July was a big month for some changes, such as the announcement of a new CEO at Goldman Sachs.

UK, European and other international moves (Ex-Americas, Asia) for July 2018.

Frostrow Capital, the UK investment companies group, appointed Matthew Burrows as a director in its distribution team. Burrows joined Frostrow having spent three years at Standard Life Wealth as a senior client portfolio manager, where he managed discretionary portfolios for private clients, pensions, charities and trusts.

Plurimi Wealth, the London-based independent wealth manager, promoted Fahad Khan to deputy chief executive. The firm wants him to become CEO in the medium term. Khan, who joined the firm in 2013, was a senior partner. Prior to joining Plurimi, Khan was an executive director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where he focused on servicing the Nordic and CIS market. He works alongside Ramzy Rasamny, Plurimi’s founder and CEO.  Following Khan becoming CEO, Rasamny focused on the firm’s international expansion starting with Plurimi’s Dubai operations.

Hawksmoor Investment Management appointed Andrew Little to its investment management team. Little joined from WH Ireland in London. He has over 13 years’ experience in financial services. In addition to working at WH Ireland, he worked at Cannacord Genuity Wealth Management and Barclays Wealth. He joined the team in Exeter following a relocation to the South West. 

Waverton Investment Management appointed two senior investment professionals: Tineke Frikkee and Stefan Rheinwald. Frikke is a UK equities specialist. At Smith & Williamson she managed the UK Equity Income Fund and Global Growth Fund, starting in 2013. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at Newton Investment Management, managing Newton’s flagship Higher Income Fund and money in other UK equity funds. Rheinwald joined as head of Japanese equity research from Catalytic Investment Group in Singapore. He has 24 years of Japanese investment and research experience. He was a Japanese equity portfolio manager and Director at Foreign & Colonial in London from 1994. This was followed by five years based in Tokyo as head of research and Japan strategist for CLSA.  On his return to Europe, he launched and managed Japanese equity portfolios.  

UBS appointed Philip Legrand as an associate director in its private client team in Jersey. Legrand has over a decade of experience in financial services. In his previous position, he ran a team of 12 managers for an international bank.

Global investment firm Fidelity International appointed Anne Richards as chief executive.
Richards joined Fidelity International in December and reports to Abigail Johnson, chairman. She was CEO of M&G Investments. Richards has 26 years’ experience in the asset management industry. She chairs the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s practitioner panel and is a member of the US-based Board of Leaders of 2020 Women on Boards, which works to increase the proportion of women on corporate boards.

Standard Chartered appointed Stephen Atkinson as regional head of private banking, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and global head of private banking referrals. He took over the regional responsibilities from Ian Gibson, who retired. Atkinson has 27 years of experience at Standard Chartered. Most recently, he was chief of staff for the bank’s chief executive, Bill Winters. Atkinson is based in London and reports to Didier von Daeniken, global head of private banking and wealth management, and to Tracy Clarke in her capacity as regional CEO, Europe and Americas. He also works with Sunil Kaushal, regional CEO of Africa and Middle East, to speed up business growth in the region.

Global financial services firm Macquarie Group appointed Shemara Wikramanayake, group head of its asset management arm, as managing director and chief executive. Wikramanayake replaced Nicholas Moore in the role, who retired. The new CEO joined Macquarie in 1987 and worked with Moore in corporate services and then in establishing Macquarie Capital, which at that time included advisory; infrastructure funds; corporate leasing and lending; and cash equities. She was appointed head of Macquarie Asset Management in 2008. In her time at Macquarie, Wikramanayake has worked in nine cities in six countries and across several business lines. 

UBS Global Wealth Management appointed Amir Sadr as head of emerging markets London. Before joining UBS in 2014 as a managing director based in Switzerland within the ultra-high net worth segment, Sadr was the co-head of Middle East at Coutts. Prior to that, he was head of the institutional client group and family office group Europe, Middle East and Africa at Merrill Lynch. Sadr now leads a team of relationship managers and investment advisors from London.

PIMCO said Bill De Leon resigned from his role as global head of risk management to spend more time with his family, despite reports that he stepped down after a probe into his personal conduct. The Wall Street Journal said that the firm had an internal investigation related to De Leon's behaviour at a New York charity event in May 2017. According to the newswire, De Leon allegedly inappropriately touched a lower-ranking Pimco employee. Investigators did not find De Leon guilty of any other inappropriate behaviour. De Leon, who was also a managing director at the Californian-based asset manager, had been head of risk since 2009. The firm replaced De Leon with Sudi Mariappa, managing director and portfolio manager, as its new global head of portfolio risk management. Mariappa has 31 years of experience in the investment management industry, including 14 years with Pimco in various roles.

Global asset manager Franklin Templeton Investments appointed Andrew Ness as a portfolio manager of Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity (FTEME). He is a portfolio manager for the London Stock Exchange-listed Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT), working alongside TEMIT lead portfolio manager Chetan Sehgal, who continues to serve as director of portfolio management for GEM and small cap strategies for FTEME. Ness is based in Edinburgh and will report to Manraj Sekhon, chief investment officer for FTEME. Prior to Franklin Templeton, he was at Martin Currie, where he was a senior member of its global emerging markets equity team. Previously, he held similar roles for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) and Deutsche Asset Management, having begun his investment career at Murray Johnstone in 1994. 

AMP Capital appointed Malcolm Brown as a senior principal in its global infrastructure equity business in London. He has acted as a Senior Advisor to AMP Capital’s infrastructure business since 2015. Brown is based in London.

Investment manager Martin Currie appointed Paul Sloane as portfolio manager of its global emerging markets (“GEMs”) team. Sloane previously worked at Martin Currie for 14 years, most recently as co-manager of Martin Currie’s global alpha strategy. He joins on 13 August.

UBS confirmed Jakob Stott said he was retiring from his role in the bank's wealth management operation at the end of the year. Stott was most recently a vice president in the wealth management division, after having previously been the head of wealth management for Europe for several years.

London-based investment manager Downing appointed Matt Kelly as business development manager for the North West of England. Kelly was at Motion Picture Capital, where his role focused on securing new business for the firm’s EIS and SEIS propositions. 

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Jane Ambachtsheer as global head of sustainability. 
Ambachtsheer reports to Frédéric Janbon, chief executive and head of investments at BNPP AM. She is based in Paris.

Capricorn Private Investments, the subsidiary of global alternative asset manager Capricorn Group, appointed Manoj Soni as chief investment officer. Manoj was formerly managing director, and head of absolute return and credit at Partners Capital. 

UBS Wealth Management appointed Heinrich Baer as head of Luxembourg. Baer reports directly to Christine Novakovic, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and became a member of the WM EMEA management committee. Baer was most recently as head of affluent and international markets WM EMEA. 

Sanne, the Jersey-headquartered provider of trust and fund administration services which recently named a new chief financial officer, named Jonathan Ferrara as its new managing director for client services business in Jersey. Prior to this role, Ferrara worked in financial services roles in Jersey, Switzerland and the UK, most recently UBS and Bank of America. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years' experience in the professional financial services industry.

Wealth manager and brokerage firm WHIreland said its chief executive, Richard Killingbeck, was standing down to pursue other opportunities, ending a career at the firm that started in September 2012. Former Cantor Fitzgerald Europe head of fixed income, Philip Wale, took over the CEO role.
The chief executive of scandal-hit Raiffeisen Switzerland, Patrik Gisel, resigned after speculation that a criminal investigation against his former boss Pierin Vincenz would also fell his successor. 
Gisel, who replaced Vincenz as CEO when the latter left the bank in 2015, was set to leave at the end of 2018. 

Danske Bank recruited former Deutsche Bank senior figure Philippe Vollot as chief compliance officer. The previous compliance boss Anders Meinert Jorgensen resigned after being tasked with clearing up problems at the bank in recent years.

Two former Credit Suisse private bankers resurfaced at LGT Vestra in London: Graeme Lyness and Mark McNamara. Lyness worked at Credit Suisse from 2014 to 2014; prior to this he worked for four years as a fixed income portfolio manager for Morgan Stanley, and he started his career in 1999 at PricewaterhouseCoopers. McNamara was a director at Credit Suisse in London from November 2013 to June this year; prior to this, he was a vice president at Morgan Stanley, starting at the US firm in 2000. The men hold the post of wealth manager at LGT Vestra.

BlueBay Asset Management appointed Gautam Kalani to the newly created role of emerging market FX strategist. Based in London, Dr Kalani joined the five-strong EM strategist team, reporting to senior sovereign strategists Timothy Ash and Graham Stock. 

Falcon Private Bank elected Matthew Hurn as a new member of the board of directors. Hurn has been covering several management positions with the Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi, most recently as chief financial officer of alternative investments and infrastructure.

Withers promoted 14 new partners across its Asian, European and US offices.

• Joy Chang, based in San Francisco, advises on estate and gift planning, probate and trust administration, and charitable giving.

• Chua Yee Hoong, based in Singapore, advises on tax matters, including litigation, as well as matters involving wills and succession, probate, estate administration, immigration and charities.

• Stefano Cignozzi, based in Milan, advises on M&A and corporate finance transactions, representing private equity, multinationals and privately held companies.

• Lara Crompton, based in London, advises on tax and succession planning, including trust structuring. She frequently advises international families on multijurisdictional planning.

• Billy Ko, based in Hong Kong, advises on family law, civil litigation and media law matters. His family cases often involve complex asset holding structures and trusts, and his experience in media and reputation management complements this work.

• Leong Chuo Ming, based in Singapore, advises on corporate transactions, with a particular focus on equity capital markets work and M&A. Leong Chuo Ming's experience includes regulatory and compliance work for clients.

• Xanthe Lok, based in London, advises on banking and finance matters, working with borrowers and lenders on bilateral and syndicated secured and unsecured corporate borrowing/lending and real estate finance transactions.

• Joseph Morales, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, advises on M&A, commercial real estate and corporate finance transactions. His clients include private clients, family offices, privately held companies, emerging companies and entrepreneurs.

• Alessia Paoletto, based in London, is a dual qualified Italian lawyer and English solicitor, advising on international succession and trust planning, and cross-border UK-European inheritance disputes.

• Alana Petraske, based in London, advises charities and donors on issues including tax-efficient, the structuring of philanthropic giving vehicles, the terms of direct funding, venture philanthropy and social investment.

• Matilde Rota, based in Milan, advises on commercial and banking litigation matters. She also regularly advises on issues such as product liability, contract and credit recovery.

• Lesley Timms, based in London, has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice with a focus on complex contractual disputes, and frequently works on disputes with Italian elements.

• Jocelyn Tsao, based in Hong Kong, advises on all aspects of matrimonial law including divorce, prenuptial agreements, child care and custody and financial disputes, and acts as an advocate.

Sharon Whitehouse, based in Milan, advises on a range of corporate and commercial matters, including M&A for private companies, international joint ventures and equity investments. She additionally advises on equity and debt private placements and real estate financings.

Goldman Sachs named David Solomon as its new chief executive, taking the helm from Lloyd Blankfein who stepped down after a 12-year stint. Solomon was formerly co-chief operating officer and former co-head of the investment banking arm. On his retirement, Blankfein became senior chairman. 

France-based Natixis named Nathalie Bricker as chief financial officer, replacing Nicolas Namias, who went on to BPCE in June to head up finance, strategy and legal affairs. Bricker began her career in 1991 at KPMG. In 1995, she joined Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations as manager facilitator of the accounting network for the markets and custodian activities. After a number of roles she became head of accounting at Natixis in 2007, and has been head of accounting and ratios at the firm since 2013, joining the group’s executive committee in 2016.

Vanguard Asset Management appointed Gregoire Blanc as senior ETF capital markets specialist. Blanc reports to Thomas Bartolacci, head of ETF capital markets, Europe. Blanc joined from Lyxor Asset Management, where he was head of ETF capital markets. 

UK wealth manager and brokerage house WHIreland appointed Chris Savidge as a corporate finance executive and Joe Harker as an investment manager, adding to the team in its Bristol office. Harker previously spent two years at JM Finn. 

Law firm Ogier appointed Rebecca McNulty as a managing associate of its dispute resolution team. McNulty has 15 years’ experience in the sector. She is experienced in commercial litigation, contentious trust, regulatory work, property related disputes and insurance litigation including high value personal injury and professional indemnity. She spent just under ten years in the disputes team of another Jersey-based law firm.

Hawksford appointed Eric Dolan as head of governance, risk and compliance. Based in Jersey, Dolan has overall responsibility for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including with the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC). He used to work at Sanne Group, where he held the post of risk director for two years.

UBS Wealth Management made a number of changes in its UK regional offices. Dave Price was named new branch head in its Midlands office and Matt Noyce joined the South, South West and Wales team as a client advisor.

Financial services firm Chubb appointed Annmarie Campas as head of its European personal risk services division, subject to regulatory approval. She joined Chubb Private Risk Services in 2009 as the regional vice president for the division's Northeastern region in the US. In 2011, she relocated to New Orleans to lead Chubb's US Southern regions. In 2014, Campas was appointed as the head of the North American personal insurance sales and distribution team.

Campas reports to David Robinson, executive vice president, Europe and division president, UK and Ireland. She also be reports to Adam Clifford, division president of Continental Europe, and Darryl Page, vice president of Chubb Group and division president of international personal lines.

Barclays Wealth Management appointed Graham Nicoll to lead the newly-merged Midlands, North and West market covering all teams outside London and the South East of England. He manages and drives forward the wealth management business across the Midlands, North, West and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Nicoll re-joined Barclays Wealth Management from KPMG, where he spent three years advising entrepreneurs and SME management teams across a range of industries on how to combat both operational and strategic challenges.
Heather Brilliant, CFA, was elected the new chair and Diane C Nordin, CFA, the vice chair of the board of governors of CFA Institute. Brilliant is managing director, Americas, of First State Investments where she is responsible for expanding First State’s market presence across the Americas. She was previously CEO of Morningstar Australasia, and was global director of equity and corporate credit research for seven years prior to this. Before joining Morningstar, Brilliant spent several years as an equity research analyst for boutique investment firms. 

Nordin brings more than 35 years of experience in the investment industry to her position as vice chair. She is a director of Fannie Mae, where she serves as chair of the compensation committee and member of the audit committee. Recently, she was elected to the Principal Financial Group Board, and is also on the board of Antares, a spinout of GE Capital. Nordin is a former partner of Wellington Management Company LLP, where she held numerous global leadership positions, including director of fixed income, director of global relationship management, and director of fixed income product management. 

Serge Robin, a former partner of Geneva-based Gonet & Cie – which announced a merger deal a few days ago – resurfaced as chief executive of Arab Bank (Switzerland). Robin took over from Nasri Malhamé. Robin ran Merrill Lynch's private bank in Switzerland from 2005 until 2010 until the bank was taken over by Julius Baer. Previously, he worked for Lombard Odier and UBS.

UK wealth manager Brown Shipley appointed Daniel Porteous as client manager to its lending team in the Manchester office. Alongside client director, Paul Spann, he also offers support to the Leeds team as part of his new role. He joined directly from Handelsbanken, where he was an individual banking manager overseeing a portfolio of high net worth clients.  

UK private bank Arbuthnot Latham named one of its own senior figures as its new chief executive. It appointed Andrew Salmon; he succeeded Ian Henderson who, as announced in April, stepped down for personal reasons after only two years in the role. Salmon has been on the board of Arbuthnot Banking Group, the private bank’s parent, since 8 March 2004.

Law firm Butler Snow appointed Mandy Pope as its new chief financial officer. Pope replaced Rance Sapen, who was recently promoted to chief operating officer. Pope has more than two decades of executive leadership and management experience in various sectors. Most recently, she served as COO of Mississippi Today.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments parted company with Vanessa Donegan, Head of Asian Equities, Europe, who retired after 32 years with the business and its predecessor firms. In all, Donegan worked in financial services for 35 years.

Aviva Investors made nine appointments for its equities business. Mikhail Zverev and Alistair Way joined as head of global equities and head of global emerging market equities, respectively. Both report to Cumming, as will Henry Flockhart and Adam McInally; who joined as UK equity portfolio managers. Additionally, Jaime Ramos Martin, Stephanie Niven and Ross Mathison joined as global equities portfolio managers, reporting to Zverev. Jonathan Taub and Will Malcom joined as global emerging markets portfolio managers, reporting to Way. Zverev, Way, Flockhart, McInally, Martin, Mathison, Taub and Malcolm join from Standard Life Investments, where they performed similar roles. Niven joined from Tesco Pension Investment and will be based in London.

Northern Trust Asset Management appointed Marie Dzanis to head its business across Europe, Middle East and Africa. She is based in London. Dzanis was most recently head of intermediary distribution at Northern Trust Asset Management in Chicago, where she led business development and client servicing. She has 25 years of investment management experience.

Vontobel Asset Management appointed Yann Lepape to its bond team. Lepape has over 20 years’ experience in macroeconomics, markets strategy and portfolio management. Prior to joining Vontobel Asset Management, he worked for Oddo BHF AM. 

Mediolanum Asset Management, the Irish asset management company of the Mediolanum Banking Group, appointed Christophe Jaubert as head of investment performance. Jaubert has more than 24 years of investment management experience. He joined from Rothschild HDF Investment Solutions in Paris, where he served as the managing director, chief investment officer and head of research. 

Credit Suisse appointed Antoinette Poschung to the new role of conduct and ethics ombudswoman. She had been head of HR for corporate functions.

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen made seven senior promotions across its British Virgin Islands (BVI), Guernsey and Jersey offices. Sharon Mungall and Claire Le Quesne became counsel in the BVI and Jersey corporate teams, respectively. Leonie Corfield and Alexandria du Jardin were promoted to senior associates in the Guernsey corporate team, while Julia Schaefer became a senior associate in the Guernsey dispute resolution and litigation team.

Nichola Aldridge of the Jersey trusts and private wealth practice and Tarina Le Boutillier of the Jersey employment team were made senior associates. Aldridge joined Carey Olsen's Jersey trusts and private wealth team in 2013. Nichola specialises in trust law. Le Boutillier specialises in employment law, dealing with global, multinational and local clients and advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. 

Citi Private Bank said senior research analyst Reshma Moloo had left the firm. Moloo was a senior research analyst on the firm’s London-based traditional manager research team, where she reported to Don Marchesiello, global head of traditional investments at Citi Private Bank.

Jersey-based Sanne Group appointed James Ireland as its new chief financial officer. Based in Sanne’s London office, Ireland took over the role from Spencer Daley, who moved into the role of head of M&A and strategy.

Asset management firm Amundi appointed Joseph El Gharib as director of Amundi Services. He reports to Guillaume Lesage, chief operating officer and director of the operations, services and technology division. El Gharib joined from CAPCO France, a management consulting firm dedicated to financial services, where he was in charge of asset management, insurance, securities and market infrastructures.

UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin made a number of appointments within its Edinburgh operation. The firm appointed Marc Wilkinson as joint head of the firm’s office in the Scottish capital, and regional director for Scotland and the North of England. Wilkinson has been in the latter position since 2014 and with Brewin Dolphin since 1993.

Jonathan Tweedie, the outgoing head of Edinburgh, was promoted to regional director. He assumed responsibility for a number of Brewin Dolphin’s offices in England, ranging from Truro in the South West to Nottingham in the East Midlands. It also promoted Donald Brown from senior divisional director to head of private clients in Edinburgh. Brown joined Marc and Lynne Lamont – who became head of Brewin Dolphin’s Scottish charity and institutional service in 2009 – on the office leadership team.

UK private equity firm Epiris appointed Pamela Brent as investment manager. Brent is a qualified solicitor, who has spent six years at Linklaters, latterly specialising in mid-market private equity transactions.

Asset manager Jupiter confirmed that head of strategy for global equity Stephen Mitchell has left the firm. He joined the firm in 2015, and he managed the Jupiter Global Managed Fund. Fund manager Stuart Cox, who has worked with Mitchell on the Global Managed Fund, took over full responsibility for the fund on an interim basis.

Barclays appointed Dirk Klee as the new chief executive for savings, investments and wealth management, taking over from Dena Brumpton, who announced she was stepping down.
Klee was most recently chief operating officer for private banking at UBS Group. Prior to UBS, he was BlackRock's CEO in Germany. Brumpton, a high-profile female wealth executive in a male-dominated profession, joined Barclays in 2015 as CEO of Barclays Wealth & Investments. She previously worked for Citibank for 30 years.

Zurich-listed Vontobel brought over five advisors to its teams in Germany, hiring four of them from Sal. Oppenheim in Munich – now a part of Deutsche Bank – and one person from Oddo-BHF Bank in Hamburg. Victor Lindner and Thomas Riecken, who previously worked for Sal Oppenheim at the same location, joined the Munich-based Vontobel team of asset managers in July. Doris Lemke and Olaf Bauermeister, who also moved from Sal. Oppenheim in Munich to Vontobel, were due to follow in October. Asset management expert Stella C Streckwall joined the Hamburg team from Oddo-BHF Bank in April.

UK investment management and financial planning group Tilney appointed James Diack as a financial planner based in Glasgow. He has more than 25 years' experience in the sector. He joined from the Bank of Scotland.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Melanie Aimer to the newly-created role of global head of client experience. Aimer reports to Roger Miners, chief marketing officer. Based in London, she is responsible for client satisfaction, insight, analytics and reporting, as well as market intelligence, supporting the needs of key clients across all their interactions with BNPP AM.  

Isle of Man-based Utmost Wealth Solutions appointed Stephen Atkinson as global head of sales and marketing. Atkinson leads and drives sales and marketing activity across the UK and Europe.  He joined Utmost Wealth Solutions from the fintech sector, having previously represented Lombard as head of sales – Northern Europe. He replaced Simon Woolnough, who has left the firm, in the role.

Lazard Asset Management appointed Jeremy Taylor as UK chief executive. He replaced Bill Smith, who retired from the role of UK CEO after being in the position for the past 16 years.

UK wealth manager Artorius, which has offices in Manchester, London and Zurich, appointed Jane Fowke as head of wealth planning and Tina Winder as head of compliance. Fowke joined from Kleinwort Hambros, having previously been at HSBC and Barclays. Winder joined from Tilney, where she was deputy head of compliance.

Intertrust, the Europe-listed provider of expert administrative services, appointed Hans Turkesteen as its chief financial officer. Hans Turkesteen has been serving as Intertrust's interim CFO since November 2017, having taken over from Maarten de Vries. 

LJ Partnership brought in two financial sector heavyweights as partners. The firm appointed Ken Costa, the former chairman of Lazard International, global head of mergers and acquisitions at UBS and chairman of Europe, Middle East and Africa at UBS Investment Bank, and Ali Bouzarif, the former head of investment execution at the Qatar Investment Authority and former non-executive director of Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf (formerly Songbird Estates), American Express GBT, and Accor. Costa also took on the role of co-chairman based in London, while Ali Bouzarif works out of the partnership’s new office on 5th Avenue in New York. 

Aberdeen Standard Investments appointed Jeremy Browne as international business ambassador of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Americas. He reports to John Campbell, global head of strategic clients. Browne most recently held the positon of City of London’s special representative to the European Union. His previous roles have included Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State, Home Office. 

Jersey-based litigation and dispute resolution law firm Baker & Partners appointed James Corbett as senior counsel. Joining from the London office of international disputes and investigations law firm Kobre & Kim, Corbett has experience in international trusts, insolvency and commercial disputes in nearly every major offshore jurisdiction around the world. Earlier in his career, he served as the managing partner of Kobre & Kim’s Cayman office from 2012 to 2014.

GAM Investments hired Markus Heider as investment manager to join its emerging markets fixed income team, based in London. He reports to Paul McNamara. Heider joined from Deutsche Bank in London, where he was global head of inflation research. 

Swiss financial services firm Vontobel expanded the Zurich team of Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG (VSWA), which offers investment solutions for North American clients, with four new asset management hires. The firm hired Felix Samuel Fässler, David M. Stankay, Daniela Geiger and Matthew Utermöhlen.

French asset manager DNCA Finance, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, appointed Léa Dunand-Chatellet as head of the firm’s new responsible investment department. She joined the firm from Mirova, where she was chief investment officer of equities. She has around 13 years’ experience in the sector.

Asia-Pacific
Indosuez Wealth Management recruited a group of new managers for the Asia region, such as those with a focus on the Non-Resident Indian client segment.

Surmit Chaturvedi was appointed as a relationship manager on the NRI team. He specialised in private banking for nearly 20 years, with a focus on the NRI market. Previously, he was at Bank J Safra Sarasin in Singapore where his responsibilities included the acquisition of new clients across markets such as Southeast Asia.

In addition, Poonam Kaur, joined the NRI team. As a RM, Kaur is responsible for growing Indosuez Wealth Management’s NRI business in the region. She brought over 10 years of international experience in the industry including HSBC Private Bank where she was responsible for ultra-high net worth and high net worth clients.

Another appointee was Alan Mufatti, who honed his banking skills mostly in Europe with 25 years of private banking experience, working with international banks. Prior to joining Indosuez Wealth Management, he was with Bank J Safra Sarasin, Singapore.

Sharon Han Su Yin, who has worked at Credit Suisse, UOB and DBS in Singapore, also joined the team. 

In Hong Kong, Indosuez WM added RMs Helen Lee and Stephen Ho. They are responsible for the North Asia market. Lee brings with her more than 10 years of private banking experience. She has worked at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) and ANZ Private Bank in the territory. Ho has more than 15 years of private banking experience, Ho is a RM. He was previously at LGT Bank in Hong Kong.

Nikko Asset Management appointed Mari Yamauchi to the position of outside director, taking its board of directors to 10. She is based in Japan. Five of the board members are outside directors, including chairman of the board Yoichiro Iwama, who was named to the role in May this year. Since April 2014, Ms Yamauchi has been a visiting Professor at the Doshisha University Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness focused on management and employment systems.

Nikko Asset Management built out its China equity teams, bringing in new managers in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The “All China” team of six added to the group housed in Singapore, made up of native Chinese analysts and specialists. Leading the team is Eng Teck Tan, senior portfolio manager, who reports to Peter Sartori, head of Asian equities. 

EFG International named Tho Gea Hong as its new Singapore chief executive, taking over from Kong Eng Huat, who retires at the end of this year. Tho Gea Hong is also a member of the Asia Business Committee that is chaired by Albert Chiu, executive chairman for the Asia-Pacific region. Tho Gea Hong has more than 30 years of experience in the private banking sector; she served as head of private banking at Singapore from 2012 to 2016 at EFG. She moved to Royal Bank of Canada as CEO of its Singapore branch, before re-joining EFG. Tho Gea Hong started her career at DBS Bank and previously also worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Ivan Ferraroni joined EFG as the new head of global markets for Asia, effective early October 2018. In this role, Ferraroni took charge of all global markets activities in Asia. He works with Albert Chiu and the central global markets unit, under the leadership of Maurizio Moranzoni. Ivan Ferraroni is  based in Hong Kong with a functional reporting line to Moranzoni and a regional reporting line to Kees Stoute, CEO of EFG’s Hong Kong branch. Ferraroni’s role was a newly-created one.

Prior to joining EFG, he worked for UBS Investment Bank in Singapore from 2011 to 2018, where he last held the role of head of APAC Client Office and was a member of the APAC Global Family Office Committee.

Julius Baer continued its Asia expansion with four more hires from UBS. It appointed Chern Pei Pei and Rachel Sun Li as senior advisors, and up Kuo Ling and Celine Lee as executive directors for its greater China team. Chern, who is based in Singapore, spent ten years as a private banker at UBS. She worked at American Express and Citibank. Sun Li, who is also based in Singapore spent seven years at UBS as well as its investment banking arm. Ling was with JP Morgan for 17 years before joining UBS. Lee was most recently team head in UBS' Taiwan team. Both women are based in Hong Kong. All four new hires report to Chew Mun-Yew, Julius Baer's group head for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as well as market head for Taiwan. 

Credit Suisse appointed Michael Marr as head of private banking Australia. Marr is based in Sydney and reports to Alex Wade, head of developed and emerging Asia for private banking, and John Knox, chief executive for Australia. He took over from Wade, who has run the business since January 2016.

HSBC Private Banking appointed Ken Tsang as regional head of global solutions Asia. In this new role, Tsang leads the team that advises HSBC Private Banking’s ultra-high net worth (UHNW) entrepreneur and family office clients in Asia. Prior to joining HSBC, het spent 10 years at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong.

Macquarie Group appointed Shemara Wikramanayake, formerly group head of its asset management arm, as managing director and chief executive. Wikramanayake replaced Nicholas Moore in the role, after he decided to retire from the firm, taking effect from 30 November. The new CEO joined Macquarie in 1987 and worked with Moore in corporate services and then in establishing Macquarie Capital, which at that time included advisory; infrastructure funds; corporate leasing and lending; and cash equities. She was appointed head of Macquarie Asset Management in 2008. 

In her time at Macquarie, Wikramanayake has worked in nine cities in six countries and across several business lines. This has included establishing and leading Macquarie’s corporate advisory offices in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and the infrastructure funds management business in the US and Canada. Wikramanayake also serves as chair of the Macquarie Group Foundation.

Bermuda-based financial services firm Butterfield appointed Brian Balleine as regional head of Asia. Balleine was previously managing director of Butterfield Trust in the Cayman Islands. He has over 30 years’ experience in the field of international trust and fiduciary services, and has worked with ultra-high net worth families and their advisors.

The firm also appointed Nick Harwood, director of client services in its Singapore office. Harwood has 30 years’ experience in the trust industry, and in wealth planning. He previously led Deutsche Bank’s trust team in Singapore.  Yang Ping Tang, also from Deutsche Bank, joined as vice president of client services, and will manage the office’s client service delivery. Tang has 15 years’ experience in the Singapore trust industry.

Lastly, the firm appointed Hannah Bisson as manager of trust services in Singapore. Bisson joined the Singapore office from Butterfield Trust in Guernsey. She has over 10 years’ experience with fiduciary, corporate and institutional structures.

Westpac Banking Corporation appointed Anita Fung to the Westpac board. The appointment is subject to regulatory approval and Australian visa requirements. Fung spent 19 years of her career at HSBC, including seven years serving as group general manager of HSBC Holdings plc. Then from 2011 to 2015, she was the chief executive of HSBC Hong Kong. Prior to joining HSBC, Fung held a number of roles at Standard Chartered Bank. She is a former chairman of HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong).

Global investment management firm Pimco said Bill De Leon has resigned from his role as global head of risk management to spend more time with his family, despite reports that he stepped down after a probe into his personal conduct. De Leon, who was also a managing director at the Californian-based asset manager, had been head of risk since 2009. The firm replaced De Leon with Sudi Mariappa, currently managing director and portfolio manager, as its new global head of portfolio risk management. Mariappa has 31 years of experience in the investment management industry, including 14 years with Pimco in various roles.

US investment manager Carret Private Capital, affiliate of Carret Asset Management, hired Mauricio Ribeiro and Changick Kim to its Hong Kong office. Ribeiro has more than 10 years of experience as a private banker managing portfolios for high and ultra-high net worth individuals in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Carret, he was a managing director, as well as the head of international and the independent portfolio management desk at EFG Bank Hong Kong. Kim has been in the banking industry for over 10 years, with experience in wealth management. Prior to joining Carret, Kim was a vice president at EFG Bank Hong Kong, where he focused on managing portfolios for high net worth individuals from Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Julius Baer appointed three new members to its Hong Kong office. The new hires report to Vicki Lee, group head Greater China. The firm appointed Jenet Chau as managing director and senior advisor, Shelley Yiu as executive director, and Helen Yao as executive director. Chau has over 20 years of experience in wealth management. Prior to joining Julius Baer, she was senior client advisor at UBS Wealth Management where she worked since 2006. Yiu joined from UBS, where she worked since 2006 and was a senior client advisor in China team. Yao was previously with UBS, where she was a senior relationship manager in the China team since 2007. 

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Jane Ambachtsheer as global head of sustainability. Ambachtsheer reports to Frédéric Janbon, chief executive and head of investments at BNPP AM. She will join on 27 August and is based in Paris. Ambachtsheer is responsible for BNPP AM’s overarching approach to sustainability.  Together with Helena Viñes-Fiestas, BNPP AM’s deputy head of sustainability, she leads on sustainability-related research, environmental social and governance integration, engagement, advocacy and governance.  

Bank of Singapore appointed three new members to its Greater China operation. The new hires are based in Hong Kong. It appointed Phonda Chan and Anne Song as managing directors and market heads, and Jacqueline Lee as head of risk and executive director. They report directly to Derrick Tan, chief executive of Bank of Singapore Hong Kong branch and global market head for Greater China and North Asia.

LaSalle Investment Management announced that Ian Mackie, head of strategic partnerships – Asia-Pacific, and member of its APAC investment committee, retired at the end of the year. Mackie spent 40 years with the firm. He first joined Jones Lang Wootton in 1978 as a retail leasing agent in Sydney, before the creation of LaSalle Investment Management after the merger of Jones Lang Wootton with LaSalle Partners in 2000. 

UAE-based financial services firm Holborn Assets appointed Jason Conlin as chief executive, and Greg Miller as vice president of its Hong Kong operation. Conlin has been with the firm since it was established in the city earlier this year. Miller was formerly at Capstone. Conlin took over the role previously held by Edward Harris, assuming all responsibilities.

Comgest, the independent, international asset management group, appointed Junzaburo Hyuga as an analyst, based in the firm’s Tokyo office. Hyuga was formerly a senior associate at Global Strategy Consultants, where he was responsible for assessing the viability of companies entering the Asian market and helping companies enhance their digital capabilities.  He also spent several years with JP Morgan Chase (Tokyo).

UBS appointed a former senior banker from Barclays/Bank of Singapore as its desk head for its wealth management team for Southeast Asia. Errie Maksum was most recently market head, Indonesia at Barclays (recently acquired by Bank of Singapore) where he managed the bank's coverage of that market from 2010. Prior to this, he was a senior private banker at Citi before becoming a team leader at Credit Suisse, leading a team covering the Indonesia market. Maksum started his career at Standard Chartered Bank, beginning in audit before transitioning to the credit risk area before switching to private banking.

DBS Private Bank expanded the portfolio of Rob Ioannou, the managing director and head of international client coverage. Ioannou was handed the responsibilities of wealth planning and insurance solutions in addition to his current role. He was appointed by DBS in 2016 to lead the global South Asia and non-resident Indian teams, the Europe, Middle East and Africa geographies. He also takes care of the Japanese international segment.

Standard Chartered appointed Patrick Lee as chief executive of its bank in Singapore. Lee is based in Singapore and reports to Judy Hsu, regional CEO, ASEAN and South Asia, who passed her Singapore CEO responsibilities to Lee. He has 25 years of experience in the banking industry, including corporate and investment banking, and has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong and London. He joined Standard Chartered in 2012 and his most recent position is head of global banking, Singapore, for which he will remain responsible until a successor is announced.

International corporate, private client and funds provider Hawksford appointed Marcus Hinkley as head of private client Asia. He has around 20 years’ worth international private client legal experience. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for the management and development of Hawksford’s private client business in Asia, as well as developing client and intermediary relationships. 

Singapore-based private equity firm Aura Group appointed Andrew Coloretti as an executive director of its wealth operation. Coloretti has over 25 years' experience in cross-border financial services. He is responsible for expanding Aura's private wealth business, and focuses on high net worth individuals, family offices, impact investment groups and charitable institutions. He was most recently at Melbourne-based Giles Wade. He also spent three years as chief executive of Boston Capital Group, and was also at HSBC as head of wealth management.

HSBC Private Banking appointed Benedikt Maissen as market head for Indonesia. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for business development and client engagement. He reports to Philip Kunz, head of Southeast Asia at HSBC Private Banking. Maissen joined HSBC with more than 39 years of private banking experience including, most recently, leading a boutique private bank across Southeast Asia and international markets. Prior to this, he led the Southeast Asia region for an international private bank. Over the past 29 years, he has been based in Singapore.

Hawksford, the international corporate, private client and funds business which rebranded recently, named Marcus Hinkley to the team at its Asian private client head. Based in Singapore, Hinkley, with 20 years of industry experience, leads management and development of Hawksford’s private client business in Asia, as well as develop client and intermediary relationships. Prior roles have been in the Caribbean, Channel Islands and Asian financial services markets, as well as New Zealand.

Mumbai-based ASK Wealth Advisors appointed Rajesh Nambiar as managing partner for the western region. His role includes building and maintaining relations with ultra-high net worth clients in domestic and offshore segments. Nambiar has more than 16 years of experience and an expert in financial planning and advice about wealth. He has held several senior roles at Kotak Wealth Management, where he was a resource and team head.

Jersey-based Sanne Group, provider of trust and fund administration services, appointed James Ireland as its new chief financial officer. Based in Sanne’s London office, Ireland took over the role from Spencer Daley, who will be moving into the role of head of M&A and strategy. Ireland, who is responsible for managing the financial operations of the global business and its regional operations, most recently led Investec's support services sector team. He has also been a close advisor to Sanne for more than three years.

Cone Marshall, the legal, accounting and fiduciary services firm, named senior industry figure Peter Golovsky to a top Asia and global role. Golovsky became global head of fiduciary services and Asia head at the group. He is responsible for growth across a number or regions, as well as the task of creating the CM office in Hong Kong. Previously, he worked at Amicorp in Hong Kong, where he led its global Institutional Sales business for more than six years. Prior to this, he spent 10 years in private banking at Macquarie Group and Westpac, and previously was with Andersen for 10 years in Australia and the US, in roles across private clients, risk management, corporate governance and audit. The role means Golovsky is based in Hong Kong and he reports to Geoffrey Cone, founder and CEO of the group.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of insurer Aviva, appointed Tom Clapham as its head of institutional sales for Asia. Prior to joining Aviva, Clapham was head of sovereign wealth funds & central banks (Asia), institutional sales and head of consultant relations at AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). He is based in Singapore and reports to Scott Callander, head of client solutions in Asia Pacific and Middle East. Clapham has held senior roles at Macquarie Bank, Deutsche Bank and Mercer Investment Consulting.

Contineo, the Asian messaging network and data provider for structured products, tapped a former senior DBS figure to be its chief executive. Antoine de Charnacé replaceed Mark Munoz who, after three years leading Contineo from an early-stage start-up to a successful revenue generating network business, stepped down to focus on other business opportunities. Prior to this appointment, de Charnacé was EAM desk head at DBS, a role he held from December 2016; before this, he was head of equity advisory and structured solutions. Earlier in his career he worked in several roles at Societe Generale.

DBS Group appointed Tan Teck Long as chief risk officer. In his new role, Tan reports to DBS chief executive, Piyush Gupta, and is a member of DBS’ Group executive committee. Tan has 25 years of experience with the bank in business and risk roles. He was most recently head of the institutional banking group’s large and mid-cap businesses, as well as its chief operating officer. He took over from Elbert Pattijn, who is retiring from the bank. Pattijn has been DBS’ CRO since 2008.

North America

RBC Global Asset Management (US) appointed Nidhi Chadda as portfolio manager and Andrew Topps as senior equity analyst. Both joined RBC GAM's US equity team based in Chicago. Chadda provides research and portfolio management for RBC GAM's small, SMID and mid-cap growth strategies. She began her career in the investment industry in 2010. She was previously vice-president and generalist research analyst at Fred Alger Management. Topps also provides research and analysis for RBC GAM's small, SMID and mid-cap growth strategies. He began his investment career in 2002. His previous role was as a senior research analyst at Holland Capital.

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed Jack Ryan, who has worked in a diverse set of industries, as its first-ever chief human capital officer. Ryan previously worked at GE, where he spent the last 25 years in HR roles, including six as the most senior HR executive for GE Capital. Ryan will be responsible for all human resource functions at Rockefeller Capital Management, including leadership development and management across wealth management, asset management and strategic advisory.

First Republic Bank hired Sam Hodgson as managing director and wealth manager of First Republic Investment Management. Hodgson works at the bank’s office at 160 Federal Street in Boston, providing investment management, retirement planning and other wealth management services to individuals, families, businesses, non-profits and foundations. Prior to First Republic, Hodgson was a managing director at Merrill Lynch, where he was for 27 years.

New York and Florida-based National Holdings Corporation appointed Henry Kaplan as president and chief operating officer of National Asset Management and executive vice president of investment solutions at National Securities Corporation. Kaplan has over thirty years of industry experience, most recently as a managing director at Morgan Stanley.

BNY Mellon appointed Akash Shah as a senior executive vice president and the newly-created role of head of strategy. She reports Charles Scharf, chief executive, and is based in New York. He joined from McKinsey & Company, where he was a partner in the New York office. He has over 12 years of experience advising leading financial institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. 

Standard Chartered appointed Stephen Atkinson as regional head of private banking, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and global head of private banking referrals. He took on the regional responsibilities from Ian Gibson, who retired. Atkinson has 27 years of experience at Standard Chartered. Most recently, he was chief of staff for the bank’s chief executive, Bill Winters. In his new role, Atkinson is based in London and reports to Didier von Daeniken, global head of private banking and wealth management, and to Tracy Clarke in her capacity as regional CEO, Europe and Americas. 

The Securities and Exchange Commission appointed Kristin Snyder as deputy director of the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). Snyder has been with the SEC for 15 years. She served as the co-national associate director of OCIE’s Investment Company/Investment Adviser examination program since August 2016 and as the associate regional director for examinations in the SEC’s San Francisco office since November 2011.  She continues in both of these roles while also assuming this additional leadership role in OCIE. As deputy director, Snyder oversees many of the office’s strategic initiatives and serve as the regional advisor to OCIE director, Peter Driscoll.

Oklahoma City-based MidFirst Bank, which has wealth management and private banking operations, made several changes to its management team. It named Todd Dobson as its new president, DJ Morgan as senior executive vice president and chief commercial banking officer, and Greg Schaefer as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Dobson joined MidFirst in 1991; he has served as its CFO since 1995, and as a member of its board of directors since 2007. Dobson spent seven years with PwC before joining MidFirst. Morgan has been with MidFirst since 2006. He serves in a senior leadership role covering private banking, wealth management, and commercial banking. Schaefer joined MidFirst in 2000 and most recently served as the director of finance administration. Before joining MidFirst, Schaefer spent three years in public accounting. Jeff Records remains the chief executive and chairman of the board of directors.

Brenton Point Wealth Advisors, an investment advisory firm with offices in New York and Connecticut, appointed Larry Rollins as private wealth advisor. Rollins leads its new Westport, Connecticut office. He joined from Fidelity Investments, where he most recently served as a vice president and financial consultant.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation, parent company of the Bryn Mawr Trust, named Joseph DiMaio Jr as senior vice president and relationship manager of BMT Wealth Management. DiMaio reports to BMT Wealth Management division president, Jennifer Dempsey Fox. He has more than 25 years of experience in wealth management, having held senior positions with Merrill Lynch, Key Capital Management, and most recently with West Capital Management.

Caldwell Trust Company promoted Kimberly Evener and Marci Sweat from trust associates to trust officers. Evener began her financial career in 2001 in New Jersey while still in high school. She relocated to Florida in 2003 and joined Northern Trust Company in 2004, beginning as a senior teller and departing in 2016 as a trust associate. She joined Caldwell in 2016 and graduated in 2017 from the Florida Bankers Association's three-year program, Florida Trust & Wealth Management School, earning her FBA certification. She is currently working towards the American Bankers Association designation of Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA).

She is based in Caldwell’s Sarasota office, reporting to Jan Miller, executive vice president and trust officer. Sweat began her financial career in 2008 with Northern Trust Company in Sarasota, where she remained for over nine years, departing as officer and account manager on the wealth management advisory team.  

BlueMountain Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, appointed Ameya Agge and Matt Jameson as senior investing professionals to source, evaluate, and execute healthcare-related private investments. Both were newly-created positions reporting to Jim Pieri, head of private healthcare. Agge joined from Apax Partners, where he specialized in private healthcare investments in the US and Europe. Jameson joined from Highland Capital Management, where he was a managing director and co-head of private equity.

US-based Regions Bank, which has a wealth management segment, appointed Leroy Abrahams as head of community affairs and executive vice president. Abrahams reports to Keith Herron, head of corporate responsibility and community engagement. Prior to this, Abrahams served as area president in North Central Alabama. He joined Regions in 2013 as head of strategic and corporate planning.

US Bank Wealth Management named John Zimmerman as president of Ascent Private Capital Management, the company’s family office advisory and wealth management business for ultra-high net worth clients. He replaced Michael Cole in the role. Zimmerman served as Ascent regional managing director for the Denver region since 2016.  In his role, Zimmerman set the strategic direction and oversee all aspects of Wealth Management’s ultra-high net worth business. He continues to reside in Denver. He has more than 30 years of financial services. Prior to joining US Bank, he was president of Denver Investments; president of the Westcore Mutual Funds board of trustees; founder, partner and managing director at Northern Lights Capital Group; managing director and executive vice president at Janus Capital Group; and managing director at Banc of America Capital Management.

Global investment management firm Pimco confirmed that Bill De Leon resigned from his role as global head of risk management in order to spend more time with his family, despite reports he stepped down after a probe into his personal conduct. De Leon, who was also a managing director at the Californian-based asset manager, had been head of risk since 2009. He was replaced by Sudi Mariappa, currently managing director and portfolio manager, as its new global head of portfolio risk management. Mariappa has 31 years of experience in the investment management industry including 14 years with Pimco in various roles.

RBC Wealth Management appointed four new members to its offices in Florham Park , New Jersey. It hired Michael Gee as senior vice president and financial advisor, Andrea Savva as vice president, and Raymond Lee as vice president and financial advisor. Another joiner was Eric Woo and senior business associate. 

Alpine Global Management, a US-based investment firm, appointed Gene Song as a portfolio manager and global head of equity capital markets (ECM). Song has 25 years of ECM experience. Before joining Alpine Global, Song worked at Citi, most recently as head of institutional equity sales in New York.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Jane Ambachtsheer as global head of sustainability. Ambachtsheer reports to Frédéric Janbon, chief executive and head of investments at BNPP AM. She is based in Paris. 

JDJ Family Office Services, the administrative multi-family office based in Boston, MA, appointed Kylie Ruschioni, CFP® and Trish Richardson as new partners. Ruschioni works with clients to manage many aspects of their financial lives, including tax planning, estate planning and implementation, customized financial reporting, and investment administration. Richardson manages a variety of administrative functions, including marketing, office management, event planning, and various human resources duties. 

Raymond James promoted Todd Gartrell, CFP®, to the rank of southeast regional director for Raymond James Financial Services, the firm’s independent broker/dealer. Gartrell previously served as an assistant regional director for the RJFS Southeast region since 2012. He replaced Jodi Perry, who now serves as president of the RJFS Independent Contractor Division (ICD).

Global executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, which covers sectors including financial services, appointed Paul Ottolini as chief financial officer. Previously Ottolini was the CFO of IBM's Global

Business Services division. Before this, Ottolini was at Deloitte for over 20 years, where he held a range of financial, operational and client-facing roles. 

Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth appointed Amy West to senior vice president and managing director. Based in Naples, Florida, West serves as the managing director for the Florida market. A 15-year veteran of the wealth management industry, West was previously with PNC Wealth Management, where she served as an investment director and senior investment advisor.

HSBC Private Banking - Americas appointed Carly McKeeman as philanthropic and family governance specialist. She has more than 10 years of charitable planning and administration experience. McKeeman joins from Evercore Wealth Management, where she worked with ultra-high net worth families and their outside advisors on investment management and fiduciary planning matters. Based in New York, McKeeman reports to Heather Flanagan, regional head of private wealth solutions for HSBC Private Banking, Americas.

Massachusetts-based Cambridge Trust Company, the private banking and wealth management subsidiary of Cambridge Bancorp, appointed John Sullivan as senior vice president and director of personal lending and Kerri Mooney as senior vice president and director of private banking offices. The new hires replaced Thomas Johnson, the bank’s former executive vice president and consumer banking director, who left the company in June. 

Sullivan has more than 30 years of banking experience. He joins Cambridge Trust from Boston Private Bank & Trust Company. Mooney has nearly 25 years in banking. He was previously director of branches for HarborOne Bank, where she was responsible for service, sales, talent development, operations and risk management in its retail division.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation and hired William M Robb as senior managing director and senior portfolio manager for Peapack Private, the wealth management division of the bank.

Bank Leumi USA appointed Mark Fagnani to head its new asset-based lending business. Fagnani worked for Congress Financial and its successor companies, First Union Business Credit, Wachovia Capital Finance and Wells Fargo Foothill (now known as Wells Fargo Capital Finance), for more than 30 years.

UBS appointed Susan Elolampi from JP Morgan to work with private equity firms and head up investment banking for family offices in the Americas, a sign of how such banks are trying to engage with that sector. Elolampi has the title of managing director and is based in New York. Elolampi has worked in various roles at JP Morgan since September 2001. Most recently, she held the role from February 2015 of MD for investment banking - family office coverage.

Global financial services firm Northern Trust confirmed that Jana Schreuder, executive vice president and chief operating officer was retiring. Schreuder spent 38 years at the firm since she joined in 1980. She has held a number of roles during her tenure as a member of the management group, including serving as COO, president of wealth management, president of operations and technology, and chief risk officer.

EisnerAmper, the provider of tax, accounting and business services, built a real estate private equity group to tap expansion in the sector. Based out of the firm’s New York City office, partner Lisa Knee will be the national leader of the group. Alongside her is partner Todd Hankin, who leads the West Coast practice from the San Francisco office; and partner Maureen Blair, based in the New York City office, who leads the East Coast practice.

Heather Brilliant, CFA, been elected the new chair and Diane C Nordin, CFA, the vice-chair of the board of governors of CFA Institute. Brilliant is managing director, Americas, of First State Investments where she is responsible for expanding First State’s market presence across the Americas. She was previously CEO of Morningstar Australasia, and was global director of equity and corporate credit research for seven years prior to this. Before joining Morningstar, Brilliant spent several years as an equity research analyst for boutique investment firms. 

Nordin has more than 35 years of experience in the investment industry to her position as vice chair. She is a director of Fannie Mae, where she serves as chair of the compensation committee and member of the audit committee. Recently, she was elected to join the Principal Financial Group Board, and is also on the board of Antares, a unit of GE Capital. 

Citi Private Bank has appointed Lance Bylow and Morgan Dever as private bankers, to take effect in early August. Bylow joined as managing director and private banker; he previously was at US Trust, where he held the role of private client advisor. Both Bylow and Dever are based in New York and report to Ida Liu, global market manager – New York, Citi Private Bank. The firm also appointed Lisa Yang as an associate banker. Yang is also based in New York and reports to Sean Howard, business manager, ultra-high net worth – Metro New York, Citi Private Bank.

Grant Thornton appointed Brenda Wagner as its new chief people and culture officer (CPCO). She reports to Mike McGuire, Grant Thornton’s chief executive. Before this, she worked for almost four and a half years at IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS), where she led compensation and benefits, global talent, and global talent acquisition.

Raymond James hired financial advisor Michelle Spaziani, CFP®, to its independent broker/dealer arm, Raymond James Financial Services. She is based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Spaziani joined from Wells Fargo Advisors, where she previously managed about $118 million in client assets and had around $940,000 in annual production. Another arrival was Angela Streeter, client service and office manager.

The team operates as Summit Behavioral Wealth (Summit) and provides wealth management and financial planning services to a variety of clients, with a focus on behavioral finance.

PIMCO, the fixed income investment manager, appointed Sapna Shah, an executive vice president based in Newport Beach, as head of corporate responsibility.  Shah was previously responsible for the firm’s global inclusion, diversity and culture initiatives. She reports to Cathy Stahl, managing director and global head of marketing. The role is a newly-created one. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2007, she was with the equity research group of JPMorgan Asset Management.

Law firm Butler Snow appointed Mandy Pope as its new chief financial officer. Pope replaced Rance Sapen, who was promoted to chief operating officer. Pope has more than two decades of executive leadership and management experience in various sectors. Most recently, she served as COO of Mississippi Today, where she played a key role in the launch of the startup non-profit digital news site for the state, and was responsible for the development and implementation of systems and processes related to all significant aspects of infrastructure. Prior to Mississippi Today, Pope worked for 16 years in senior leadership for a NYSE real estate investment trust, where she served as executive vice president and chief accounting officer.

TFC Financial Management (TFC), an independent registered investment advisory and financial planning firm, appointed Debra McDonald as a senior client advisor. Most recently, McDonald spent 13 years with Wingate Wealth Advisors in Lexington, Massachusetts. Prior to that, she spent four years with Charles Schwab.

A subsidiary of Wells Fargo that produces research and ideas across the US banking group hired a head of global equity strategy, based out of New York. The Wells Fargo Investment Institute appointed Audrey Kaplan as head of global equity strategy. The equity strategy she sets is used by the investment professionals across Wells Fargo’s entities including its Abbot Downing business that serves ultra-high net worth clients.

Kaplan has more than 25 years of global investment industry experience focused on equity research, quantitative analysis and portfolio strategy in global and domestic markets. Most recently, she led the international equities portfolio management and research team at Federated Investors.

US Trust, Bank of America Philanthropic Solutions Group appointed Dianne Chipps-Bailey as a national practice executive for non-profit consulting, Crissie Fortmeyer as senior institutional sales director and Holly Swan as a national practice executive for the family office.

Florida-based Carillon Tower Advisers, the asset management house, added four members to its senior accounts and institutional sales teams. The team brought in "Jim" Haggerty, CFA, and Michael Mayhew, CFA, as senior vice presidents, while Justyna Z Barczynska, CMFC, joined as vice president. In the newly created roles, Haggerty, Mayhew, and Barczynska report to Lance E Peterson, head of strategic accounts, and are responsible for placing the firm's investment solutions with Carillon Tower's partner platforms. Separately, the institutional sales team hired Kieran Stover. Stover serves as SVP, institutional sales and consultant relations, reporting to Don Pepin, head of institutional sales. In his new role, Stover is responsible for business development across the plan-sponsor spectrum including public funds, corporate pension funds, foundations and endowments while working collaboratively with West Coast teammates.

New York-listed Janus Henderson Group, which is headquartered in London, appointed Michelle Rosenberg as general counsel and company secretary of Janus Henderson Investors. Rosenberg oversees the legal and internal audit functions and reports to co-CEOs Richard Weil and Andrew Formica.  She is based primarily in Denver. Prior this, Rosenberg was head of legal for North America and joined Janus Henderson from Fidelity Investments in 2003. She has 20 years of financial services experience.

Jersey-based Sanne Group, provider of trust and fund administration services with offices in New York, appointed James Ireland as its new chief financial officer. Based in Sanne’s London office, Ireland took over the role from Spencer Daley, who moved nto the role of head of M&A and strategy. Ireland most recently led Investec's support services sector team. He has also been a close advisor to Sanne for more than three years.

Goldman Sachs appointed Drew Faust to its board as an independent director. Faust retired as president of Harvard University on June 30, 2018, having served in that role since 2007.  She continues to serve as the Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard, a position she has held since 2001.

CIBC Mellon, the joint venture between Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and the Mellon Financial Corporation (now The Bank of New York Mellon), appointed Karen Rowe as the company's new chief financial officer. Rowe replaced Duncan Webb, who recently announced his retirement after a 35-year career in financial services. Rowe joined CIBC Mellon from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

Diversified Trust, an independent wealth management firm, appointed Mary Callis as senior vice president of its Atlanta office. She is responsible for client relationship management. Prior to joining Diversified Trust, Callis served as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley in Atlanta.

Aberdeen Standard Investment appointed Jeremy Browne as international business ambassador of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Americas. He reports to John Campbell, global head of strategic clients. Browne most recently held the positon of City of London’s special representative to the European Union. His previous roles have included Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State, Home Office.