Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Tribe Impact Capital, Womble Bond Dickinson, Others

Editorial Staff

3 September 2019

Tribe Impact Capital
has hired former GAM senior figure Roman Aschwanden and senior investment industry figure Zoë Sheehan. Their appointments come shortly after the firm opened a new office in Zurich, which is led by Nicolas Cherbuin. The new hires bring the staff total to 20.

Aschwanden has been active in asset management and investment banking for upwards of 25 years. At Alpha FMC, he will develop consulting services on regulatory issues and oversee the projects of the group’s bespoke consulting services for pension funds. He has been chief executive of GAM Investment Management (Switzerland), and chief operating officer for continental Europe in Zurich.

Before this, he was also CEO of CreInvest, a Swiss fund of hedge funds; he has worked in various roles in investment banking at UBS, including global project manager, merger manager and chief of staff.

Sheehan has been working in asset management and investment banking for over a decade, developing risk and performance solutions, portfolio management solutions and trading platforms for investment managers. Sheehan previously worked for IHS Markit selling their specialised derivatives and risk analytics platform across Europe.

The firm has operated in Switzerland since 2017.

Gresham House
has appointed Paul Denman as private client director.

Paul Denman joins CBAM from Arbuthnot Latham, where he was a director in the private banking side of the business for 14 years. Before this, Paul spent seven years as a private banker at SG Hambros. He has more than thirty years of experience in the industry, having started his career at Coutts & Co in 1985.

CBAM recently set up a new office in the West End of London. In August, it appointed Alastair Wilson, Philip Young and Lucy Katzarova to support the continued growth of its high net worth proposition.