Career moves

Greystone, a commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, is adding two executives to a mortgage bond lending team.

One of the biggest challenges in putting new CLO deals together has been the decline in the number of buyers of CLO debt. Justin Plouffe, managing director of U.S. and European CLOs at The Carlyle Group, discusses the means to which managers must adapt to market direction.

Winston & Strawn said this week that veteran financial services attorney Keith Andruschak has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in New York.

A trio of private commercial mortgage veterans announced the launch of Shelby Funding in Boca Raton, Florida.

LendKey, which manages online lending programs for banks and credit unions, has named Salil Mehta to senior vice president of credit risk and analytics.

Prosper Marketplace has tapped a USAA executive to be its next chief financial officer.

The Securities and Exchange Commissioner took to the podium in the convention center of the Aria Resort & Casino to express to attendees his admiration for the economic benefits of securitization – and his disagreement with the risk-retention regulatory regime that has enveloped it.

NewOak named Jonna Boyle as a director in Credit Services LLC, a consultancy that specializes in providing credit and regulatory compliance for commercial and consumer loan products.

Capital One Financial in McLean, Va., has added Amazon's former chief information security officer to its board of directors.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired aviation finance expert Jonathan Goldstein as a partner to lead its high-end transportation and structured financing practice in its New York office.

OnDeck Capital, an online small-business lender in New York, has added a former E-Trade Financial executive to its board, as another director plans to leave.

Veteran corporate structured finance attorney Chris Gavin has taken a partnership role in the capital markets group at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, joining the New York firm as it looks to expand its mortgage ABS practice.

HomeUnion, an online, real-estate investment management firm specializing in single-family rental properties, named Vivek Pendharkar as chief development officer.

Annaly Capital Management announced Friday that it promoted David Finkelstein to the position of Chief Investment Officer if Agency and RMBS.

Walker & Dunlop has agreed to acquire the other half of a commercial mortgage-backed securities joint venture it has with Fortress Investment Group.

Live Oak Bancshares in Wilmington, N.C., one of the largest 7(a) program lenders in the U.S. last year, has promoted Greg Thompson to chief operating officer.

Global law firm Morgan Lewis has a sixth partner to its London structured transactions team, which was launched just last summer.

Guggenheim Securities, an investment bank that specializes in bonds backed by unusual assets such as franchise fees and tax liens, has its eyes on more traditional kinds of securitization.

Asset management firm Ranieri Strategies has hired Eric Kaplan the former head of MBS Finance at Shellpoint Partners. Both are companies founded by Lewis S. Ranieri.

Amherst Pierpont Securities, an independent fixed-income broker-dealer, announced several senior hires today as it seeks to deepen leadership expertise across the firm.