Barclays Wealth has hired Stephen Head as managing director and regional manager for Texas.

Head brings four decades of financial services experience into the firm. He was most recently the head of US client development at Carlson Capital in Dallas and served as Dallas regional manager for the equities division at UBS prior to that.

In his new role he will be responsible for managing both the Dallas and Houston offices, as well as the regional operations. Based in Dallas, he reports to Steve Houston, head of wealth management overseeing the investment representative network in the Americas.

Barclays Wealth currently has 14 offices across the US and Latin America; the firm has picked out the  Americas as an region that it is particularly targeting for growth and has been actively recruiting from many of its rivals in recent months to facilitate this.