Curian Capital, an RIA which provides fee-based separately managed accounts to financial professionals, has expanded its sales force with the addition of 11 regional consultants covering eight new territories.

The firm has added positions for one external consultant and one internal consultant to each additional region, bringing its sales force headcount to 90. To complete the hiring, five more internal consultants will be hired.

Overseeing distribution efforts in the new eastern territories is divisional vice president Mike Petko, while in the west divisional vice president Tim Parkinson will manage the efforts.

The external consultants are Carl Robinson for west Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; AJ Amos for Tennessee and east Kentucky; Ben Keith for south New Jersey; Anthony Ramondo for the District of Columbia, northwest North Carolina and Western Virginia; Tom Bauer for southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, Oklahoma, and northwest Texas; Rodger Hoofnagle for Louisiana and east Texas; Scott Gunderson for North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana; and Dominick McPeake for Oregon and south Idaho.

The internal consultants appointed so far are Will Sherrard for west Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; Felicia Lewis for southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, Oklahoma and northwest Texas; and Jamie Hart for Louisiana and east Texas.

Curian said it is growing on the back of strong results for the first quarter, when it generated $632 million in deposits, up 31 per cent over the prior year period. At 31 March 2011, the firm had assets under management totaling $6.2 billion, up from $5.4 billion at the end of 2010.