Northern Trust has promoted David Williams to the role of sales director for wealth management.

Williams, with more than 27 years’ experience in the financial services industry, has spent 15 years at Northern Trust. Before joining the firm, Williams held a variety of wealth management and commercial banking positions at First Midwest Bank, Firstar Bank and Lake Shore Bank.

Williams succeeds Brett Rees, who now leads Northern Trust’s Mid-Atlantic region from the firm’s Washington, DC, office. In his new role, Williams will report to Jana Schreuder, president of wealth management at Northern Trust. He will join Schreuder’s executive leadership team.

In other recent developments, earlier in the month Northern Trust appointed David Albright as global sales and marketing director for its family office group.

Northern Trust had $206 billion in assets under management at end-March 2013.