Career moves

UBS Wealth Management Americas announced three new senior hires as it continues to expand its public finance roster as it approaches the New Year.

Carmen Taveras is the agency's first chief of real estate, economic development, and transit-oriented development

Matt Posner started his new role as director of market structure-transparency on Monday.

Baird has hired underwriting specialist Bryan Derdenger to launch a Chicago-based desk

Sandy Kerl has been acting general manager since Maureen Stapleton retired in March from the top slot.

James Johnson, who steered New Jersey's oversight of Atlantic City, is now corporation counsel for New York City.

Darren C. McHugh joins Hunton's Austin office as partner. He was previously as shareholder at Stradling in Colorado.

G. Scott Rafshoon, a veteran expert in P3s, has been hired as a partner in Squire Patton Boggs’ Atlanta office.

Baker McKenzie created a new group to integrate regulation and enforcement in a move to align with the Securities and Exchange Commission's practices.

Marybeth Frantz Orsini has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s public finance group.

MSRB Chief Education Officer Ritta McLaughlin will be the fifth senior official to leave the MSRB in the last couple of months.

Raymond James hired Paul Soma as a senior vice president. He will set up a public finance office in Traverse City.

Kazatsky’s role is to cover the municipal market, focusing on strategy and macro themes that will live on the terminal.

ICE Data Services has brought on Varun Pawar, formerly Global Head of BVAL.

Ernesto Lanza will be leaving his position at Clark Hill to go to the SEC's Office of Municipal Securities, sources said.

After spearheading large capital projects at New York State’s nonprofit entities, Dr. Gerrard Bushell is set to tackle a $7 billion infrastructure initiative at one of the world’s major airports.

The cloud-based debt management and reporting service hired Mark Campbell as head of western region client management.

Cheryl Schluterman was president and chief financial officer of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority.

Gerrard Bushell is leaving the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York after four and a half years as president and CEO.

The fifth-generation banker, who has already been serving as a central bank governor, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 60-31 vote.