MIDDLE ATLANTIC
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. of New York has hired John Curran as the head of liability structuring for North America in its debt capital markets group.
He will be responsible for structuring nonstandardized financial products and will report to Chris Whitman, the head of debt capital markets and corporate coverage in North America for the Deutsche Bank AG unit.
Mr. Curran, who has also been named a managing director, was a senior vice president in the global finance solutions group at Lehman Brothers Inc. of New York.
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. of New York has promoted Michael Alix to chief risk officer.
Mr. Alix, who joined the firm in 1996, was the head of its global credit department. He remains the chairman of the credit policy committee; a member of the risk, operations, and several other committees; and a director.
Bear Stearns also promoted Robert Neff to deputy chief risk officer. Mr. Neff remains the head of the risk management department, the chairman of the mark-to-market committee, and a member of several other committees. He has worked at the firm for 13 years.
Harris Nesbitt Corp., the Chicago investment and corporate banking arm of Toronto's Bank of Montreal, has hired Todd C. Freeland as the managing director of its media, communications, and technology group.
Mr. Freeland, who will be based in New York, led the media and communications investment banking practice at Goldsmith, Agio, Helms & Lynner LLC, which is based there.
Before that he had been a managing director at Dilworth Partners LLC. He worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley for 12 of his 16 years in investment banking.
