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BNY Mellon WM Names New York Market Head
Thomas Coyle
24 September 2009
BNY Mellon Wealth Management has appointed industry veteran Doris Meister as its regional president for the New York area. She'll be responsible for sales, portfolio management and private banking in metropolitan New York, which takes in Manhattan, other parts of New York State and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.
“Doris brings with her an exceptional record of 30 years in wealth management and financial service,” says BNY Mellon's US-markets chief Larry Hughes. "Her active leadership and professional expertise will be instrumental in helping us expand our presence in the largest wealth-management market in the world.”
Meister was most recently a senior vice president with
AllianceBernstein. Prior to that, she was head of
Merrill Lynch's Private Banking and Investment group. Before joining Merrill in 1999, she worked in Fleet Bank's wealth-management group.
Merrill became a part of
Bank of America in 2009; Bank of America acquired Fleet in 2003.
At BNY Mellon Wealth Management Meister will work closely with national sales director Tom Hurlbrink, head of private banking Bill Sappington, and New York portfolio-management managing director Pat Crowe.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management manages about $142 billion in private -client assets.