StormHarbour has announced that it has made three new senior appointments in its Geneva office, further strengthening its client-facing business in a core market for the firm.

Alberto Ferro-Villani has joined StormHarbour (Suisse) SA as a Director of Capital Markets and Origination, and Hugues Dauphin has joined as a Director, Client Solutions, and Vincent Briffaud as an Associate, Client Solutions. All three report directly to Cyril Martinez, Principal and General Manager of StormHarbour (Suisse) SA.

StormHarbour’s core businesses are fixed income sales and trading, structuring and advisory, capital markets, and asset management. The joining of Ferro-Villani, Dauphin and Briffaud mark the first of a number of new additions the firm is planning on making in Geneva to build-out its client coverage and product and advisory offering in the country.

Ferro-Villani joined from Hepta Capital Partners, a Geneva-based alternative investment group, where he was Managing Director of its mid-sized corporate-focused Private Equity Fund. Prior to HCP, Alberto worked at Credit Suisse on the corporate debt derivatives desk.

Dauphin joined from Calyon (Suisse) SA in Geneva where he was most recently an Executive Director and Head of Structured Credit Distribution, covering all Swiss financial institutions.

Briffaud joined from BNP Paribas in London where he was an Associate in the Fixed Income Division’s Structured Credit Solutions team.