Ardian, a global private investment firm, made senior appointments in its group executive management and executive board of Ardian France. It appointed François Jerphagnon and Marion Calcine as executive vice-presidents of Ardian (Holding). Jerphagnon became CEO of Ardian France. He succeeded Mathias Burghardt who gave up his group-level executive responsibilities to concentrate on Ardian's infrastructure platform, which he set up in 2006. Calcine was chief investment officer for infrastructure and took over from Jerphagnon as executive president of Ardian France. Jerphagnon spent 25 years at Ardian, where he built and ran the firm's Expansion business, its mid-market investment strategy. Calcine worked in Ardian's infrastructure division since 2007.

Marie-Victoire Rozé, deputy co-head of secondaries and primaries and a senior managing director at Ardian, joined the Ardian France executive board. Stéphanie Bensimon, head of real estate, and Thibault Basquin, co-head and chief investment officer of buyout, both already members of the group executive committee, remain on the France board. 

Trimontium, an alternative asset manager, appointed Graham Morrison as general counsel. Morrison spent 15 years at King Street Capital Management, where he was a managing director in the global legal and investment teams. 

Citi Investment Management appointed Rob Lunn as head of Portfolio Solutions & Investment Specialists, EMEA. He reports to Kerry White, head of Citi Investment Management, Investment Solutions. Lunn, who has more than 25 years of industry experience, previously spent over 20 years at Morgan Stanley.

Natixis Investment Managers appointed Raphael Zenou as head of ETF Capital Markets to accelerate the development of its exchange-traded fund product line. Based in Paris, he reports to Mathieu Cheula, CEO, Natixis Investment Managers International (NIMI), and functionally to Aline Flamain, active ETF program director. Zenou joined from Amundi where he most recently led ETF Capital Markets Platform activities.

International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson appointed Paula Myers as a partner in its private capital team. She returned to WBD after having trained and qualified at Dickinson Dees, one of WBD's legacy firms.

Downing, an investment manager with offices throughout the UK and Europe, appointed Jack Salisbury as sales partner. Previously, Salisbury was at Puma Investments.

T Rowe Price appointed Andrew Brickman as head of ETF Solutions, EMEA, in a newly-created role within the firm's expanding exchange-traded fund (ETF) business.

State Street Investment Management appointed Henry MacLeod as managing director, head of Direct Retail and Digital Wealth International. He reports to Matteo Andreetto, global head of NextGen Business Development and Digital Wealth. MacLeod joined from BlackRock.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management appointed Shin Sawada as managing director of its London office, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust International Limited. He succeeded Hiroki Moritani, who returned to Tokyo in July.

Fasanara Capital appointed James Hylands as head of artificial intelligence to lead the firm's newly-established Fasanara AI Lab. Hylands joined from Man Group.

TEAM, a wealth, asset management and complementary financial services group, appointed John Cusins to join its board as an independent non-executive director. Most notably, he co-founded and helped build Lumin Wealth Management.

William Blair Investment Management appointed Chandan Khanna as co-portfolio manager to work alongside Hugo Scott-Gall, head of William Blair’s Global Equity Team, to manage the newly-launched Global Leaders Select Strategy. Most recently, Khanna served as senior partner and portfolio manager at Eighteen48 Partners, managing the Sixteen02 Global Equity Fund. 

Canaccord Wealth appointed four experienced wealth planners. Ben Holland, Sarah Hendry and Chris Hallam joined the London office. Stuart Pryor joined the Birmingham team.

Birmingham-based Margetts, an independent fund management and Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) business, appointed Stephanie Knight, as head of risk. Knight spent more than 15 years in second-line risk roles at organisations including Birmingham Bank, Succession Wealth and HSBC. 

Multrees Investor Services, a provider of bespoke custody, investment administration and platform services for wealth managers, private banks and family offices, appointed Helen O’Neill as deputy chief executive officer. Previously, she spent nearly a decade as chief operating officer of Tatton Investment Management.

State Street Investment Management made three senior appointments within its European client coverage business. Alistair Byrne was named head of UK & Ireland client coverage; Gerben Lagerwaard was named head of Northern Europe & DACH client coverage; and Francesco Lomartire was named head of Southern Europe client coverage.

Keyridge Asset Management appointed Mark Wright as head of regional sales, UK. Wright has more than two decades of experience in sales distribution and investment research.

UK-based LGT Wealth Management appointed Richard Brown as a wealth manager in its Leeds office. Most recently he was a director at Union Bancaire Privée and formerly at Kleinwort Hambros, where he led the Yorkshire office and served as a senior private banker. 

Rothschild & Co appointed Samantha Beach as a director and client advisor in its UK Wealth Management business based in Manchester. Beach joined from Barclays Private Bank. She has more than 20 years of wealth management and private banking experience and held posts at Coutts & Co. 

Midlands-based BRI Wealth Management appointed Paul Stockton, as a non-executive director, subject to the completion of all regulatory and governance formalities. Stockton served as chief executive of Rathbones Group from 2019 to 2025.

The Malta subsidiary of London-headquartered wealth management group Bentley Reid appointed one of its senior team figures, Emily Burgess, as CEO. Burgess joined Bentley Trust (Malta) Limited in 2017, where she was named as trust manager, becoming a director in 2019.

Niina Äikäs, who was head of SEB’s Baltic division, was appointed country manager of SEB in Finland. Sonata Gutauskait-Bubnelien, country manager and CEO of SEB Lithuania, was appointed head of Baltic division and member of the group executive committee. Äikäs headed SEB’s Baltic division and has been a member of the group executive committee since 2021. 

London-based Sarasin & Partners, a global thematic investment manager, appointed two new partners: Tom Lindsey joined from the charities team, and Ben Gilbert joined from the private client team.

Vanguard appointed Rachel Baxter as head of investment management, Europe, based in London. She succeeded Geoff Parish, who returned to the US as global head of fixed income indexing. Baxter was previously co-head of the US bond index team.

UK-based BKL, a tax, accounting and business advisory firm, appointed Paul Barham as head of personal taxes. Previously, he served as head of personal tax assurance and international private client for the UK at Forvis Mazars. 

Franklin Templeton appointed Carl Tomlin as business development director in the UK wholesale team. Tomlin previously worked with First Sentier, Aviva Investors and Columbia Threadneedle in the Southwest, Midlands and Wales.

Schroders Wealth Management made a raft of C-suite and other senior appointments in different parts of its business. One arrival was Peter Flavel, a former Coutts and JP Morgan Wealth Management (APAC) chief executive and senior Standard Chartered executive on its private banking arm.

It appointed a new chief investment officer, Grace Lavelle, who succeeded Caspar Rock. She was the CIO for a decade and was named vice chair for Schroders Wealth Management. Wilaf Moore, appointed CEO, UK and Channel Islands for Cazenove Capital, spent more than 25 years with Schroders and Cazenove Capital. 

Neil De Sousa joined from HSBC Global Private Banking as head of Middle East and Geneva; most recently, he led HSBC's international global private banking business across the Middle East and North Africa, MENA, Asia, and UK markets in Switzerland. 

Jason Lai, who contributed to Schroders Wealth Management's development in Asia, stepped down from the board.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments appointed Richard Borthwick in the newly-created sales role of head of UK Wealth Solutions.

Canaccord Wealth appointed Guy Thornewill as direct equities director. Tom Becket  transitioned from co-chief investment officer to CIO. Richard Champion, co-CIO, stepped down from the business. Most recently, Thornewill served as head of global research and portfolio manager at Pie Funds.

Greenberg Traurig launched an integrated tax offering as part of its Milan office services. It also added a team led by Luca Marraffa, joining as shareholder, alongside Cristina Biscontri, Samuele Amato, and Aurora Jannacone Pazzi. The team joined from Di Tanno Associati. 

Citi Wealth appointed Matt Newnham to join the asset manager relationship team. Based in London, Newnham reports to Christine Curtiss, global head of asset manager relationships. 

Guernsey-based Bank Aston, part of the Aston Group, appointed Nick Leale as chief operating officer (COO).

Royal Bank of Canada appointed two co-CEOs for its RBC Europe Limited business. The co-leaders, whose roles were newly created, are Sian Hurrell and Robin Beer. Hurrell and Beer kept their existing roles as head of capital markets for Europe and head of global sales and relationship management and CEO of RBC Wealth Management Europe, respectively.

UBS appointed Mark Hammarskjold and Michael Maag as co-heads of global banking for Switzerland. The investment banking duo, who took over from Marco Superina, report regionally to Jens Haas, head of Investment Bank Switzerland.

Charles Russell Speechlys bolstered its private equity expertise, appointing James Paterson as partner in the corporate team. Paterson joined from Mishcon de Reya, where he was a partner in the corporate department.

HSBC appointed Nick Elias as head of Wealth Platforms, Wealth and Premier Solutions. Based in London, he reports to Lavanya Chari, head of Wealth and Premier Solutions, HSBC.

UK law firm Burges Salmon appointed Jessica Reed as a partner. Reed joined the London office from Farrer & Co.

Investec Bank appointed Terry Koizou as head of client relationship management in its UK corporate banking business. Before Investec, Koizou held senior roles at Citi Commercial Bank.

Julius Baer appointed former Standard Chartered interim group chief financial officer Peter Burrill as CFO. This came after the bank said in April that Evie Kostakis was stepping down and would leave the group after an orderly transition. Burrill, who has more than 30 years’ experience working in Germany, the UK, and the US, worked at Standard Chartered for nine years.

ZEDRA appointed Cameron Senior as regional head of its Crown Dependencies business, following a planned succession process. He joined ZEDRA in January.

Ogier, an offshore law firm, appointed regulatory specialist Martin Livingston as a consultant to meet growing demand for Cayman Islands regulatory expertise. 

Crestbridge Fiduciary made a series of mid-year promotions. They included Emma Sanford, who took on additional senior leadership responsibilities to become advisor the board as well as head of human resources. Vicky Edwards became an associate director within the firm’s compliance and regulatory risk team. Melloney Bond was promoted to senior manager in client operations; there were promotions for Stephanie De Sousa in client handling, Sarah Eden in HR, and Morgan Tupper in the accounts team.

UK-based Hargreaves Lansdown made two senior appointments: Charles Thompson as chief technology officer and Michael Finnegan as chief transformation officer. They previously worked for Vanguard.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Natixis CIB) appointed Luc Bernard as its chief executive officer for Natixis Services in India, Natixis CIB’s technology and innovation hub in Bangalore. Bernard succeeded Nilesh Iyer who moved on to pursue opportunities outside of the organisation. Bernard reports to Cécile de Sousa, chief operating officer, Asia Pacific & Middle East, Natixis CIB and Etienne Huret, head of Portugal and India hubs, Natixis.

Amundi appointed Petra Salesny as chief executive officer of Amundi Alpha Associates, Amundi's private market multi-management arm. Based in Zurich, Salesny continued as chief commercial officer. Salesny replaced Peter Derendinger, who decided to retire.

Citi Wealth appointed Michael Yannell as the head of hedge funds for investment solutions. Yannell rejoined the US bank in 2019, working in its hedge fund business.

St James’s Place appointed Chris Teschmacher as director of the CIO office. Most recently, he was a fund manager and head of the asset allocation investment specialist team at Legal & General Asset Management.

Boston, a multi-family office and multi-jurisdictional trust and corporate services provider with offices in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Malta, made a series of promotions and appointments within its Isle of Man office. Linda Graham was promoted to assistant manager within the business development team. Georgia Mathieson-Nelson was promoted to senior administrator within the business development team. The firm also appointed Paul Healey and Helen Hall as directors of the Isle of Man office.

Langham Hall, a global provider of partner-led fund administration, depositary and AIFMD services, appointed Richard Li as group chief financial officer. Li has worked at Kroll, KPMG and BDO. 

London-headquartered Gemcorp Group, an emerging markets investment firm, appointed former Goldman Sachs executive Carey Nemeth as president.

Standard Chartered appointed one of its senior executives, Margaret Harwood-Jones as CEO for Europe and the UK. Jörg Hessenmüller was named as chief executive for Standard Chartered Bank AG, its European business, succeeding Nicolo Salsano.

Samir Atitallah was appointed CEO of ABS (Middle East) of Arab Bank Switzerland. Previously, he was CEO for Mirabaud Middle East Ltd, based in Dubai. 

7IM appointed one of its own senior figures, Agustin Fernandez, as chief corporate development officer. Fernandez, who is a member of the company’s executive committee, joined 7IM in 2023. 

Asia-Pacific
Indosuez Wealth Management said Muriel Aboud Schirmann, head of advisory and capital markets in Switzerland, had relocated from Geneva to Singapore.

It also appointed Louis Shen as head of discretionary portfolio management (DPM) for Asia. He joined from Nomura, where led the DPM team.

Julius Baer appointed former Bank of Singapore senior manager Nira Tanoko as market head for Southeast Asia.  Based in Singapore, Tanoko reports to Jimmy Lee, member of the global wealth management committee and region head for Asia. At Bank of Singapore, Tanoko, who was market head, Indonesia, worked in wealth management for more than 20 years.

TEAM, an international wealth, asset management and financial services group headquartered in Jersey, appointed Sariel Khoo as a wealth manager in Singapore within its NEBA Private Clients division. She joined from SG Alliance, where she was a wealth manager. Khoo is the first advisor to be appointed specifically to serve the Singaporean markets. 

Baillie Gifford appointed Calvin Liew as client relationship director, Singapore, to lead client relationships and business development across Southeast Asia.
Liew joined from Fullerton Fund Management, where he was managing director and head of institutional client solutions. He also worked at Colchester Global Investors, Cambridge Associates, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and PIMCO.

RBC Wealth Management in Asia made a range of hires:

-- Ivy Ma was appointed executive director in Hong Kong. With more than 20 years of financial markets experience, Ma joined from Standard Chartered Bank. 
-- Jackson Huang was named director in Hong Kong. Most recently, he was senior director at Bank J Safra Sarasin, and previously worked at DBS Private Bank, Bank Julius Baer, and Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management.
-- Malcolm Chai was appointed as associate director in Hong Kong. Chai joined from UBS Global Family and Institutional Wealth. Previously, he served in relationship management roles at Bank Julius Baer and earlier positions at OCBC Bank and Credit Suisse across Singapore and Hong Kong.
-- In Singapore, Shirley Tee was appointed as MD, team head. Tee joined RBC as a team head for North Asia from the Bank of Singapore.
-- George Joseph was appointed as director in Singapore. He joined the global south Asia team at RBC from DBS Private Banking.
-- Sindy Shi was made associate director in Singapore. She joined from UOB, where she served as a privilege banking relationship manager for offshore Greater China.

Standard Chartered made five hires to join its global chief investment office team: Robin Xie (senior investment strategist), Cindy Lam (senior investment strategist) and Ryan Goh (investment strategist) joined the equity strategy team, Vincent Tan joined as a senior investment strategist covering foreign exchange, and Jay Harindrar joined as an investment strategist to support the expansion of the bank’s CIO offering in the alternatives space.

KKR appointed Roy Gori, former president and CEO of Manulife, as a senior advisor. Gori, a prominent figure in the global insurance and financial services industry, advises KKR on strategic opportunities across global financial services and insurance with a focus on Asia-Pacific and international markets. He is originally from Australia.

Levia Goh joined the investment management team at Barclays Private Bank in Singapore as a portfolio analyst, having previously worked at Nomura. Goh reports to Ong Shun Wei, head of investment management in Singapore for Barclays, who in turn reports to London-based Olivier Asselin, global co-head of investment Management.

Amundi has appointed Jason Lim as head of distribution and wealth sales – South Asia ex Malaysia & Thailand, based in Singapore. He reports to Albert Tse, chief executive officer of Amundi in South Asia, and to Gaëtan Delculée, head of distribution and wealth.

Lim is responsible for relationship management and business development across private banks, retail banks, insurers, IFAs and platforms in the region. He joined from Allianz Global Investors, where he was most recently a director and team lead in wholesale distribution for Southeast Asia. He previously worked at Aberdeen Asset Management, Franklin Templeton and Citibank.

Keenai, a wealthtech platform for accredited investors built in partnership with Lighthouse Canton, appointed Varun Mittal as country head, Singapore. Mittal was most recently chief digital and innovation officer at Singlife. 

Neuberger, an investment manager, appointed Bertrand Ng as alternative product specialist, APAC. Based in Singapore, he joined the client coverage team and reports to Jose Cosio, head of intermediary, EMEA, LatAm and APAC. Ng was formerly with iCapital SG Pte, where he was chief executive officer, leading the firm's Singapore operations.

UOB Private Bank appointed Judy Chan as managing director, Hong Kong. She is based in Hong Kong and reports to Chew Mun Yew, head of group private bank. Chan has almost 30 years of banking experience. 

Deutsche Bank said Jennifer Tay joined the German lender as vice chair for Southeast Asia, reporting to head of Southeast Asia, Johanes Oeni. She was most recently at Citigroup. Tay, who has more than two decades’ industry experience, served as market executive, investment counselling head, for Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia New Zealand and Asia South. 

Lighthouse Canton, an investment group, appointed former banking executive Angela Saik as managing director, wealth management in Singapore. Saik previously worked at Royal Bank of Canada, Pictet Wealth Management and DBS Private Bank.

Schroders appointed Peter Flavel as chair and independent non-executive director of the board of Schroder & Co (Asia) Limited. Flavel works with Evonne Tan, the recently-appointed CEO of Schroders Wealth Management, Asia. Flavel is also a director at India-based Waterfield Advisors, a multi-family office. An Australian national, Flavel served in senior leadership roles across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. He established Standard Chartered’s global Private Bank and later served as CEO of JP Morgan Private Wealth Management for Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. Most recently, he was CEO of Coutts in the UK, part of NatWest Group; he left in July 2023. 

International law firm White & Case expanded its global financial restructuring and insolvency practice and global private capital industry group, adding Tarun Warriar as a partner in Hong Kong. Warriar joined from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he was a partner, prior to which he was managing director and Asia-Pacific general counsel at Värde Partners.

Barclays appointed former Bank of Singapore senior manager Nikhil Jha as head of Non-Resident Indian business in the private bank, Singapore. Jha reports to Alex Harrison, the country CEO in Singapore and head of the Singapore private bank for the UK lender.

RBC Wealth Management in Asia appointed Thomas Jost in the newly-formed role of head of the financial intermediaries desk, based in Singapore. Jost has served in senior leadership roles at banks including UBS, Credit Suisse, VP Bank, EFG Bank, and Julius Baer.

German asset manager DWS appointed JB Park as head of alternatives client coverage for the Asia-Pacific region. Park, who is a managing director based in Singapore, has more than 20 years of regional capital-raising and cross-border expertise in real estate, private equity and alternative investments. Prior to this, he worked at LaSalle Investment Management.

Ninety One, a UK-headquartered investment firm, said the portfolio manager for the Global Gold strategy and a co-portfolio manager for its Global Natural Resources (GNR) strategy had moved to its Singapore office. George Cheveley will move at the start of September. 

Acadian Asset Management Singapore appointed Sheauyien Wang as director, Southeast Asia sales. Before this, Wang was head of Southeast Asia institutional business at Lombard. Previously, she served as managing director and head of Asia ex-Japan sales at State Street Global Advisors Singapore.

Andy Neo joined UBS as its new head of real estate lodging and leisure, or "RELL," for Southeast Asia. Neo, who joined from Jefferies, has had a career spanning investment banking (Citi, Standard Chartered) as well as Singapore corporates.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Natixis CIB) appointed Luc Bernard as its chief executive officer for Natixis Services in India, Natixis CIB’s technology and innovation hub in Bangalore. Bernard succeeded Nilesh Iyer who moved on to pursue opportunities outside the organisation.

HSBC appointed Dimitri Anghelakis as a new head of trust and fiduciary services. He succeeded Brent York, who retired after more than four decades at the bank. York will remain with the firm as an advisor until the middle of 2027 to ensure an orderly transition. Anghelakis moved to Hong Kong from London.

M&G Investments appointed Ruth Poh as Asia-Pacific compliance head, based in Singapore. She reports to Tim Page, the chief compliance officer for M&G Investments. Poh joined from UBS Asset Management, where she was head of compliance and operational risk control. She is also chair of the regulatory committee at the Investment Management Association of Singapore.

HP Wealth Management, the Singapore-headquartered independent wealth manager, appointed Michael Sutter and Alex Grindley as senior relationship managers. Both joined from UBS Singapore, where they served in senior roles within the wealth management division.

HSBC appointed Gloria Sun as the market head for “Offshore Taiwan” at its private banking arm. The role was a newly formed one. Based in Hong Kong, Sun reports to Kanas Chan, private banking head for North Asia and Hong Kong; she leads lead the offshore Taiwan teams in Hong Kong and Singapore. Sun has more than 20 years of leadership experience in private banking and wealth management across Greater China. Most recently, she served as senior market head for Taiwan at DBS.

North America
RBC Wealth Management-US added the Focus Wealth Management team to its Palm Beach Gardens branch. The seven-person team joined from UBS. The team is led by managing directors and financial advisors James "Trey" Mahoney III and Peter Foley Jr, alongside Justin Warzala, senior vice president and financial advisor. They are supported by Lori DeJesus, senior business associate, Will Garrett, investment associate, Paula Echeverry, registered client associate, and Thomas Cooper, client associate.

Valeon Partner, a merchant bank, appointed Lawson Smith, former managing director at Houlihan Lokey, as MD responsible for overseeing the firm’s market strategies.

Financial advisors Frank Patton and Kimberlee Mott joined Balmville Wealth Group, an LPL Financial-aligned wealth management firm, through LPL's broker-dealer and RIA platforms. The pair, formerly of PacK Financial, moved from Cetera. The managers are based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Cresset expanded its Santa Barbara office, and hired managing director, wealth advisor Cory Boggs. This is a newly formed role. Boggs has more than 15 years of experience advising entrepreneurs, business owners, and multi-generational families of wealth. Prior to joining Cresset, Boggs served as a wealth manager with Manchester Capital Management,

Mesirow appointed Linda K Myers to join its board of directors. Myers retired from law practice in 2022 after more than 30 years as a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she served on the firm's global executive management committee for over a decade.

PNC Financial Services Group, which provides services including wealth management, appointed Christian Winward as chief information security officer. He reports to Debbie Guild, head of technology at PNC. Winward, who joined from FirstBank, which became part of PNC earlier this year, served as chief information officer and sat on the bank's senior leadership team. Winward succeeded Susan Koski, who left the bank earlier this year.

Nathan Hummel joined Rosenberg & Parker as the firm's financial institutions practice leader. He leads a team advising banks, insurers, institutional investors and corporate clients on risk transfer, bank-fronted surety, standby letters of credit, guarantees, trade finance and credit risk distribution. Hummel previously held senior positions in trade finance, capital markets and syndications at Allianz Trade, Capital One, WSFS/Bryn Mawr, Commerzbank and Morgan Stanley. 

UBS said private wealth advisors Jesse Flatt, Lea Ann Drew, Brandon Burns and Carlos Rodriguez joined in Tampa, Florida, from Bank of America Private Bank. The team serves ultra-high net worth families and business owners. The appointees joined UBS's Greater Florida/Gulf Coast market, part of the firm's Southeast region, reporting to Tampa Bay senior market director Jack Heiss.

The firm also appointed former Morgan Stanley figure Samuel Duckett as a financial advisor in its Austin, Texas office. Duckett reports to market executive Tommy Stacy and market director Jeff Bidstrup.

Citi Private Bank has appointed a senior industry executive, Yannick Archambault, as market executive for its Canada business. He reports to Chris Biotti, head of North America at the private bank, with a matrix to Raymond Gatcliffe, chief country officer for Canada. Archambault brings more than 30 years of wealth management leadership experience in Canada, the US and Asia. Most recently, Archambault served as president, private wealth at Nicola Wealth. 

Cetera named Craig Bartlett community leader of Cetera Financial Specialists (CFS), a collection of tax-focused financial professionals within Cetera. Bartlett brings more than 30 years of leadership experience across wealth management, broker-dealer, insurance and advisory platforms, including Choreo, Creative Planning/Wipfli Financial Advisors, US Bank, UBS, Transamerica and Allstate.

AlTi Global hired Cesar Pachon to lead its Miami office. Pachon is a senior wealth advisor with more than two decades of experience serving ultra-high net worth individuals, families and entrepreneurs. He was a founding partner of a multi-family office in South Florida and has advised internationally-connected families on wealth planning.

RBC Wealth Management – US added the KPM Wealth Advisory Group to its Dallas branch. The six-person team from Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, previously oversaw nearly $1.6 billion in client assets. The KPM Wealth Advisory Group includes Donald Kinsey, managing director – financial advisor; Travis Moss, managing director – FA; Matthew Pickett, managing director – FA; Shawn Ezzo, senior financial associate; Stephanie Mareth, senior financial associate; and Jacob Gross, client associate.

Cresset appointed Dheeraj Soni as chief technology officer; most recently, he was MD and head of trading at the firm. Before that, Soni served in senior technology leadership roles at JP Morgan Advisors and First Republic Bank. 

Akerman, a law firm, appointed Adam von Poblitz, former Citi Private Bank global head of wealth advisory, as a partner and chair of its family office practice, based in Miami. Before joining Akerman, von Poblitz spent nearly two decades at Citi Private Bank. 

Summitry, a San Francisco Bay Area-registered investment advisor (RIA), appointed Summitry president Alex Katz and chief operating officer Conor Wilkes as co-CEOs. They succeeded Colin Higgins who, after 22 years of leadership, moved into the role of executive-chairman.

Former Dentons partner Jeremy Gerch joined as a senior vice president of the Baird Trust Wealth and Family Office. 

Eton Advisors, a multi-family office, appointed Molly Baumberger as senior wealth manager and member of the leadership team. She is based in Miami, Florida. Baumberger most recently served as senior vice president and senior relationship manager at a global bank and trust company.

Family Office Partners, a boutique multi-family office and advisory platform backed by wealth manager Elevation Point, appointed Patrick Keller and Andrew C Keller to lead the firm’s expansion in Houston. They joined from Inscription Capital.

PEI Group, a source of data and intelligence for investment professionals across private markets, appointed Georgene Huang as chief product officer. She is based in the firm’s New York office, and reports to CEO Edouard Tavernier. Formerly at Fortune, Huang most recently served as chief product and data officer, and previously held senior leadership positions at Bloomberg and Dow Jones. She also founded and led her own company for more than seven years.

Global business advisory group EisnerAmper said Tim Drozd joined as a partner and the chief financial officer. 

Wealth planning firm Choreo promoted Ray Morrill to chief wealth officer. Most recently, he was senior director, wealth management at Choreo. 

Fiduciary Trust International appointed Sue Wilchusky as the firm’s chief administrative officer. Wilchusky, who is based in the firm’s office in Radnor, Pennsylvania, reports to Adam Spector, chief executive officer. Craig Richards remains as chief operating officer and head of tax. Prior to this, Wilchusky worked at Brandywine Global, where she served as chief operating officer.

William Blair Investment Management appointed one of its senior figures, Olga Bitel, as chief investment strategist, a newly-created role. She is based in Chicago.

Cerity Partners appointed Will Peng as its first chief innovation officer. Peng, who has a background as an entrepreneur, executive, and product leader, most recently served as CEO of Northstar, a fintech company he founded.

Prairie Wealth Advisors, an RIA, appointed Mike Finnegan as chief investment officer, based in Omaha. He previously served in senior leadership roles at ManchesterStory Fund Management, Guggenheim Investment Management and Principal Financial Group.

Kestra Financial added Austen Karr and promoted Jack Roller, both serving as business development consultants. Karr, who came from Raymond James, where he served as vice president for nearly 11 years, covers Southern California, Colorado, Nevada, and Hawaii. Roller joined Kestra in 2022 as a financial planning analyst. Most recently, he served as a senior business development consultant. In his new role, he leads recruitment across Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Alaska.

Katten, the international law firm, appointed Josh Kaufman as a partner in its capital markets practice. He serves as a managing partner in its new Miami office.

Arch, an AI-powered platform for private market portfolios, appointed Keith Soura as chief technology officer. Soura joined Arch from mortgage fintech Better.com, where he led engineering. Previously, he served as CTO of proptech firm VERO. 

Raymond James roundup
Raymond James Financial Services, the independent advisor channel of Raymond James, added a five-person advisory team based in Venice, Florida. The team joined from Stifel: Jim Tate, managing partner and Kelley Tate, partner. It also includes their sons Jake Tate, financial advisor, and Alex Tate, client service associate, along with Imelda Locke, client service associate.

Laetitia Boyle was named division director for the Central division of Raymond James Financial Services’ independent contractor division (ICD).

The independent advisor channel of Raymond James welcomed a four-advisor team from Stifel led by Kenneth A Sanchez, according to Theresa Schnetz, the channel's Western division director. The team also includes Lee Wolfe, Mitchell Kauffman and KaNoi Lam. 

Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Richard Knight, Brent Detweiler and Phillip Margy to the firm's independent advisor channel. The team came from Truist Investment Services. 

LPL Financial roundup
LPL Financial said the advisors of HighWater Wealth joined its broker-dealer and RIA platform, aligned with Quotient Advisor Partners, an existing firm supporting LPL-affiliated advisors. The team, which reported serving about $2.4 billion in advisory assets, was formerly with US Bank. Based in San Diego, HighWater Wealth serves high net worth individuals and families. The team consists of Kristian Forster, Mike Rookus, Falko Hörnicke, Tim Davidson, and Brian Rissman.

The firm also said the financial advisors of Buell Wealth Management joined its broker-dealer and RIA platform. The team, which reported serving about $370 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets, joined from Buell Securities Corporation. Based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Buell Wealth Management is led by CEO Chris Berris, who has more than 40 years of industry experience and has served in his leadership role since 1997. 

Financial advisor Brian Lubel affiliated with its supported independence model, LPL Independent Advisor Network, to support his existing independent practice, Cypress Point Wealth Partners.

The business appointed David Logsdon to join its broker-dealer and RIA, based in the Sun Valley, Idaho area. Logsdon joined from Wells Fargo Advisors.