City Moves for 9 April 2019 – Who’s switching jobs at Yolt, Linklaters and Albion Capital?

Today's City Moves includes Yolt, Linklaters and Albion Capital.

Yolt

Yolt, a third party provider of open banking technology in Europe and subsidiary of ING, has announced the appointment of Cristel Lee Leed as chief marketing officer (CMO). In a newly created position, Cristel joins the executive team as Pauline Van Brakel takes on her new role as chief product officer in Amsterdam. Cristel brings over 15 years’ of global marketing experience, having led successful brand launches, scale ups and transformational marketing efforts on executive teams for high profile brands such as Nutmeg, WWF, Giffgaff, Lulu.com, Virgin and Centrica Telecoms operating in the UK, Australian and European markets. Cristel joins Yolt from Europe’s largest digital wealth manager, Nutmeg, where she was CMO (interim) during 2018. Cristel led the marketing, communications and acquisition teams at Nutmeg, overseeing growth to over 60k customers and £1.5bn in AUM, product launches such as socially responsible investment portfolios and personal financial advice. At Yolt, Cristel is responsible for leading the brand’s growth in key global consumer markets by overseeing the strategic planning, development and execution of Yolt’s marketing and customer initiatives for all its activities.

Linklaters

Linklaters has appointed Daniel Tyrer as global head of projects for a four-year term with effect from 1 May 2019, succeeding Stuart Salt. A partner at Linklaters since 2004, Daniel is widely recognised as a leading practitioner with over 23 years’ experience specialising in upstream oil and gas, LNG, pipeline, refinery and petrochemical plant related project development, project finance and private equity transactions. He qualified at Linklaters in 1997 and then worked in Australia for three years before returning to London in 2000. He has worked on deals across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the CIS, and was based in Moscow, as partner and head of CIS energy, from 2004-2010.

Albion Capital

After more than 23 years as managing director, and then managing partner of Albion Capital, Patrick Reeve has become chairman of the business in a newly created role, with Will Fraser-Allen moving to managing partner, and Andrew Elder becoming deputy managing partner. From April, Patrick Reeve will chair the Albion and OLIM boards and continue to be involved in directing the strategy of the business, whilst maintaining key relationships across the Albion Capital VCT range, Albion Community Power and the UCL Technology Fund. Will Fraser-Allen will be taking over the day-to-day running of the business, including investment oversight. Will joined the business in 2001 and has been deputy managing partner for 10 years.