Silvio Berlusconi’s sex trial resumes. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s trial on charges that he paid for sex with an underage Moroccan teenager then used his office to try to cover it up has resumed in a Milan courtroom after a two-month break.
MasterCard has hired former LG marketer Paul Trueman to the role of head of marketing for the UK and Ireland.
Trueman replaces Gill Barr. Trueman will take up his new position on 13 June, and report to MasterCard UK and Ireland president Hany Fam.
The Liberal Democrat Party has created a marketing department and has appointed Collette Dunkely, a former General Motors and Vodafone marketer, to head it up.
In her role of director of marketing, Dunkely will head up “internal and external communications including message development and delivery processes and co-ordination”, according to a statement from party chief executive Chris Fox.
CREDIT SUISSE
The company has hired Don Birchenough, the former head of telecom mergers and acquisitions at Deutsche Bank, two people familiar with the matter said.
HIGHTOWER ADVISORS
The broker-dealer that’s been aggressively poaching big-firm brokers, has added two teams in a southern California resort town that collectively manage about $700 million of client assets.
UBS
The company said its U.S. brokerage unit hired veteran Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokers Richard Freedman and Laurence Bricmont, a duo overseeing $210 million in client assets and generating annual revenue of $900,000.
CHINA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC
The company said Jackie Kazmerzak will step down as the chief financial officer of the company on May 30 to pursue another career opportunity.
WAINBRIDGE LTD
The property investment manager appointed Graham Langlay-Smith as chief financial officer.
PTT PCL
Pailin Chuchottaworn, chief executive of IRPC , has been appointed successor to Prasert Bunsumpun as CEO of PTT Pcl , Thailand’s biggest listed company.
RECEPT CONSULTING LTD
The real estate finance consultancy firm said it appointed Peter Clarke as senior advisor to AlixPartners’ European real estate practice.
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES SERVICES
The unit of BNP Paribas appointed Sam Shi as sales director, Greater China for asset owners & asset managers.
Nigel Phillips
