Executive Moves Who hired whom this week

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Accounting

Archer & Greiner announced Mark Kossow as partner in the employee benefit plans and the executive compensation departments.

Kossow focuses his practice on implementing ESOP transactions and compliance with IRS and Department of Labor requirements. His tax background helps corporations, fiduciaries and selling shareholders maximize the tax advantages of their ESOP transactions. Kossow frequently speaks on topics relating to ESOPs, ERISA and tax matters at meetings of the ESOP Association and other organizations concerned with exit planning and succession planning.

Kossow is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of tax law and is an active member of the ESOP Association and the National Center for Employee Ownership.

Banking

Siebert Brandford Shank, a banking and underwriting firm with offices in Philadelphia, New York and Newark, announced the appointment of Wei-Li Pai as the national head of its Quantitative Solutions Group. She will work from the firm’s New York City office.

Pai, with more than 28 years of finance experience, joins SBSCO from Loop Capital Markets. There, she headed that firm’s quantitative group and oversaw all analytic work for clients in the Northeast region. Throughout her career, she has participated in more than 120 bond sales in excess of $100 billion in par amount, covering a wide range of credit structures, including general obligation, dedicated special tax and revenue bonds, tobacco settlement securitization, lease appropriation and project finance.

Siebert Brandford Shank also announced Philip Wasserman was named senior vice president. Wasserman will also work in the firm’s New York City office.

Previously, Wasserman was a vice president at Merrill Lynch, where he participated in structuring more than $3 billion in bond issues for clients in New Hampshire, Connecticut and New Jersey and the New York State Thruway Authority.

Health Care

Matinas BioPharma Holdings, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Bedminster, announced that it has appointed Peter Pappas to its scientific advisory board.

Pappas is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment and diagnosis of invasive fungal infections. He was previously the principal investigator of a national network of transplant centers, a collaborative effort of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a consortium of industry co-sponsors to provide important epidemiologic and treatment information to transplant recipients who develop proven and probable invasive fungal infections.

The company said Pappas’ experience will guide the company through its upcoming Phase 2a clinical trials of its current leading drug candidate.

Insurance

Arthur J. Gallagher, a U.S.-based global insurance brokerage, named Linda Fodera area senior vice president of consulting services. She will be based out of the company’s office in Whippany.

As the lead for the consulting team, Fodera will direct the continued management and growth of employee benefit programs for Gallagher customers.

Fodera joined Gallagher from AON, where she was the vice president and co-manager of AON’s New Jersey health and benefits consulting practice. Her prior experience includes assistant director of Kaye Insurance Group, manager of underwriting for Oxford Health Plans and director of national accounts underwriting at Empire BCBS.

Brian Waitt recently joined Arthur J. Gallagher as an area assistant vice president, also based out of the company’s Whippany location. Waitt’s focus is to identify new broker relationships along with nurturing and continued development of current broker partnerships to support growth initiatives.

Waitt comes to Gallagher from Benefitmall and brings years of experience from his tenure with carriers including Prudential/US Healthcare, Aetna and Oxford/UHC.