Career moves

Four hired as counsel and seven other staff members are bulking up the team's D.C. and New York offices. 

Tripp Kaiser, a managing director at Municipal Market Analytics, will become executive director of the Center on Municipal Capital Markets in January.

Andrew Nakahata officially takes the helm of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank on Wednesday.

Troy Pitman has been hired by Wilmington Trust to further western expansion in the public finance segment of its corporate trust business.

Walter O'Connor's decades-long tenure as a municipal bond portfolio manager at BlackRock will come to an end next year. 

Andrew Nakahata will replace Scott Wu as executive director and CEO less than a year after joining the organization.

Ketner is Baird's second hire in the higher education and nonprofit sectors in the last 30 days.

The underwriting firm's hires will expand its real estate development finance group and Southeast operations.

Hastedt says the city plans two bond sales this fall.

"Annette's expertise and experience add an important new dimension to our already strong Texas K-12 public finance team," Ajay Thomas, FHN Financial's head of public finance, said.