A roundup of the moves in wealth management senior leadership roles during June.

UK, European and other moves for May 2018

UK wealth manager Tilney appointed Catherine Davies as head of talent, resourcing and development, a newly-created role. She reports to Gaynor Gillespie, group HR director and is based in the company’s Mayfair office.

Prior to this, Davies started her career in financial planning as a branch manager for Abbey National prior to moving into PR and media relations for the bank. She then moved into recruitment consultancy which led to her becoming the HR director of an SME. In 2005, she set up her own interim business and has spent the last 13 years helping companies to consider their approach to people-related challenges.
Indosuez Wealth Management, the subsidiary of Credit Agricole, appointed four private bankers to its Zurich operation. The firm hired Bruno Wuest from Basler Kantonalbank, where he was a desk head.

Wuest will run Indosuez's business with independent asset managers. Antonio Caretti will also join the team. Caretti was also a former BKB employee. Daniel Furtwaengler was appointed to run the Zurich-based private banking business in continental Europe. He spent 17 years with Coutts private bank. He moved to EFG in Zurich in 2015 after Union Bancaire Privée bought Coutts' international arm. The wealth manager was also hired Caglar Toprak, who serves wealthy Turkish clients.

London-based Agilis Investment Management, the independent multi-asset fund manager, appointed Charles Crowson as a partner and head of trading. Crowson is responsible for trade execution and will contribute to idea generation. He joined from hedge fund Mason Capital, where he headed up the London office for ten years. He has more than 18 years’ investment experience and has previously held senior trading roles at hedge funds Elgin Capital and Tisbury Capital.

UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin appointed Anne Hall Dick as a consultant of family law and mediation in its matrimonial offering in Scotland. She started her own firm in 1975. She was founding chairperson of the Family Law Association in 1989. And having retired from legal practice in November 2017, is a family mediator at Inkdance Family Mediation.

SYZ Asset Management chief executive Katia Coudray has decided to leave the group after seven years to pursue new career opportunities. Joining SYZ in 2011, Coudray held various positions before being promoted to CEO in June 2015. Eric Syz assumed the interim CEO role ahead of a new appointment. 

SYZ also appointed Sédar Piller as head of its Zurich office, dedicated to independent asset managers. Two advisors, Iwan Graf and Samuel Thébault, joined Piller.

Julius Baer appointed Michel Yigit as new head of intermediaries Zurich and global custody. He replaced Walter Wichert in the role. He reports directly to Gian Rossi, head of Switzerland.  Yigit joined Julius Baer in 2015 and was initially mandated to grow its UK intermediaries franchise by teams in Zurich, Guernsey and London. He has over 20 years of experience with financial professionals, having managed various teams and projects in investment banking, global custody and intermediaries at UBS, Brown Brothers Harriman and others.

European asset management firm Amundi appointed Stanislas Pottier as chief responsible investment officer, a newly-created role. Previously, Pottier was global head for sustainable development at Crédit Agricole and a member of its management committee. 

Global property consultancy Knight Frank expanded its “global prime” team as part of its offering to private clients. The team is led by Paddy Dring, head of global prime sales consists of Knight Frank’s Private Office. It is based in London and run by Rory Penn and Thomas van Straubenzee, alongside a specialist group of global property experts. The office advises on residential and commercial properties, concentrating on buying and selling real estate for private clients, advisors and family offices. The team is as follows: Daniel Daggers (London); Alasdair Pritchard (International); Deborah Watt (Commercial Investments); Liam Bailey (Global Research); Charles Penny (London); Rupert Des Forges (London Residential Development); Tom Smith (Lettings); Katya Zenkovich (Russia); Stuart Cole (UK Country Homes & Estates); Sami Robertson (London). 

Standard Chartered appointed Shada El Borno as regional head of global subsidiaries for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) markets, and head of global subsidiaries for UAE. She has been with Standard Chartered for 22 years. She has held a number of senior roles at the bank, most recently as the regional head of business management, global banking MENAP. El Borno reports into Mohamed Salama, country head global banking UAE for the local GS business; Sarmad Lone, regional head of GB, MENAP, for the overall MENAP GS business; and to Rob Snell, global head of global subsidiaries. 

ABN AMRO appointed Tom de Swaan as chairman of ABN AMRO Group and ABN AMRO Bank supervisory board, subject to regulatory approval. de Swaan was a member of the governing board of De Nederlandsche Bank, member of the executive board and chief financial officer of ABN AMRO, and chairman of the board of the Zurich Insurance Group. He succeeded Steven ten Have, who was acting chairman of the supervisory board since 5 February.

Man Group, the active investment management firm, appointed Teun Draaisma as portfolio manager, based in London. Teun works with Ben Funnell, the head of the Man Dynamic Alpha team, to develop a new multi-asset strategy. He has over two decades of industry experience. He joins the firm from BlackRock, where he was global equity strategist for almost six years.

The Isle of Man Department for Enterprise appointed Aidan Doherty as non-executive chair and Michael Crowe as chief executive to lead the Finance Isle of Man Executive Agency. Doherty has over 40 years' experience in the sector. Crowe is director at Grant Thornton. He has spent 27 years working on the Island.

Wells Fargo Asset Management appointed Eddie Cheng as head of international portfolio management within its multi-asset solutions team. Cheng reports to Nico Marais, president of WFAM and head of multi-asset solutions, and is based in London. He also partners closely with Wai Lee, head of research for the multi-asset solutions team, supporting the expansion of Wells Fargo’s Asian business. He joined from Schroders, where he was a senior portfolio manager with its multi-asset team. 

UBS appointed Lord Hill (Jonathan) as senior advisor of corporate client solutions. He has been both a European Commissioner and a member of the British Cabinet. Until July 2016, he was the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union. In that role, he was responsible for financial regulation across the EU and the development of a European capital markets union to increase the flow of investment capital. Lord Hill is responsible for advising on the challenges and opportunities for business arising from recent political and economic developments in Europe.

Waypoint Capital Group, a Geneva-headquartered wealth management and family office firm straddling the Atlantic, appointed Ron Cami as its new group general counsel. He reports to the group’s chairman, Ernesto Bertarelli, and serves as a member of the Group’s board of directors. 

Previously, Cami was at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a partner in its corporate department in Northern California and New York, leading the firm’s private equity practice. From 2010 to 2016 he was partner and general counsel of TPG Global in San Francisco, prior to which he was a partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. 

In his career, he has acted for private equity and corporate clients, experienced in M&A transactions, all aspects of private equity transactions, joint ventures, partnerships, shareholder activism and corporate governance issues. An academic, Cami is a visiting professor at Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches classes on the law of M&A transactions. 

The head of investments at Pictet Wealth Management, Christophe Caspar, left the business. Caspar, who had been at the firm for two years, left in April. Since then, his role is being performed by chief investment officer, Cesar Perez Ruiz. Perez Ruiz remains chief investment officer. Prior to joining Pictet, Caspar had been chief investment officer in EMEA for Russell Investments, working at that firm since 1999.

Old Mutual Wealth, renamed Quilter, appointed John Corbyn in its pensions operation specialist and Ash Kapasi in its offshore segment. Corbyn joined Old Mutual Wealth after holding previous roles at Standard Life and Winterthur, which later became part of AXA Wealth, where he was head of specialist products sales. Kapasi has more than 20 years’ experience in the tax and trust industry. Prior to his appointment at Old Mutual Wealth, Kapasi held business development roles with Brooks Macdonald and Canada Life in the Midlands.

CIBC FirstCaribbean appointed Fernando Cugliari as private wealth investment advisor. He works with clients to provide international investment advice within CIBC FirstCaribbean in the Cayman Islands, the Caribbean and Latin America. Cugliari has previously worked as an international investment advisor with Scotia Private Group in Toronto, Canada, and most recently with RBC Dominion Securities in the Cayman Islands.

St James’s Place’s chairwoman Sarah Bates retired, replaced by senior independent director Iain Cornish. The group’s independent non-executive director Roger Yates stepped into Cornish’s role. 
UK wealth manager Rathbone Brothers appointed Tim Shaw as investment director. Shaw joined the firm from HSBC Global Asset Management, where he was regional head for London. Shaw began his 16-year career in financial services in 2002 as an investment advisor at Charles Stanley. He then moved to Killik & Co in 2006 as a private client broker, before joining HSBC GAM in 2011.

BlueBay Asset Management appointed Stephen Thariyan as co-head of developed markets, a newly-created role. Based in London and reporting to Raphael Robelin, chief investment officer, Thariyan works alongside Mark Dowding, co-head of developed markets. He has over 25 years’ experience in the sector. He was most recently at Henderson Global Investors.

Business advisory firm KPMG appointed Krista Woodman as London head of trusts in its private client practice. Woodman concentrates on expanding the operation in advising family-led businesses with complex ownership structures. Prior to joining KPMG, she spent four years as a partner at Smith & Williamson, advising high net worth individuals with a focus on international tax.

Law firm Boodle Hatfield named Kyra Motley as a partner of its private client and tax team. She previously worked at Taylor Wessing.

The former chairman of Nikko Asset Management, Japan’s largest investments firm, moved to a similar role at the asset management arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings.

The firm named David Semaya as co-chairman, alongside current president Hideki Hiraki, who was also named to the same role. Semaya joined Nikko AM in early April, 2014. Prior to this, Semaya worked at Barclays Plc, where he served in various executive leadership positions since joining the bank in 2004. He was head of the wealth management business in the UK and Ireland, Chairman of Barclays Asset Management Ltd., and CEO of Europe and Asia for Barclays Global Investors (BGI). From 2004 to 2007, Semaya was President of BGI Japan Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Prior to that, he was with Merrill Lynch for 12 years in a variety of roles in asset management and capital markets in both New York and Tokyo.

Newton Investment Management, part of BNY Mellon Investment Management, appointed Andy Warwick to its real return team. He reports to Suzanne Hutchins, co-lead portfolio manager. He works as a co-lead portfolio manager on the Newton and BNY Mellon real return strategies, alongside co-lead portfolio managers Suzanne Hutchins and Aron Pataki. He joined from BlackRock where he was co-manager of the BlackRock Dynamic Diversified Growth Fund, as well as being manager of the BGF Flexible Multi-Asset Fund, BlackRock Balanced Growth Fund and BlackRock Balanced Managed Fund.

South African firm Carrick Wealth appointed Ben Nevin as manager of wealth management and advisory in Botswana. Nevin was previously a wealth specialist for Carrick Wealth in the Western Cape, where he was also a member of the firm’s client servicing team.

Cazenove Capital appointed Ahmet Feridun as manager of investment research within its wealth management client business. Ahmet, who reports to Caspar Rock, chief investment officer, is responsible for strengthening the fund research and investment strategy capability.

Manulife Asset Management named Christos Tsaravas managing director and head of distribution for Switzerland. He reports to Marco Zanuso, head of distribution for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and is based in the firm’s newly-opened Zurich office. 

Ocorian, the corporate and fiduciary services provider, made a host of senior-level appointments.

Joiners were Sally Gilding, senior consultant and non-executive director; Chris Wilson, director of transaction management; and Sinead McIntosh, associate director of product development.
CoInvestor, a platform digitising alternative asset transactions for fund managers, investors and advisers, appointed Rob Ferguson as its chief operating officer. Ferguson spent more than 20 years working within software, financial and legal firms. In his last executive role he was chief commercial officer of IG Investments at IG Group, the online trading business. Prior to that he was a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, an international law firm.

Canada Life Investments appointed Craig Rippe as head of multi-asset funds. He co-manages the company’s range of multi-asset funds, which includes the LF Canlife Portfolio Funds and the LF Canlife Managed 0%-35 Fund, alongside David Marchant, Canada Life Investment’s chief investment officer. Rippe also continues with his existing fund management responsibilities on the LF Canlife UK Equity Income Fund and the LF Canlife UK Equity Income & Bond Fund, alongside senior fund manager Eugene O’Neill.

Strabens Hall, the wealth advisory business, appointed Adam Benskin as chief executive, John Halley as head of legal, financial and compliance and Alistair Peel as head of investor services as it shakes up senior management and expands in regions such as Asia. The roles are newly-created. Benskin oversees Strabens Hall’s Hong Kong office. He is a founding director of the firm, a certified financial planner and Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. John Halley is a founding director of Strabens Hall. Peel is responsible for the firm’s portfolio management, investment monitoring and consulting services.

Hampden & Co, the independent bank, appointed Andrew Jackson as head of banking management, a newly-created role in its operation serving high net worth clients in Edinburgh and London. He works in its Mayfair office. Jackson joined the firm from private bank Duncan Lawrie. He has around 30 years’ experience in the sector.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Maude Rivierre Bianchi as product specialist and Chiara Solazzo as member of the sales team in its exchange-traded funds and index solutions operation. Bianchi is based in Paris and reports to Bertrand Alfandari, head of ETF development. She joined from Vega Investment Managers, where she was a product specialist. Solazzo is based in Milan and reports to Sabrina Principi, head of ETF sales for Italy and Spain. She joined from Blackrock’s ETF iShares sales team.
 

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Wealth management firm Sanlam UK appointed Daniel Szabo as portfolio manager. He has more than 17 years’ experience in the wealth management industry. He joins from Oxford Capital, where he worked with high net worth private clients. Prior to this, he was an associate director at Tilney and he held various private client roles at Nationwide Building Society, Zurich and Bradford and Bingley. Szabo reports to Stuart McCann, head of London office at Sanlam UK.

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen Bermuda appointed Cheri Minors as a senior associate in its trusts and private wealth practice. She reports in to partner Keith Robinson. Minors joined the firm from an international insurance company, where she was an in-house legal counsel and group compliance manager. She has more than seven years' experience across of wide range of sectors, including private client and trusts, regulatory, property and insurance.

SANNE appointed Tracy Burns as director of global operations, a role based at the firm’s headquarters in Jersey. Burns joined the group’s services leadership team, headed up by Eric Watson, SANNE’s chief operating officer.

UK-based Thesis Asset Management appointed Tim Harman as an investment manager. Harman, who has more than 15 years of experience within financial services, was previously head of Canadian equities in Europe for the Royal Bank of Canada, and has also held roles at BMO Financial Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Fiona Lucas as managing director, relationship management, in the firm’s London office. In the newly-created role, Lucas focuses on serving clients across three groups: business owners and entrepreneurs; corporate executives; and multi-family offices. She reports to Ross Jennings, head of sales and relationship management at RBC Wealth Management – international. Lucas has over 20 years’ experience in the private banking and wealth management industries, most recently as director of private banking at Credit Suisse. Prior to that, she worked for Barclays Wealth and Lloyds TSB, in London and Hong Kong.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed five new members to its UK funds sales team. James Burdis was appointed a client advisor in the strategic relationships group and will report into Tim Mitchell, UK head of strategic relationships. He is responsible for developing and sustaining relationships with clients such as fund managers, private banks, family offices and multi-managers. He started his career at JPMAM in 2007, in London, before relocating to Hong Kong in 2008. Burdis has been based in Singapore for the past two years and recently relocated to London. James Wring was appointed regional sales manager for south west England and reports into Dale Erdei, head of UK intermediary sales. He is based in Bristol. Jordan Mildwater, Liam MacDonald-Raggett and Harry Boys were appointed sales executives and support JPMAM’s regional intermediary sales managers. Mildwater joined from Columbia Threadneedle Investments, MacDonald-Raggett joined from JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank and Boys joined from JPMAM’s UK funds marketing team. They are based in London and report into Nicola Hayden, head of sales executives.

Multi-family office Stonehage Fleming appointed David Maxwell as partner and head of UK risk and compliance. Maxwell reports to Anton Sternberg, chief executive of the Stonehage Fleming investments division and Ian Crosby, group head of corporate risk and law. He previously worked for 11 years in compliance at the private banking arms of Standard Chartered and HSBC, and has worked in the regulatory/compliance sphere for more than 25 years. Among various berths, he was a regulatory consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

UK-based Ludlow Wealth Management appointed Rob Brown as its first chief operating officer. Brown joined the firm from RBS. Prior to RBS, he worked for Barclays Wealth for seven years. Preceding Barclays, Brown had been at Santander for 14 years in senior regulated roles within its wealth, financial planning and mortgages divisions.

Rothschild Global Advisory, part of France-based Rothschild & Co, appointed two managing directors to its Chicago office: Sumner Farren and Sara Coyle, who have previously worked together at UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. They joined the industrials group. Other senior hires by the firm in North America include Chris Gaertner and Walid Khiari as MDs in Silicon Valley; Reza Vahabzadeh, Aashis Mehta and Timothy Hotchandani as MDs in New York; and Siddharth Hariharan as a MD in Los Angeles.

Indosuez Wealth Management appointed Julien Collin as head of markets, investment and structuring in Singapore. In his new role, Collin reports to Pierre Masclet, Asia chief executive of Indosuez Wealth Management, and Arjan de Boer, head of markets, investment and structuring, based in Hong Kong. He replaced Simon Ip, who moved to Investment Advisory.

Collin took charge of providing global asset allocation advice, investment solutions and recommendations aimed at ultra-high net worth clients, serviced by Singapore-based relationship managers. The appointment means he leads 35 professionals in Singapore, covering areas ranging from foreign exchange and precious metals through to real estate and credit. An employee of Crédit Agricole since 2007,
Collin held a variety of roles. In 2014, he joined Indosuez Wealth Management as head of markets and investment solutions in Paris. He moved East to Singapore in 2017, holding the post of acquisition programme director to steer the integration of CIC private banking operations in Asia.

UBS Wealth Management appointed Karan Sejpal as head of its new London high net worth team. The firm also appointed Simon Pearson as head of North West, and Aidan Dunstan as head of North East and Yorkshire, a newly-created role. Sejpal was formerly head of North West and Yorkshire at UBS Wealth Management. Pearson worked with UBS Wealth Management’s clients in the North West for the past five years. Dunstan spent the past 13 years with UBS Wealth Management and is currently head of North East.

Hermes Investment Management appointed Stephane Michel and Andrew Lennox as senior portfolio manager and asset-backed securities portfolio manager, respectively, in its fixed income team. They are both based in London.

Michel reports to Andrew Jackson, head of fixed income. He is responsible for identifying market opportunities, trends and strong risk-adjusted relative value across illiquid markets as well as making portfolio composition recommendations. He previously spent five years at UBS.

Lennox reports to Vincent Nobel, head of asset-based lending. He is responsible for building and developing systems and infrastructure to analyse, risk manage, report on and monitor European ABS assets. He joins from BlackRock, where he was a senior portfolio manager in the European asset-backed securities team.

BMO Global Asset Management appointed Beate Meyer as director of regional sales (intermediary) for Germany and Austria. Based in Frankfurt, Beate reports to Georg Kyd-Rebenburg, managing director and head of distribution (intermediary) for Europe. Beate is responsible for managing its client and distribution partner relationships throughout Germany and Austria. He also works alongside Guido Hansmeyer, director of regional sales (intermediary) for Germany, to help grow the business in the region. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry. Most recently, Beate held the role of executive director at Vontobel Asset Management Australia, responsible for expanding its presence into Australia and New Zealand. He was previously head of wholesale at Vontobel Asset Management in Germany, and head of wholesale for Schroders in Germany. 

Seneca Investment Managers, the Liverpool-based asset manager, appointed Gary Moglione as fund manager. He is responsible for research in developed market overseas equities and fixed income. Moglione is part of the indirect investment team, alongside fellow fund manager Tom Delic, who will become responsible for emerging market equity and fixed income research. Moglione joined from Amundi Asset Management.

Blackrock UK equity manager Imran Sattar left the firm. Sattar was affiliated with BlackRock since 1997. He spent time at Mercury Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which was acquired by BlackRock in 2006. He managed the BlackRock UK Equity and the BlackRock UK Focus funds. Luke Chappell, head of the firm’s UK equities team, and Nick Little heads up the funds previously run by Sattar. Chappell and Little have worked together for over 15 years.

Harbottle & Lewis, the UK-based private client law firm, brought in Jonathan Burt to be a partner in its private capital practice, having worked at firms including Barclays Wealth. Burt previously worked at Harcus Sinclair, where he was a partner since 2012.  He had previously worked as a managing director at Barclays Wealth where he was on the management committee of their international tax, trust and insurance businesses. Before that he worked in Baker McKenzie’s wealth management department where he became partner in 2004.

He has more than 20 years’ experience advising on international private client matters. He specialises in sophisticated complex cross-border tax and succession planning, multi-jurisdictional investment structures and advisory work for trustees, beneficiaries and families with international interests. Burt has particular experience advising UK resident non-domiciled clients, families based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and US citizens who live outside America.

UK-based wealth manager London & Capital appointed Jonathan Gold as executive director. Gold is based in London and reports to Daniel Freedman, managing director. Prior to London & Capital, Gold was at RBC Wealth Management, where he was a director. He was also a vice president at AllianceBernstein Global Wealth Management in London.

Cyprus-based Woodbrook Group appointed Mark Slevin as regional manager Cyprus of its wealth division. Slevin is based at the firm’s head office in Limassol. 

Copenhagen-headquartered Saxo Bank appointed Steve Weller as chief executive of the Middle East and North Africa region. Weller is based in Saxo Bank’s Dubai office and report directly to Damian Bunce, chief client officer. He has more than 25 years of international experience in the sector. Most recently, he was managing director and global head of Sberbank of Russia’s (CIB) foreign exchange business.

UK wealth manager Brown Shipley appointed Stephen Wood and Tess Williams as client senior managers to its Leeds office. Wood previously was at HSBC Private Bank. Prior to HSBC, he worked at UK Wealth Management and Myddleton Croft Investment Management. Williams also joined the Leeds office, following her relocation from Brown Shipley’s Manchester office. She previously was a regional technical specialist with HSBC Premier and a financial planner at Armstrong Watson prior to joining Brown Shipley in 2017. 

HSBC appointed Hubert Preschez as managing director and co-head of global banking in France, joining from Société Générale CIB where he was a senior advisory banker to large French companies and the country’s government. Preschez works with Frédéric Coutant, co-Head of global banking in France and head of corporate, financials and multinationals banking for Continental Europe.

After graduating from Paris-V University and Sciences-Po Paris with a law degree, where he has also been a university lecturer for more than 10 years, Preschez began his career in 1997 in Paribas’ M&A team before joining the M&A department of JP Morgan in 2000 in London and then in Paris. In 2010, he joined Société Générale CIB as managing director M&A for France. In 2012, he became head of corporate finance overseeing M&A and ECM activities.

Asset manager Amundi appointed Yerlan Syzdykov as global head of emerging markets. In this new role, he is responsible for managing and developing the investment platform. Syzdykov took over from Mauro Ratto, who has decided to explore new opportunities. Yerlan has been deputy head of emerging markets at Amundi since July 2017. Prior to this, he was head of emerging markets bond and high yield with Pioneer Investments.

Global financial services firm Northern Trust Asset Management has announced that international chief executive and chief investment officer Wayne Bowers has left his roles.

Dr Kurt Mäder, member of the group board of management and group chief operating officer at Liechtensteinische Landesbank, left the firm to pursue new professional challenges. During his stint, he was responsible for the group corporate development, group IT, and group operations and services business areas. In his areas of responsibility, he introduced the core banking software Avaloq at the LLB Group, implemented the creation of the Shared Service Centres, among other moves.

A veteran private banker in Asia, David Lim, returned to Credit Suisse having most recently been vice chairman for Southeast Asia at rival Swiss bank Julius Baer, based in Singapore. Lim was appointed as vice chairman of private banking for Southeast Asia. Lim is based in Singapore, reporting to Benjamin Cavalli, head private banking Southeast Asia and chief executive in Singapore. Prior to this, Lim had worked at Julius Baer for 12 months. Before that, Lim worked at Credit Suisse as head of solution partners, leading the business that served ultra-high net worth clients across their private investments and capital solutions. In total, Lim has almost 30 years of global banking experience.

SEI appointed Helen Oxley as solutions director in its UK private banking team. She reports to proposition director, Kevin Russell. With more than 20 years of wealth management experience, most recently as head of business development and strategy at Winterflood Business Services. She has also held a number of senior roles at companies that include Sanlam UK and BNP Paribas.
 

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Signal Capital Partners, the London-based private asset management firm, appointed Sarbjit Nahal as its chief strategist. He joined Signal from Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch, where he headed the thematic investing strategy team within its global research department, based in London and New York. Prior to joining BofA Merrill Lynch in 2010, he was head of thematic investing at Société Générale and Crédit-Mutuel-CIC.

UK-based PM+M, the chartered accountancy, business advisory and wealth management firm, announced that Tony Brierley and Richard Ainscough were retiring. Brierley joined the business in 2001 as a partner in the wealth management team. Ainscough started his career in London before joining PM+M in 1978. He spent the majority of his time as an audit partner.

UK-based Equilibrium Investment Management appointed James Carr as an investment analyst.  Carr will work closely alongside the investment team, assisting with duties such as asset class research, fund selection and investment management. He joined from Investec Wealth & Investment Management, where he worked out of its Leeds office.  

Global financial services firm Janus Henderson Investors’ fund managers Ian Barrass and Colin Hughes retired from their rules. Barrass retired because of a long-standing health issues. James de Bunsen, who has been the company’s co-fund manager since May 2014, continued in his role. Peter Webster, who has worked directly with both Barrass and de Bunsen for over four years, became co-manager.

Financial services firm First Names Group appointed Sean Breslin in Geneva, Carola Zoni in Guernsey and Mike Pownall in Jersey to its private client operation. Breslin worked in the fiduciary sector in Switzerland for 15 years and has experience managing teams administering trust structures for the UK, non-resident Indian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and South African markets. Before joining First Names Group, he was head of private wealth Switzerland for a large independent trust company based in Geneva. 

Zoni has 18 years’ experience administering corporate and private wealth structures for clients around the world. Prior to joining the firm, she was at a global trust and corporate services provider. With over 30 years in the industry, Pownall began his career in client account management for a British bank before moving into fiduciary services and gaining experience in both bank-owned and independent trust companies. Before First Names Group, he was director of a private trust company in Jersey. 

KPMG appointed Abhijit Rawal as a strategy partner, focusing on the wealth management industry. 

Rawal has more than 13 years of global advisory and industry experience across strategy, business transformation, retail distribution and new customer propositions. In his new London-based role, Rawal reports to Clarke. 

UK law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth made several appointments to its Manchester family and Birmingham will, trust and estate disputes teams. Katie McCann was appointed a partner in its Manchester team. She joined from Kuits and specialises in high and ultra-high-value matrimonial finance matters. Her expertise also includes pre- and post-nuptial agreements as well as cohabitation agreements.
Carole Nettleton also joined the Manchester team as a senior associate. She and advises clients on high-value divorce, dissolution of civil partnership and cohabitation issues. She has experience of dealing with high net worth individuals involving complex pension issues, multiple businesses and family trusts.

Jonathan Gist was made a partner in the Birmingham office. He specialises in a wide range of trust and probate disputes, including high-value estate litigation. Lastly, Kate Dixon was appointed as a solicitor in its Birmingham operation. She joins from Bradley Haynes Solicitors in Worcester. She is experienced in handling inheritance at claims and contentious probate matters, as well as having a background in advising on commercial and property litigation cases.

Mercury Capital Advisors, the global investment advisory and alternative investments platform,  appointed Nick Savasta as chief investment officer and partner. Savasta reports to Michael Ricciardi, chief executive and managing partner. Prior to this, Savasta worked at Michael Dell’s MSD Partners, where he was MD and co-head of MSD’s strategic investments group. Previously, he was a senior merchant banker with Allen & Company. He also worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in the corporate finance division. Savasta also serves on the executive board of the MIT Sloan School of Management and was previously a guest lecturer at Yale University, where he taught the school’s Introduction to Alternative Investments seminar.

UK wealth manager Rathbone Brothers appointed Paul Stockton, currently group finance director, as managing director of Rathbone Investment Management (“RIM”), subject to regulatory approval. Stockton continues to report to Philip Howell, group chief executive, and continues as an executive director on the boards of Rathbone Brothers and Rathbone Investment Management. He has been group finance director of Rathbones for nearly a decade.

Investec Asset Management appointed Imran Ahmad as portfolio manager in its multi-asset investment team. Ahmad joined from Standard Life Investments, where he was portfolio manager of the EMD Unconstrained Fund. Prior to this, he held portfolio management responsibilities at JP Morgan Asset Management.

UK financial servcies firm Lockhart Capital Management was appointed Carol Stanger as director in its Aberdeen office. Stanger was most recently a senior financial planning director at Tilney.  She has worked in financial services for 30 years. 

UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin appointed Wilson Noctor as a investment management assistant in its Penrith office. Originally from Carlisle in Cumbria, Wilson left the county to complete his degree in international business management at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

French financial services firm Natixis, the subsidiary of Group BPCE, appointed François Riahi as its chief executive. He succeeded Laurent Mignon, who was recently appointed chairman of Groupe BPCE’s board of directors. The new CEO joined Groupe BPCE, when it was first established in 2009.

UK financial advisor Foster Denovo hired Henna Fry as head of corporate development, as it looks to make more acquisitions in 2018. Fry works on the group’s acquisition strategy alongside the company’s board, chief executive Roger Brosch, chairman David Currie and finance director, Richard Horton. Fry was previously head of mergers and acquisitions at Towry, now part of Tilney. Most recently, she has worked as a consultant.

UK financial services firm Redmayne Bentley appointed James Igoe and Alan Freeman to its investment management business, this publication understands. Both, Igoe and Freeman joined the firm from European Wealth’s Manchester operation. 

Investment manager AlphaSimplex, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, appointed Dr Kathryn Kaminski as the firm’s chief research strategist. Kaminski joined AlphaSimplex from the MIT laboratory for financial engineering. She joined the portfolio management team for the firm’s managed futures strategies, including the Natixis ASG Managed Futures Strategy Fund (AMFAX) in the US, and The ASG Managed Futures Fund (ASGMSFA), a Luxembourg Sicav.

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Asia-Pacific moves

Singapore-based asset manager Avanda Investment Management, or "Avanda" for short, named Faith Toh as head of business development and marketing.

Standard Chartered appointed Shada El Borno as regional head of global subsidiaries for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP) markets, and head of global subsidiaries for UAE. El Borno is responsible for managing the bank’s GS business for MENAP.  She has been with Standard Chartered for 22 years. She has held a number of senior roles at the bank, most recently as the regional head of business management, global banking MENAP. El Borno reports into Mohamed Salama, country head global banking UAE for the local GS business; Sarmad Lone, regional head of GB, MENAP, for the overall MENAP GS business; and to Rob Snell, global head of global subsidiaries. 

State Street Global Advisors appointed Michele Barlow to the APAC head of investment strategy and research of its Investment Solutions Group (ISG). Barlow replaced Thomas Poullaouec who left State Street Global Advisors. Based in Hong Kong, she reports to Ric Thomas, global head of strategy and research for State Street Global Advisors’ ISG. Most recently, she led the credit research team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

ANZ appointed Shane Buggle as group general manager internal audit. He succeeded Kevin Corbally who was recently appointed chief risk officer. He reports to the chairman of the audit committee, Paula Dwyer. Buggle has spent more than 20 years in senior finance roles at ANZ and has been deputy chief financial officer since 2012.

Australian banking group AMP appointed David Cullen as its new group general counsel. Cullen replaced in-house lawyer Brian Salter, who resigned with other members of AMP’s management after an independent inquiry into Australia’s financial sector revealed the firm lied to the financial regulator for a decade. Cullen has been with AMP since 2004, most recently as group company secretary and general counsel, governance, and has been acting group general counsel since 30 April. 

Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group appointed Robby Winarta as managing director and Long Hoang as director to its Asian private equity platform. Winarta, based in Jakarta, leads the firm’s investment activities in Indonesia.  Long Hoang, based in Singapore, concentrates on investment activities in Vietnam. Prior to joining Carlyle, Winarta worked at Credit Suisse for 20 years, most recently as head of Indonesia investment banking coverage. Before joining Carlyle, Hoang was a vice president at TPG Capital Asia Growth covering Singapore and Vietnam.

The former chairman of Nikko Asset Management, moved to a similar role at the asset management arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings. It named David Semaya as co-chairman, alongside current president Hideki Hiraki, who was also named to the same role. Semaya joined Nikko AM in early April, 2014. Prior to this, Semaya worked at Barclays Plc, where he served in various executive leadership positions since joining the bank in 2004. He was head of the wealth management business in the UK and Ireland, Chairman of Barclays Asset Management Ltd., and CEO of Europe and Asia for Barclays Global Investors (BGI). From 2004 to 2007, Semaya was President of BGI Japan Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Prior to that, he was with Merrill Lynch for 12 years in a variety of roles in asset management and capital markets in both New York and Tokyo.

Strabens Hall, the wealth advisory business, appointed Adam Benskin as chief executive, John Halley as head of legal, financial and compliance and Alistair Peel as head of investor services as it shakes up senior management and expands in regions such as Asia. Then roles were newly created.

Benskin oversees Strabens Hall’s Hong Kong office. He is a founding director of the firm, a certified financial planner and Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. John Halley is a founding director of Strabens Hall. Peel has responsibility for the firm’s portfolio management, investment monitoring and consulting services.

Netherlands-headquartered professional services firm Wolters Kluwer appointed former SS&C Technologies senior figure Rainer Fuchsluger as managing director of its finance, risk and reporting business in Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. He replaced James Stewart who left after five years with the firm, returning to his native Australia for family reasons. With 15 years of experience in financial services, Fuchsluger was previously regional managing director of SS&C’s institutional and investment management business in Asia. Prior to this he was head of real time services, Asia Pacific, for ICE Data Services, and, for ten years, worked at Thomson Reuters, as head of sales for Asia.

Global investment firm KKR appointed John Pattar as member and head of its real estate business in Asia-Pacific. He is based in Hong Kong. Pattar heads up KKR’s existing Asia real estate team and works alongside the firm’s regional investment teams to source real estate investment opportunities across APAC. He came from CLSA Capital Partners in Hong Kong, where he was the chief executive of CLSA Real Estate. He joined CLSA in 2004.

The chief financial officer of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Rob Jesudason, resigned with immediate effect, as a government-backed probe into the nation’s banking sector continued. The bank named Alan Docherty, previously chief financial officer for institutional banking and markets, as Jesudason’s replacement, as he had “decided to pursue an external role in Hong Kong”.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood appointed Kevin Lee as a partner in its global private wealth practice in Hong Kong. Lee has expertise in a wide range of issues including private wealth advisory, trusts, tax, philanthropy, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, general business law, private equity and cross border transactions. He represents high net worth clients and advises major corporations from around the world. He joined from Zhong Lun Law Firm, where he was co-head of the global private client practice.

MSCI, the index provider and analytics firm, appointed senior investment industry figure Jack Lin as a managing director and head of Asia-Pacific client coverage, based out of Hong Kong. Lin reports to Laurent Seyer, chief operating officer and chief client officer at MSCI. Lin was previously at Amundi, the asset manager, where he served as the head of South Asia. Previously, he served as head of Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Pioneer Investments (which was acquired by Amundi in 2017). Lin has more than 20 years of experience at global asset management firms including Janus Capital Group and Franklin Templeton Investments.

Grace Barki, formerly the managing director covering Southeast Asia for Pictet in Singapore, resurfaced as Indonesia market leader at JP Morgan, reporting to Rahul Malhotra, who is head of Southeast Asia and the NRI operation at the US bank. Barki started her career with Citigroup in Jakarta; she later switched into private banking when she took on the role of country manager and acquisition team head for Indonesia at Citigroup Private Bank, and in 2004 moved to UBS Singapore as Wealth Management desk head and later the country team head of Indonesia. Barki has also held various senior roles with Sarasin and Royal Bank of Canada.

Standard Chartered brought in two senior figures for its wealth transformation team, working in Hong Kong and Singapore. Claudia Loh joined as an executive director in Singapore and Samuel Chang has joined as a director in Hong Kong. Loh started her role in April this year. Before that, she was deputy general manager, head of operations at the Singapore branch of Nordea, in its private bank. She was there from September 2011 to March this year. Chang also took up his current role in April. Prior to this, he worked for a fintech startup, and prior to that, was senior manager, investment products, at HSBC’s retail wealth management business from June 2013 to August 2016.

Indosuez Wealth Management appointed Julien Collin as head of markets, investment and structuring in Singapore. In his new role, Collin reports to Pierre Masclet, Asia chief executive of Indosuez Wealth Management, and Arjan de Boer, head of markets, investment and structuring, based in Hong Kong. He replaced Simon Ip, who moved to Investment Advisory. Collin took charge of providing global asset allocation advice, investment solutions and recommendations aimed at ultra-high net worth clients, serviced by Singapore-based relationship managers. 

An employee of Crédit Agricole since 2007, Collin has held a variety of roles. In 2014, he joined Indosuez Wealth Management as head of markets and investment solutions in Paris. He moved East to Singapore in 2017, holding the post of acquisition programme director to steer the integration of CIC private banking operations in Asia.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group made two top-level hires. The changes at ANZ followed the decision of ANZ’s deputy chief executive Graham Hodges to retire after 27 years with the lender.
Alexis George was promoted to deputy CEO in addition to her role as group executive for Wealth Australia. George continues to lead the divestment of ANZ’s life insurance, superannuation and aligned dealer group businesses. She will also took charge of ANZ’s group service centres and help CEO Shayne Elliott with group-wide initiatives. George joined the bank in 2013 as managing director in the insurance arm, and has been group executive, Wealth Australia, since 2016. Before this, she was CEO Czech Republic and Slovakia at ING; before that she was regional chief operating officer in Asia, accountable for product, marketing, IT and operations.

The second senior appointment, Mark Hand, was named group executive, Australian Business & Private Banking. He continued to report to group executive for Australia, Fred Ohlsson. Hand joined ANZ in 1988 and has held senior roles across business and retail banking, credit management and internal audit in Australia and South Asia. Since 2015 he has been MD for Business & Private Banking.

Swiss-Asia life insurance brokerage firm Charles Monat Group appointed senior industry executive Martin Wong senior to its operational committee. Wong joined as Singapore chief executive as well as a partner and shareholder for the group. Wong is responsible for managing and expanding the Charles Monat business in Southeast Asia covering the international business and new domestic markets. He reports to Yves Guélat, group CEO.

Prior to this role, Wong worked at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Private Client Services where he served since 2010 as general manager, deputy chief executive, and then as chief executive for Singapore. He led expansion of high net worth business at the firm, opening new domestic offices in Southeast Asia. Wong also served as vice president at Merrill Lynch, based in New York, US. He is also a regular speaker at private banking and insurance forums.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management appointed Grace Tam as its chief investment advisor for Hong Kong, reporting to Prashant Bhayani, the chief investment officer, Asia. Prior to this role, Tam worked at HSBC Global Asset Management where she was a senior market specialist. Before that, she was a portfolio solutions specialist at Credit Suisse Private Bank, and a global strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. Tam graduated with a Masters of Philosophy in Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

UBS appointed a former senior Bank of Singapore manager, Connie Ong, as market head for Malaysia. Ong, who was co-market head, Malaysia, at Bank of Singapore, resigned from that firm at the end of March. In her new role, Ong joined the Swiss banking group on 2 July. She reports to August Hatecke, head of UBS Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. Before her role at Bank of Singapore, Ong worked for nine years at Standard Chartered, starting as head of financial institutions at the wholesale bank in Malaysia before moving to Singapore in 2009 to be head of investment advisory, SEA, in the private bank. The following year, she became a desk head covering Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei clients.

Independent wealth management house Thirdrock Group appointed Jamus Lim as economist, filling what the business said was a gap in its skillset. Jamus is based in Singapore and reports to founder and chief executive, Jason Lai. Previously, he worked at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority where he was lead economist. Before that, he was a senior economist with the World Bank where he led a number of research initiatives on long-term economic forecast, trade and finance in the Middle East and East Asia and governance and human development in Africa. Jamus, who is also an associate professor of economics at ESSEC Business School in Singapore, graduated with first-class honours from the University of Southern Queensland and went on to graduate work at the London School of Economics, the University of California and Harvard University.

Eastspring Investments, the Asian asset management arm of UK-based insurer Prudential, appointed Ooi Boon Peng as chief executive of its Singapore office. Ooi was also named regional fixed income officer. Prior to his appointment, Ooi was chief investment officer of fixed income at Eastspring Singapore, a position he had held since he joined the company in July 2007.

Phil Stockwell, who was previously CEO of Eastspring Singapore, now concentrates solely on his role as chief operating officer of Eastspring Singapore. Guan Yi Low was promoted to CIO of fixed income in Singapore to replace Ooi in the role. Yi Low was formerly a portfolio manager in the fixed income team. Michele Bang stepped down from her previous role as head of distribution, and continued in the role of deputy CEO. Bang joined Eastspring in November 2013. Prior to that, she was CEO of Deutsche Asset Management's Asia ex-Japan operations.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Philippe El-Asmar as head of Asia beta strategies. El-Asmar is based in Hong Kong and responsible for leading the firm’s Asian beta strategies expansion. In the short term, El-Asmar focuses on bringing the firm’s existing global beta strategies funds and institutional strategies to Asia clients. In the long term, El-Asmar oversees development of the firm’s regional exchange-traded fund product strategy and design. He reports to Michael Camacho, global head of beta strategies.

UBS appointed Bryce Wan, formerly from Goldman Sachs, taking up the role of country team head for ultra-high net worth clients in China. Wan is based in Hong Kong. Prior to this, Wan joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 and took various senior positions at that firm. In 2011, he assumed the role of Asia head of Goldmans’ portfolio management group, serving UHNW clients and families. In his most recent role, she led a team of private bankers at Goldman Sachs, managing relationship with UHNW clients in the Greater China region. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Wan also worked at Jardine Matheson and Bain & Company in Hong Kong.  

Other recruits were Jenny Su and Zhang Xin, desk heads previously. They were named as country team heads for UHNW China country team (based in Singapore) and UHNW China country team respectively. Xin is based out of Hong Kong. Su joined UBS Wealth Management in May 2005 and is desk head with UHNW Greater China since 2013. Prior to UBS, she started her career with Merrill Lynch in the US.  In her 14 years with Merrill Lynch, Su had worked with the bank in Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore in various roles.

Xin has 25 years of experience in the financial industries and joined UBS Securities Beijing in Jan 2007.  In April 2013, he took up the desk head role and moved to UBS Hong Kong with focus and success in building client relationship in UHNW segment.  

A veteran private banker in Asia, David Lim, came back to Credit Suisse having most recently been vice chairman for Southeast Asia at rival Swiss bank Julius Baer, based in Singapore. In his new role, Lim was appointed as vice chairman of private banking for Southeast Asia. Lim was based in Singapore, reporting to Benjamin Cavalli, head private banking Southeast Asia and chief executive in Singapore. Prior to this, Lim had worked at Julius Baer for 12 months. Before that, Lim worked at Credit Suisse as head of solution partners, leading the business that served ultra-high net worth clients across their private investments and capital solutions. In total, Lim has almost 30 years of global banking experience.

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Merrill Lync dismissed Elias Dau, who was in charge of two offices in its Newport Beach, California. Dau oversaw the southern California offices from March 2014 and worked at Merrill for about 14 years. He began his career as a financial advisor with Equitable Life and its AXA Advisors unit in 1997. The firm declined to comment on specific circumstances of the departure.

Raymond James hired financial advisors Dean Dancer, T J Goelz, Steven Grossman and Joe Malave to Raymond James & Associates  – the firm’s traditional employee broker/dealer – in Sarasota, Florida. The advisors operate as the Palm Avenue Wealth Advisory Group of Raymond James, and join from UBS, where they previously managed more than $480 million in client assets.

Joining the advisors was Pamela Miller, senior registered client service associate, and Blake Caldwell, registered client service associate.

Dancer, senior vice president of investments, and co-founder of Palm Avenue Group, has been in the industry for more than 19 years. Prior to joining Raymond James, he served as a senior vice president, wealth management, and financial advisor with UBS and Smith Barney. Goelz began his financial services career in 1993 at Barnett Bank, where he became a branch manager and later, a complex manager. He became a senior vice president and financial advisor with Smith Barney, where he and Dancer first became partners, before joining UBS.

Grossman, vice president of investments, began his financial services career in 1999 after a career as a therapist. Before joining Raymond James, he served as a vice president, wealth management, and financial advisor with UBS and a second vice president and financial advisor with Smith Barney. Malave, vice president of investments, has more than 24 years of financial services industry experience. Prior to Raymond James, he served as a financial advisor with UBS and NFP Securities.

SunTrust Private Wealth Management hired a four-member brokerage team at its regional headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina. The team is led by private financial advisors Jeff Pratt and Bryan Kazley. Another member is investment associate Andy Stroer and investment associate Whitney Dieter. They joined from Wells Fargo.

Bernstein Private Wealth Management, a unit of AllianceBernstein, appointed Daniel Eagan as senior vice president and managing director to lead its private wealth practice in San Francisco. Eagan has had a 20-year career at AllianceBernstein. Prior to rejoining Bernstein in 2018, Eagan was a director in the portfolio management group of Hirtle Callaghan. In addition, William Grayson was promoted to national director of family offices in the San Francisco office. Grayson joined Bernstein nearly a decade ago. Prior to Bernstein, he was the president of a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund firm, and before that, vice president at JP Morgan & Co. and Montgomery Securities.

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed Andrea Jung to its board of directors.
Jung is chief executive of Grameen America, a microfinance organization in the US. She is the former chairman and CEO of Avon, roles she held from 2001-2012 and 1999-2012 respectively. Jung also serves on the boards of Apple and Unilever. She was previously a director of General Electric and a supervisory board member of Daimler AG.

Global asset manager Eaton Vance appointed Ingrid Jacobs as chief diversity officer.  Based in Boston, Jacobs leads Eaton Vance's strategy to improve its efforts to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce. She was previously at Raytheon Corporation, where she was head of corporate diversity and inclusion. She was previously global head of diversity and inclusion at Whirlpool Corporation and associated with Fifth Third Bank and General Electric.

BlackRock appointed Venu Krishnamurthy as the head of its new digital wealth unit. He joined from Citi, where he was the US head of Citigold and Citi priority client segments, as well as Citi personal wealth management.

Silicon Valley-based digital wealth management firm Personal Capital appointed Allison Amadia as general counsel. In her new role, she oversees Personal Capital’s legal and compliance functions and serve as corporate secretary. Amadia has more than 25 years of legal experience. Prior to joining Personal Capital, Amadia served as general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary at a privately-held cloud-based financial technology provider.

Foresight Wealth Management, a Utah-based firm, appointed Chris Light serving as a partner and wealth advisor. Previously, Light served as senior vice president and wealth advisor for Lefavi Wealth Management for 13 years.

EisnerAmper has appointed Chip Niculae as a director in the international tax services group, specializing in international taxation and cross-border transactions. He has more than 13 years of experience in inbound and outbound tax structuring, cross-border transactions, M&A, entity formation, global reorganizations, debt financing and restructuring, and liquidations. He has held positions with a national tax practice and with the NY ITS Core Practice at a Big Four firm.

Los Angeles-based Saban Real Estate appointed Scott Anderson as managing director of asset management. He is based in Los Angeles and reports to Philip Han, executive vice president and chief investment officer. Prior to SRE, Anderson was at American Realty Advisors, where he served as EVP, portfolio management. He previously held positions at TIAA-CREF Global Real Estate, Fannie Mae, and KPMG.

Bernstein Private Wealth Management appointed Tiffany Kent as vice president and financial advisor of its Atlanta office. Prior to joining Bernstein, Kent served as an analyst and vice president at Friedberg Investment Management.

BMO Wealth Management US appointed Lynne Shapiro Smith as chief operating officer of BMO Harris Financial Advisors. She is based in Chicago. Smith reports to Wallace Harris, president of BMO Harris Financial Advisors, Before joining BMO, Smith worked at Voya Financial as the head of strategy for its wealth management business.

Connecticut-based Procyon Partners named Antonio Rodrigues as senior portfolio manager, Antonio Rodrigues, who previously managed $300 million in client assets. Prior to joining Procyon, he was a senior portfolio manager for Olson Mobeck Investment Advisors and People’s United Advisors.

RBC Wealth Management hired Weissman & Dion Wealth Management Group to its West Palm Beach office. The Weissman & Dion Wealth Management Group is comprised of Gary Weissman, managing director – financial advisor, who has 29 years of industry experience, Eric Dion, first vice president – financial advisor, who has 33 year of experience, Andrea Dellisanti, registered client associate, Peggy Eagles, senior registered client associate and Jonathan Gomez, senior financial associate.

International wealth manager Baird appointed six financial advisors and two associate financial advisors to its private wealth management business in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Edina, Minnesota. The Mathey-Mirabella Group joined the Ann Arbor office, and includes financial advisors John Mathey, managing director, and Dan Mirabella, managing director. Mirabella also serves as branch manager. The Olson Bellfi Pham Group also joined the Ann Arbor office, and includes Karla Olson-Bellfi, managing director, and Thai-Vi Pham, vice president, and associate financial advisor Omer Bellfi, vice president.

The firm hired the McCrea Burns Group to its Edina office. It includes Dobbin McCrea, Jr, director, and Cassidy Burns, vice president, and associate financial advisor Kevin Rollwagen.

CIBC FirstCaribbean appointed Fernando Cugliari as private wealth investment advisor. Cugliari previously worked as an international investment advisor with Scotia Private Group in Toronto, Canada, and most recently with RBC Dominion Securities in the Cayman Islands.

California-based EP Wealth Advisors, an independent registered investment advisor, appointed Chad Sinclair, as chief financial officer, and promoted Ryan Serrecchia to executive vice president and partner. Sinclair joined EP Wealth from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a manager in the mergers and acquisitions advisory division.

Fiduciary Trust Company, a wealth advisor and investment management firm for high net worth individuals and nonprofits, appointed Hans Olsen as its chief investment officer. Prior to this, he was at Stifel Nicolaus, where he was global head of investment strategy for its wealth management unit and CIO of its Delaware Trust Company.

SignatureFD, the financial advisory firm, has recruited Jordan Hutchison as an advisor. Prior to this role, he looked after high net worth and multi-generational families as well as designed investment strategies for institutional investors and individuals.

The firm said Hutchison is experienced in the field of behavioral finance; he earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Montevallo and a master’s degree in financial planning and counseling from the University of Alabama. Recently Hutchison completed Executive Education from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in management from Saint Leo University with a research emphasis in the academic of choice architecture and decision making.

BlackRock appointed Francisco Rosemberg as a director in its office in Santiago, Chile. Rosenberg previously worked at Schroders, where he was head of intermediary distribution for Latin America.

Bernstein Private Wealth Management appointed Tiffany S Kent has joined as vice president and financial advisor in its the Atlanta office. Prior to this, Kent served as an analyst and vice president at Friedberg Investment Management, an investment advisor firm, where she was responsible for constructing client portfolios.

Law firm BakerHostetler appointed Jonathan Forster and Rebecca Manicone join as partners in its private wealth team. They will be based in Washington, DC. Both Forster and Manicone join the firm from Greenberg Traurig. Forster will serve as the private wealth practice team coordinator for the Northeast market.

Vontobel Asset Management appointed Thomas Wittwer as chief executive of its US platform, Quality Growth Boutique. Wittwer replaced Dr Philipp Hensler, who served as CEO since 2014. Hensler decided to leave the firm to pursue other opportunities. The new CEO has around 30 years’ experience in the sector. Charles Falck, who served as chief operating officer of Vontobel Asset Management US, since 2013, took on the expanded role of global COO of Vontobel Asset Management, supporting all boutiques and regions.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Stephen Colella as a wealth director in Boston, Massachusetts. Colella reports to managing director, Pamela Murray. Before this role, Colella was at DiCicco, Gulman, & Company as a tax consultant and wealth strategist for its private client group for 11 years.

California-based financial services firm First Foundation Advisors named Raymond Mow as managing director of fixed income. He has over 25 years of experience in managing financial portfolios and working with advisory teams. He was previously senior portfolio manager at Highmark Capital Management.

JP Morgan appointed Oli Harris to head up its crypto-currency strategy and Quorum, its own iteration of blockchain. Harris joined the Wall Street giant in January, 2014, and prior to his new position served three years as head of financial technology at the bank.

Pinnacle Financial Partners, the Nashville, TN-headquartered firm, recruited a wealth advisor in Sumner County to its Pinnacle Asset Management group. Ken Farley joined Pinnacle from SunTrust Investment Services, where he spent 29 years and was running a $58 million book of business for 220 households. Before that, he was with Ameristar Capital Markets.

Boston Private Wealth promoted Tom Anderson to chief operating officer and Shannon Saccocia to chief investment officer. Anderson previously served in a dual role as CIO and COO, while Saccocia was chief investment strategist. Saccocia oversees the Boston Private Wealth’s investment policy and direct investment strategy, research, portfolio management, trading, asset allocation and investment risk management functions.

First Republic Bank appointed Jeremy Wenner and Adam Beard to its investment management arm. They were named managing director. Wenner works in First Republic’s San Francisco office and Beard is located in Boston.

Wenner has more than 17 years of financial services experience serving high net worth individuals and families. Wenner was MD in the Private Wealth Management Group at Jefferies. Before that, he was private client investment advisor at Thomas Weisel Partners. Wenner began his career as a financial services analyst at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities.

Beard has more than 22 years of experience creating customized wealth planning strategies for high net worth individuals and families. Beard was Senior Vice President in the Private Wealth Management Group at Jefferies and also worked in the firm’s technology investment banking group. Before that, he was director at GCA and was vice president at Arma Partners.

JP Morgan Private Bank appointed Jessica Matthews as head of sustainable investing in wealth management. Matthews reports to Monica Issar, global head of multi-asset and portfolio solutions.  She is based in New York. Matthews was at Cambridge Associates’ mission-related investing practice, and also worked in various investment roles in both the public and private sectors.

Rothschild Global Advisory, part of France-based Rothschild & Co, appointed two managing directors to its Chicago office: Sumner Farren and Sara Coyle, who have previously worked together at UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. They joined the industrials group. With more than 25 years’ experience, Sumner Farren joined from UBS, where he was a MD responsible for the firm’s sell-side merger and acquisition activities in North America. Prior to UBS, Farren worked for 20 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Chicago working primarily on M&A for a variety of industries. Coyle, meanwhile, also previously worked at UBS, where she was a MD of the global industrials group responsible for industrial distribution and packaging coverage efforts. She joined the firm in 2015. Prior to UBS, Coyle spent ten years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi, working on M&A, equity and debt financing transactions.

Florida-based wealth manager Caldwell Trust Company promoted three of its staff members to vice presidents. Scott Antritt and Sonya Kristie, based in the Sarasota office, were promoted to vice president and trust officer. Sheryl Vieira, based in Venice, moved up to vice president of marketing and PR. Antritt joined Caldwell Trust Company in 2011 as a trust officer.

Kristie is responsible for the day-to-day administration of trusts, which includes serving as wealth manager for trusts, IRA’s, estates, and investment management relationships. She assists her clients with budgeting, estate planning, investments, taxes, and legal matters in conjunction with their accountants and attorneys.

Vieira joined Caldwell Trust Company as marketing manager in 2011. She manages the company’s strategic marketing and business development program, advertising and public relations.

EisnerAmper named Gerard O’Beirne, partner and CPA, as leader of its international tax services group, concentrating on international taxation, advisory and compliance services, publicly traded and closely held businesses, and high-net-worth individuals. He is based in New York. O’Beirne has more than 25 years of experience with both inbound and outbound structuring, including mergers and acquisitions.

New Jersey wealth manager Round Table Wealth Management has appointed Frederic Behrens as director and wealth advisor.

Previously, Behrens held a position as an international investment advisor at a boutique investment management firm focusing on financial planning for American expatriates. He has extensive experience working with clients located in the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Asia.

Global wealth manager Baird appointed Irv Mindes as managing director and Bill Fedor as senior vice president in Tucson, Arizona. They were joined by Marcie Shatz, branch administrative supervisor, and Christy Yetka, senior client specialist. Mindes has more than 35 years of industry experience. Mindes oversees $360 million in assets. Fedor has nearly 25 years of industry experience. Fedor oversees $206 million in assets.

Missouri-based Stifel Financial named Jim Chahine as managing director at its broker-dealer subsidiary, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company in Ohio.  He is based in Youngstown and leads its expansion in the Ohio region. Chahine previously worked at Credit Suisse Securities, where he was regional managing director for the state of Florida.  Prior to Credit Suisse, he spent 23 years at Merrill Lynch.

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US–based Mawer Investment Management appointed Craig Senyk as president. He replaced outgoing president Michael Mezei. Senyk has been with the firm for over 20 years.

Wells Fargo named Amanda Norton as its new chief risk officer, poaching her from JP Morgan where she served as CRO of consumer and community banking. Norton replaced replacing Mike Loughlin, who announced his retirement earlier in 2018. Norton is based in San Francisco. Norton joined JP Morgan in 2011 as its CRO for home lending, then, in 2013, took on her most recent role as CRO of its consumer and community banking operations.

Oregon-based financial advisory firm True Private Wealth Advisors hired The Sanders Coffee Group to its operation. Based in Eugene, Oregon, financial advisors Scott Sanders and Jesse Coffee launched the group after leaving Merrill Lynch. The Sanders Coffee Group has approximately $95 million in client assets.

City National Bank hired Bill Sappington as an executive vice president to take charge of its private banking and wealth management operations. Sappington, who has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services, reports to Russell Goldsmith, chairman and chief executive of City National Bank and chairman of RBC Wealth Management’s US division.

Bank of America appointed Kerri Schroeder as Seattle market president. She succeeded Anthony DiBlasi in the role. After serving more than four years as market president, DiBlasi relocates to California to become the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management market executive for Greater Los Angeles.

RBC Wealth Management named Pat Grady as director of the firm’s Paramus branch. Grady joined the firm in 2014 to lead the firm’s Parsippany branch, prior to his promotion to Paramus branch director.

Michael Tait and Bill Webb launched Toronto-based Waypoint Investment Partners, an investment firm that focuses on public and private equity.Until his retirement in December 2015 after 20 years with the firm, Webb served as executive vice president and chief investment officer of wealth management firm Gluskin Sheff and Associates. Webb began a career in investment banking with Gordon Capital in 1996. He worked in many areas of institutional finance at firms such as CIBC, HSBC and UBS. He was also a co-founder of Genuity Capital Markets, sold to Canaccord Financial, and was managing director at UBS Securities Canada.

BMO Wealth Management appointed Sara Walker as senior strategist, regional director of investments. Based in Milwaukee, Walker leads wealth and investment strategies for Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northwest Illinois. Prior to joining BMO, she served as senior vice president, chief economist and investment officer for Associated Private Client Services.

RBC Wealth Management hired three new financial advisors its Spokane branch. The team consists of Doug Dumais, senior vice president and financial advisor, who joins with 35 years of industry experience; Kirt Fredericks, senior vice president and financial advisor, who has 26 years of experience; and Kathy Hale, financial advisor, who is joining the team when they start at RBC WM and has 16 years of experience.

Steward Partners Global Advisory, an employee-owned, full-service independent partnership associated with Raymond James Financial Services, appointed The Sedoric Group, in a bid to expands the firm’s presence in New England. The team joined Steward Partners in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Wells Fargo Advisors. It is comprised of financial advisors Tom Sedoric and Casey Snyder, and team members Erika Luczynski, wealth management associate and Brittany Long, senior registered client administrative manager.

Alabama-based Oakworth Capital Bank, which has wealth management and private banking operations, appointed Jennifer Luster as a client advisor for its River region market.

US Trust, part of Bank of America's group of wealth businesses, made 10 hires in March across the US.

It hired Scott Lopez to its Newport Beach, California office as a private client advisor. Also US Trust appointed Jason Leinberger as a senior portfolio manager at its Stamford office. Leinberger joined from The Private Bank.

Belinda Alexander joined its Tampa office as a private client advisor. She was previously at Morgan Stanley. Brian Dennis also joined its New York operation as a private client advisor. He was previously at Wells Fargo as a wealth advisor.

The firm hired four new members to its offices across Massachusetts. Daniel Beauchemin has joined the Boston office as a senior trust officer.  Jessie Colby Harris has joined the Boston office as a fixed income portfolio manager. Adrienne Cormier has joined the Boston office as a senior trust officer. Daniel Paris has joined the Boston office as a private client advisor.

Also, US Trust appointed Robert DeVautour III and Kenneth Womack as private client advisors of its Houston and Austin offices, respectively.

Mercury Capital Advisors, the global investment advisory and alternative investments platform, appointed Nick Savasta as chief investment officer and partner. Savasta reports to Michael Ricciardi, chief executive and managing partner. Savasta used to work at Michael Dell’s MSD Partners, where he was MD and co-head of MSD’s strategic investments group.

BNY Mellon Asset Management North America, the firm created by the merger of Mellon Capital, Standish and The Boston Company, appointed Jed Maczuba as the new chief technology officer. Maczuba most recently served as director of enterprise architecture at MFS Investment Management. Prior to joining MFS, Maczuba was a senior manager in Accenture’s strategy and transformation practice.

UBS Financial Services and its Minnesota-based affiliate Karl Nikodym Wealth Management appointed Veronica Villenueve as a wealth strategy associate. Villeneuve worked with Karl Nikodym Wealth Management Group for the past year, beginning in client services before this promotion.

Los Angeles-based Falcon Wealth Planning promoted Rachel Vonbank as chief compliance officer. She was previously director of operations. Vonbank has been at Falcon Wealth Planning for almost two years. Prior to Falcon, she was at Citizens Business Bank.

Customers Bank, a US community banking group, opened a Washington, DC office in its private and commercial banking division. Travis Gray was appointed senior vice president and banking group head of its Washington, DC. operation. Prior to joining Customers Bank, Gray served as senior vice president and national sales executive at Bank of America global commercial and investment bank.

Ronald Hobson joined the office as senior vice president and client manager. Hobson has over 30 years of commercial banking experience, most recently serving as senior vice president at Main Street Bank.

Barings, the financial services firm, appointed a former advisor to the Obama administration, Dr Christopher Smart, to lead its team examining how economic and political events affect financial markets. He will hold the title of head of macroeconomic and geopolitical research.

Dr Smart spent six years as a senior policy maker for international economic affairs in the Obama administration. From 2013 to 2015, he was the special assistant to the president at the National Economic Council and the National Security Council, where he was a principal advisor to President Obama on trade, investment and a wide range of global economic issues. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury from 2009 to 2013, where he led the administration's response to the European financial crisis and designed US engagement on financial policy across Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Illinois-based Calamos Wealth Management appointed Nancy Velez as client associate of its South Florida office. Velez is a wealth advisory client specialist with experience serving international clients, particularly in South America. She has more than 17 years of industry experience, which includes roles as a client advisor associate at Boston Private Wealth, and relationship manager and assistant vice president at BNP Paribas.

Rockefeller Capital Management, an independent financial services firm, appointed Laura Esposito as head of institutional distribution for Rockefeller Asset Management. In this newly-established position, Esposito leads services of Rockefeller Asset Management, which include global and small-cap equity, ESG and fixed income strategies to institutional investors, including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and foundations and endowments as well as institutional consultants and financial intermediaries. He reports to chief investment officer, David Harris, and is based in New York City. She was most recently a senior vice president and co-head of global sales and marketing for TT International, a UK-based investment manager.

Northern Trust appointed Colter Lewis as wealth management president of Texas, replacing Jeffrey Early in the role. Lewis maintains his position as Houston president while taking on the expanded regional managing director role. Mark Flagg, Dallas president, Jeff King, Fort Worth president, and Ronnie Powell, Austin president, report directly to Lewis. He has 22 years of experience in the wealth management sector. He joined Northern Trust in 2005 as a wealth advisor. Lewis was promoted to managing director in 2008 and was named Houston president in 2013.