JP Morgan Private Bank has boosted its UK private wealth management team with seven newly-created roles. Richard Cockburn, James Drace-Francis, Stefano Ferraiolo and Aaron Georghides are appointed as executive directors, while vice-presidents Bambos Charalambous, Francesca Hall and Cliadna Law will join as private bankers.

All seven will report to Tracey Reddings, head of UK private wealth management.

Before joining JP Morgan, Cockburn was a senior private banker at Sociéte Générale Private Bank for two years. Before that, he was an investment consultant at Ksenia Consulting and an advisor at UBS Wealth Management.

Drace-Francis was latterly at UBS in London, where he was an advisor within the firm’s private wealth management division. Before that, he held investment banker roles at Dresdner Kleinwort, Fox-Pitt Kelton/Swiss Re and Fenchurch Advisory Partners.

Ferraiolo was previously a director for the international private banking team at Credit Suisse UK, before which he was a director for the international private banking team at the wealth and investment management division at Barclays. He also held a number of private banking roles at HSBC, Samuel Montagu, and Banca Nazionale Del Lavaro - in both London and Rome.

Charalambous has held a number of positions at JP Morgan, most recently as a private banker in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Georghides joins the wealth management team from JP Morgan’s private bank in New York. Previously he held positions as an attorney at firms including Cozen O’Connor and Smith Dehn.

Hall was latterly a private banker at Coutts, before which she held an associate role in the investment banking energy and power group at Merrill Lynch.

Law joins from the securities lending and relationship management team at JP Morgan Treasury and Securities Services. Before that, she held a number of roles at Deutsche Bank in London, and was a vice-president at HSBC Investment Bank.