ACA from Arthur Andersen, London gets CFO job at Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley yesterday announced that David H. Sidwell, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has decided to retire from the Firm at the end of 2007. Colm Kelleher, who currently serves as the Head of Global Capital Markets, will replace Mr. Sidwell.

Mr. Kelleher, 49, currently Head of Global Capital Markets, joined Morgan Stanley in 1989 and has served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Kelleher was Co-Head of Fixed Income in Europe and led that region’s highly successful client coverage group. He also helped establish Morgan Stanley’s leading European Financial Institutions business. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he spent four years at Arthur Andersen in London, UK, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983. He graduated from Oxford University.