Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Canaccord Genuity, UBS

Editorial Staff

13 March 2019

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management
UK advisor said in a statement. Azelby will lead a platform that operates in the US, Europe and Asia. The business oversees more than $100 billion in assets.

Azelby will be based in New York and report to Ulrich Koerner, president of UBS Asset Management and UBS Group EMEA, it said.

Prior to this, Azelby worked at JP Morgan where he was CEO of its real estates global assets business. And before entering finance he was a former American footballer, playing as linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in 1984.

The new role sees him take over from Thomas Wels who has been named divisional vice chairman for UBS Asset Management. (Wels held that role from December 2012, according to a Bloomberg directory of senior financial industry figures.)