US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management has made five senior-level wealth management hires across the US as part of what the firm has said is an ongoing talent acquisition campaign.

Tom Finney joins as Baltimore market director; Jan Carmen as a private client advisor and Kevin Hilderman as a private client manager, both in San Diego; Kevin Ta as a market trust director and Ned Muskie as a private client advisor in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia markets; and Susan Gumbiner as senior portfolio manager in Houston.

Finney joins from Wilmington Trust, where he spent the last eight years as managing director of the Baltimore office he helped launch in 2002. He will report to managing director for the mid-Atlantic region Gary Gore.

Carmen and Hilderman both join from US Bank.

Ta joins after spending ten years with Wells Fargo Private Bank and its predecessor Wachovia Trust in Virginia, where he was senior vice president and senior trust and fiduciary specialist.

Muskie's prior career includes positions at HSBC, Wachovia and the Riggs National Bank.

Gumbiner was latterly director and investment strategist at Citi and before that a senior investment manager at Wells Fargo and other Houston investment firms.