A summary of the major wealth management executive moves from across the world.

Avaloq, the Swiss fintech house, named Juerg Hunziker as its new chief executive, taking the reins from Francisco Fernandez who focuses on the role of group chairman. Hunziker joined the firm in 2016 as deputy CEO and group chief marketing officer. Fernandez now concentrates on his role as the group chairman and focus on innovation, strategy and acquisitions.

London-headquartered European Wealth Group, the wealth management firm, said that chief operating officer Simon Ray resigned. Ray joined European Wealth following the company's acquisition of Aventus Capital Management in 2012 and has served on the board since 2016. He continued to work with the firm as an independent contractor covering IT and systems.

Swiss banking group SYZ appointed Yasmina Barin as head of advisory, the operation which deals with the firm's private clients. Barin began her professional career on the research team at Capital International. She then joined the SYZ research team in October 2006 as a senior analyst.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Patrick Thomson as chief executive of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Thomson, who retained his responsibilities as international head of institutional clients, replaced Mike O'Brien, who relocated to New York to focus on his other duties as co-head of asset management solutions, in the role. O'Brien continued to act as CEO and oversees the region.
Northern Trust appointed Edwin Chan to spearhead sales across the alternatives fund sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Reporting to John Grundy, institutional sales manager for Northern Trust’s corporate and institutional services business in EMEA, Chan focuses on further accelerating the growth of specialist alternative asset servicing capabilities across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy and debt funds.

Chan joined Northern Trust from SS&C GlobeOp, where he was a senior director in business development. Prior to this, he held various senior positions at HSBC in Hong Kong, Citi in Bermuda, Wells Fargo and Black River Asset Management in the UK.

Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman appointed partner Mark Forte as head of the firm’s British Virgin Islands office. He succeeded Robert Briant, who has led the BVI office since April 1999. Forte joined in 2004 to launch and lead the BVI litigation and restructuring practice. He grew the team to include seven solicitors and barristers, all based in the BVI. He has over 20 years of litigation experience.

Deutsche Bank Wealth Management appointed former Coutts senior manager appointed Matthew Spencer as a managing director and UK head of intermediaries and multi-family offices. Spencer is based in London, reporting to Michael Morley, CEO of the UK wealth management business. He was most recently head of business development at Coutts, from December 2014. He was previously head of intermediaries’ management between 2007 and 2014 at Credit Suisse in the UK and in Zurich. He is a member of the Securities Institute and is a judge for the WealthBriefing Swiss and European Awards.

Multi-boutique investment firm BennBridge appointed Gregory Mariasch as partner and portfolio manager, and Luis Fernandez de Mesa as an equity analyst. During his 12-year career at Goldman Sachs, Mariasch held roles including head of Latin America equity trading, global co-head of EMEA sales and trading, and head of international equity trading. He then joined the Rohatyn Group in 2003 as a founding member and later became a partner, managing the emerging market equity strategy within a $1.3 billion portfolio.

ANZ Bank, part of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, appointed a new chief executive for its business in the US, intment of Grant Knuckey as CEO USA, reporting to Farhan Faruqhui, group executive for the international business. Knuckey’s appointment meant that he left his CEO role for Japan. In a career that has seen Knuckey work at ANZ for over 20 years, he spent 15 years in Asia. Stints included leadership roles at ANZ in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar; he also was deputy head and head of institutional business in China. He is based in New York in his new role.

Weatherbys Bank appointed former St James’s Place chief executive – and WealthBriefing award-winner – David Bellamy as its new chairman. He succeeded Johnny Weatherby, who stepped down after holding the role since 1994. Johnny Weatherby continued as a non-executive director at the firm. 

Gresham House, the specialist alternative asset manager, appointed that Simon Stilwell to its company board as non-executive director. With over 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector, Stilwell was, until 2015, chief executive of Liberum, the investment bank that he co-founded in 2007. Prior to Liberum, he was head of sales for small companies at Collins Stewart, and was also a director at Beeson Gregory. Stilwell is chief executive of Vitesse Media, an AIM listed digital media and events business.

Internos Global Investors, the pan-European real estate fund manager, promoted Marcus Sälinger to head of asset management Germany. He succeeded Nils Lütthans, who left the company. Based in Frankfurt, Sälinger is responsible for the management of all existing properties and instructions in Germany. He worked in asset management at the Internos Group since 2012.

Financial services firm PraxisIFM promoted Siobhan McGrath and Dan Toft to directors at PraxisIFM Trust Jersey, Sharon Coburn to group head of human resources, and Richard Morris to group financial reporting manager. McGrath leads a private client team looking after a variety of trust and corporate structures and focuses on building and maintaining relationships with high net worth clients and intermediaries.  McGrath contributes to new business development alongside Toft. Toft has been providing technical support and oversight to the new team in Abu Dhabi and developing new business opportunities.

Both McGrath and Toft joined the board of PraxisIFM Trust Jersey. Morris joined the firm in May 2016 and is based in Jersey. Coburn joined Praxis in 2003, pre-merger with IFM, as assistant manager, and is based in Guernsey.

Accuro, the trust and family office specialist formed out of a management buyout earlier this year, opened a Zurich representative office. The office is led by Kripa Sethuraman as head of family office business, based in the Swiss city. Sethuraman most recently international partner at the Family Office Exchange, followed by the Quilvest Switzerland family office. She holds a BSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, Washington DC and a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Northern Trust appointed Edwin Chan to spearhead sales across the alternatives fund sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Chan reports to John Grundy, institutional sales manager for Northern Trust’s corporate and institutional services business in EMEA. He focuses on further accelerating the growth of specialist alternative asset servicing capabilities across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy and debt funds. Prior to Northern Trust, Chan was at SS&C GlobeOp, where he was a senior director in business development. He also held senior positions at HSBC in Hong Kong, Citi in Bermuda, Wells Fargo and Black River Asset Management in the UK.

PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Channel Islands appointed Simon Perry as its new senior partner, succeeding Brendan McMahon, who held this position since 2012. Perry has been a PwC partner since 2005, holding various roles within the firm, such as in asset and wealth management practices at in Sydney, London and in the Channel Islands. His most recent role was as a partner on secondment to PwC’s London office since 2013, leading the UK asset and wealth management advisory business. While in the UK, he maintained responsibility for leading PwC CI’s due diligence transaction work and listing projects on major stock exchanges including the London Stock Exchange, the Alternative Investment Market, Euronext and The International Stock Exchange. Born and educated in Ireland, Perry firstly relocated to Guernsey in the early ’90s, prior to moving to Jersey in 1996 and on to PwC in Sydney in 1999, before returning to Jersey in 2003.

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Strabens Hall, the independent wealth advisory boutique, hired three new members to its London office. Nick Toubkin was appointed as a senior client advisor, and joined from Tilney, where he advised high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients. Toubin previously spent over eight years at Coutts & Co, where he was a director in the international division. Tom Kimche was hired as a client advisor, and has joined from Saunderson House, where he spent seven years advising partners at the leading accountancy firms and law firms. John Moore was hired as a client advisor, and has a particular focus on helping small businesses with tax planning, funding, exit planning, director protection and corporate investment.  Moore joined from a boutique firm.

International law firm Taylor Wessing appointed Dominic FitzPatrick as its new UK senior partner. FitzPatrick works with managing partner, Tim Eyles, and the UK executive board as an ambassador for the firm continuing to raise the partnership’s profile in the sectors it serves. Adam Marks, who was senior partner for three years since 2014, resumed his role as a partner in the real estate practice.

Old Mutual Wealth appointed Jeremy Mugridge as head of proposition marketing for its UK platform. He replaced Tom Hawkins, who worked at Old Mutual Wealth for 17 years and moved to become head of Old Mutual Wealth’s team of office-based consultants. Mugridge reports to Michelle Andrews, marketing director at Old Mutual Wealth. He si responsible for promoting the Old Mutual Wealth platform customer and advisor propositions in the UK, including pensions, investments and protection. He joined from Aegon, where he was responsible for a number of digital and investment consultancy projects. Prior to that, Mugridge was marketing director at fintech company, Instinct Studios.

Jupiter Asset Management appointed Ash Ray as head of governance research. Ray, who worked in Jupiter’s governance team for 10 years, reports to Stephen Pearson, chief investment officer and chairman of Jupiter’s stewardship committee. Ray leads a team of governance analysts providing research and guidance on regulatory requirements and best practice, and focuses on Jupiter’s engagement priorities for the fund management teams. 

Also, Edward Bonham Carter, vice chairman, continues to undertake his policy and public engagement work in line with his role as a board member of the industry’s investor forum, and his position both on Jupiter’s board and stewardship committee. Ian McVeigh remains a member of the stewardship committee.

Swiss private bank Notenstein La Roche appointed Walter Ernst as head of western Europe for the private banking unit. Ernst took on a new role created as a result of the Swiss private bank's restructuring, with western Europe being run as an independent region. He was previously at St Galler Kantonalbank for three years, the last two as head of its private bank in Germany. Previously, he ran Vadian Bank, which was integrated SGKB two years ago.

UK-based Artemis Investment Management appointed Andy Marsh to work alongside Adrian Frost and Nick Shenton as part of the Artemis Income team in February 2018. Having trained with EY, Marsh qualified as an accountant in 1997, before working as an analyst for ING Charterhouse and then for Merrill Lynch. In 2005 he moved to Investec Investment Bank as head of equity sales. For the last 11 years, he managed money at Polar Capital, where he was a partner.

Bedell Cristin, offshore law firm and trust company, promoted Charlotte Beddoe and Rebecca Stannard to its senior management team. Beddoe, who joined the firm in 2016, was appointed head of risk and compliance. Previously deputy head of risk and compliance, Beddoe has worked in the finance industry for 15 years, predominantly for fiduciary and law firms. 

Stannard, who is the new head of marketing and business development, joined the firm in 2016 and has more than 15 years’ experience in marketing, communications and business development within the finance industry. She previously worked for two different private equity backed trust companies and a global bank.

Fidante Partners, the international investment management business, appointed Joachim Klement as head of investment research in its London office.  He replaced Tom Skinner, who remains at Fidante as head of product development. Klement has 14 years of industry experience and is currently chairman of the board of trustees for the CFA Institute Research Foundation. Most recently, he served as head of thematic research at Credit Suisse UK. Prior to this, Klement was chief investment officer and partner at Wellershoff & Partners, an independent investment and economic consulting firm based in Zurich. Klement reports to Cathy Hales, global head of Fidante Partners.

UK financial planning firm Fairstone Group appointed Gerard Murray as chief financial officer. This appointment enabled Fairstone’s previous CFO, Scott Hopkinson, to move into his new role as chief commercial officer with responsibility for driving the company’s entire acquisition agenda. Murray has over 30 years of experience in private and public businesses having held senior roles at Reg Vardy, Northgate, Benfield Motor Group and most recently at Quantum Pharma.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, appointed David Cumming as chief investment officer of equities. Cumming reports to Euan Munro, chief executive of Aviva Investors, the firm. He is responsible for leading Aviva Investors’ equity teams globally, which manage £69 billion ($92.2 billion) of assets on behalf of Aviva and external clients. Previously, Cumming was head of equities at Standard Life Investments between 2010 and March 2017. He joined SLI in 1998 as an investment director, and was appointed head of UK equities in 2000.

The chief commercial officer of Guardian Wealth Management, Mike Coady, left the firm. Coady focuses on other industry developments. He joined the firm in December 2016, as reported by this publication. Prior to GWM, Coady was managing director of DeVere United Kingdom, DeVere Mortgages and chairman of UK Workplace Solutions, all part of the DeVere Group of companies.

Stonehage Fleming appointed Anastasia Shvetsova as a senior associate, as it expanded its corporate finance team. She joined the firm JP Morgan, where she sat in the corporate finance team for Europe, Middle East and Africa consumer and retail. She joined JP Morgan in 2012.

London-headquartered Fulcrum Asset Management appointed Matthew Roberts as a partner. Roberts joined from Willis Towers Watson, where he was a portfolio manager for the Towers Watson Partners Fund and related strategies amounting to $10 billion. Prior to this, he ran its multi-asset and multi-strategy hedge fund research teams.

Online wealth management firm Scalable Capital appointed Thiemo Krink as chief investment officer. This is a newly-created role. The new CIO joined from Allianz Global Investors, where he was the European head of portfolio risk and most recently worked as a portfolio manager for multi-asset, alternative and insurance strategies. Prior to joining Allianz SE, he was an associate professor of computer science at Aarhus University in Denmark.

UK investment manager Brooks Macdonald appointed David Mulholland as a business development manager. Mulholland are responsible for supporting and developing intermediary relationships throughout the UK.  He is also responsible for promoting the best route of financial advice for vulnerable individuals. With over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Mulholland previously worked as an investment consultant, and at Aviva UK Life and Pensions as a sales consultant.

Investment management firm TIME Investments appointed six new business development managers to join its 30-strong distribution team. Siobhan Griffin joined from Ingenious and is a senior field BDM and looks after a new region which TIME created around the Home Counties and East of England. Olivia Rolfs, who joined from Ingenious, is an office BDM supporting Grifin and the new region. Rebecca Ward joined from Octopus, as an office BDM. Elizabeth Greene, who also joined from Ingenious, is a field BDM, and looks after the Midlands region. Ryan Cosson joined as an office BDM supporting the South West region from MetLife and Priya Radia joined as sales support from Commerzbank.

Swiss private bank Lombard Odier appointed Olivier Steimer to its board of directors as an independent member. In a career spanning over 30 years, Steimer held key managerial roles at several financial institutions. 

Brooks Macdonald made several senior managerial changes. It appointed Jason Wood as chief operating officer. He joined after 21 years at Schroders. He has years of experience in operations, technology and change. After 17 years at Brooks Macdonald, Simon Jackson, group finance director, decided to step down from the board. Jackson remained an active member of the leadership team until April and will assist in the handover of his responsibilities. Also, Andrew Shepherd took on an expanded role to include the position of managing director of distribution, as well as continuing as group deputy chief executive. 

As well as the managerial changes, Brooks Macdonald appointed Stuart Hutchinson as an investment manager and Ceri Fox as senior investment management administrator. They are based in the company’s Wales office in Cardiff. With over 11 years’ experience working in the financial services industry, Hutchinson is responsible for managing discretionary portfolios on behalf of a range of clients. Hutchinson previously worked as an investment manager for WH Ireland in Cardiff. Fox previously worked at Brewin Dolphin, where she held the position of senior administrator. Prior to this, she worked for Gwent Police as a data analyst.

Schroders said Geoff Blanning, head of emerging market debt absolute return and commodities group, decided to retire, and was due to leave in April 2018.

Abdallah Guezour, head of emerging market debt absolute return, took over Blanning’s role in January 2018. Guezour joined Schroders in 2000 and worked with Blanning for over 20 years. Blanning has been a senior member of the commodities team since 2014 and has over 20 years’ investment experience. Prior to joining Schroders, Blanning worked at Mercuria Global Energy Solutions, where he was managing partner.

Butterfield Bank, the Bermuda-headquartered wealth manager, appointed Pamela Thomas-Graham to its board as a non-executive director. She has three decades of experience in financial services.
Law firm Bedell Cristin appointed Neil May to be its new chief operating officer. This was a newly-created role. May has experience working in management roles in the professional services and legal industries, including at leading global firms such as EY, Clifford Chance and Hogan Lovells. He was previously chief executive at a London based firm 42 Bedford Row Chambers, between 2015 and 2017.
Based in the firm’s Jersey office, but with responsibility across all jurisdictions, May focuses on the growth and evolution of the firm.

Founders of Scorpio Partnership Seb Dovey and his wife Catherine (nee Tillotson) found new berths since stepping down from the wealth management consultancy they built and ran for two decades. Catherine Dovey was named new chair of Rosa, a UK fund for women and girls. The organisation says it is the first and only UK-wide fund for women, with a mission to leverage gender equality and social justice. It was set up in 2008 and has mobilized resources, made grants, championed better funding for women and convened partnerships to tackle issues facing women and girls. Dovey took over from Marilyn List, who stepped down from the chair position; she remained on the board.

Since October 2017, Sebastian Dovey has been part of a group of mentors guiding firms on the London Mayor’s International Business Programme.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Elodie Lelief to its exchange-traded fund and indexed fund solutions sales team. Lelief reported to Lorraine Sereyjol-Garros, head of ETF and indexed fund solutions sales.  She focuses on French-speaking clients (France, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland).

UK financial planner Fairstone Group appointed Alex Odd as co-portfolio manager alongside Oliver Stone. This hire coincided with Stone’s promotion from group head of research to portfolio manager. Odd has over 20 years of experience with roles at M&G and Jupiter. Stone joined the Fairstone Group in 2012.

Barclays Bank UK, Barclays’ future ring-fenced bank, announced the composition of its board. The board was created in readiness for ring-fencing legislation which will see the Barclays UK business transfer from Barclays Bank to a separate legal entity, Barclays Bank UK. The transfer was expected to take place in April 2018, subject to court approval. On that date the board assumed responsibility for the Barclays UK business. In addition to chairman of the Barclays Bank UK board, Sir Ian Cheshire, the board comprised:

Executive Directors:
• Ashok Vaswani, chief executive
• Anna Cross, chief financial officer
Independent Non-Executive Directors:
• Michael Jary - chairman of Duchy Originals and senior partner and co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants. He previously served on the board of Nationwide Building Society, where he was a member of the remuneration committee and was involved in overseeing its investment in digital and cyber resilience.
• Avid Larizadeh Duggan - is a venture capitalist and a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Alphabet. She has spent her career in technology as a founder, operator and investor. She co-founded Boticca, a global marketplace for independent brands of high end fashion accessories.
• Kathryn Matthews - has spent her entire career in investment management, most recently as chief investment officer, Asia-Pacific for Fidelity International. She previously held senior positions at William M Mercer, AXA Investment Managers, Santander Global Advisers and Baring Asset Management.
• Andrew Ratcliffe - is a past president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He was an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 29 years, during which time he was the lead audit partner for several large international groups including Barclays.
• Sir John Timpson CBE - is chairman of the family owned Timpson service retail chain with over 1,900 stores in the UK.

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Asia-Pacific
Northern Trust hired Danielle Henderson to its Asia-Pacific (APAC) market advocacy and innovation research operation. Based in Sydney, Henderson is responsible for implementing market advocacy and innovation research activities in the APAC region. The new was newly-created. Henderson joined Northern Trust from Kairos Enterprises, where she was an independent consultant, advocating for market infrastructure development for the Australian securities industry.

BlackRock appointed Deborah Ho as head of Southeast Asia. She joined from Barclays Bank, where she had been managing director and co-head of senior relationship management, overseeing the firm’s platinum client relationships in Asia Pacific since 2012. Ho has more than 30 years’ experience in financial institutions in Asia and the US, as well as extensive senior client relationship experience in both investment banking and asset management. She led DBS Asset Management in Singapore as CEO between 2007 and 2011, after serving UBS as head of fixed income distribution for Asia ex-Japan between 2001 and 2005. She played a similar role for JP Morgan Securities, covering Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1995 to 2001, and worked for Credit Suisse and Citibank earlier in her career. Ho also sits on steering committees for various financial leadership bodies in Singapore and has held board directorship responsibilities in financial and charitable organisations. Head of Southeast Asia is a new title. However, Southeast Asia was previously covered by Kevin Hardy’s role as head of Singapore. 

Rothschild Global Advisory appointed investment banker Elizabeth Wang to become to head its business in Greater China. She took over from Jennifer Yu, who has run the advisory operation in Greater China for 11 years. Yu increasingly focuses on the group’s investment business, keeping her role as non-executive chairman of Rothschild in the country. Kelvin Chau continued as executive vice chairman of wealth management and global advisory in Hong Kong.

Wang has worked in the investment banking sector for more than 20 years. Most recently, she was managing director and head of Hong Kong at Morgan Stanley.  Prior to this, she was MD and head of Asia, consumer and retail at UBS, following a move from London to Hong Kong to join Goldman Sachs in 2000.  A prominent woman in the industry, in 2015, Wang was recognised as one of the Leading Women in Investment Banking by The Women’s Foundation.

ANZ Bank, part of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, appointed a new chief executive for its business in the US, intment of Grant Knuckey as CEO USA, reporting to Farhan Faruqhui, group executive for the international business. Knuckey’s appointment meant he left his CEO role for Japan. In a career that has seen Knuckey work at ANZ for over 20 years, he spent 15 years in Asia. Stints have include leadership roles at ANZ in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar; he has also been deputy head and head of institutional business in China. Knuckey is based in New York. He replaced Truett Tate, who is retiring.

Global investment firm T Rowe Price expanded its Australian distribution team. T Rowe Price appointed Ben Daly as institutional-focused relationship manager in Sydney, Richard Li as senior product manager based in Sydney, Lottie Ridley, who has relocated from London to Sydney, as relationship manager, and Shane Zabiegala as a relationship manager focusing on the Victorian and Tasmanian intermediary markets, based in Melbourne.

UBS confirmed that Julie Koo, head of the Swiss bank’s institutional client coverage team for North Asia at the asset management division, has resigned. Koo left UBS Asset Management in February 2018.
State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of US-headquartered State Street, appointed private banking industry figure Betty Ng as managing director and chief operating officer for Asia ex-Japan. The role was newly-created. Ng oversees business and infrastructure development, and supports how strategic and growth initiatives for SSGA in the region are put to work. Based in Hong Kong, Ng reports to June Wong, head of Asia ex-Japan at SSGA.

Previously, Ng worked at Agricultural Bank of China, where she was general manager of private wealth management in Hong Kong. Prior to this, she spent seven years at Standard Chartered Bank serving in a number of senior positions, including chief operating officer of private banking, North East Asia, and general manager of wealth management and Priority Banking. She was previously head of wealth management at Citibank Hong Kong and head of institutional sales for Jardine Fleming in Asia.

Citi Private Bank appointed Rudolf Hitsch as North Asia head, Jyrki Rauhio as South Asia head, and Akbar Shah as head of business development. These newly-created roles report to regional head Steven Lo and are effective from 1 February 2018.

Hitsch who heads the offshore private bank business with clients from China and Taiwan, added on coverage for Hong Kong in his new role. Rudolf has more than 18 years of experience in the China market. Rauhio, who is head of investment finance for the private bank in Asia, has coverage for ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, and global India in his new role. He has worked at Citi for the past 23 years in a number of markets and in various relationship and franchise management roles around the world. Shah is responsible for client acquisition and the establishment of the Asia-Pacific advisory board. Shah has been at Citi for around 30 years within the relationship and wealth management business.

The current global market manager for ASEAN, Jessica Poh,  reports to Jyrki Rauhio, and is responsible for developing new and deepening mega-wealth client relationships within the South Asia region.
Zedra, the trust, corporate and fund services group, appointed Lisa Tan as head of corporate services of its Singapore office. Tan has over 10 years' experience working with both private clients and corporate entities. At KPMG, she specialised in corporate income tax compliance and advisory work for large multinational companies.

St James’s Place Wealth Management Asia appointed Jonathan Asherson OBE as a senior advisor to its Asia advisory board. Asherson was previously regional director for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Pacific at Rolls-Royce, and held positions in Siemens' industrial power business in China, Malaysia, Germany and the US. He is the non-executive Chairman and Adviser of Rolls-Royce Singapore; an independent director of Semcorp Industries; a director of Genting Singapore and the current chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.

Ingrid Wijaja, former team head of Indonesia at HSBC, who left that firm in November, joined Deutsche Bank as a desk head covering Southeast Asia in Singapore. She is a MD. The appointment followed shortly after the bank hired two teams to its operations in Asia. The first team of four, led by group head Jonathan Ng, joined Deutsche Bank WM from BNP Paribas Wealth Management Singapore. Ng reports to Kin-Mun Kwong, head of wealth management coverage, Southeast Asia. Ng was joined by two relationship managers, Rachel Salomon and Jonathan Tanudjaja, and a service assistant.

The second team of two, led by Gregory Goh, joined Deutsche Bank WM from Nomura Singapore. Goh reports to Malcolm Tay, group head, Southeast Asia for wealth management. Goh is joined by a relationship manager Greta Tang.

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EY, the global professional services and accountancy firm, named Pat Winter as its Asia-Pacific area managing partner. Winter has more than 30 years' of experience in the professional services industry, with 19 years as a partner at EY. He was most recently EY Asia-Pacific deputy area managing partner. Roles have included leadership positions in the region, supporting companies from emerging, mid-sized and fast-growth companies to large, public organizations in Australia and Hong Kong, and globally, large private equity houses. He has also led account teams and business development and serves on the EY global investment committee as well as the EY Asia-Pacific area operating executive committee. He succeeds Steven Phan, who will retire from EY. Winter joined EY Australia in Adelaide in 1994 and has lived and worked in London, Sydney and Hong Kong. 

Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, part of Italian financial services group Generali, named Marco Bovolini as head of client and broker relationship management, based in Hong Kong. Bovolini has worked in Europe and Asia. Previously, he held the position as GC&C head of broker relationship management for Hong Kong. He started his career with the Generali Group focusing on the German and Austrian operations. In 2014, he moved to Asia, helping to reposition Generali’s presence in Hong Kong through the set-up of Generali Life (Hong Kong) Limited.

PineBridge Investments appointed Michelle White as head of consultant relations for Asia, based in Singapore. She oversees PineBridge’s consultant relations effort across Asia. White previously worked at Capital International where she held various roles focused on consultant relations and business development throughout her 11-year tenure. In her most recent position as director of financial intermediaries for Singapore and SE Asia, she was responsible for developing the firm’s financial intermediaries business across Asia as well as managing relationships with top-tier global consultants and institutions. Prior to this, she was a business development associate focused solely on managing consultant relations and institutional clients in Europe. In this newly created role, White has a dual reporting line into Rajeev Mittal, chief executive for Asia and Jason Fisher, global head of consultant relations.

Deutsche Bank Wealth Management hired two teams to its operations in Asia. The first team of four, led by group head Jonathan Ng, joined Deutsche Bank WM from BNP Paribas Wealth Management Singapore. Ng reports to Kin-Mun Kwong, head of wealth management coverage, Southeast Asia. Ng is joined by two relationship managers, Rachel Salomon and Jonathan Tanudjaja, and a service assistant.

Avaloq grouped together its regional service and software offering in Asia under the leadership of Chris Beukers, who became managing director for the region. Meanwhile, Peter Scott, who has been with Avaloq since 2013, decided to leave the company. He was involved in setting up the Singapore service centre, creating three new regional offices in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong and forging deals with customers including Maybank, Deutsche Bank, Citic, Bank of Asia and Crestone. Beukers has more than 25 years working in the Asia-Pacific region, and in other parts of the world. Before joining Avaloq, he has served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific Business Group at Pactera Technology International. At Pactera, he has led a team of more than 700 professionals across Asia with a focus on blue-chip customers in the strategic markets Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Old Mutual International, part of Old Mutual Wealth, appointed Bryan Pee as a sales specialist, based in Singapore. Pee joined Old Mutual International from Bank of China, where he gained experience in product, distribution and proposition design. Pee has previous distribution experience at Zurich International Life.

EFG International nominated Fong Seng Tee for election to its board of directors and will chair its Asian advisory board, which will be established by the end of this year. The new advisory board provides guidance and advice to support the bank’s growth strategy in Asia.  

Adams Street Partners, which is a private markets investment firm working across a number of regions, set up an office in Seoul, South Korea. As part of the development, Chris Cho joined the 45-year-old firm as principal. He previously worked at Lazard Asset Management, where he was vice president in its sales and marketing teams. He has also worked at Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management and Mirae Asset Global Investments.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's chief risk officer, Nigel Williams, was to retire at the end of March, completing a 33-year career in banking. Williams joined ANZ following the 2004 acquisition of The National Bank of New Zealand. At ANZ he has held a number of leadership roles including MD for institutional, corporate and commercial banking in New Zealand, and MD for institutional business in Australia. Since 2011, Williams has been ANZ’s CRO and a member of the group executive committee. Among other roles, Williams has been a director of ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited and Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of UK-listed Aviva, appointed Adeline Ng as head of Asian fixed income, and Alice Wu as analyst in the same area. The two hires are based in Singapore. In her new role, Ng reports to Dan James, global head of fixed income. Wu reports to Ng. Previously, Ng was head of Asian fixed income at BNP Paribas Asset Management between 2008 and October 2017. She joined BNP AM in December 2001 as a portfolio manager, and held the position of head of Singapore fixed income from 2005 to 2008. Her career also includes roles at John  Hancock International and OUB Asset Management. Wu previously worked at BNP AM between April 2014 and October 2017, initially as a portfolio analyst before being promoted to fixed income analyst in March 2016. 

As part of the changes, Jethro Goodchild, head of Asian credit, left Aviva Investors at the end of December to pursue other opportunities.

Exiger, a regulatory, financial crime, risk and compliance company, appointed Dean Ward as vice president and head of business development for the Asia-Pacific region, based in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Previously, Ward joined led the risk solutions sales specialist team for Thomson Reuters. Ward has held senior business development roles, overseeing regional sales teams throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Ward held management and research positions with IntegraScreen and Hill & Associates.

Standard Chartered appointed Jimmy Chang as head of wealth markets, products and sales for Hong Kong. In this role, he reports to Alex Welch, global head of wealth markets, products, sales and managed investments, and Stephen Man, head of wealth management, Hong Kong. He has more than 30 years’ experience in banking and finance, and has held senior roles at UBS, ABN AMRO and Citibank. 
Julius Baer appointed Chew Mun-Yew as new market head of Taiwan and group head of Greater China. Based in Singapore, Mun-Yew is responsible for growing and strengthening the bank’s franchise in the Taiwan market. Mun-Yew bhas 20 years' financial services and joins from UBS Wealth Management, where he was most recently Taiwan country head.

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North America
Orion Advisor Services, a portfolio accounting service provider for advisors, hired seven professionals to its team. The Omaha, Neb-headquartered firm appointed Kelly Waltrich as chief marketing officer, Evan Hatch as director of premier services, Sean Hollingshead as vice president of managed accounts, and Heidi Meyer as strategic consultant. 

Orion also hired three VPs of business development charged with expanding Orion’s reach in the Southcentral, Midwest, and Northwest regions.

Massachusetts-based The Bulfinch Companies, a private real estate investment, development and management firm, appointed Alyssa Tsoutsouras as vice president of finance and asset management.

Tsoutsouras oversees lending relationships as well as assist with investor reporting and asset management. Tsoutsouras held various positions at several commercial banks and investment holding companies, including JP Morgan and Citizens Bank. Most recently, she provided portfolio management and underwriting services at Citizens Bank. 

Fieldpoint Private, the private wealth firm serving ultra-high net worth individuals and institutions, appointed a group of advisors into its Greenwich, Connecticut office. The joiners were William E Christian, Tammi A Lauder, Michael J Lent and William T Lent. They are managing directors and senior advisors. Another joiner, an associate, was Steven Cangialosi. The team’s roots date back more than 40 years and encompass two longstanding partnerships. Brothers Michael and William Lent began working together at Prescott, Ball and Turben in the 1970s. They moved to Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley) in 1993. That year, in a separate move, Lauder also joined Smith Barney, and in 1997 Mr Christian joined the firm. Lauder and Christian began their partnership the following year, and in 2002 they joined forces with the Lent brothers, forming the Landmark Group. In 2010 the team joined JP Morgan Securities in White Plains, New York.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Adam Mazzaro as wealth director in San Francisco, reporting to regional president, Thomas Fickinger. Mazzaro focuses on the firm’s business development, concentrating on individuals, intergenerational wealth transfer, business owners and business transition strategies. 

Wymer Brownlee, an independent wealth management firm, appointed Craig Riffel to the newly-created position of general counsel. Riffel, who brings 20 years of experience in practicing law, serves as Wymer Brownlee's top legal strategist on an in-house basis. Previously, Riffel was a partner at Riffel Law, formerly Mitchel, Gaston, Riffel & Riffel, a regional law firm that Riffel co-founded in 2004.

Canadian wealth manager Gluskin Sheff & Associates appointed Alkarim Jiwa as managing director and portfolio manager, and Leanne Caravaggio as vice-president and portfolio manager of its equity operation. Jiwa is responsible for the GS+A Premium Income Portfolio, Gluskin Sheff’s dividend-oriented Canadian equity strategy. He spent 20 years at BMO Financial Group. For the last decade, Jiwa was the lead portfolio manager for the BMO Private Canadian Income Equity Portfolio.  Caravaggio is responsible for the GS+A Canadian Equity Portfolio, joining from 1832 Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scotiabank.

National Capital Bank of Washington appointed Kathleen Walsh Carr and Harold Rauner to its board of directors. Both Carr and Rauner were most recently with Cardinal Bank.  Prior to retirement, Carr was the president of Cardinal's Washington market and Rauner was regional president in the Fairfax market, following his tenure as president and chief executive of The Business Bank.  

Kestra Financial appointed Michelle Barry as the new president of the recently-acquired H Beck business. Barry has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, most recently as the president and chief executive of Hornor, Townsend & Kent, a full-service broker-dealer and subsidiary of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. Before HTK, Barry held a variety of positions across the broker-dealer and RIA landscape.

Raymond James appointed James Baber as financial advisor and senior vice president of investments, and Carla Graham as senior registered client associate to its operation in Richmond, Virginia. Baber joined from Janney Montgomery Scott, where he previously managed approximately $125 million in client assets. He was joined by Graham, and together they operate as Baber Wealth Management of Raymond James. 

Wilmington Trust hired Kevin Johns as a senior private client advisor in its wealth advisory office in Atlanta, Ga. Johns provides wealth management advice to high-net-worth clients including families, entrepreneurs, business owners, and foundations and endowments. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, he was a senior private banker at Wells Fargo. Earlier in his career, he worked in wealth management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as well as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Bank of America, which has a wealth management segment, appointed Dr Maria Zuber as a director. The new director was appointed to the enterprise risk and corporate governance committees. Zuber serves as the E A Griswold professor of Geophysics and the vice president for research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is responsible for research administration and policy.
Massachusetts-headquartered FL Putnam Investment Management Company, the financial planning firm, appointed Christopher Parker to the newly-created role of chief administrative officer. Parker joined Ellen Flaherty, chief operating officer, and Albert Parent chief technology officer, as part of the executive management team at FL Putnam. He reports to the firm's chief executive, Tom Manning. He is responsible for the integration of the firm's new CRM platform.

Connecticut-based Fieldpoint Private, the wealth advisory and private banking firm serving ultra-high net worth families and institutions, appointed Brian Smith as managing director and senior advisor. Smith's practice is based in Fieldpoint Private’s Palm Beach, Florida, office. He was previously with First Republic Bank since 2000, first in New York and later in Palm Beach, advising approximately 35 UHNW families. Prior to First Republic, Smith was a private banker with US Trust and the Bank of New York.

Israel-based Bank Leumi appointed Chris Williams as its new regional manager for US private banking in Chicago, Illinois. Williams leads a team of Chicago-based relationship managers. Williams joined Bank Leumi from JP Morgan, where he led the high net worth wealth management business in Northern Chicago.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Tamara Jackson as director of US institutional business development for the western region of the states. She reports to Neil Johnson, head of US institutional business development, and is based in Los Angeles.

Farkouh, Furman & Faccio, a boutique accounting and advisory firm, joined forces with CPI Associates, a tax advisory firm in Manhattan. The founder of CPI Associates, Lee Robins, and the rest of CPI's staff joined FF&F.

California-based asset and wealth manager Bailard appointed Louise Model as vice president and business development officer. She focuses on Bailard’s high net worth relationships in the San Francisco Bay Area. Model has 25 years' experience in the financial services industry, including 10 years with real estate securities manager Kensington Investment Group as vice president of capital markets and as a financial consultant.

California-based Yuva Wealth Planning joined tru Independence's wealth manager advisory platform. The new practice is led by Ahmet Sumer, who was most recently a vice president and financial advisor with Merrill Lynch in San Diego, where he continues to work. Sumer has 20 years of experience in banking and private wealth management, both in the US and abroad for firms including JP Morgan, HSBC and Wells Fargo.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Joseph Friend as a senior vice president and financial advisor, Ross Gordon as an associate vice president and financial advisor, and Melodie Moore as a senior client associate to its Raleigh, North Carolina office. Friend has 32 years of industry experience, previously at Wells Fargo.  Gordon has 43 years of experience and also joined from Wells Fargo.  

Falcon Wealth Planning appointed Min Song as a financial planner in its operations across Southern California. Song joined from TD Ameritrade, where he spent the past decade helping high net worth clients achieve their financial goals in its private client group.

New York-based Spartan Capital Securities, a financial services firm that provides investment advice for high net worth individuals, appointed Andrew Heath as chief compliance officer. Heath has more than 35 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has served as CCO and general counsel at several firms in the financial services industry such as UBS, National Securities Corporation and Buckman Buckman & Reid.

Financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard appointed Alexandra Deignan as head of investor relations. Deignan oversee the firm’s investor relations activities with Evan Russo, chief financial officer. He is based in New York. Deignan has more than 20 years of experience in investor relations and investment banking. He previously served as vice president of investor relations for Schnitzer Steel Industries.

RBC Wealth Management hired the Santia Foster Wealth Management Group to its Pittsburgh office. The team is comprised of Mark Santia, senior vice president and financial advisor, who joins with 32 years of industry experience, and Edmund Foster, senior vice president and financial advisor, who has 22 years of experience, along with Kira Napolitano, senior registered client associate and James Alfonso, registered client associate. 

RBC Wealth Management also appointed Bruce Gelfand to its Midtown, New York office, and Stephen Pendergast to its Stamford office. Gelfand joined from Wells Fargo Advisors as first vice president and financial advisor. He has 22 years of industry experience and manages approximately $190 million in assets under administration. Pendergast also joined from Wells Fargo as a financial advisor Stamford office. He has $142 million in assets.

Baird, an international, employee-owned wealth management firm, hired the Planning Group of the Northwest to its Anchorage, Alaska office. Financial advisors Margaret Price, Sarah Springer, and Grant Shearer all have titles of managing directors. Price has 35 years of industry experience to Baird. Springer has over 15 years of industry experience to Baird. Shearer has nearly 20 years of industry experience.
New York-headquartered Union Bank named Stephen Sherline as a managing director and head of private wealth management for Southern California.  Based in Beverly Hills, he reports to Michael Feldman, head of wealth markets. He has more than 25 years of financial services experience. He has held senior positions at several institutions including US Bank, Fifth Third Bank and Smith Barney.

Oregon-based financial advisory firm True Private Wealth Advisors hired Nanson, Bratt & Colvin Capital Advisors to the firm's operation.  Based in Portland, Oregon, financial advisors Jason Bratt and David Nanson and client service associate, Ashley Colvin, joined True from UBS to launch Nanson, Bratt & Colvin Capital Advisors. Bratt is a founder and senior wealth advisor of Nanson, Bratt & Colvin Capital Advisors.  Nanson is also a founder and senior wealth advisor of Nanson, Bratt & Colvin Capital Advisors. Colvin is a senior client service manager at True Private Wealth Advisors. 

Law firm Greenspoon Marder expanded its international wealth and asset planning practice in Denver, adding shareholder Edward Brown. Brown has more than 25 years of experience in areas of comprehensive estate planning, asset protection and taxation.

Atlanta-based Atlantic Capital Bank, which has a private banking operation, appointed Chris Stanley as vice president of fintech industry banking to lead Atlantic Capital’s fintech banking practice. This was a newly-created role. Stanley has more than 17 years of experience in corporate banking and supporting technology companies. Most recently, Stanley served as VP of finance for FINSYNC, an Atlanta-based fintech company.

Virginia-based Edelman Financial Services, an independent financial planning and investment management firm, appointed Rene Chaze to a newly-created role of chief development officer and Jon Isaacson as its new chief financial officer. Chaze oversees the firm's expansion strategy via acquisitions. Isaacson, who replaced Chaze as CFO, took charge of its accounting and finance operations. Before joining Edelman in 2011, Chaze was a partner at Ernst & Young. Most recently, Isaacson served as the managing director of buyouts for American Capital, a publicly-traded private equity and global asset-management firm.

New York-based Epsilon Asset Management appointed Charles Soderstrom as chief operating officer and partner of the firm. Previously, Soderstrom served as a managing director and head of operations for Impala Asset Management, a long/short equity hedge fund. Prior to Impala, he was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns.  In 2000, he co-founded and managed Buena Vista Partners, a long/short equity hedge fund.

Inukshuk Capital Management, a portfolio management company that offers wealth management services to institutional and high net worth investors, appointed Patrick Keeley as president. Keeley has 25 years' experience in the investment industry, and he most recently served as a managing director of client wealth management at Gluskin Sheff and Associates. Prior to joining Gluskin Sheff, he held various positions within the RBC Financial Group, including co-president of RBC Phillips Hager & North Investment Counsel.

US Trust, the wealth management arm of Bank of America, announced seven new hires. It appointed Andre Luu as a private client advisor of its Palo Alto, California office. He previously worked at City National Bank as a private bank team leader. There was one new appointment to its Denver, Colorado office. John Magee joined the operation as a private client advisor. He previously worked at JP Morgan Private Bank as a private banker.

Ted Olsen joined the Minneapolis, Minnesota office as a senior trust officer. He previously worked at Abbot Downing as a senior trust administrator. Donald Wratchford has joined the Kansas City, Missouri office as a private client advisor. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch as an analyst – business development. Also, the firm hired Joseph Carter to its New York office as a private client advisor. He previously worked at The PrivateBank as a managing director. David Rihtarchik joined the Raleigh, North Carolina office as a senior trust officer. He previously worked at Fifth Third Bank as a senior trust officer. Lastly, the bank hired Christopher Tate as a wealth strategies advisor at its McLean, Virginia office. He previously worked at Wells Fargo Bank as a senior trust officer.