UK independent investment manager Brewin Dolphin is hiring 15 new senior executives into its London office, according to a report in Investment Week. Simon Blowey and Nicholas Oliver are to be divisional directors of financial planning and Bill Kendrick, Nick Hungerford and Michael Murphy will become divisional directors of investment management. Four investment managers will also join in January 2008, Joanna Cremin, Graeme Hayden, Alex Minoudis and James Thomas. Later in the year five divisional directors of fund management, Mark Hamstead, Jonathan Jardine Paterson, Paul Leonard, Julian Stanford and Andrew Wager are also expected to join.