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Kleinwort Benson Names Chief Operating Officer, CTO As Hirings Continue
Kleinwort Benson, the UK wealth management house, has appointed Danny Vogt as chief operating officer - a newly-created standalone role - and John Boyce as chief technology officer.
Vogt joined the firm this month from RBS/ABN AMRO in London, where he was head of change and portfolio development group operations. Prior to RBS/ABN AMRO, he held senior positions at Capco and UBS in Zurich and London.
Previously, the role of COO had been blended with that of regional managing director. However, since Kleinwort Benson’s purchase by RHJI, the firm has decided to make the chief operating officer role a distinct function.
As COO at Kleinwort Benson, Vogt will be responsible for operations across the UK, Channel Islands and other international offices, and will be responsible for enhancements to its IT and systems’ resources. He reports to Sally Tennant, chief executive, and sits on the firm’s executive committee.
John Boyce's role is newly created to deal with the expansion of the business over the past 12 months (previously there was a head of IT role). He joined Kleinwort Benson in September. Boyce began his career in financial services in 1988 at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he worked in a variety of risk, compliance and portfolio management roles before moving into IT. He moved to Barclays Global Investors in 1997, where he worked in IT for 12 years, first in Australia and then in London, where he became a managing director and European head of IT.
Following BlackRock’s acquisition of BGI in 2009, Boyce was responsible for aspects of the integration of the two firms’ IT infrastructure and application suites.
As CTO at Kleinwort Benson, Boyce will head up the company’s IT teams and activities across the UK, Channel Islands and other international offices, as well as the IT integration of Close Offshore Group into Kleinwort Benson.
These senior appointments follow those of Mouhammed Choukeir as Kleinwort Benson’s chief investment officer, Jeremy Brown as managing director of wealth management, and Marianne Kafena who will be joining the bank as head of strategic wealth planning in November.
