Wells Fargo & Co. has hired Credit Suisse Group AG investment banker Jill Ford as head of its equity capital markets business, according to Bloomberg News.
Ford, a managing director, had been co-head of Equity Capital Markets Americas for Credit Suisse and also held senior roles in the Americas syndicate. Wells Fargo’s current co-heads of ECM Lear Beyer and Craig McCracken will lead the business until Ford joins, at which point they will step aside but remain in senior leadership roles within the group, reported Bloomberg and Ford will start in New York in a few months after a standard period of leave.