Career moves

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