Career moves

U.K.-based investment manager Venn Partners is planning to establish a Dutch RMBS issuance platform to fund new mortgage lending.

The firm said it has hired Juergen Haferkorn as a managing director in London. He will focus on asset-backed securities and expanding Cantor's outreach to German-speaking countries.

NXT Capital, a midldle market lender and CLO manager, has expanded its direct originations team by hiring Doug Vitek, John Mills and Daniel Green.

Barclays’s Martin Attea will replace Diane Rinnovatore as co-head of US Securitized Products Origination.

Trevor Wood and Mayank Gupta will join the firm’s banking and finance team in London.

SourceMedia, a B2B information and marketing company, has promoted Harry Nikpour to Vice President of its Capital Markets Group.

PwC has hired Simon Marriott and Algernon Kent to its commercial and corporate real estate practice to help expand its growing asset and investment management services.

Mayer Brown announced this week that Richard Todd and David O'Connor joined its banking & finance group in London as partners.

Clayton Holdings said Dan Pinero is the director of operations and Joe Oxment is the director for client services of the firm's expanded securitization group.

The members of trade association The Structured Finance Industry Group (SFIG) have elected a new, 40-person permanent board, the organization said in a press release.