WSJ names deputy money & investing editors, deals editor

Wall Street Journal finance editor Dennis Berman sent out the following announcement on Friday:

I’m pleased to announce a number of changes to our Money & Investing team.

Jamie Heller

Jamie is appointed deputy Money & Investing editor. She joins after a glorious run as Deals editor, helping guide her staff to a string of competition-crunching scoops and overseeing an expansion that has deepened our coverage on topics from activism and IPOs to deal finance and the legal aspects of M&A.

Jamie served as deals editor for four years, and before that was Investing editor, guiding some of the most complex and harrowing coverage of the financial crisis and then public pension woes. She joined the Journal in 2002 as an assistant managing editor at WSJ.com and helped bring the law group back into existence after spearheading the Law Blog, WSJ’s first blog, in 2006.

Jamie previously worked at TheStreet.com, and before that graduated from Yale Law School. Somehow, she also finds the discipline to exercise every morning before dawn.

Duncan Mavin

London-based Duncan is also appointed Money & Investing deputy, working closely with us in New York to make our coverage of finance and markets a truly global undertaking. He will continue as Europe Financial Editor as well.

Duncan spent a decade toiling as an accountant in London and Toronto. After a career reboot, he joined Canada’s National Post newspaper where he was a financial services reporter and then a foreign correspondent based in Asia.

Duncan joined the Journal in Hong Kong in 2009. In 2013, he returned to the U.K. as Europe Financial Editor based in London, where he has overseen coverage on high-profile finance and markets stories including the FX-rigging scandal, market turmoil tied to Greece, and the changing of the guard atop Europe’s banks.

Duncan studied history at Durham University.

Dana Cimilluca

Dana is appointed Deals Editor, assuming full responsibility for the group that has dominated the global deals-reporting game.

As the old saying goes, “if you’re sick of M&A, you’re sick of life.” Dana never gets sick of M&A, having begun his deals obsession at Bloomberg in 2005. He joined the Journal in 2007 as our Deal Journal blogger, and then moved to London where he hunted big merger game such as Roche’s $47 billion full acquisition of Genentech and AB Inbev’s $20 billion Modelo purchase.

A New Jersey native, he returned to New York in 2013, where he was an essential player in Journal triumphs including: Verizon’s $130 billion wireless deal with Vodafone, the roughly $50 billion Kraft-Heinz combination and Anthem’s $48 billion pending acquisition of Cigna.

Dana is now in charge of our global deals team which also includes corporate governance, private equity, IPOs, shareholder activism and restructuring/bankruptcy.

Dana graduated from Trinity College and got an MBA at NYU’s Stern School. He once again lives in New Jersey with his family and is very much not sick of M&A.