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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. hired Jesper Koll (pictured) to head its Japan equity research team. Koll will step down as CEO of Tokyo's TRJ Tantallon Research Japan, a hedge fund he started in 2007.

Koll was chief economist at J.P. Morgan between 1994 and 1998 and was also head of economic research at Merrill Lynch & Co.

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America's Growth Capital hired Andrew Kelley as a partner in the firm's investment banking group, based in New York. He covers technology-enabled services, business services and software. Kelley has worked in investment banking at UBS, corporate development at IBM Corp. and equity research at Goldman, Sachs & Co. For the past six years, he has focused on mergers and acquisitions for UBS, where most recently his focus was middle-market information technology and business services companies.

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Check The Deal Pipeline for updates on these Movers & shakers:

-- Investment bank Needham & Co. LLC hired Jeff Liu as a managing director and head of the software investment banking group.

-- Broadpoint Capital Inc. tapped Fred Engel, Philip Orenstein, Peter Carril and Jeffrey Byrne.

-- Morgan Joseph & Co. appointed Bruce Jackson as a senior vice president in the firm's equity research department.

Look for these and more in the full column (subscription required).





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