Barclays Wealth has appointed Theophanis Theophanous, a former private client chief at Deloitte, to its ultra high net worth banking team in London, where he will be a managing director.

Theophanous was latterly a partner and head of private client services at the financial services giant in Cyprus, a position to which he was appointed in 2009. He first joined Deloitte in 2001.

In his new role Theophanous will report to Stefanie Drews, head of UHNW and family offices for the UK and EMEA, and Henry Fischel Bock, head of the London office for the international private bank in EMEA.

The appointment follows that of Soloman Soquar, who joined the UHNW team from Citi Private Bank to head up the Strategic Solutions Group, which aims to offer UHNW clients access to products and services offered by Barclays Capital and Barclays Corporate.

Barclays Wealth’s total client assets stood at £164 billion (around $267 billion), as of 31 December 2010.