The latest moves and appointments for wealth management roles in the UK, other parts of Europe, the Middle east and select international locations.

Novia Financial
Novia Financial, the UK-focused advisor platform business, has appointed Investec Wealth & Investment chief technology officer Eden Scrivenger as CTO.

Scrivenger, who is joining in September, will work alongside chief executive Patrick Mill. She has worked in financial services for 18 years at M&G, Friends Life Investments, Pictet Asset Management, and AXA UK. 

Among other hires, Novia Financial has appointed Laura Moodley, who joined recently as head of change. She has worked in several wealth management positions, most recently at LV and Old Mutual Wealth. She is joining Parmenion’s George Woodley, who is coming in as head of IT delivery.

“I can think of no one better to lead our ambitious programme of technology enhancements and to inspire the team,” Mill said. “Attracting talent of Eden’s calibre is testimony to the vision we have for Novia and our commitment to positioning the business so that we can lead on service and true digitisation, enabling advisor firms to construct their technology stack as they see fit, not as platforms dictate.”

Novia is owned by private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners. It also owns Wealthtime, and Copia Capital. Mill is CEO of all three businesses in the group. Amber Financial Investments, which was acquired by AnaCap in 2020, was migrated onto Novia’s platform technology, GBST, earlier this year.

Combined, the platforms have more than £11.8 billion of pension and investment assets under administration and more than 77,000 clients (as of 31 March 2022). Copia Capital, the discretionary fund management part of the group, is a business-to-business DFM which works exclusively with advisors to provide a range of managed portfolio services.