The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in wealth management for the UK, continental Europe, Middle East and select international jurisdictions.

additiv
Switzerland-headquartered additiv, a digital and fintech business, has appointed Pierre Dufauret (pictured) as the new UK market head and opened a new office in London's Heron Tower. 

Prior to his new role, Dufauret was an enterprise sales leader for Clearwater Analytics, where he focused on acquiring new clients in the UK market. He previously gained experience as a management consultant in the asset and wealth management, banking, pensions, and insurance sectors. His career spans positions at firms such as KPMG, Capco, and Deloitte in the UK and Luxembourg.

The firm’s CEO is Nils Frowein. Besides its Swiss headquarters and the aforementioned London office, additiv operates in Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Germany. 

To see an interview with the firm back in 2021, click here.

The firm says it has a cloud platform used by wealth management, banks, insurance, and other sectors. The business services more than 400 financial institutions and brands worldwide.

Hawksford
Global service provider Hawksford has added several business development figures to its business in Ireland, London, Dubai and China.

Stephen McCormack joins as business development director, based in Hawksford’s Dublin office. He joins Hawksford with more than 25 years’ experience advising international ultra-high net worth families, private and listed companies and sovereign wealth funds across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

In addition, Tommaso Barindelli - previously a member of Hawksford’s Singapore team - has rejoined the business as head of business development in the UAE. Based in Hawksford’s Dubai office, he takes on responsibility for supporting SME and global businesses with their expansion plans in the Middle East market, while also leading the corporate services business development strategy in the region. 

Barindelli has a decade of experience working in the UAE and Asia, Tommaso has developed deep expertise in providing strategic, commercial, and operational guidance to SMEs and large corporations.

He will be supported in his new role by two further Dubai-based appointments – Victoria Salazar, who joins as business development associate, and Charlotte Kwok has been appointed commercial officer.

In addition, in China, Jessie Ye becomes associate director in the business development team and is based in Shenzhen. She has a focus on fostering foreign and overseas direct investment into China. # 

Meanwhile, in London, Peter Fenyves has been appointed business development manager. With expertise spanning multiple markets, including the UK, Hong Kong, and South Africa, Fenyves has a background in law, is a STEP-qualified practitioner and holds a Certificate in Fund Administration from the CLTI.

Wealthtime
The UK-based Wealthtime Group, which comprises the Wealthtime and Wealthtime Classic platforms and DFM Copia Capital, has appointed Nick French as commercial director.

French will work with the leadership team and report to group CEO Patrick Mill. He has more than 25 years’ experience in wealth management. Prior to this role, he worked at investment management specialist Blackfinch Group, where he was chief distribution officer. 

Private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners owns Wealthtime, Wealthtime Select, and Copia Capital. Mill is CEO of all three businesses in the group. In all, the platforms have more than £11.3 billion of pension and investment assets under administration and more than 76,000 clients, as at the end of January this year.