Career moves

CMG Mortgage has hired Todd Hempstead, a Fannie Mae veteran of 25 years, to work with private investors interested in buying and securitizing conforming and Jumbo mortgages.

Riverside Risk Advisors, a New York-based derivatives advisory firm, said today that it has hired Steven Plake to help “broaden its relationship(s) with corporate and public pension plans.”

Deutsche Bank Securities hired Douglas Runte as a managing director and head of aviation debt research within its markets division.

Lee Farkas isn’t exactly a household name in America, but this week he became the first mortgage executive of a once top-ranked lender to be found guilty of a fraud with its roots in the housing bust.

RBS Securities tapped Brice Van Elswyk as head of client solutions for insurers in North America, a new position.

Jefferies appointed Paul Kopsky as a managing director in the firm’s military housing mortgage business. He will be responsible for sourcing and originating military housing bond issue transactions.

RBC Capital Markets appointed Peter Hirsch as managing director and head of U.S. dollar rates and mortgage trading. The new appointee's, who will be based in New York, focus includes coverage of governments, agencies, agency mortgages and derivatives.

BlackRock hired Jack Chandler as global head of real estate. In this new position, Chandler will oversee the firm's global real estate capabilities that extend across the capital market structure and include both equity and debt investment products that have reached around $13 billion in assets under management.

Barclays Capital announced in an internal memo that Diane Rinnovatore will become co-head of securitized products origination (SPO) along with with Cory Wishengrad, who is currently co-head of SPO and head of the esoteric ABS origination group at the bank. He has been running the Barclays esoteric ABS business since late 2008.

MountainView Capital Holdings, Denver, hired Robert Wellerstein as a managing director in the firm's mortgage and fixed-income sales and trading units.

BMO Capital Markets said it is creating a new role to centralize balance sheet and risk management across all of its lines of business.

The investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners added a team of five sales professionals to its Chicago-based, fixed-income group.

Dmitri Stockton, a 24-year veteran at GE Asset Management (GEAM), has been named president and CEO at the firm, the global asset manager said today.

Jay Hohman has landed a position as managing director at Cohen & Company Capital Markets.

The CRE Finance Council (CREFC) has named Stephen Renna as CEO effective May 1. Renna brings over 22 years of experience in the commercial real estate (CRE) business, holding senior-level positions in legal and policy affairs as well as in trade association management.

Knight Capital Group didn’t have to look very far to find the new heads of its global fixed-income business.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) hired Thomas Kim as vice president of commercial regulatory policy.

K&L Gates hired Howard Goldwasser and Xavier Ruiz for its New York office as partners in the finance and corporate practices, respectively.

KGS-Alpha Capital Markets hired Mark Noble as head of structured corporate and agency debt and Jim Tymeck as the new head of the finance desk.

Clayton Holdings formed an independent financial analysis and consulting group and hired a team of structured finance professionals based in New York City to run the practice.