Bateman Picks Juell to Head Finance Unit

A longtime Los Angeles-area executive has joined Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards as head of the corporate finance division, the brokerage house announced Wednesday.

Bruce C. Juell’s appointment as an executive vice president is part of a continuing reorganization of upper-level management, a spokesman said.

Juell, 51, and six other executive vice presidents--three of whom have been named since December--report directly to John R. Bolin, chairman, president and chief executive. Bolin was named to those posts last August. Juell had previously served as president of La Jolla-based Kratos, an engineering supply and precision-instrument company, where he remains as chairman of the executive committee.

Over the last decade he has been president and chief executive of Olson Farms, First City Properties, First Wilshire Securities Management and Great Southwest.

Bateman Eichler was acquired in 1982 by Kemper, an Illinois insurance and financial-services conglomerate.

NATION

Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan F. Boesky has restructured the company bearing his name and will assume the newly created position of chairman and chief executive.

Stephen J. Conway, currently a vice president in charge of merchant banking, will become president and chief operating officer of the New York-based Ivan F. Boesky Corp. Boesky, Conway and four new senior vice presidents will form the executive committee.

Boesky said in a statement that the changes reflect the company’s rapid growth in both capital and number of employees, and its expansion beyond merger arbitrage into merchant banking, investment management and venture capital.

CALIFORNIA

James E. Lee, chairman, president and chief executive of Gulf, was named a vice chairman of Chevron, San Francisco, Gulf’s parent company.

C. Todd Conover, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, was named vice chairman of Equitec Financial Group, a San Francisco financial-services company.