The latest senior moves in the wealth management sector for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Gen II Fund Services
Gen II Luxembourg Services SARL, the Luxembourg-based business of Gen II Fund Services, which is a private equity fund administrator, has added Martin Dobbins and Chris Edge to its Luxembourg board of directors.

Dobbins joins with more than 30 years of financial and technology experience in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Currently Dobbins is the chief executive and founder of Sage Advisory, an advisory firm providing US, Asian and European asset managers, financial services firms and fintech companies with independent directorship and advisory services. 

Prior to this, Dobbins was CEO and country head for State Street Corporation's European and Luxembourg banks where he chaired the Luxembourg executive group. 

Edge has more than three decades of experience in the financial services industry, serving as the former head of major asset service provider banks in Luxembourg, including JPMorgan and HSBC. Most recently, he led PwC Luxembourg’s innovation and transformation solutions for the asset management and asset service provider sector.

Gen II administers over $350 billion of private capital for clients with offices in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Stamford, Dallas, and Luxembourg.

SYZ Group 
Switzerland’s SYZ Group and Banque SYZ have appointed senior business figure Marlene Nørgaard Carolus to their boards, taking over from Casper Kirk Johansen, board member since 2015. 

She will represent his interests as a shareholder, as well as those of clients in the Nordic region, the organisations said in a statement last week.

Listed as one of the top 100 most influential women in Denmark, who was just inducted into the prestigious Danish “Who’s Who”, Marlene Nørgaard Carolus has more than three decades of experience in the investment industry. She has held positions in portfolio management, sales and business development across multiple markets.

Since 2004, she has also been appointed to multiple boards of financial companies – notably on the executive board of Danske Bank International – and serves as a non-executive member on the boards of various businesses and non-profit organisations, including ART 2030 – a non-profit uniting art with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Danish commercial foundation, Olga & Esper Boels.

She graduated from Copenhagen Business School with an EMBA degree and holds an executive education degree on improving the effectiveness of corporate boards from Harvard University. In 2019, she completed a board leadership masterclass at Copenhagen Business School. Marlene Nørgaard Carolus is CEO of Danish fintech company Mybanker, which matches individuals with banking services, helping Danish customers optimise their banking conditions and finances.