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Investment Banking Rising Stars: The industry's up-and-coming talent
This is the second annual FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Investment Banking, Financial News's editorial pick of the bright young things in the industry.
The 12 months that have passed since Financial News first published the list have been far from kind. The energy-sapping struggles of the eurozone show no sign of abating, deal activity remains at depressed levels and industry-wide scandals have again put the sector in the stocks.
It is against this backdrop that the rising stars, drawn from a longlist of more than 130, have distinguished themselves.
Many have benefited from the new paradigm. In the great age of deleveraging, debt capital markets specialists have grown in importance, while there is also a strong contingent of restructuring specialists, reflecting the current stage in the economic cycle. In a market driven by macro concerns, two strategists, who provide a depth of insight beyond their years, also make the list.
Women are notable for their absence – they make up just 10% of the list, indicating that banks still have a lot of work to do on the diversity front.
• How we chose
Over the past three months, Financial News canvassed the market for opinion and drew up a longlist of more than 130 potential rising stars. All nominees had to be under 40 on December 5, based in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, and working in the investment banking industry.
Candidates were then assessed by FN's editorial panel on four criteria: achievements to date given their age, stature of their mentors, firepower at their disposal and their potential to reach a position of great influence. The longlist was then whittled down to the final 40 listed here. The list is not ranked.
All profiles by Matt Turner, Ayesha Javed, Matt Attwood, Giles Turner and Farah Khalique.
Chris Agathangelou Head of financial debt syndicate, Emea Nomura Age 26 Chris Agathangelou, also known as Chris A, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence. At 26, he is the youngest head of a financial debt syndicate desk in London, running a team of seven. He joined the bank in August 2008 after graduating, working on the sovereign, supranational and agency syndicate desk before being steered towards financials by Alex Menounos, now head of Emea syndicate at Morgan Stanley. He has worked on deals ranging from complex capital issues to unsecured and covered bond funding and liability management. He is a qualified scuba-diving instructor, a national standard badminton player and a stalwart of the Hackney and Leyton football league.
Rosie Bailey Executive director, UK investment banking Morgan Stanley Age 33 Bailey joined Lazard after graduating from Oxford University in 2000, moving to Morgan Stanley in 2006 where she now works in the UK investment banking team. Described as "a class act" by market participants, she has worked on a number of transactions in the exchange space, advising the London Stock Exchange on its $705m acquisition of the remaining 50% stake in indices provider FTSE, and US commodities exchange IntercontinentalExchange on the $602m acquisition of the Climate Exchange. Other deal highlights include advising on the $811m sale of shoe designer Jimmy Choo to Labelux Group and Terra Firma's $438m bid for Garden Centre Group. She is currently on maternity leave and is due to return to work in January.
Jonathan Bathard-Smith Managing director, corporate broking Barclays Age 37 When Barclays made the decision to build a corporate broking business from scratch, Bathard-Smith was a natural fit. Six years earlier, he'd been part of a group to join Morgan Stanley from Merrill Lynch, where under senior colleagues Paul Baker and Alisdair Gayne he helped found the corporate broking team. Since his appointment as a founding member of Barclays' corporate broking team alongside Gayne and Jim Renwick, who joined from UBS, Barclays has assembled more than 20 corporate broking clients, including 10 in the FTSE 100. Earlier this year, Bathard-Smith worked on the $436m sale of UK aerospace equipment company Umeco to Cytec Industries of the US.
Laurent Benshimon
Head of financial restructuring team, Paris
Houlihan Lokey
Age 38 Benshimon graduated from ESCP-EAP European School of Management and then spent three years working at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising in Europe before joining Houlihan Lokey in 2003. He has worked on some of the highest-profile corporate restructurings in France this year, including the $4.6bn debt restructuring of the world's third-largest container shipping group CMA CGM; the €415m restructuring of chemical manufacturer Novasep; and the €411m restructuring of Orco Property Group's debt. He has also previously worked on deals including Euro Disney and Eurotunnel and private equity-backed companies including Frans Bonhomme, Deutsch Group and Monier Group.
Atanas Bostandjiev Chief executive, UK and international VTB Capital Age 37
Bulgarian Bostandjiev has been racking up air miles over the past 12 months, with flights back to the UK on weekends to spend time with his family interspersed with business trips to Asia and the US, as VTB Capital's reach grows wider. A former co-head of rates and foreign exchange sales in Europe at Goldman Sachs, he moved to VTB Capital, the investment banking arm of Russian state-owned VTB Bank, in May last year. Since then, the bank has signed strategic partnerships in Brazil, the US and China, and opened offices in New York and Sofia, Bulgaria. The opening of the Sofia office in March this year is particularly meaningful for Bostandjiev, who sponsors a sailing club in his home country and is involved with the charity Chance for the Children of Bulgaria. Last month, the bank took a controlling stake in Bulgarian telecoms company Vivacom through a complex restructuring transaction valued at $883m.
Adam Bothamley Head of Emea debt syndicate HSBC Age 33 As a child, Bothamley wanted to be a professional cricketer, but after graduating in economics he, instead, joined HSBC in 2000 as an equity research analyst. He joined the debt syndicate desk three years later to focus on financial institutions. This year he was promoted to head of European syndicate and is responsible for DCM execution and advice. His day-to-day focus is on bank and insurance hybrid instruments as well as frequent corporate and financial institution group issuers. He has executed 11 of the 15 hybrid deals from European insurers this year, including a €1.5bn euro hybrid for Allianz. He names HSBC's debt executives Spencer Lake, Bryan Pascoe and Jean-Marc Mercier as the biggest influences on his career.
Jakub Brogowski Director, oil and gas investment banking RBC Capital Markets Age 33 Having graduated from University of Calgary in 2002, Brogowski flirted with the idea of moving to London after an extended stay in the UK while travelling. Instead, he returned to Calgary and got a job with TD Securities. Working with Robert Mason, head of oil sands investment banking at the Canadian firm, he focused on companies extracting resources from unconventional sources, before moving to the UK in 2010 when the bank established an energy and power team in London. Last year, he moved to RBC, working under Tim Chapman, head of international oil and gas, and has been described by a senior colleague as "a superstar".
Ben Catt Managing director, utilities and infrastructure corporate advisory Evercore Age 31 Catt, who turns 32 this week, is the youngest managing director in Evercore's London office. He started his career at Rothschild, spending two years in the mergers and acquisitions team, before moving to Lexicon in 2004, rising to the rank of partner and director at the time of its acquisition by Evercore last year. A utilities and infrastructure specialist, Catt worked on pre-crisis deals to acquire UK-regulated water and sewage businesses Kelda and AWG, and the 2010 acquisition of UK high-speed rail line High Speed 1 by Canada-based pension funds Borealis Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a $3.4bn deal.
Andy Chaytor Executive director, senior macro strategist Nomura Age 31 When Chaytor filled out a careers questionnaire at school, he was told his ideal job would be a tree surgeon. Instead, at the age of 16, he did work experience on what would now be called an emerging markets foreign-exchange desk, and he was hooked on finance. He moved to Nomura last year from Royal Bank of Scotland, following in the footsteps of Bob Janjuah and Kevin Gaynor, who made the move a few months earlier and are now co-heads of global fixed-income macro strategy at the Japanese bank. He credits both as mentors, and recently published research seeking to rein in some of the optimism around UK assets such as gilts.
Pippa Crawford Head of loan capital markets, western Europe RBS Age 36 South African-born Crawford is the most senior woman in RBS's corporate debt capital markets and risk solutions business in Emea. She was named head of loan capital markets in western Europe in September this year, having become a managing director in 2010. The bank ranked top of Thomson Reuters' league table of mandated lead arrangers for corporates and financial institutions in western Europe for the first nine months of this year. Crawford joined Greenwich NatWest in 1998, which then became part of RBS. She has worked on several large acquisition financings, including a £1bn package backing CKI's bid for EDF's UK assets and a $45bn facility supporting BHP Billiton's bid for Potash.
Glen Cronin Managing director, restructuring Rothschild Age 34 Cronin started his career at Schroders in Paris, later moving to Close Brothers and then Rothschild in 2007, where he was named a managing director this June. He is currently advising the noteholders of Punch Tavern's £2.8bn securitisation, and earlier this year was a senior member of the team that advised junior lenders on the $1bn restructuring of German plastics company Klöckner Pentaplast, a rare example of junior creditors refinancing the senior lenders to secure control. He has also worked on landmark transactions including the restructuring of Findus, and advised mezzanine lenders of Gala Coral on its restructuring. He hopes to find some time over Christmas to read Bradley Wiggins' autobiography.
Lee Cumbes Head of frequent borrower origination Barclays Age 38
Cumbes joined the global finance division at Barclays in 2003, covering the public sector with clients including sovereigns, supranationals and agencies and now manages a nine-strong team. While his main focus has been western European clients, he has expanded his remit to include clients in central and eastern Europe and North America, originating bonds worth several billion euros. In January, he worked on the successful placing of a €3bn, 30-year bond offering for the European Union. Cumbes, who was previously at Credit Suisse, says that he has learned from each of his managers at Barclays. Working in a high-frequency market that requires immediate decision-making, Cumbes believes in trusting his instincts and hoping they are right. He holds a degree in social and political science from the University of Cambridge and likes to spend his free time with his family, playing tennis, watching football or on the beach.
Omar Davis Head of metals and mining for Emea and emerging markets ex-Asia Bank of America Merrill Lynch Age 34 Davis started running metals and mining for emerging markets ex-Asia last year, taking on the Emea region in January, and now has responsibility for a region that spans from Russia to Latin America, and Africa to western Europe. BofA Merrill Lynch has been making strides in the sector in recent years, working on the flotation of Rusal in 2010 and Glencore in 2011. The bank was sole adviser on Glencore's $1bn acquisition of Optimum Coal, and was named as one of two advisers to Glencore on its $7.6bn acquisition of Viterra. According to Morningstar, BofA Merrill Lynch is also corporate broker to nine FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 metals and mining companies – an increasingly lucrative sector.
Alberto Gallo Head of European macro credit research RBS Age 29 Italian-born Gallo, who is a former national track and field champion, launched the macro credit research team at RBS in 2011 and is now responsible for seven credit strategists in Europe and Asia. Over the past eight years, his trade ideas averaged a hit rate of over 70%, and more than 86% in the past 12 months. Before joining RBS he was a global credit strategist at Goldman Sachs in New York, having previously launched and run the global credit derivatives strategy team at Bear Stearns. Gallo graduated two years early from Bocconi University and has an MSc in economics.
Asif Godall Head of European credit trading HSBC Age 36
Growing up, Godall wanted to be a fighter pilot. He went on to study mathematics at the University of Manchester, set for a career in computing, but an internship on the trading floor at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson piqued his interest. He joined HSBC's graduate training programme in 1998 and held numerous trading roles before setting up the bank's global macro strategies trading group, where he brought together the trading of multiple asset classes across foreign exchange, rates, credit and equities under one desk. He moved back to credit trading in January, leading an effort to restructure and grow HSBC's European credit trading operation and expand the bank's platform into distressed credit to take advantage of the de-leveraging macro environment. Godall, who meditates, says that the best piece of advice he has been given is: "Failure is part of the learning process. Embrace it and learn from it." He is a trustee for educational charity OneDegree and, having broken his nose three times while boxing, he says he is considering taking up a new hobby, such as ballroom dancing.
Simon Granger Senior managing director FTI Consulting Age 37 Granger left Deloitte in 2007 to launch FTI Consulting's restructuring practice, alongside three former partners from Ernst & Young. A licensed insolvency practitioner, he last year advised the lenders of Irish conglomerate Quinn Group on the complex restructuring of €1.3bn of debt, and worked on the restructuring of Italian telephone directories business Seat Pagine Gialle, which completed in September. He is currently working on the operational restructuring of a renewable energy company in peripheral Europe and is charged with expanding FTI Consulting's corporate finance business into new territories.
Alex Grant Managing director in energy investment banking group Jefferies Age 34 Growing up, Grant aspired to "improve oil recovery rates in fractured carbonates", but he instead became an energy banker. Recruited from ABN Amro in 2005, with previous experience in JP Morgan's energy and power M&A team, Grant last year advised Statoil on the $3.1bn sale of a 40% interest in its Peregrino field to Sinochem, and advised Nuon on the sale of its Dutch upstream business to Tullow for €300m. He is also working on the sale of BP's interests in several of North Sea oil and gas fields to Abu Dhabi energy company Taqa, a deal which could rise to $1.3bn in value. With two children under the age of two, Grant says his free time is "spent sleeping or thinking about sleeping".
Alex Ham Co-head of corporate broking Numis Age 30 "You have no idea how young he is when you speak to him on the phone. He sounds like he is in his 40s," said one rival banker of Ham. Ham joined Numis fresh from university in 2005, where he had been talent-spotted by then chairman of Numis Michael Spencer, who introduced him to Lorna Tilbian, executive director and head of Numis's media research team. Ham has now built experience advising a wide range of clients, including Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond's cash shell Horizon, gaming company Betfair, retailers Ocado and Asos, and dating company Cupid.
Nicholas Harper Managing director, UK investment banking Goldman Sachs Age 37 Harper has had a hand in many of the big UK deals of recent years, including advising gaming business Rank Group, retail conglomerate Boparan Holdings, internet betting exchange Betfair, power firm GDF Suez and pharmacy giant Alliance Boots. He joined the US bank in 2000 as an associate from Schroders, became vice-president three years later and made managing director in 2008. Harper's mentors include Goldman Sachs banker Karen Cook, former Goldman rainmaker Simon Dingemans, now chief financial officer at GlaxoSmithKline, and Nick Reid, a senior UK banker who joined UBS in 2006.
Richard Hoyle Managing director Greenhill Age 36 Hoyle moved to Greenhill in 2000, shortly after the firm's London office opened, and has since widened his experience, particularly in the telecoms, media and technology sector. This year he worked on the $4.9bn sale of UK marketing communications group Aegis to Dentsu of Japan, which is due to complete in a few weeks, and last year he worked on the $859m sale of market research company Synovate to Ipsos. Tom Drury, the former chief executive of waste management company Shanks, said Hoyle had "a rare combination of very personable client-centric skills alongside an ability to tell it as it is".
Derry Hubbard Head of financial institutions group syndicate BNP Paribas Age 39 Hubbard, who was appointed head of FIG syndicate this year, joined BNP Paribas in February 2005 as head of covered bonds and covered bond syndication from ABN Amro, where he served as head of covered bond and agency trading. In his expanded role in charge of all bank debt syndication managed by BNP Paribas, recent highlights include working to build a multi-currency execution platform and advising on innovative new deals, including the first euro-denominated Australian covered bond from Commonwealth Bank of Australia in January. He cites BNP Paribas debt veterans Martin Egan, Rob Whichello and Fred Zorzi as his mentors. He hopes to work for a cancer charity when he retires from banking.
Jaber George Jabbour Founder Ethos Capital Advisors Age 30
Jabbour, who speaks Arabic, English and French, moved to the UK from Syria in 2004, taking a place at Imperial College, from which he graduated with an MSc in finance with the best overall performance on the course. A stint at Houlihan Lokey followed, where he helped Iraq restructure its debt after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. He then moved into fixed income at Goldman Sachs, where he generated trade ideas and structured financial products, solutions and derivative strategies for institutional investors. In 2009, he founded Ethos, advising finance ministries, debt management offices and other public entities how to restructure their swaps and derivatives portfolios. The firm is also working with law firm Hausfeld, which is pursuing a class action lawsuit related to the manipulation of Libor, to assist investors in recovering losses related to the case and the misselling of derivatives and structured products.
Henrik Johnsson European head of high-yield capital markets Deutsche Bank Age 35 Johnsson is a career Deutsche Banker, having started out as an intern in the telecoms finance group in 2001. In 2004 he joined the high-yield syndicate desk, becoming head of a five-strong team in 2009. His career highlights include playing a core role in the reopening of the European high-yield market in January 2009, with a deal for German healthcare group Fresenius, the market's first since the summer of 2007. Johnsson sees no reason why 2013 should not outstrip 2010, the previous record year for new high-yield bond issuance, if macroeconomic conditions continue to improve and as the effects of intervention by the European Central Bank are felt in peripheral markets.
Caroline Kostka Vice-president, public policy Credit Suisse Age 36
Kostka joined Credit Suisse in May 2011, and is currently helping the Swiss bank's regional executive management and business division heads deal with a slew of incoming regulation, including the implementation of European Union over-the-counter derivatives regulation, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, and the second incarnation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. She joined the bank from Societe Generale, and had worked at a wide range of public and private sectors institutions, including the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where she co-authored a research note on the benefits and challenges of implementing successful regulatory reform. Outside of the office, she is involved with the Anouk Foundation, which uses art to create more soothing environments in hospitals and orphanages, after an experience in 2006 at a paediatric oncology unit in Montevideo, Uruguay. She now organises this project in an orphanage in Poland, and is considering rolling it out to a second childcare institution in the country. Her interest in art doesn't end there – she is currently reading a book about Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.
Khalid Krim Head of European capital solutions Morgan Stanley Age 37 Krim started his career as a capital markets lawyer in Paris at Deutsche Bank, moving to Barclays Capital and then Credit Suisse in 2010, where he helped the bank issue its inaugural contingent capital bonds, known as CoCos, in 2011. He joined Morgan Stanley later that year, and as head of capital solutions now runs the bank's capital structuring and liability management business for banks, insurers and corporates. Krim's team has worked on several of the year's most important deals, including Barclays' $3bn contingent convertible bond, UBS's $2bn Yankee contingent capital issue, and the dual-tranche hybrid capital issue by UK electricity and gas company SSE.
Dominic Lee Managing director, industrials Goldman Sachs Age 38 Just days after Goldman Sachs announced its new batch of partners in November, talk turned to those who would become partner in 2014 – and Lee is a strong candidate. Responsible for Goldman's relationships with UK mid-cap industrial clients, he has been heavily influenced by Goldman Sachs's European president Karen Cook, and has worked alongside other Goldman heavyweights such as Anthony Gutman and Simon Dingemans. Lee joined the US bank from Schroders in 2000, and was promoted to managing director in 2009. He has advised on a number of large transactions, including Cadbury's takeover by Kraft last year. He also worked with BAE on this summer's politically thwarted super-merger with EADS.
Linos Lekkas Head of corporate and investment banking for Central Europe, Greece, Israel and Poland Citigroup Age 38
Lekkas grew up in London and Greece and completed his undergraduate degree in business economics at Queen Mary, University of London before receiving an MPhil in finance from the University of Cambridge. While his peers were applying for jobs in investment banking, he returned to Greece to do military service having secured a deferred place on the graduate scheme at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, joining two months before it was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. Lekkas rose through the ranks at Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup as a protégé of Christos Megalou, Andrea Orcel and Manolo Falcó. He joined Citigroup in January 2011, originally responsible for corporate and investment banking in Greece and Cyprus, but in April this year he was promoted to head up a London hub for the coverage of central Europe, Poland and Israel. He now manages 80 people. Citi ranks fifth in Dealogic's league table for CEE investment banking revenues for this year, up from 12th last year. Lekkas has a fascination with modern history and politics and enjoys the escapism of the silver screen during his free time. He says he will spend his retirement at his summer house on the Greek island of Tinos.
Christian Lesueur Head of telecoms, media and technology investment banking UBS Age 37 Lesueur became a managing director at the tender age of 32 and was promoted to head of the 20-plus-strong TMT team a year later. This year he worked on private equity firm CVC Capital Partners' sale of a 28% stake in Formula 1 for $2.1bn. The high-profile deal was done in January but the details were kept confidential until April. Lesueur has advised on more than $250bn of M&A and about $30bn of equity issuance in the TMT sector for big-name clients including Vodafone and BSkyB. The son of a zookeeper, Lesueur has had a truly international upbringing – the French-Danish banker grew up in Greece, studied at Yale in the US and has lived in London for 14 years.
Simon Lyons Managing director, M&A UBS Age 34 Lyons joined UBS after graduating, before moving to Tricorn Partners in 2003, where he spent three and a half years. He rejoined UBS in the M&A team in 2007. In 2010, he worked on the sale of a controlling interest in RBS WorldPay, the UK bank's global merchant services business, to a private equity consortium for an enterprise value of £2bn. More recently, he worked on the flotation of insurer Direct Line, which raised $1.5bn in October, and outside the financial institution sector has been advising Barrick Gold over its talks with China Gold.
Jonathan Moore Head of European credit trading Credit Suisse Age 33 Promoted to run European credit trading at Credit Suisse at the age of 30, Jonathan Moore had previously taken structured credit trading (excluding correlation) at the bank from a $30m business to one worth $500m. Moore's mentors include Eraj Shirvani, Emea head of fixed income at Credit Suisse, and Antoine Cornut, a former head of flow credit trading at the bank, now a fund manager. Moore joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 2001 from William M Mercer, serving first in the credit research team before moving into investment-grade and then structured credit trading. He has a mathematics degree from the University of Nottingham.
Brendon Moran Global co-head of corporate debt capital markets Societe Generale Age 39 Moran joined Societe Generale in 2007 as head of UK and Ireland after a seven-year stint at ABN Amro and various jobs in his native Australia. He has co-led a 30-strong team since mid-2010. His twin goals are to maintain SG's dominance of the European corporate bond market – the bank consistently ranks in the top three – and to continue to expand its corporate debt offering into new markets, notably dollar and sterling. Recent deals include a €3.5bn dual-currency issue for miner BHP Billiton and a €2.5bn deal from BP. But Moran's expertise is not limited to bonds – he previously worked as head of northern Europe for global capital markets in 2009, responsible for both debt and equity issuance.
Charles Noel-Johnson Managing director Moelis & Company Age 36
As a child, Noel-Johnson wanted to fight crime like Batman but, instead of donning a cape in Gotham City, he began his career at JP Morgan's asset management business. He went on to build the corporate restructuring group at Close Brothers over eight years from 2001. He was approached by Ken Moelis in 2009 to set up a restructuring practice, bringing a 10-strong team from Close Brothers with him. Noel-Johnson secured Moelis a mandate to advise the government of Dubai on the Dubai World restructuring and debt crisis, which led to the firm opening a Dubai office with a team of 10. After relocating to London this year, he continues to split his time between the Middle East and the UK. This year he has advised bondholders in the €2.7bn debt restructuring for Italian directories publisher Seat Pagine Gialle. Apart from convincing his wife to marry him, Noel-Johnson says his proudest achievement is building out the Moelis business in a short space of time. He spends his free time scuba diving in the Caribbean and Asia as well as playing football and plans to retire on a farm in the countryside. He is currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
Neil Passmore Executive director JP Morgan Age 37 Passmore, an executive director in the bank's UK natural resources investment banking team, joined JP Morgan in 2004. He has worked on deals including the $2.1bn flotation of Vallares, an investment vehicle formed by former BP chief executive Tony Hayward, in June 2011 and a $4.2bn merger with Genel Energy in November 2011, the culmination of four years of travelling to Iraq and Kurdistan. He is part of the team working with Xstrata on its $70bn merger with Glencore, the largest announced metals and mining M&A deal on record. Before his career in banking, Passmore served as an officer in the Army Air Corps and was decorated for gallantry in Iraq in 2003, where he served as a front-line attack helicopter pilot.
Thierry Petit Head of equity-linked for Emea BNP Paribas Age 35 Petit was promoted to his current role this year and oversees a team that advises on convertible and exchangeable bond issuance. He moved from associate to head of the team in six years, with more than 50 deals under his belt, including a €750m exchangeable bond issued by German banking group KfW as part of the privatisation of Deutsche Post in 2009. Petit's mentor is Thierry Olive, global head of equity capital markets at BNP Paribas, whom he admires for his "fighting spirit". A maths tutor while he was at school, Petit is looking forward to reading The Living Theorem by Cédric Villani about what it means to be a mathematician.
David Plowman Co-head of European consumer products investment banking Citigroup Age 38 Plowman was joined at Citigroup this year by his identical twin Robert. The brothers run the consumer products team, although they are rarely in the office at the same time. A noteworthy transaction this year for David Plowman was the Heineken acquisition of Asia Pacific Breweries that was temporarily stalled by Thai billionaire investor Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi. Plowman has also worked on other contested transactions, such as Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial's acquisition of airport company BAA and Dubai Ports' takeover of P&O. He started his career at Schroders and is bracing himself for fatherhood this month.
Vijay Raman Director, liability management Societe Generale Age 32 Raman was recruited from HSBC in 2007 to set up Societe Generale's liability management desk from scratch, and now has more than 70 transactions to his name. He played a central role in Societe Generale's work on RBS's £16.6bn senior debt buyback this year and helped Greek banks Alpha Bank and EFG buy back their debt in 2009. Growing up in India, Raman dreamed of becoming a wildlife photographer or cricket coach. He moved to the UK after graduation and still likes to play cricket when the sun is out. He supports both India and England, but is busy these days with a newborn baby.
Murray Roos Co-head of European equities Deutsche Bank Age 36 Roos was promoted to his current role in April, having been appointed head of European prime finance in 2011. The equities trading business at Deutsche Bank has more than 500 staff and Roos has spearheaded efforts to introduce greater cost-efficiency, not least through an increase in "low-touch", automated trading. He began his career at Deutsche Bank in Johannesburg in 1997, moving to London the following year to work on the equity derivatives desk. He worked in equity derivatives for UBS from 2001 to 2007, returning to Deutsche in Hong Kong where he ran programme trading and then the local derivatives business before moving back to London in 2010 to manage emerging market equities.
Dan Rosenfield Managing director, UK investment banking Bank of America Merrill Lynch Age 35
Rosenfield swapped the public sector for the private in 2011, having spent the previous three and a half year as principal private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, working alongside Alistair Darling and later George Osborne during the financial crisis and the fiscal consolidation programme that followed. He joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch last year, spending time in the M&A team and briefing institutional investors on UK and European macro issues, before settling down to life in the UK investment banking team. Now a senior relationship manager to a handful of FTSE 100 corporates, he also works to ensure the bank is plugged in with government, although he says his former colleagues have a "glint in their eye" when they see him now, and wonder what he is going to pitch for. A father of three, he recently hosted his daughter's birthday party for more than 40 children, and cites trips to the opera and cinema with his wife as an important means of "reminding ourselves we're human".
Chris Seherr-Thoss Director in natural resources Lazard Age 36 Seherr-Thoss spent eight years at mining giant Anglo American in a range of roles, which included investor relations and business development, before joining Lazard in 2007 following the completion of an MBA at the London Business School. He now works closely with Spiro Youakim, the well-regarded metals and mining specialist who joined the independent adviser in 2008 from Citigroup. Recent deal experience includes the $2.3bn sale of European Goldfields to Eldorado Gold, which completed earlier this year. He has previously advised TanzaniteOne on its defence against Gemfield Resources, and Vedanta Resources on its acquisition of Anglo American's zinc assets.
Emily Yoder Managing director, global emerging markets JP Morgan Age 30 Yoder, who joined JP Morgan as an analyst in 2003, was a founding member of the emerging market Eurobond team at JP Morgan. Since its inception in 2006, the team has grown to generate revenues of $125m a year and enjoyed a 25% market share in 2010 and 2011. Yoder has been a role model for many junior female traders in fixed income and is mentoring five analysts and associates. She is a member of the bank's Emea analyst and associate development council, chairing the sub-committee that develops recruitment policy. Yoder graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a BA in mathematical economic analysis and Latin America studies.
• Corrections: (This article was last updated at 10.30 GMT at December 5, 2012)
This article incorrectly described Deutsche Post as a German banking group. It also said the author of The Living Theorem was Frederic Delauney. This has been corrected to Cédric Villani.
It incorrectly stated that Pippa Crawford had been with RBS since 1998. She joined NatWest Greenwich in 1998, which later became part of RBS.
The article said Jaber George Jabbour was a contemporary of Greg Smith at Goldman Sachs. Jabbour and Smith were working in different offices at the time but got in touch after Smith left the bank.
David Plowman's title been amended to say that he is co-head of European consumer products investment banking. It previously said he was co-head of consumer products investment banking.
The article has also been amended to say Caroline Kostka organises a Polish orphanage project. It previously said that she sponsored the project.
An earlier version of this article stated that Henrik Johnsson of Deutsche Bank is 36. In fact he is 35. We apologise for the error.
An earlier version of this article stated that Jonathan Bathard-Smith at Barclays played a part in the bank winning a corporate broking mandate with Tullow Oil. He was not a part of the team.


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