June was a busy month across multiple regions for the wealth management industry.

UK, European moves in June 2018
Wise Funds, the UK-based investment management group, appointed Philip Matthews as a fund manager. He previously spent five years at Schroders and managed the group’s UK Alpha Plus Fund and UK Growth Trust. Matthews has almost two decades of investment experience, after joining Jupiter Asset Management’s fund management department in 1999. He began managing both retail and UK institutional portfolios in 2001 and ran the Jupiter Growth & Income Fund and served as deputy fund manager of the Jupiter Income Trust.

Close Brothers Group appointed Mike Morgan as group finance director and an executive member of the board of directors, vto take effect in November. Morgan was chief financial officer of Close Brothers’ banking division and a director of Close Brothers, the group’s banking subsidiary, starting in November 2010. Prior to joining Close Brothers, Morgan held a number of roles at Scottish Provident and RBS, most recently as finance director of the wealth management division of RBS.

Mobius Capital Partners appointed Kunal Desai as senior investment analyst. Desai was previously the former head of Indian equities at Neptune Investment Management. He is responsible for all emerging and frontier markets but will initially be bringing his Indian equity ideas to the firm.

Maitland, the global advisory, and fund administration firm, appointed Tim Oddy as senior relationship manager for its UK and European Union funds business. He was previously managing director for the UK at Ballybunion Capital. Based in London, he reports to Patric Foley-Brickley, head of business development and client management - Europe. Oddy has more than 35 years of experience in relationship and business development and in the sector of securities services, fund administration, financial markets, corporate and investment banking, insurance and asset management.

Stenham Wealth Management, based in Jersey, hired RBC Wealth Management's Tracy Walker. Walker was made a director. She has over 20 years of experience in the investment management area. Prior to this appointment, she worked at Standard Bank, the Africa-based lender.

Geneva-based Union Bancaire Privée named the man leading its business that caters for US residents and citizens, part of a trend of firms catering for Americans who have recently struggled to obtain financial services. UBP, which previously announced that it was setting up UBP Investment Advisors, a Swiss company registered with the US Securities and Exchange, appointed Deepak Soni as CEO.) Soni has worked with US clients for more than a decade, having been CEO of the Vontobel business that focused on US clients – Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG. Before this, he held business development responsibilities for acquiring clients in the SEC units at Credit Suisse and UBS.

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street, appointed Marcus Miholich as managing director and head of capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. Miholich is based in London and reports to Tim Coyne, global head of capital markets for the global SPDR business. Miholich joined the global SPDR business in October 2017 from Haitong Securities, where he was managing director. He was most recently responsible for State Street exchange-traded funds' Nordic business development strategy. 

Stonehage Fleming appointed Paul Matthams as partner within the family office division in Jersey. Matthams joined from offshore law firm Carey Olsen, where he has been a partner for nearly 20 years. He has over 30 years of experience in the Jersey financial services industry both as a lawyer and as a professional trustee. He has advised individuals and companies on trusts, estate planning and pension issues, and has acted for high net worth individuals and families, family offices, and private trust companies.

Swiss private bank Gonet & Cie appointed Jean-Marc Fellay as chief executive of Gonet Bank & Trust in Nassau, The Bahamas. The firm also appointed Patrick Feuz as executive chairman, and Patrick Guye-Bergeret, Juan Carlos Hofer and Matthias Krull as managing directors in Nassau. Fellay has been chief operating officer and Deputy CEO of Julius Baer Bahamas for the past 11 years, previously with ABN AMRO and EFG. Feuz has been CEO of Julius Baer Bahamas since 2011, and previously with Julius Baer in Geneva, Credit Suisse and UBS. Guye-Bergeret has been senior relationship manager at Julius Baer Bahamas since 2011, and previously with Julius Baer in Geneva and UBS. Hofer has been senior relationship manager at Julius Baer Panama since 2015, and previously with Julius Baer in Montevideo and UBS. Krull has been senior relationship manager at Julius Baer Panama since 2016, and previously with Julius Baer in Caracas and Zurich, Credit Suisse and UBS.

Barclays appointed Steven Penketh as chief operating officer of Barclays International, the business that houses private banking and overseas services. He reports to Paul Compton, COO of Barclays and Tim Throsby, chief executive of Barclays International. He replaced Mike Bagguley, who retired from the bank, a spokesperson told this publication. Penketh, who joined Barclays in 2004, worked in structured products and then in the financial institutions group in the investment bank.

Global investment manager Schroders appointed Peter Hall as its new global head of wealth management. He was most recently chief executive of UK wealth manager Tilney. Hall stepped down in October 2017 after seven years at the helm and more recently has been an advisor to Tilney’s parent company Permira on pursuing investment opportunities in global wealth management. Hall replaced Andrew Ross, who has decided to step back from a full-time executive role and will move to a new role within Schroders as vice chairman of wealth management.  In this capacity, Ross will advise Schroders on the sector, and provide continuity and focus on the services it offers to families. He will be based in London, and will report to Peter Harrison, group CEO.

Polar Capital, the specialist active asset management group, appointed Peter Leane as head of Nordic region. Leane was previously a managing director at BlackRock (formerly MLIM and Mercury Asset Management), where he spent 24 years.

A prominent Swiss private banking figure who departed the industry six years ago when Wegelin & Co was shut down returned to the fray. Dr Konrad Hummler is chairman of the board of Private Client Bank, a Zurich-based organisation created in 1998, according to its website. The site mentions that Dr Hummler was a former partner at Wegelin & Co and involved with “numerous governing boards and foundation councils”.

UK wealth manager Brooks Macdonald appointed Simon Brookes as a director in its financial planning team. Brookes has more than 15 years’ experience of providing counsel to high net worth private clients. He joined from James Hambro & Partners. He is a Chartered Financial Planner, holds the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning and is a Fellow Member of the Personal Finance Society.

Swiss banking group Basler Kantonalbank appointed Regula Berger as head of legal and compliance and chief counsel, taking effect from 1 October. Berger succeeded Christian Schöniger, who decided to retire after 20 years at the firm. She joined from Zuercher Kantonalbank, where she was for more than a decade.

Vanguard Asset Management appointed Simone Rosti as head of Italy. In this newly-created position, Rosti is based at the firm’s European headquarters in London. Rosti joined from UBS Asset Management, where he was head of passive and exchange-traded fund sales for Europe.

State Street appointed Geoff Pullen as managing director of alternatives sector Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in London, Pullen reports to Maria Cantillon, head of sector solutions for EMEA. With 16 years’ experience, he joined from Standard Chartered, where he led the transaction banking and securities services sales to European alternative and traditional asset managers.

Swiss-based Falcon Private Bank appointed Dr Matteo Maccio as its chief financial officer, Alaistair Fiddes as its chief operating officer and Marc Ritzl as head of human resources. Maccio, previously from Banque Cramer, is a member of the executive committee. He replace Dr Urs Zgraggen. Fiddes will join as COO, a newly-created role and is also a member of the executive committee. For the last nine years, he has been working at Mubadala Development Company in Abu Dhabi. Ritzl joined from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse). Ritzl replaced René Flück who decided to retire after 32 years with Falcon.

Natixis, the subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, appointed Véronique Sani as chief operating officer and member of the senior management committee. She succeeded Norbert Cron, with effect from 18 September. Sani, who has around 25 years’ experience in the sector, was most recently chief executive of Société Générale Global Solution Centre in India. 

BlueBay Asset Management appointed Sid Chhabra to the newly created role of head of structured credit and collateralised loan obligations. Based in London, Chhabra reports to Mark Dowding and Stephen Thariyan, co-heads of developed markets, and leads the initiative to establish and manage a new range of BlueBay global structured credit and ABS strategies.

Chhabra has more than 15 years of structured credit and CLO experience; most recently he spent seven years as a London-based managing director at Anchorage Capital Europe. 

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Fabien Madar as co-head of distribution Europe covering southern Europe within its global client group. Madar reports to Sandro Pierri, global head of client group.
Madar, who is based in Paris, was most recently general manager and head of institutional business in Europe for Pioneer Investments’ French business prior to its acquisition by Amundi.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments appointed Victor Rozental as sales director Nordics, based in Stockholm. He is responsible for promoting Columbia Threadneedle’s range of funds and capabilities to wholesale clients in the Nordics region. He works closely with Ulrik Oxfeldt, who heads up Nordic distribution for institutional clients. Victor reports to Gary Collins, Columbia Threadneedle’s Head of wholesale distribution, EMEA and Latin America. Rozental joined from Schroders Investment Management, where he spent eight years. His latest position was client director for the Swedish Institutional and Intermediary markets. 

A former chief executive of the French supermarket group Carrefour, Georges Plassat, joined Belgian private bank Degroof Petercam as a senior advisor. 

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Rob O’Rahilly as global co-head of asset management solutions. He reports to Chris Willcox, chief executive of JPMAM, and is based in London. O’Rahilly replaced former global co-head of solutions Jed Laskowitz, who was appointed as CEO, intelligent digital solutions. 

Aviva Investors appointed Al Denholm as chief investment officer of solutions. He is based in London and reports to Euan Munro, chief executive of Aviva Investors. Denholm leads a team focused on creating distinctive solutions that deal with the needs of global clients, covering investment solutions, responsible investment, securities finance, investment risk and portfolio construction, and liability-driven investment. Denholm has over 30 years’ experience in asset management. Mike O’Brien continued as global co-head of solutions alongside O’Rahilly, having relocated from London to New York. 

Credit Suisse appointed Anders Mattsson as managing director and head of Northern and Western Europe Luxembourg.  Based in Luxembourg, Mattsson reports to Emma Crystal, head of international wealth management Northern and Western Europe. He also forms part of the senior management team in Luxembourg, reporting to Stéphane Herrmann, chief executive of Credit Suisse (Luxembourg). Mattsson has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry. He joins Credit Suisse from Deutsche Bank, where most recently he was in charge of the Nordics desk in Luxembourg. 

European Wealth Group, the UK-based wealth management firm, appointed Jonathan Freeman as a non-executive director. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services. His most recent previous roles include being a director of Hume Capital Securities and the chief executive of Syndicate Asset Management. Freeman is the non-executive chairman of PhotonStar LED Group, the senior independent director of Futura Medical and non-executive director of Braveheart Investment Group.

Hermes Investment Management appointed Ingrid Holmes and Kate Fowler as associate director and analyst, respectively, in its responsibility office. Holmes is responsible for developing and overseeing the businesses policy and advocacy programme and reports into Leon Kamhi, head of the responsibility office. She joins from E3G, where she was a director.

Allianz Global Investors appointed Gavin Counsell as senior portfolio manager within the multi asset team. Counsell is based in the London office and reports to Matthias Mueller, chief investment officer of multi asset active allocation. He joined from Aviva Investors, where he was lead fund manager across a range of multi-asset funds.

Investcorp appointed Heinrich Riehl as managing director in its European sales and marketing team. Riehl is based in London and oversees fundraising and investor relations functions in Europe for Investcorp’s credit management and alternative investment solutions businesses. He reports to Jeremy Ghose, head of Investcorp Credit Management. Prior to Investcorp, he was at TCW Europe, where he most recently led the business as chief executive for four years having joined in 2011 as managing director in international marketing. He has over 25 years’ experience in global capital markets.

Edmond de Rothschild (Switzerland) announced the death of Francois Hottinger, a member of its executive committee and board of directors. Hottinger had been a member of the firm’s board since 1970. A spokesperson for the firm said: "At this sorrowful moment, the members of the executive committee wish to express their sincerest condolences to his family and relatives.”

Franklin Templeton Investments appointed Jennifer Ockwell as head of UK institutional. Ockwell is based at Franklin Templeton’s London offices and is responsible for institutional sales and client services in the UK. She reports to Martyn Gilbey, UK country head. Ockwell has over 18 years’ experience in financial services. She was most recently head of UK institutional at Janus Henderson.

UK financial planning firm Fairstone Group appointed Chris Rigg as chief financial officer. He replaced Gerard Murray, who had only started the role in January 2018. Rigg also joined the Fairstone Group’s board of directors. With over 20 years of experience in the finance sector, Rigg has worked at Quantum Pharma, Northern Recruitment Group and Barclays Bank.

Pictet Wealth Management confirmed that its chief executive, Christian Gellerstad, was leaving in September. But the firm stressed that the departure of Gellerstad was not caused by the arrival of Boris Collardi, as reported in the media. The firm said Gellerstad’s decision to leave the role as CEO took place before the arrival of Collardi. Gellerstad continues to chair the board of directors of Pictet Bank & Trust in the Bahamas, as well as sitting on the boards of Pictet & Cie (Europe) in Luxembourg and Bank Pictet (Asia) in Singapore.

Saxo Bank appointed Eric Krueger as global head of client services, a newly-created role. He reports directly to Damian Bunce, chief client officer. Krueger is responsible for Saxo Bank’s global client services organisation. Prior to Saxo, he was at Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has 20 years’ experience in the financial sector.

UK wealth manager Equilibrium Asset Management expanded its client service operation with the hire of six new employees. It appointed Laura Kenmare and Sarah Coleman as client managers, Caroline Knight as compliance associate and James Carr as investment analyst. Also, Joanne Watmore joined as financial controller and Andy Thewlis as technical specialist. Prior to Equilibirum, Carr was a trainee investment manager at Investec Wealth & Investments,  Kenmare was at Astute Wealth Management, where she was a paraplanner, Knight was a compliance specialist at Caerus Financial. Also, Watmore joined from Mint Bridging, where she was finance director, Thewlis joined from a support services provider, where he worked on a pensions technical helpdesk, and Coleman was at Coutts, where she was a wealth managers assistant.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a global asset management group, appointed Heiko Schupp to the newly created role of global head of infrastructure investments to establish its new operation for clients in the UK and Europe. The firm also appointed three infrastructure investment professionals to join Schupp in the operation - Ash Kelso, Antonio Botija and Ingrid Weston. Schupp has more than 20 years of experience investing in international infrastructure transactions and assets. He joined from Hastings Fund Management. Kelso, head of asset management, joined from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Botija, head of acquisitions, joined from Hastings Fund Management. Weston, senior portfolio manager, joined from HSBC Global Asset Management.

Martin Currie, the global active equity affiliate of Legg Mason, appointed Julian Ide as head of distribution and strategy. Based in Edinburgh, Ide oversees distribution of Martin Currie’s range of products across all jurisdictions. Ide, who has over 25 years’ experience in the investment management industry, was chief executive of Source ETF until September 2017, and was previously CEO at Old Mutual Global Investors.

Jersey-based Ashburton Investments appointed Tony Wilshin as managing director of its international business. He was made a director of the firm in 2016. As managing director, Wilshin is responsible for the strategic management and enhancement of Ashburton’s international offering. He has over 27 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Prior to Ashburton, he was executive director, head of operations and head of securities at UBS and Kleinwort Benson.

Stonehage Fleming, the independently-owned family office, appointed Matthew Brown as director of its wealth planning division. Brown has 16 years’ financial planning experience. He joined from Thomas Miller Wealth Management. He is based in the firm’s London office and will report to Susie Hillier, partner and head of wealth planning.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management appointed Michael Caetano and Jason Robilliard as investment directors in the Jersey and Guernsey offices, respectively. Caetano has 20 years’ experience in the sector. He has specialist expertise in discretionary investment management, with a particular focus on global fixed income and equity markets and managing tailored portfolios as well as risk-based multi-asset investment solutions. Robilliard has over 25 years’ experience in managing discretionary portfolios for private clients and professional investors. For the past 18 years, he has specialised in managing portfolios employing a multi-manager approach. During this time, he has also been the lead manager on two Guernsey registered investment funds.

Standard Chartered’s compliance chief, Neil Barry, left the UK-listed bank after a disciplinary probe discovered his behaviour to have been “inappropriate,”. “Neil was placed on leave on March 16th, while we investigated speak ups related to his behaviour. As a result of the investigation, we went through a full and fair disciplinary process. This concluded that Neil’s managerial style, behaviour and language towards some of his colleagues was inappropriate and not in line with our valued behaviours, although it fell short of warranting his dismissal,” Standard Chartered said. “Neil has expressed his regret if any of his interactions with his colleagues caused upset or offence – that was never his intention. He has also acknowledged that as a senior leader he must role-model the highest standards of behaviour,” it continued. “Neil and the bank have agreed that, in the circumstances, he will move on and pursue other opportunities. He will, therefore, leave the bank with immediate effect,” Standard Chartered added. It did not elaborate on specific details about Barry’s actions. Tracey McDermott, head of corporate, public and regulatory affairs, continued to lead compliance operations.

Gresham House, the UK-based alternatives asset manager, appointed Heather Fleming to the newly created role of head of institutional business. Fleming has more than 20 years’ experience in the sector. She spent over seven years at Fidelity International, latterly as the group’s head of institutional distribution for UK and Ireland. At Gresham House, she works with the head of distribution, Michael Hart. She is based in London and reports directly to Rupert Robinson, managing director, Gresham House Asset Management. 

Hermes Investment Management appointed Magnus Kristensen as director of business development for the Nordic region. Based in Denmark, Kristensen reports to Paul Voute, head of European business development. He also continues to build on the firm’s operation in ESG and stewardship services. Prior to joining Hermes, Kristensen was head of client relations at Jyske Bank.

UK law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth appointed Tony Bogle to the newly-created role of commercial director. He was most recently head of strategy and performance for Santander UK’s retail distribution arm. Bogle works with the four national heads of private wealth – Paula Myers, head of will, trust and estate disputes; Ros Bever, head of family law; Nick Rucker, head of tax, trusts and estates; and Jeremy Raj, head of residential property. 

Killik & Co appointed James Bowman, Matthew Greenhill, Simon Bowyer and William Stevens to its wealth planning team. Bowman joined as a wealth planner from Coutts, where he was an associate director specialising in complex pensions. 

Greenhill joined from Grant Thornton, where he worked for seven years. Bowyer has also joined the team as a wealth planner. He was previously a client senior manager at Brown Shipley. Stevens joined as a financial planner from M&H Financial Planning. 

Nuveen, a global investment manager, appointed Rune Sanbeck as head of international advisory services for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Sanbeck leads Nuveen’s strategy to deliver the firm’s asset management solutions to clients across the EMEA region. He reports to John Panagakis, Nuveen’s global head of international advisory services, and is based in the firm’s London offices. Sanbeck came from Dimensional Fund Advisors, where he was head of institutional sales and marketing EMEA. 

Quilter, the UK wealth manager, appointed Ruth Markland as a non-executive director and senior independent director.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a global asset management group, appointed Roman Gaiser as head of portfolio management, high yield, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in London, Gaiser reports to Barrie Whitman, head of high yield, EMEA. Subject to regulatory approval, Gaiser manages a number of European high yield portfolios, including the Threadneedle European High Yield Bond Fund. Gaiser was previously head of high yield at Pictet Asset Management from 2011. Michael Poole, current head of high yield portfolio management, EMEA, resigned from Columbia Threadneedle to relocate to his family home in the US. 

Brewin Dolphin, UK wealth management firm, appointed Nick Hammond as operations director for its new West End, London office. Hammond has more than 20 years’ experience in wealth management and financial services. He joined Brewin Dolphin from Baird & Co. where he sat on the board of directors as chief operating officer.

EFG International put its business leadership and Swiss operations under a single umbrella. The firm’s executive committee is composed of six members, while a new global business committee will comprise 13 members, including the heads of EFG’s global regions. EFG’s business in Switzerland, its largest market, is currently divided between two units, which will be combined. The executive committee will have the following members: Giorgio Pradelli, chief executive; Renato Cohn, deputy CEO and head of investment solutions; Vittorio Ferrario, group chief compliance officer; Christian Flemming, chief operating officer; Thomas Mueller, chief risk officer and Dimitris Politis, chief financial officer.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management hired Peter Thompson as head of its European exchange-traded fund business. He is based in London, and reports to Michael Crinieri, global head of the GSAM ETF operation. Thompson has more than 17 years of experience in the ETF industry and previously served as founder, president and interim chief executive of Source ETF, an independent asset management firm. Prior to that, he spent over 10 years in various trading roles in the Goldman Sachs securities division.

Santander Asset Management promoted fund management head Toby Vaughan to head of multi-strategy solutions. Vaughan joined as a senior fund manager in 2011. He was then promoted to head of fund management, global multi-asset solutions. He spent five years in this role before his new promotion. Prior to Santander AM, Vaughan was at F&C Asset Management and LV Asset Management.

The UK government’s threat to force British Overseas Territories to set up public registers of beneficial ownership prompted the British Virgin Islands to hire a prominent constitutional lawyer, Gerard St C Farara QC. He joined other legal luminaries, and is also a senior partner at Collas Crill. Farara is part of a legal team advising policymakers about challenges to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act, as well as the public register issue. He joins WithersWorldwide and leading counsel Dan Sarooshi QC of Essex Court Chambers and Professor of Law at Oxford University.

AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, a European real estate portfolio and asset manager, appointed Justin Travlos as the UK head of asset management. After almost 30 years with the firm, Dorrien Thomas said he was due to retire at the end of 2018.  After a handover period, Travlos assumes responsibility for the UK business as UK country team head. He reports to Nathalie Charles, head of development and European country teams. Travlos joined from Stockland, an Australian diversified listed property company, where he was regional development manager. Thomas joined AXA IM - Real Assets in October 1989, first as an investment surveyor and then as a fund manager for various UK-focused vehicles. 
 

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Allianz Global Investors appointed Richard House as chief investment officer of emerging market debt. He succeeded Greg Saichan, who decided to take a career break after five years with the firm. House has nearly 25 years of experience in the asset class sector, most recently as head of EMD for Standard Life Investments.  In his London-based role, House reports to Malie Conway, CIO global fixed income.

Brewin Dolphin appointed Phillip Chambers as investment manager at its Jersey office. Chambers joined from financial services company Intertrust Group. He was also at HSBC Private Bank and SG Hambros Private Bank.

JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) made six new appointments to its international exchange-traded funds (ETFs) business. Philip Annecke was appointed as head of ETF distribution for Germany and Austria. At JPMAM, he is responsible for leading its ETF business in Germany and Austria, with a primary focus on institutional clients. Annecke, who is based in London and regularly travels to both countries, joins from Invesco Powershares. Roberta Gastaldello was made head of ETF Distribution for Italy and will be based in Milan. Gastaldello joined from Amundi Asset Management, where she specialised in ETF sales across wholesale and insurance clients. 

Andrew Moore was named as an ETF capital markets specialist and will be based in London. His responsibilities will include maintaining relationships with authorised participants, market makers and the wider ETF sector. Moore joined from Vanguard Asset Management, where he held several roles over five years, including fund accountant, operations specialist and ETF capital markets analyst. Tobias Nilsson, who is based in Stockholm, was appointed as an ETF specialist.  Nilsson joined from Wisdom Tree.

Antonia Millard was named as sales executive to support JPMAM’s international ETF business and will be based in London. She joined from JP Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), where she worked as an industrials specialist sales representative with the CIB’s markets division. Lorena Martinez-Olivares, a JPMAM sales executive based in Madrid, had her role expanded. Martinez-Olivares now supports JPMAM’s ETF distribution effort in Spain.

JPMAM also bolstered its global fixed income, currency and commodities (GFICC) platform with several new staff, who are based in London. They report into Travis Spence, head of the fixed income investment specialist team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Karine Mercado was made head investment specialist for core fixed income strategies in EMEA. Prior to this, Mercado held positions at PIMCO, the African Development Bank and RBS Greenwich Capital Markets.

Rohan Duggal was appointed as lead investment specialist for high yield strategies in EMEA. Duggal focuses on JPMAM’s range of global high yield, distressed debt and leveraged loan strategies for clients across EMEA. Duggal joined from Blue Mountain Capital Partners, where he was a senior portfolio specialist and client advisor. Prior to this, he held a number of positions at Goldman Sachs for over a decade. Claire Cullen, who has been named as lead investment specialist for global credit strategies in EMEA, focuses on JPMAM’s capabilities across investment grade and flexible global credit. Giles Bedford was made emerging market debt (EMD) investment specialist and will report into Zsolt Papp, lead EMD investment specialist. 

The firm hired Liam Moore, who supports JPMAM’s unconstrained strategies and reports to Marika Dysenchuk, investment specialist for unconstrained fixed income strategies. It also hired Wei Chu, who supports JPMAM’s insurance fixed income team and reports to Gilles Drukier, lead insurance fixed income investment specialist in EMEA.

Lombard Odier Investment Managers appointed Alexander Heidenfelder as the new head of third-party distribution for Germany and Austria, based in Frankfurt. Heidenfelder is responsible for the distribution of investment solutions to Lombard Odier IM’s German and Austrian wholesale clients, as well as supporting the development and expansion of the client base in this segment. He reports to Martin Thommen, head of third-party distribution Europe at Lombard Odier IM. Prior to Lombard Odier IM, Heidenfelder was at Aberdeen Asset Management, where he was senior business development manager. He has also held positions at Schroders, Fidelity and Credit Suisse.

Sanlam Private Investments UK chair Daniël Kriel stepped down after nearly six years in the role. He was replaced by Sanlam UK chief executive, Jonathan Polin. Kriel also stepped down as Sanlam Private Wealth chief executive after 13 years. Group CEO Robert Roux assumed executive responsibility for the private wealth business. Kriel joined the Sanlam Group in 1998, and was responsible for marketing, institutional sales and retail distribution at Sanlam Investment Management.

Netwealth Investments, the UK discretionary wealth manager, appointed Edward Bonham Carter and Merryn Somerset Webb as non-executive directors. Bonham Carter became vice chairman of Jupiter Fund Management in March 2014, having been chief executive of the company since June 2007. He joined Jupiter in 1994. Somerset Webb is the editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek and writes a weekly column on investment matters in the Saturday FT. She is a frequent commentator for radio and TV on personal finance issues. Both new members joined Michael Hartweg, the co-founder of Leonteq, as non-executive directors. The other board members are Netwealth co-founders Charlotte Ransom, CEO, and Thomas Salter, chief operating officer.

Steve Cordell, a fund manager at Schroders, left the firm to pursue opportunities outside of the industry. He spent 25 years as a fund manager, most recently at Schroders since 2013, and for a decade at Cazenove Capital.

Julius Baer appointed Robert Pickford as a relationship manager in its private banking team in Guernsey. Pickford has 12 years’ investment management experience. In his previous position at a local wealth management firm he looked after advisory and discretionary portfolios and sat on a number of investment committees responsible for the selection of UK, European and US equities.  

RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) appointed Guinevere Taylor as associate director of Europe, Middle East and Africa business development. Taylor joined from Legal & General Investment Management where during her tenure she was a client manager focused on managing relationships with the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Grant Thornton appointed Clara Jackson as wealth advisory manager in its operation in Scotland. She is based in its Glasgow city centre offices. Jackson has more than 12 years’ experience in the sector.

Starwood Capital Group, a private investment firm, appointed Frederico Bianchi as head of asset management, Europe. Bianchi previously worked at GreenOak Real Estate. In his new position, he is responsible for overseeing the management of all non-hotel European assets, as well as the development function in this region. Prior to this, was Italian country manager and a member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the executive committee of ULI in Italy.

David Still was named managing director of Old Mutual Wealth’s “Heritage” Life Assurance business, reporting to Steven Levin, chief executive of Old Mutual Wealth UK Platform & Heritage. Previously, she worked at Aviva where he was managing director of the Aviva UK “Heritage” closed book. He joined Friends Life in 2011 as managing director of its retirement income business, prior to Friends Life becoming part of Aviva in 2015.

Indosuez Wealth Group named a new chief executive, Jacques Prost, to take over from Paul de Leusse, who left earlier in May to join telecoms network Orange. Prost is a member of Crédit Agricole’s management committee. Since 2013, he has supervised global markets and financing activities as deputy chief executive of Crédit Agricole corporate and investment bank.

Raymond James hired Robert Skepper and William Bancroft to open a new branch in the City of London. Skepper and Bancroft joined from Charles Stanley. Skepper has over 30 years’ experience in the sector. In 1986, he joined as an associate for Brewin Dolphin, where he stayed for 25 years. For the past six years, he has been a senior investment manager at Charles Stanley. Bancroft worked with Robert Skepper for over 10 years following a short service commission in the Army.

Saranac Partners appointed Christophe Savinas as an investment advisor. Savinas sits on Saranac’s advisory investment team, headed by Brent Seery. He joined from NNS Advisers, a London-based family office where he worked as an investment strategist. Prior to this, he was a fixed income portfolio manager at Ikano Asset Management. He also formerly managed fixed income portfolios at Société Générale Private Bank in Luxembourg.

UK wealth manager Brooks Macdonald appointed Andrew Davies as business development manager and Will Bragg as trainee investment manager in its Cardiff, Wales office. Davies is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with intermediaries throughout Wales and reports to regional new business development director, Grainger Thomas. He has 10 years’ experience in financial services, having previously worked at Brewin Dolphin for six years, Walker Cripps for two years and also Rowan Dartington. He has also enjoyed a cricketing career at Glamorgan County Cricket Club. Bragg helps manage bespoke discretionary portfolios on behalf of a range of clients. Prior to joining Brooks Macdonald, Bragg also played professional cricket for Glamorgan County Cricket Club, as a top order batsman. He has successfully completed the Investment Management Certificate and is currently studying towards the Chartered Wealth Manager Level 7 qualification.

Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, said Graham Bishop assumed responsibility for Heartwood’s Balanced investment strategy, including the LF Heartwood Balanced Multi Asset Fund. Bishop, investment director, joined Heartwood in 2017 and will take over the strategy from fellow investment director, Michael Stanes. 

Citi Private Bank’s senior portfolio manager and head of multi-asset class solutions in London, Atul Bansal, left the firm. Bansal was lead portfolio manager of a team of two, which oversees portfolio construction and asset allocation of the firm’s discretionary multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios for clients in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. He has been at Citigroup since 1989.

David Hertan, director and senior portfolio manager in the Macs group at Citi Private Bank, took over Siegel’s responsibilities for the time being.

Legal & General Group said Mark Zinkula, chief executive of LGIM, was retiring. Zinkula was appointed to the position of CEO LGIM in March 2011 and was appointed to the group board of Legal & General in September 2012. 

Charles Stanley appointed Geoffrey Cooban as an investment manager in its Birmingham private client investment team and Kate Nathoo as an investment manager in its Guildford office. Cooban has 25 years’ experience in the investment management industry. He specialises in bespoke management of equity portfolios, self-invested personal pensions, offshore bonds and charity accounts. Prior to joining Charles Stanley, he spent 16 years working at Quilter. 

Nathoo joined from Thesis Asset Management where she spent 16 years, where she was most recently client director. Prior to this, she worked for Daniels Holt as a founding partner in the business.

Brewin Dolphin appointed Thomas Pearson as portfolio manager in its Exeter office. He joined from Charles Stanley, where he had been an investment manager since 2016. Pearson was previously at Brewin Dolphin’s Plymouth office before joining Charles Stanley.

Hawksford appointed David Burmingham as a money laundering reporting officer. Burmingham is responsible for improving Hawksford’s monitoring and reporting on matters relating to anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), including sanctions compliance, internal risk, regulation, legislation and controls. Prior to Hawksford, he was an officer with over 30 years’ experience in law enforcement and financial crime investigation as a member of the police force.

Asia-Pacific
Commonwealth Bank of Australia split its wealth management and mortgage broking businesses, and started to review its business operations, and made several top-level appointments, amid recent compliance breaches. It named six new executives. 

The bank was hunting for a chief financial officer, considering candidates from within and outside the bank and a permanent hire was scheduled to be announced on 8 August. In May, CBA said Rob Jesudason had resigned as CFO. It named Alan Docherty, previously chief financial officer for institutional banking and markets, as Jesudason’s acting replacement at the time. 

Nigel Williams was been named as chief risk officer, joining on 5 November this year. He has more than 30 years of experience in banking, including 15 years at ANZ as chief risk officer and previously head of institutional banking in Australia and in New Zealand. 

David Cohen was appointed deputy CEO, moving from his prior chief risk officer role, and is also joining on 5 November 2018. In this new role, Cohen will be responsible for: strengthening group customer relations and customer advocate functions; leading the demerger of the Colonial First State Group, and the M&A team; and assisting Comyn with group-wide initiatives. Cohen has more than 20 years of banking and wealth management experience, previously serving as general counsel for CBA and prior to that at AMP.

Pascal Boillat made group executive of enterprise services and chief information officer, with responsibility for all technology and operations, and will join on 1 October 2018. He has more than 30 years of experience, most recently at Deutsche Bank where he was global group chief information officer. Prior to this, Boillat was head of operations and technology for Fannie Mae, and before that worked at Citi. 

Sian Lewis was appointed group executive for human resources, taking up the role on 1 August 2018. She joined CBA in 2014. Prior to joining CBA, Sian spent nine years at Westpac working across retail and business banking, including acting as head of NSW retail network. 

Andrew Hinchliff was named group executive for institutional banking and markets, taking effect from 1 August 2018. He joined CBA in 2015 as executive general manager for global markets after more than 15 years in global institutional banking and markets roles with Goldman Sachs, and earlier at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Angus Sullivan was appointed group executive for retail banking services, taking effect from 1 July 2018. Prior to this, he was acting group executive for retail banking services and joined CBA in 2012.

EFG Bank, part of Zurich-listed EFG International, confirmed that Kong Eng Huat, its Singapore branch chief executive since December 2011, was retiring from the post at the end of 2018. Prior to EFG, he was managing director, VantageCapital Consultancy, in Singapore, for one year and, prior to this, was head of Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia, at Merrill Lynch.

FFG also appointed Oliver Balmelli as the head of private banking for Singapore and Richard Straus as the head of private banking for Hong Kong. Balmelli was previously EFG’s co-head of private banking for Singapore. Straus, an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, joined from Bank Julius Baer and he reports to Kees Stoute, who is the CEO of EFG Hong Kong.

Luxembourg-based investment house Lemanik Asset Management named Alessandro Silvestro as managing director in Asia-Pacific. Silvestro is based in the firm’s recently-opened office in Hong Kong. He reports to group chief executive Phillippe Meloni, according to AsiaAsset. Silvestro was previously with Standard Chartered Hong Kong, where he was head of sales, focusing on the insurance segment in Asia.

Christophe Aba, JP Morgan Private Bank's managing director and regional head of investments for Southeast Asia, moved to the US, to be head of investments in Mexico. Diana Robinson, head of equities for Europe, Middle East and Africa, replaced Aba, moving from the bank’s London office and reporting to Chris Blum, head of investments for Asia. Aba has worked with JP Morgan in Asia for more than a decade, operating from Singapore and Hong Kong.

Nikko Asset Management promoted Michael De Cesare as portfolio manager in its New Zealand equities team. He joined the firm in 2012, and has eight years’ experience working in the financial services sector.

Crossbridge Capital Asia, the investment firm, appointed Hanna Tantoco as its marketing chief, overseeing operations across the Asia-Pacific region. Tantoco has more than 10 years of marketing experience in the banking and wealth management sectors. She was most recently the marketing business partner for Asia-Pacific at insurance company Aetna International. Prior to this, she spent most of her career leading marketing initiatives in banks such as Standard Chartered Bank in the Philippines and in Singapore and OCBC Bank.

Lazard Asset Management appointed Shen Tan as managing director for its Hong Kong office. He reports to Nathan Paul, chief business officer of Lazard AM. Prior to this role, Tan was a managing director at Capital Group in Hong Kong for 10 months, and before that, a partner and global head of sales for Hong Kong-based Income Partners Asset Management.

National Australia Bank which, like its peers, has been rapped by regulators over its business practices, appointed Clare Petre as the new “independent customer advocate” for clients of its wealth products, services and advice. Her role expands the bank’s focus on how customer complaints and processes are handled, giving an independent voice to NAB clients. The role, created in May 2015, was developed by NAB in its Customer Response Initiative (CRI) set up to tackle poor advice from 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2015 that led to compensation payments. Petre follows NAB’s first wealth customer advocate, Professor Dimity Kingsford-Smith, who returned to her full time professional role as Professor of Law at the University of NSW, having completed her tenure with NAB.

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street, appointed Marcus Miholich as managing director and head of capital markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. Miholich is still based in London and reports to Tim Coyne, global head of capital markets for the global SPDR business. He joined the flobal SPDR business in October 2017 from Haitong Securities, where he was managing director.  He was most recently responsible for State Street exchange-traded funds' Nordic business development strategy.

Global asset manager Janus Henderson Investors appointed Scott Steele as head of Asia distribution, based in Singapore. Steele has 29 years’ experience in asset management, most recently at PIMCO, where he was executive vice-president, head of Hong Kong and Singapore global wealth management. He was also previously chief investment officer of BMO Mutual Funds. Alexander Henderson, who previously oversaw Janus Henderson distribution in Asia, returned to London. Henderson continues to report to Phil Wagstaff, global head of distribution, working with him on key global client relationships.

Barings Alternative Investments, part of Barings, appointed Pius Ho as managing director across the real estate, private equity and real assets part of its business. He is based in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Prior to this role, Ho was the founder and chief executive of Moonbridge Capital. He also held senior leadership positions in the Middle East and Asia with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Citi Property Investors and LaSalle Investment Management.

UK-based River and Mercantile Asset Management appointed Tim Horan as managing director of its newly-launched Australia and New Zealand operation. Horan worked previously at Westpac, where he headed the sports and entertainment business in private and premium banking for more than seven years. Prior to this, he was head of capital raising at Meridian Funds Management. He is also a former Australian rugby union international.

Lazard Asset Management appointed Shen Tan, who has joined as a managing director in Hong Kong. Tan concentrates on distribution throughout Asia. Prior to joining LAM in Hong Kong, Tan was a managing director at Capital Group, where he was responsible for its Asia ex-Japan institutional business. 

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ANZ appointed Adrian Went as group treasurer, reporting to chief financial officer, Michelle Jablko, starting in July. He is based in Melbourne. Went was responsible for credit and capital management for ANZ’s financial institutions group. He held senior treasury and risk roles at ANZ including acting group treasurer, head of balance sheet management and head of market risk New Zealand.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Rob O’Rahilly as global co-head of asset management solutions. He reports to Chris Willcox, chief executive of JPMAM, and is based in London. O’Rahilly replaced former global co-head of solutions Jed Laskowitz, who became CEO, intelligent digital solutions. Mike O’Brien continued as global co-head of solutions alongside O’Rahilly, having relocated from London to New York. O’Rahilly and O’Brien oversee business development and solutions design. Patrick Thomson, head of international institutional at JPMAM, succeeded O’Brien as EMEA CEO of JPMAM.  

O’Rahilly has spent more than 20 years at JPMorgan Chase. Most recently, he was chief investment officer for EMEA and Asia, with responsibility for investment portfolio strategy, asset allocation and origination of the company's structural investment portfolio (ex-US) of more than $130 billion and managed a team of 60 investment professionals in more than 10 locations. 

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, appointed Al Denholm as chief investment officer of solutions. He is based in London and reports to Euan Munro, chief executive of Aviva Investors. Denholm has over 30 years’ experience in asset management. He joins from Prudential Portfolio Management Group and prior to this, was previously head of multi-asset client solutions at BlackRock for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Yolande Escher as head of Greater China, based in Hong Kong. Escher reports to Jeroen Kwist, head of international wealth management and is responsible for growing the BNY Mellon Wealth Management activities in Asia. Before joining BNY Mellon in 2014, Escher started her career at UBS Wealth Management in Zurich, Switzerland and London. In 2008, Escher joined Barclays Wealth and was a desk head for UK resident non-domiciled clients.

Legal & General Investment Management appointed David Hoantee Peng as head of Asia-Pacific ex-Japan. Based in Hong Kong, he reports to Roger Bartley, vice chairman of investments, based in London. Peng is responsible for developing LGIM’s business in the APAC region ex-Japan. He has three decades of experience in the Asian financial-services sector and joins LGIM from Standard Life Aberdeen, where he was head of Asia for more than seven years.

BNP Paribas Securities Services appointed Diana Senanayake as head of Singapore. The new head of Singapore is responsible for the operation, and will be expanding the segment in the region. She reports to Phillipe Benoit, BNP Paribas Securities Services head of Asia-Pacific, and Pierre Veyres, BNP Paribas chief executive for Singapore. Prior to BNP Paribas, she was at RBC Investor and Treasury Services in Luxembourg, where she was recently managing director for global client coverage. Senanayake replaced Mostapha Tahiri, who was appointed head of institutional investors and digital transformation for the APAC region in September 2017. Tahiri remains based in Singapore for his regional role, and reports to Benoit.

Macquarie Investment Management appointed Carl Jacobsohn as head of Asia business and Bas van Buuren as head of Asia distribution, based in Hong Kong. Jacobsohn succeeded Axel Maier, who retired from the firm earlier this year. He has been with Macquarie Investment Management for more than 10 years, most recently as head of the Korea business. In addition to his new responsibilities, he continued to lead the Macquarie Investment Management Korea business. Reporting to Jacobsohn, van Buuren focuses on the distribution strategy in Asia, including identifying client investment needs, working with the existing distribution team on potential new channels, and helping to connect the region to the firm’s overall global distribution initiatives. van Buuren has more than 18 years of experience as a distribution leader in Asia. He previously worked for Aegon Asset Management as the regional head in Asia. Before joining Aegon, he held a variety of leadership roles with ING Investment Management, most recently as head of the Asia client group.

The Fry Group, a global financial planning group, appointed Huw Wedlock as chief executive of its Singapore operation. In this role, Wedlock leads the company’s operation in Singapore and drives its expansion throughout Asia. He replaced David Pugh who, after running The Fry Group’s business in Singapore for eight years, returned to the UK later this year to join the group’s board in a global sales and marketing role. Wedlock has 20 years’ industry experience. He joined from Old Mutual International, where he spent 15 years working with financial advisors in multiple jurisdictions, most recently as area manager, ASEAN, for the past five years. Previously, he worked as a business consultant with Skandia UK prior to the acquisition by Old Mutual, and prior to that he worked for Friends Provident for three years as a business consultant.

Pictet Wealth Management confirmed that its chief executive, Christian Gellerstad, will leave his role in September. However, it stressed that the departure of Gellerstad was not caused by the arrival of Boris Collardi, as reported in the media. A finews.asia report of 13 June, said: “The move is the first since ex-Julius Baer CEO Boris Collardi started as a partner of the Swiss private bank”. The firm stated that Gellerstad’s decision to leave the role as CEO took place before the arrival of Collardi. Gellerstad continues to chair the board of directors of Pictet Bank & Trust in The Bahamas, as well as sitting on the boards of Pictet & Cie (Europe) in Luxembourg and Bank Pictet (Asia) in Singapore.

PGIM Real Estate, which is the real estate investment business of Prudential Financial, appointed Stephen O’Keeffe as an executive director in Australia. O’Keeffe is responsible for sourcing real estate debt investments and managing relationships with prospective borrowers and partners in Australia. He is based in Sydney and reports to Steve Bulloch, head of Australia. Before joining PGIM Real Estate, O’Keeffe was a senior director in the debt and structured finance team at CBRE.

Malaysia-based CIMB Group appointed Hendra Lembong as its chief fintech officer, having previously been chief executive of group transaction banking from July 2016. Lembong started his career at CIMB in 2013 as chief of transaction banking for CIMB Niaga, Indonesia. He was also MD, regional head of cash management, APAC at JPMorgan.

AMP appointed John O’Sullivan as a non-executive director. O’Sullivan has held senior executive roles within financial services and legal and regulatory risk as well as experience in fields such as mergers, acquisitions and capital markets. He was most recently executive chairman, investment banking and capital markets, of Credit Suisse Australia. Prior to that, he was general counsel of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia after a long career at Herbert Smith Freehills, including as a partner of the firm.

Julius Baer appointed Vicki Lee as Group Head Greater China – a new role created by the bank. She reports to David Shick, head of private banking for Greater China at the Zurich-listed firm. Lee is based in Hong Kong. With more than 20 years of private banking experience, Lee was previously country team head, China Market, at UBS Wealth Management, where she had worked since 2006. Before that, Lee held senior wealth management roles at HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank.

Citi Private Bank confirmed that Debashish Dutta Gupta, a senior figure who most recently was globally in charge of its Indian client segment, has left the US organisation. Prior roles have included being Asia-Pacific head of investments for wealth management.

The Fry Group, a global financial advisory firm specialising in working with UK expats around the world, appointed Stephen Kelly as senior consultant in Singapore. Kelly leads The Fry Group’s Asia tax offering, working with the wider team, including local tax consultant Stephanie Chan, based in Hong Kong, Jasmine Ee, tax associate in Singapore. The new appointee has more than 19 years’ experience in personal tax, specialising in residency issues and international payroll. Kelly was previously UK tax and payroll manager at Immedis, a global payroll and employment tax specialist firm based in Dublin.

The Trident Trust Group appointed Mark O’Sullivan as managing director of its Hong Kong office. O'Sullivan is a qualified chartered accountant, experienced in the finance and the trust and corporate services industries. His career includes leadership responsibility as chief operating officer and financial controller of the trust and securities services division of a global bank, and most recently as regional MD for North Asia for an international provider of corporate and trust services. He reports to Markus Grossmann, regional MD for Trident Trust’s offices in Asia.

Indosuez Wealth Group named a new chief executive, Jacques Prost, to take over from Paul de Leusse, who left earlier in May to join telecoms network Orange. Prost is a member of Crédit Agricole’s management committee. Since 2013, he has supervised global markets and financing activities as deputy chief executive of Crédit Agricole corporate and investment bank. The executive began his career in the corporate department of Crédit Lyonnais in London in 1986. In 1988, he joined Banque Paribas, where he held a number of positions in the European real estate finance and project finance divisions. In 1996, he was appointed head of project finance at Paribas in Milan. He joined the Crédit Agricole group in 2000 as head of structured finance for corporate and investment banking in Italy. In 2008, he became head of the real estate and hotels division in Paris. In November 2011, he was appointed global head of structured finance.

Australian firm Ironbark Asset Management appointed Alan Kenny as head of client solutions and Scott Baker as a strategic accounts and research relationship manager. Kenny is responsible for executing the Ironbark strategy for existing and new product development as well as working with the corporate trustee business.

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North America
RBC Wealth Management hired the Johnson Prince Group for its Century City, California office. The Johnson Prince Group is comprises Daniel Johnson, senior vice president and financial advisor, who has 21 years of industry experience; and John Prince, senior vice president and financial advisor, who has 26 year of experience; and Kim Johnson, senior registered client associate, who has 14 years of industry experience. The team joined from Merrill Lynch.

Raymond James, the US-listed wealth management group, recruited financial advisors Mark Griffin and Mark Liley to Raymond James & Associates (RJA) – the firm’s traditional employee broker/dealer – in Denver, Colorado. Griffin and Liley joined Robert Campbell and Jarrod Biebel, who operate as First Avenue Wealth Partners of Raymond James. The two advisors moved to RJA from Wells Fargo Advisors, where they previously managed approximately $505 million in client assets. They provide wealth management services to business owners, high net worth individuals, endowments and foundations.

Griffin has more than four decades of industry experience and extensive expertise in institutional bonds. He has worked previously at various firms, including A.G. Edward & Sons, Dain Bosworth, Kirchner, Moore and Company, where he served as partner and senior vice president, and Boettcher & Company, where he served as general partner and sales manager. Most recently, Griffin worked as a financial advisor at Wells Fargo from 2001 to 2018. Prior to his financial services career, he served as a captain in the United States Army. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Virginia Military Institute.

Liley began his financial services career in 2002 at The Leaders Group. He later joined Wells Fargo, where he worked as a financial advisor for nearly 15 years, specialising in custom discretionary portfolio management. Liley graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Andrew Salesky was named head of advisor technology solutions at Charles Schwab, taking over from Ed Obuchowski, who left in April to become chief technology officer at Advisor Group. 

US-based United Capital Financial Advisers appointed Kara Murphy, CFA as its new chief investment officer. She has worked in the industry for more than 20 years. Her appointment filled a vacancy left by the previous CIO Rob Brown, who has since left United Capital. Murphy was previously CIO at SunAmerica Asset Management, a member of America International Group (AIG). She also served as a vice president, equities analyst at Chilton Investment Company and an associate vice president, equities analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Kentucky-based Stock Yards Bancorp, parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust, appointed James Hillebrand as chief executive. Hillebrand has served as president of the company and the bank, and has served on the company's board of directors since 2008. Hillebrand joined the company in 1996 to develop its private banking group. He took over from David Heintzman, who retired as CEO and moved into the role of executive chairman of the board. Heintzman joined the company in 1985. In 1992, he was elected President, and has served as chairman and CEO since January 2005.

Philip Poindexter, executive vice president and chief lending officer, became president of the company and the bank. Poindexter joined the company in 2004 as executive vice president and director of commercial lending.

Emir Culov, who had been a former portfolio manager director and senior advisor at Morgan Stanley since March 2012, left that firm to join Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network. He is based in Buffalo, NY.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, aka CIBC, added two former Wells Fargo bankers to its wealth management and commercial banking teams in Denver, Colorado. Kate Rooney and Vanessa Ringdahl joined CIBC: Rooney is a member of CIBC’s commercial banking team as a managing director and relationship manager. Ringdahl joined its private wealth Management team as managing director and senior private banker.

Rooney has more than 12 years of financial industry experience. Prior to this, she spent 10 years in a variety of commercial banking roles at Wells Fargo Bank, most recently serving as relationship manager and vice president managing a portfolio of middle market clients.

Ringdahl has more than 14 years of financial industry experience to the firm. Previously, Ringdahl spent over a decade at Wells Fargo Bank. Most recently, she served as a vice president, advising ultra-high net worth individuals and families about wealth preservation, transition, lending, planning, trust and fiduciary services and investments.

Katten Muchin Rosenman, the law firm, appointed Cynthia Brittain as a partner in its trusts and estates practices in the Los Angeles–Century City office. Brittain previously served as the director of inbound wealth advisory and a senior fiduciary officer for Northern Trust, where she was responsible for designing estate plans and advising on the use of multi-jurisdictions for effective tax planning. She was also employed as an attorney in London and Hong Kong, and has extensive experience counseling clients on tax mitigation and cross-border wealth transfer strategies as well as succession planning for family-owned companies.

LPL Financial Holdings appointed Allison H Mnookin to its board of directors. Mnookin joined with two decades of experience as a technology executive for high-growth business software companies. She most recently served as chief executive of QuickBase Inc., a provider of online application software which was formerly a division of Intuit, Inc. Prior to leading QuickBase, she held several positions at Intuit, including general manager in their small business division where she was responsible for leading a portfolio of Intuit’s business products, including QuickBooks.

US Global Investors, the registered investment advisory firm, said that its president, general counsel and chief compliance officer, Susan McGee, had resigned. She was asked to join a fund board at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She continues to practice law and spend more time with her family. 

Fiduciary Trust Company appointed John P Morey in the newly-created position of vice president, head of client service and business development. He reports to president and chief executive Austin V Shapard and will be a member of the firm’s senior management team. Morey joined from GMO, an institutional asset management firm, where he was a partner and served as head of client relations, North America, for the past 15 years. 

US wealth manager Hilliard Lyons hired Looking Glass Wealth Advisors to join its Asheville, North Carolina office. The team were previously associated with Oppenheimer & Co. The group is aligned into two teams, each with three wealth advisors and one client service associate. The teams – the Blue Ridge Group and the Ridgeline Group – are based in Hilliard Lyons’ branch office at 79 Woodfin Place in Asheville.

Silicon Valley Bank, which has a private banking operation, appointed Jane Ullman as managing director at its Portland, Oregon office. Ullman is `responsible for supporting Oregon's innovation economy and will lead SVB's local banking team. She has more than 20 years of experience as a finance and operations executive for organizations including Rulespace, Shiftwise and The Clymb.

New York Life Investment Management appointed Jean-Pierre "JP" Gerard as head of business intelligence and data analytics. He report to Kirk Lehneis, chief operating officer of NYLIM. Most recently, Gerard served as head of analytics for North America at Mastercard. In that role, he was responsible for managing the delivery of multi-million dollar analytics projects for top banks worldwide. He also led Mastercard's campaign analytics team in the design and measurement of over 200 multichannel marketing programmes.

First Republic Bank appointed a trio of former Wells Fargo wealth managers: Vincent Lovoy, Adam MacDonald, and Todd Halbrook. Lovoy, MacDonald and Halbrook were each named managing director and wealth manager, working at the bank’s office at MacArthur Boulevard in Newport Beach. Lovoy has more than 30 years of experience creating customized wealth planning strategies for high net worth individuals, families and businesses. Before joining First Republic, Lovoy was MD in the private client group at Wells Fargo Advisors, and he worked for 15 years at Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management). Earlier in his career, he worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Crowell, Weedon & Co. MacDonald has more than 11 years of financial services experience. Prior to his latest job, he was senior vice president in the Wells Fargo private client group. Halbrook has 20 years of industry experience, and was also previously at the private client group of Wells Fargo.. Earlier in his career, he worked for 12 years at Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Key Private Bank appointed Cathy O’Malley Kearney as head of the bank’s institutional services. O’Malley Kearney served clients at Key for almost 20 years, most recently serving as national head of trust and chief fiduciary officer.

US-based Ballast Asset Management appointed George Northrop as director of marketing and client service. He previously served as director of marketing for Montag & Caldwell, an Atlanta-based manager focused on growth equities, for over 15 years.

Peapack-Gladstone Bank appointed Christopher Colombo as senior managing director and wealth advisor of Quadrant Capital Management, a registered investment advisor and subsidiary of Peapack-Gladstone Bank. It also appointed Vincent DiCindio as senior managing director for the commercial private banking team at Peapack-Gladstone Bank.  Columbo previously worked at the wealth structuring group at Merrill Lynch, where he was an advisor and new business producer for the last 22 years. DiCindio joined Peapack-Gladstone Bank with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has held roles at TD Bank, JPMorgan Chase Card Services, AIG Consumer Finance Group and Citigroup. 

Weinberger Divorce & Family Law Group, based in New Jersey, said six of its attorneys have become Certified Matrimonial Law attorneys. The six persons are Weinberger Divorce & Family Law Group attorneys Dianna Cavaliere, Michael J Evans, Robyn Howlett, Laura Mendonca, Veronica Norgaard and Rachel Partyka. RBC Wealth Management appointed Amy Whittington to head up its Houston Galleria branch and Angelica Nelson as Denver Tech branch director. Whittington, who has over 20 years of industry experience, most recently was the founder of Optic Financial Solutions, a consulting firm which works with regional and wirehouse advisors, advisory teams, independent broker dealers and financial companies. 

RBC Wealth Management appointed Amy Whittington to head up its Houston Galleria branch and Angelica Nelson as Denver Tech branch director. Whittington, who has over 20 years of industry experience, most recently was the founder of Optic Financial Solutions, a consulting firm which worked with regional and wirehouse advisors, advisory teams, independent broker dealers and financial companies. Nelson has 18 years of industry experience and joins from Scottrade / TD Ameritrade.

Seiler, US-based advisory, tax, and accounting firm in the high net worth sector, hired Sanjay Agarwal and Amy Miller as partners. Agarwal is an international tax and corporate M&A partner at Seiler. He leads the firm's international and corporate tax practice. He focuses on international and corporate tax planning for multinational corporations and other business entities, and regularly consults with his clients on M&A tax and transfer pricing matters. Miller joined the firm in January 2012 as a tax manager. She is based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Miller is also a member of the firm’s high net worth practice group.

BBVA Compass, the US subsidiary of global financial services group BBVA, appointed Celie Niehaus as the bank's chief compliance officer and a member of its management committee. As CCO, Niehaus heads up all compliance activities for the whole of BBVA Compass, including the bank's retail, commercial and wealth units. Niehaus has more than 30 years' experience in risk management, all in the financial services industry. Most recently, she served as the CCO for Capital One retail and direct bank and enterprise services, and was also the company's chief privacy officer. 

Global asset management firm Northern Trust appointed Michael Lee as senior vice president and regional wealth advisor in its Chicago office. Before joining Northern Trust, Lee was a senior vice president at Abbot Downing, the multi-family office group for Wells Fargo, where he led the Chicago office. He has almost 25 years of experience as an attorney and wealth advisor focusing on income and transfer tax planning and wealth management for ultra-high net worth individuals and families. He is based in Chicago.

JP Morgan Securities appointed Jonathan McPharlin, Daniel Halperin and Charles Cooper, Jr as financial advisors. They operate out of the firm’s office at 10 S Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois. They also report to regional director Michael Maron. All three new financial advisors have joined the firm from Merrill Lynch.

Brinker Capital, a US investment management company, appointed Jeff Raupp as chief investment officer. He reports to Chuck Widger, founder and executive chairman. Prior to this appointment, Raupp served as the company's director of investments for nearly two years.

Baker McKenzie, the international law firm, added five partners to its teams in California, a move that includes the launch of a new office in Los Angeles.

Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller operate out of the firm's San Francisco/Palo Alto office, while Robin Samuel, Barry Thompson and Joe Ward became founding partners of its new Los Angeles office. All five joined from another "international law firm".

US-based PSECU Financial Services promoted Stephen Landersman as its newest wealth advisor. Landersman is responsible for offering retirement planning, asset management, and advanced estate planning services to clients. He previously worked for Financial Network Investment Corp, MetLife, Invest Financial. 

Fiduciary Trust Company promoted Jody King to the newly-created position of vice president and director of financial planning. King previously served as vice president and director of client services and has been with Fiduciary Trust for 13 years.

The Securities and Exchange Commission named Sarah ten Siethoff as associate director for the division of investment management’s rulemaking office. She develops recommendations for rulemaking and other policy initiatives relating to funds and investment advisers under the federal securities laws. She has been a member of the division of investment management in a variety of positions since 2008, serving most recently as deputy associate director in the rulemaking office.  Prior to joining the SEC, ten Siethoff was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. 

Icon Wealth Partners, an independent wealth advisory firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, appointed Mike Cregan as managing director and head of fixed income strategies. He has worked for Underwood Neuhaus, Texas Commerce Bank, Chase Securities, JP Morgan Securities and Avalon Advisors.

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed Gene Mulligan as managing director and head of managed, structured and alternative products for wealth management. He was most recently senior vice president for investment products and platform at Lincoln Financial Network, the wealth management affiliate of Lincoln Financial Group.

Raymond James & Associates, the employee broker/dealer of Raymond James Financial, recruited financial advisors Craig Cooley; Lee Miller; Michael Wegener; and Tim Godin to its offices in Bay City and Farmington Hills, Michigan. Cooley, Miller and Wegener opened Raymond James’ newest office in Bay City, operating as Water Street Wealth Management of Raymond James. The team joined from Wells Fargo Advisors, where they previously managed more than $500 million in client assets. They are joined by fellow team members Brian Abraham, Amy Goulet, Lynn Gehoski, Charisse Roenicke and Michele Valentine. Cooley, Miller and Wegener have been in the financial services industry for a combined 57 years and serve a diverse clientele of families, business owners and professionals.

Lowenhaupt Global Advisors, the US family office, brought back one of its founders as president. Chris Quinn works alongside chairman and CEO Charles Lowenhaupt in setting the strategic direction of the firm, developing LGA’s management team and managing its operations in St Louis, New York and Chicago. Quinn helped found LGA in 2006 and served as chief family office executive. He has also run a venture capital firm, served on numerous business and charitable boards and advised family offices across the globe, primarily on succession, planning and investments.

Sanctuary Wealth Partners, which was launched in May as a new division of Chicago-based Noyes Group, appointed David Shane as a managing director. Shane has more than 28 years' experience in the sector. Previously, he was the lead partner of FGMK’s financial services practice.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Chuck Long as regional president in Los Angeles. Long will report to president of US Markets Southwest Shannon Kennedy. Long previously head of Greater China working out of Hong Kong in international wealth management. Long held other leadership positions in sales management and distribution but started his career at BNY Mellon as a senior wealth director in Ohio. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, he was a principal and owner of a registered investment advisor in Cleveland.

Citi Private Bank appointed Ed Riley as head of equities for the Americas, an expanded role formed by the US bank. Riley is based in New York, reporting to Kristen Bitterly Michell, capital markets Head for the Americas. 

Lyell Wealth Management appointed Todd Shimada as a portfolio manager. He is based at Lyell Wealth’s offices in Menlo Park, California. Shimada has over 20 years of investment management experience at national and regional firms.

Foresight Wealth Management appointed JD Slatter as a partner and wealth advisor. Slatter has 17 years of experience in financial services, having most recently served as a wealth advisor and partner at Lefavi Wealth Management. 

US Trust hired William Lavelle as a private client advisor in its Los Angeles office. He was previously a portfolio manager at City National Rochdale. Maureen Zavatone joined the Hartford, Connecticut office as a private client advisor. She was previously at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management as a senior vice president and financial advisor.

Kennebec Wealth Management, an independent advisory firm in Durango, Colorado, appointed Rachel Kuss as vice president of investments. Kuss has 18 years of industry experience. 

Renasant Bank appointed Gabe Godbold as a private banker and financial advisor in Ridgeland, Mississippi.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Rob O’Rahilly as global co-head of asset management solutions. He reports to Chris Willcox, chief executive of JPMAM, and is based in London. O’Rahilly replaces former global co-head of solutions Jed Laskowitz, who has transitioned to the role of CEO, intelligent digital solutions. Mike O’Brien continued as global co-head of solutions alongside O’Rahilly, having relocated from London to New York. Patrick Thomson, head of international institutional at JPMAM, succeeded O’Brien as EMEA chief executive of the organization.  

O’Rahilly spent more than 20 years at JPMorgan Chase. Most recently, he was chief investment officer for EMEA and Asia, with responsibility for investment portfolio strategy, asset allocation and origination of the company's structural investment portfolio (ex-US) of more than $130 billion and managed a team of 60 investment professionals in more than 10 locations. 

RBC Wealth Management appointed David McClure as senior vice president and financial advisor. McClure is based in the firm's Charlotte, North Carolina office and he joins from Wells Fargo Advisors, where he has been since 2007. He managed $110 million in assets.

Aspiriant, a US-based independent wealth management firm, appointed five new principals.

The new principals:
- Lani Kapur Rains, manager of wealth management (San Francisco);
- Melissa Punim, manager of strategic planning (Los Angeles);
- Natalie Morrella, manager of wealth management (Mountain View);
- Nate Kublank, director of investment advisory (Milwaukee); and
- Ryan Benson, manager of wealth management (Orange County).

RBC Wealth Management opened a new office in St Louis and another in Nashville, part of its expansion program. Brian Bell, branch director, joined from JP Morgan and has a 25-year career history in the sector. Aaron Foster, who has also joined from JP Morgan as a financial advisor, has 18 years of experience. Arriving at the Nashville office was Jim Aid, financial advisor and managing director. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry, and previously worked at Wells Fargo. He manages more than $900 million in assets and with individuals and institutional clients.

Atria Wealth Solutions, a wealth management solutions firm, appointed Matthew Bassuk as national director of recruiting, Brian Bichler as head of platform experience and Travis Grimm as head of program management. Prior to joining Atria, Bassuk was the senior vice president and head of recruiting at Cetera Financial Group. Bichler will oversee the design and delivery of an integrated and optimised user experience, and Grimm will lead program management, business analysis and project execution.

Ruston, Louisiana-based Argent Trust Company said Mollie Seymour has as senior vice president/trust officer in its Birmingham office. Seymour manages personal and charitable relationships.

Alex Brown, a division of Raymond James, recruited an investment management group led by Jon DuPrau and Caspar Tudor from JP Morgan Securities in Los Angeles. DuPrau leads institutional consulting efforts in Southern California and will serve as one of the 17 advisors who make up the institutional consulting business at Alex Brown. With 18 years' industry experience, DuPrau started as a quantum portfolio manager for Prudential Securities, having studied technology’s effects on the capital markets exclusively throughout his career. Tudor, vice president, investments, works on the team’s formulas for the Russell 1000 and 2000 indices.

A recent joiner was Peter Barry. Since 1991, Barry worked with both institutional and high net worth individuals. Barry brought more than 25 years of experience with a wide range of alternative investment strategies and prior experience as a portfolio manager at a large New York family office. Another joiner to the team was Maria Lee, senior registered client associate; Iris Lee, director of portfolio consulting in Los Angeles; and several senior leaders and supporting analysts of Alex. Brown’s Institutional Consulting business.

The Securities and Exchange Commission named Paul Cellupica as chief counsel for its investment management division. Cellupica served in several roles in this division, and in the enforcement division from 1996 to 2004, re-joining the investment management arm in November last year. Prior to returning to the division last year, Cellupica was managing director and general counsel for securities law at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. Prior to that, he was chief counsel for the Americas at MetLife.

US-based PNC Bank appointed Pamela Austin as senior vice president and senior banking advisor for wealth management. Based in Mishawaka, Austin specialises in deposit and loan solutions, uniquely tailored to high net worth clients and their families. Austin has more than 30 years of banking experience, including private banking, financial analysis, marketing, business development sales, wealth transfer and problem resolution for clients and their families. Most recently, she served as vice president at 1st Source Bank, where she was responsible for loans and deposit solutions within the family office. In a separate appointment, PNC named Missie M Thompson as PNC Wealth Management Director of the Eastern Carolinas market. She is based in Raleigh, NC. Thompson has 15 years’ experience in financial services, including roles as relationship strategist and private relationship manager for high net worth clients. She has a bachelor’s in business administration from East Carolina University, and a MBA from Meredith College.

Global investment manager Schroders appointed Peter Hall as its new global head of wealth management. Hall replaced Andrew Ross, who has decided to step back from a full-time executive role and will move to a new role within Schroders as vice chairman of wealth management.

Silicon Valley Bank appointed Yvette Butler as its new private banking head. Previously, Butler was president of Capital One Investing, a division of Capital One Financial. Butler has more than 25 years of experience in financial services. Besides her Capital One role, she also held senior-level positions at Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Wells Fargo and others. She is a board member of the Washington Area Women's Foundation and the CFP Advisory Board. 

Hawthorn- PNC Family Wealth, a PNC Financial Group subsidiary dedicated to serving the needs of individuals and families with investable assets in excess of $20 million, appointed Marisa Facciolo as vice president and senior relationship strategist. Prior to joining Hawthorn, Facciolo was a senior wealth director at BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

New York-based Snowden Lane Partners, an independent wealth advisory firm, appointed Mark Hogan, Leah Eller, Pam Appleby and Josh Hogan of the Hogan Eller Wealth Management Group to join its operation in San Antonio, Texas. Mark Hogan joined Snowden Lane as a senior partner and managing director, Eller as a partner and managing director. The group joined from Wells Fargo, where Mark Hogan and Eller focused on retirement and estate planning strategies, business services and tax-advantaged education savings plans, and oversaw over $150 million in client assets. The new team moved to new offices in San Antonio, along with senior partner and managing director Larry Barocas, partner Marcus Selva, and senior registered client relationship Manager, Debbie Ury, who joined Snowden Lane in Texas last year.

Schroders appointed Peter Hall as its new global head of wealth management. Hall was most recently chief executive of UK wealth manager Tilney. Hall stepped down in October 2017 after seven years at the helm and more recently has been an advisor to Tilney’s parent company Permira on pursuing investment opportunities in global wealth management. He replaced Andrew Ross, who decided to step back from a full-time executive role.  

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The private law firm group of Citi Private Bank named Jeff Grossman as its business development head, joining on 16 July. Gross man is based in New York City and reports to Naz Vahid, the law firm group head, Citi Private Bank. He re-joined the firm after 14 years in other roles. Prior to this, Grossman worked at Wells Fargo where he was one of the co-founders of its legal specialty group. He was the senior director of banking for the group where he led the banking, credit, deposits and treasury management for the business. His remit at Wells Fargo also included managing the advisory services which produced regular law firm surveys from 180+ firms as well as merger and acquisition analysis. 

LPL Financial, the US investment advisory firm and broker dealer, appointed former senior UBS executive Richard Steinmeier as managing director and head of business development, in mid-August. Steinmeier filled a role previously held by Bill Morrissey, who retired from LPL to spend more time with his family. Prior this role, Steinmeier was MD and chief digital officer for UBS Global Wealth Management. He joined UBS in 2012 as head of the emerging affluent segment and the wealth advice center.

Glenmede, a privately held and independently owned investment and wealth management firm, appointed Thomas Melcher as associate director and managing director of investment management. Melcher reported to Peter Zuleba, director of investment management for Glenmede. He joined Glenmede from PNC, where he most recently served as executive vice president and chief investment officer for PNC Asset Management.

Bank Leumi USA, part of Israel-based lender Leumi, appointed Dan O'Donnell as the new head of credit, based in its New York headquarters. O’Donnell reports to the head of commercial banking, Shawn McGowen. He has more than 25 years of banking experience in lending and credit environments, primarily covering large and mid-corporate and middle market segments in a variety of industries.

Prior to this role, O'Donnell was a senior vice president and senior credit officer with Fifth Third Bank, where he was responsible for national coverage of the $15 billion corporate banking segment. Prior to that, he spent nearly 10 years with Wells Fargo Bank and was focused on general commercial and industrial lending in the Northeast.

LPL Financial said Christopher Manci and his team of five associates joined, bringing more than $100 million of client brokerage and advisory assets. 

The wealth management arm of Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, promoted Josh Nagel as managing director. He is based in the Louisville office. Nagel joined Merrill Lynch in 2001.

Fiduciary Trust, a global wealth manager and wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments, appointed Isaac Barrocas as senior portfolio manager, and Nita Vyas as trust counsel, based in the New York office. Also, Leticia Hernandez was appointed trust counsel in Fiduciary Trust’s South Florida office in Coral Gables. Prior to joining Fiduciary Trust, Barrocas spent 12 years at BNY Mellon Wealth Management in New York, most recently as senior portfolio manager and senior director in the international wealth management segment. 

Vyas joined from the law firm Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, where she was counsel in the tax, trusts, and estates department. Hernandez was previously a shareholder in Miami-based law firm Fowler White Burnett, where she was a member of the trust and estates practice group. She has over 15 years of experience in the sector.

South State Bank was appointed Jane Coble and John Neal to its private banking team based in Richmond. Coble has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry, having worked at Wells Fargo and Union Bank & Trust in Richmond, where she was most recently a branch manager. Neal has more than 13 years of banking experience. He most recently served on the Richmond-based SunTrust Bank Private Wealth team focused on physicians and their banking needs. 

Hilton Capital Management, an investment management boutique, appointed Katherine Cathcart as a relationship manager. Cathcart has over 25 years of investment industry experience. Prior to joining Hilton Capital, Cathcart was a managing director at Logan Capital Management. 

Heritage Trust Company, which has offices in Texas and Oklahoma, hired Bruce Carson as a relationship manager. In his new role, Carson helps the company’s farm and ranch business. Carson is a certified public accountant and has more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. He previously owned a public accounting firm in Altus, where he specialised in farm and ranch clients. Carson previously worked in operations accounting for Stilwell Foods in Stilwell, and as an auditor for a public accounting firm in Ada. 

Argent Trust Company hired Stephanie Allen as a wealth advisor in its Austin, Texas office. Allen works in a fiduciary role with Argent Trust Company clients. Allen has 11 years of experience in trust and estate planning and administration, having begun working for an estate planning and probate law firm prior to and during law school.

Goldman Sachs appointed Justin Tuck as a vice president in its private wealth management division. Tuck is a former NFL defensive end, who spent eight years at the New York Giants, and the last few years of his career at the Oakland Raiders.Tuck graduated from the Wharton School of Business the University of Pennsylvania with a MBA in management.

Christophe Aba, JP Morgan Private Bank's managing director and regional head of investments for Southeast Asia, moved to the US for a new role. Aba moved to the US bank’s office in New York to be head of investments for Mexico. Aba reports to Eduardo Loja, the investment team leader for Latin America. Aba was replaced by Diana Robinson, head of equities for Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

Ohio-based Key Private Bank, the wealth management division of KeyCorp, appointed Bola Olusanya as managing director of asset allocation and portfolio strategy. He is based in Cleveland and report to George Mateyo, chief investment officer at Key Private Bank. Prior to joining Key, Olusanya served as managing director at Strategic Investment Group, where he co-managed the firm's public equity portfolios and led a team of seven investment professionals. 

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.

PIMCO, fixed-income investment manager, appointed Colin Riendeau as executive vice president and head of corporate development. Riendeau is based in PIMCO’s New York office and reports to John Kirkowski, managing director and co-chief financial officer. 

Boston Private appointed advisors as part of its work with a Florida-based firm. The business named John Tassone and Tate Haire as new senior wealth advisors and co-heads of wealth management for Southwestern Florida. The duo built up SteelBridge Private Wealth Advisors and are based out of Naples. Haire has more than 20 years of experience in financial planning, wealth and investment management, insurance, and credit and banking solutions. Prior to SteelBridge, Haire was a wealth advisor with Wells Fargo Private Bank and also held roles at SunTrust as a private client advisor and at BB&T as a group private banking manager. He is a Certified Financial Planner. Tassone also has a 20-year track record in the sector. Previously, he was a senior executive at GenSpring Family Offices.