Chase Manhattan has appointed Jarek Kochaniak as senior country officer for Poland.

Kochaniak joins Chase after four years at Salomon Smith Barney in London, where he was a vice-president, responsible for Polish investment banking. At Chase, which has 19 people working in Poland, Kochaniak he will be responsible for managing client relationships in Poland across a variety of banking products including mergers and acquisitions, risk management solutions, capital market financing and transaction-based services.