BNY Mellon has named C Ray Sidwell as family wealth advisor for investment management at its wealth management arm in Florida.

Sidwell brings 20 years of legal and investment management experience to the role and most recently served as senior family investment officer for GenSpring Family Offices, where he worked with ultra-high net worth families through North America. In this new Tampa-based position, he reports directly to Donald Heberle, the head of family wealth and international businesses.

"In less than three years since opening the Tampa office, we've grown our assets under management in the Tampa and Sarasota region from zero to nearly 10 per cent of BNY Mellon Wealth Management assets in all of Florida," said Craig Sutherland, the president of the Southeast region. 

C Ray Sidwell is the firm's twelfth hire in Tampa alone. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management has around $171 billion in private client assets in the US and internationally.