Career moves

Freddie Mac is promoting Executive Vice President David Brickman to president and will consider him among possible candidates to be the agency's next CEO after Don Layton retires next year.

Weilamann was previously managing director and head of U.S. ABS at the credit rating agency; he assumes his new role as Luis Reyna returns to academia.

Jeff Weinstein and Patrick Lampe join from the Chicago office of Sidley Austin; Morgan Lewis partner Philip Russell is relocating from the firm’s New York office.

Robert Broeksmit, a career mortgage industry executive, will succeed David Stevens as the president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The former Kirkland & Ellis partner will remain in Chicago, where he has performed work for clients in automotive finance, technology, banking and marketplace lending.

Tim Russi played a key role in the company’s transition away from its once-close relationship on General Motors. He will be succeeded by Doug Timmerman, a 32-year Ally veteran.

Ron Faris plans to retire as head of Ocwen Financial and pass on his position to former PHH Corp. CEO Glen Messina around the time Ocwen acquires PHH.

No reason was given for his exit by the Silicon Valley lender, which named another prominent economist, Susan Athey of Stanford, to its board of directors.

The online lender is hiring Kenneth Brause, a CIT Group executive, to succeed CFO Howard Katzenberg.

Grow was previously director of MBS and ABS securities; he replaces VIckie Tillman, who retired in December after overseeing the company's expansion into a diversified credit rating agency.

Stepping in after co-founder Mike Cagney's resignation, Twitter's Anthony Noto needs to overhaul the firm's corporate culture, lay the groundwork for an IPO and determine whether to renew SoFi's pursuit of a bank charter.

Lee Shaiman, who oversaw $20 billion in leveraged finance and other fixed-income investments at Blackstone, will succeed Bram Smith. who announced his retirement in early 2017.

Marjan van der Weijden, an 18-year veteran of the company based in London, Is taking over Duignan’s former role as global group head of structured finance and covered bonds.

Lawrence Berkovich joins as a partner from a nearly two-year stint at Ashurst; he follows in the footsteps of five other A&O finance practice partners who left Ashurst's NY office last year.

Morreale was previously a managing director and associate general counsel in the mortgage and legal group at Goldman Sachs, where he provided legal counsel for businesses across a range of asset-backed securities

Hunton & Williams continues its national expansion with the arrival of corporate partner John J. Dedyo in the firm’s New York office.

Bram Smith is retiring as executive director of the Loans Syndication & Trading Association effective at year’s end, the trade group announced Thursday. Smith has been with the LSTA for nine years, joining as interim executive director in September 2008 before he was installed as permanent ED in December 2009.

Charles Citro joined the Morningstar Credit Ratings this week as managing director for commercial mortgage-backed securities ratings and analytics

The lawsuit against the Commercial Finance Association also names Andrea Petro, the president of the organization, and her employer, Wells Fargo & Co., as defendants, according to the complaint that was filed in in federal court last month.

Jim Rosenthal, a former chief operating officer at Morgan Stanley, is joining the board of directors at OnDeck Capital.