JP Morgan has appointed Romain Pasche as a senior investment advisor to its private banking team in Switzerland.

Pasche previously spent 10 years at Vontobel Asset Management, where he was latterly head of global equity research and also responsible for the healthcare sector. He also ran a long-only fund and a long-short hedge fund. Prior to this he was a financial analyst at Union Bancaire Privée for three years and also spent time as an equity asset manager at BNP Paribas in Switzerland.

Pasche will be based in Zurich, reporting to Kristoffer Jonsson and Andrea Tardy, head of investments and region head respectively for the firm’s Swiss private banking arm.