New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesn’t have a formal title—the “next-gen” firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most part—but Smith tells me he will assemble the ‘analyst-associate’ team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on business strategies.

Code Advisors already has a general counsel—Steven Machtinger—and an advisory board headed by David Golden, a partner of Revolution LLC, with Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer;  Alan Cohen, US CEO of OMD; and Peter Currie, former CFO of Netscape and McCaw Cellular. It also has CBS, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Spotify as clients. Now for some deals ...