Merrill Lynch Global Private Client has hired a new team of four financial advisors. Based in London, Victor Polak, Mark Tuinman, Floortje de Wind-Maxwell and Tina Strømlev will focus on Dutch clients and will report to Geoffrey Bruyn, Market Leader for the Netherlands, Merrill Lynch GPC. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Victor Polak was first vice president of Investments at Citigroup. He has more than 10 years experience in the financial services industry servicing institutions and ultra-high net worth individuals. Mark Tuinman has 13 years experience in the industry. Before joining Citigroup, where he was vice president working with high net worth individuals, family offices, small and midsize institutional clients, Mr. Tuinman was a private client advisor at HSBC. Floortje de Wind-Maxwell was an investment associate at Citigroup where she developed a new sales and marketing strategy focusing on individual target markets. Previously Mrs de Wind-Maxwell ran a European Sales and Marketing department for a global fund of hedge funds. Tina Strømlev is a specialist in fund management and hedge funds, and has led an after-sales fund department. She joins Merrill Lynch from Goldman Sachs.