Brown Advisory, the US firm, has appointed Christopher Bartlett - latterly head of global equity sales and trading at Wells Fargo - as partner at its Baltimore, MD, office, where he will serve as a senior portfolio manager to families, non-profits and other institutions across the US and globally.  

Bartlett joined Wells Fargo at the end of 2008 as part of Wachovia Securities. Most recently, he was responsible for 250 employees in trading, sales trading and domestic and international institutional sales in New York. Additionally, he was a board member of the broker-dealer Wells Fargo Securities International and was also a part of the Wells Fargo Securities Management Committee.

Earlier in his career, Bartlett spent 12 years at Alex Brown & Sons as managing director and senior trader, before joining First Union in 1999.

At the end of June, Brown Advisory strengthened its Boston, MA, office, appointing Dune Thorne as partner - a role in which she will also serve as a senior investment and strategic advisor to families, family offices and foundations. Thorne joined  from Silver Bridge Advisors, where she was a managing director and principal, as well as serving on the management committee.

Brown Advisory is an independent investment management firm with some $31 billion in client assets. The firm's principal offices are located in Baltimore and Washington, DC, as well as its branches in Boston, Wilmington, DL, Chapel Hill, NC, and London.