Former Lazard MD to become R&M chair

Effective 1 October

River & Mercantile Group has appointed Jonathan Dawson, a former investment banker at Lazard, as chairman of its board, effective 1 October.

Dawson previously worked at Lazard for over 20 years as managing director of its investment banking division,  and spent time at the Ministry of Defence before co-founding Penfida, a corporate finance adviser to pension fund trustees. Following the sad passing away of previous chairman Paul Bradshaw earlier this year, Peter Warry became acting chairman of R&M. Credit Suisse AM's emerging markets team joins R&M Warry will step down in October and resume his position as senior independent director, and plans to retire from the board at the end of October as part of his retirement pla...