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— Dealmakers —
Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises LP tapped Dominick Ragone as chief financial officer. He was the assistant controller for Bear Stearns Cos. and earlier, a managing director for Morgan Stanley. He had been a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for 16 years. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. named Edwin Gordon managing director and head of healthcare investment banking and Amy Cooper as a vice president of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. in New York. Gordon joins from Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., where he was a managing director and co-head of its life sciences investment banking division. He earlier held managing director roles at Punk, Ziegel & Co. and SG Cowen Securities Corp. Cooper also hails from Merriman, having served as a vice president of investment banking focused on healthcare, biotechnology, and medical devices.
New York investment bank Morgan Joseph & Co. added senior investment banker Michael Innes and senior equity research analyst Shiv Kapoor to its healthcare and life sciences team. Both join from Ferris, Baker Watts Inc. Pagemill Partners Inc. has promoted Anton Papp to principal. He works in the Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology investment bank's software, security and services group. Bethesda, Md.-based private equity firm American Capital Ltd. announced six new appointments and promotions. Steven Burge will assume the newly established role of president of North American private finance, effective Aug. 1. He joined the firm in 2007, having served previously as a partner with Norwest Equity Partners. Ira Wagner, the firm's executive vice president and chief operating officer, will become president of European private finance and continue to serve as president of European Capital Financial Services Ltd. Executive vice president and chief financial officer John Erickson will serve as president of structured finance and remain CFO. Gordon O'Brien, the firm's senior vice president and managing director, will be president of specialty finance and operations and assume additional responsibilities for Asian investing. Concurrently, chairman and CEO Malon Wilkus will no longer have the title of president. Brian Graff and Darin Winn, senior vice presidents and regional managing directors, will become senior vice presidents and senior managing directors responsible for most of the firm's North American buyout and sponsor finance investment groups. Armins Rusis has joined financial information services firm Markit Group Ltd. as executive vice president and global co-head of fixed income. Rusis joins from Morgan Stanley, where he spent 17 years, most recently as managing director and head of U.S. credit trading. He will jointly oversee the firm's data and analytics products with Kevin Gould, a Markit co-founder and executive vice president. Gordon Gray joined U.K. investment bank Collins Stewart LLC to head its oil and gas research and is charged with expanding the practice. He was J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s global sector leader for oil and gas research. Previously, he worked for Salomon Inc./Citigroup Inc. Donn Vucovich has moved to Chicago insurance broker Hub International Ltd. as president of brokerage shared services. He was a managing director at Navigant Consulting Inc. Vucovich will also join the company's executive management team and its executive committee. Aon Corp. risk management and consulting group Aon Risk Services named Warren Mula chairman and Eric Andersen chief executive for its U.S. retail group. Mula will continue to head Aon Brokerage Group. Andersen was previously field leader in the retail group and chief executive of Aon Global Americas. Both are based in New York. Duff & Phelps Corp. added Joseph Pimbley and Kai-Ching Lin as managing directors in the financial engineering group. Pimbley joins from ACA Capital Holdings Inc., where he was executive vice president and head of the institutional risk group. Lin was previously global head of quantitative methodology with Credit Suisse Group. Merced, Calif.-based Capital Corp. of the West, the parent of County Bank, named Richard Cupp its chief executive and president, as well as CEO of County Bank, subject to Federal Reserve approval. He was most recently president and chief executive of 1st Century Bank in Los Angeles. Thomas Hawker will retire as CEO and step down from the board. Jerry Callister will remain non-executive chairman. Sidley Austin LLP added Barry Breen as counsel in its investment funds, advisers and derivatives group to expand its hedge fund practice in London. He had worked in the financial services, hedge funds and capital markets practice at Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP in New York and London. |
Sanford Hausner (pictured) has joined Arent Fox LLP as a partner in New York as the firm builds out its international practice group. He joins from Troutman Sanders LLP. 
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