zo1ng he2 ba4o da4o :\n  (Adds Citigroup, Jefferies)\nNEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - The following financial\nservices industry appointments were announced on Monday. To\ninform us of other job changes, please e-mail\nmoves@thomsonreuters.com.\nCITIGROUP\nCitigroup <C.N> said Frank Yeary, head of global mergers\nand acquisitions, will leave his position in mid-July to assume\na vice chancellor post at the University of California,\nBerkeley. Yeary led the team for five years.\nJEFFERIES <JEF.N>\nThe investment bank made changes to the management of its\nenergy investment banking group, Jefferies Randall & Dewey.\nThe bank has hired Stephen Straty from Bear Stearns to\nco-head the group alongside David Rockecharlie. Jefferies has\nalso named Ralph Eads, formerly co-president of the group, as\ngroup chairman. Claire Farley, previously co-president with\nEads, is returning to the oil and gas industry and will remain\nan adviser to the bank.\nMARKIT\nMarkit appointed Marcus Schuler as managing director, sales\nand marketing, based in London. Schuler will report to Shane\nAkeroyd and Mike Rushmore, global co-heads of sales and\nmarketing. He joins Markit from Deutsche Bank where he was\nmanaging director and head of integrated credit marketing in\nEurope for close to four years.\nDEUTSCHE BOERSE\nDeutsche Boerse's <DB1Gn.DE> supervisory board is set to\nappoint Andreas Preuss, head of the group's derivatives\nbusiness Eurex, as deputy chief executive officer, a financial\nindustry source said on Monday. [ID:nL16171515]\nCIT GROUP <CIT.N>\nCommercial lender CIT Group Inc <CIT.N> on Monday named\nAlexander Mason president and chief operating officer. Mason\nwill report to Jeffrey Peek, chairman and chief executive of\nCIT. He will be responsible for the company's technology, sales\nand business development.\nMason, who has held executive positions at Deutsche Bank\nand Bankers Trust, was most recently vice chairman and chief\noperating officer of Mercantile Bankshares Corp until its March\n2007 acquisition by PNC Financial Services Group <PNC.N>.\n[ID:nN16469469]\nCINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORP <CINF.O>\nCincinnati Financial promoted Kenneth Stecher to president\nand chief executive and named Steven Johnson as chief financial\nofficer. The company said John Schiff will continue as\nchairman. [ID:nWNAS8380]\nMAGUIRE PROPERTIES INC <MPG.N>\nMaguire Properties Inc <MPG.N> said on Monday Chief\nFinancial Officer Martin Griffiths will step down effective\nJune 30, as part of a revamping of the office space owner's\nsenior management. In the interim, Shant Koumriqian will take\nresponsibility for accounting and reporting for the company,\nthe biggest office space owners in Los Angeles.\n[ID:nN16468140]\nGRANT THORNTON\nLeading business and financial adviser Grant Thornton has\nappointed Paul Cooper to tax partner in the firm's London\ntransactions tax team.\nPaul, who joined Grant Thornton in June this year, was\npreviously a director at Terra Firma, the private equity fund\nand an M&A tax partner at KPMG.\nSAXO BANK A/S\nSaxo Bank has appointed Torben Rene Larsen as executive\ndirector and global head of VIP clients and Stephan Martinussen\nas global head of partner sales. Stephan Martinussen was\npreviously head of global solutions at Saxo Bank.\nBoth Torben Rene Larsen and Stephan Martinussen will report\ndirectly to Albert Maasland, senior executive director and head\nof Europe.\nTHE WHARF (HOLDINGS) LTD\nThe Wharf Holdings Ltd appointed Yiu Cheung Tsui director,\nexecutive director and chief financial officer effective 16\nJune 2008. Tsui has been a director of Wheelock and Company Ltd\nsince 1998 and was an executive director of Wheelock since\nAMBRIAN CAPITAL PLC <AMBN.L>\nAmbrian Capital Plc <AMBN.L> has hired a new physical\nmetals team to complement its London Metal Exchange\nbroker-dealer business, the company said on Monday. The new\neight-member team, joining from Straits Resources' Varomet\nGroup, will form Ambrian Metals, which will be a wholly owned\nsubsidiary led by Mark Homer. [ID:nL1678107]\nTHE CARLYLE GROUP [CYL.UL]\nThe Carlyle Group [CYL.UL], a Washington-based private\nequity firm, said it has hired Sunil Kaul, a Citigroup <C.N>\nbanker, as a senior director in financial services at its\nCarlyle Asia Partners unit. [ID:nHKG22477]\n(Reporting by Elinor Comlay)\n((elinor.comlay@thomsonreuters.com; 1 646 223 6116)\nKeywords: FINANCIAL/MOVES\nKeywords: FINANCIAL/MOVES