Career moves

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.

The American Securitization Forum (ASF) opened a Washington, D.C. office in an effort to further its advocacy efforts on behalf of the securitization markets.

Newport Beach Calif.-based PIMCO has nabbed two bank loan portfolio managers from investment management firm Lord Abbett & Co.

StormHarbour made four new senior appointments in its Hong Kong and Singapore offices. Aaron Tan has joined as senior advisor. Tan, who reports directly to Principal and Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Water Cheung, was previously a managing director and head of Hong Kong coverage, investment banking and debt capital markets at Barclays Capital. Together with other client-focused areas, Tan will be advising on and originating real estate transactions. In Singapore, Jean-Christophe Levens, Marc-Antoine Thiriez and Hugo Virag-Lappas, all former founding partners of infrastructure advisory firm called Partners in Infrastructure, have joined as managing directors, focusing on building out StormHarbour’s Asia-Pacific infrastructure finance business. All three hires report directly to Vincent Moge, principal and head of the Singapore office and Asia-Pacific sales.

SunTrust Banks late Tuesday named Jerome Lienhard president and chief executive officer of its mortgage division, the nation's 11th largest originator of residential loans.

REO services provider Default Resource hired James Zeldin as executive vice president and chief sales officer.

Former Freddie Mac chairman and CEO Richard Syron recently received a 'Wells Notice' from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which means the agency is considering filing civil charges against him related to his management of company.

Bank of America on Tuesday announced that Fernando Vicario is the head of corporate banking for emerging markets, excluding Asia, according to an internal memo obtained by ASR sister publication IDD Magazine on Wednesday.

For at least his first year as head of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), David Stevens will be barred from lobbying the federal agency that matters most to many of the trade group's members: the one he's leaving.

Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) President and CEO John A. Courson will be leaving the association effective June 1.