The Bank of New York Mellon has appointed Julian Poodhun, Huw Rees and Kelly Wilson to its alternative investment and broker dealer global client management division.
They will be based in London and report to David Aldrich, managing director, Europe, global client management financial institutions division.
Poodhun joins The Bank of New York Mellon as the lead client executive for the alternative investment sector. He is responsible for providing the full range of the companys solutions to alternative investment fund managers. Julian had previously spent nine years at Merrill Lynch where he was responsible for running the prime brokerage sales group in Boston as well as the international prime brokerage client services team in New York. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Poodhun held senior relationship management positions in custody and wealth management at Northern Trust and Barclays in London.
Huw Rees and Kelly Wilson have both joined the broker dealer client management division from Lehman Brothers. Rees is head of the client executive team for the investment banking sector in Europe and will be responsible for delivering the full range of the companys solutions to broker dealers. Rees previously spent eight years at Lehman where he was head of European creditor relations and more recently, head of treasury operations for Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in administration.
Kelly Wilson joins as a client executive for broker dealers and works closely with Huw Rees. Wilson spent seven years at Lehman Brothers in both London and New York, where she held a number of positions including relationship manager in creditor relations covering Nordic and French banks, structured credit and ABS sales, and European debt and equity investor relations. Most recently, Wilson worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers on the Lehman administration.