Career moves

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.

Joseph Wilson Jr. has joined Golub Capital help expand the credit asset manager’s existing distribution capabilities.

Commercial real estate lender Hunt Mortgage Group has hired Amy Shah to build and launch a collateralized loan obligations platform.

Robert Klein has left his role as lead portfolio manager for Prospect Capital Management’s CLO platform to oversee the structured products portfolios at CIFC Corp.

Christian Aufsatz, Barclays' former head of European commercial mortgage backed securities research, has joined the DBRS London office to head CMBS ratings team.

Student lending startup CommonBond has hired Morgan Edwards, a longtime Wall Street leveraged debt specialist, as its chief financial officer.

B2R Finance, a firm that lends to rental property investors, has appointed Darren Thompson as chief financial officer and executive vice president of strategy.

The chairman and chief executive of Santander Consumer USA Holdings has resigned, as the subprime auto lender remains under scrutiny for its lending and securitization practices.