Brown Brothers Harriman, a privately-held financial services firm, brought in Michael Kim to serve as chief investment officer of its wealth management business, based in New York.

Kim, who rejoins the firm having initially started in 1994, will have overall responsibility for Brown Brothers Harriman Wealth Management's investment offering globally, including asset allocation, manager selection and investment performance. He reports to Charlie Izard, partner responsible for wealth management.

In addition to his CIO role, Kim will also co-chair the asset allocation committee, alongside chief investment strategist Scott Clemons.

La Vista, NE-based Securities America, an independent broker-dealer, added Ryan Kaufman as a registered representative.

Kaufman’s branch has nearly $1.3 million in annual revenue. His business, Koi Wealth Management, is located in Rocklin, CA. He joined from Woodbury Financial Services.

San Francisco-headquartered Union Bank appointed Michael Mortensen as chief executive of its brokerage subsidiary, UnionBanc Investment Services.

Mortensen was latterly president and chief executive of PNC Investments, the retail brokerage of PNC Financial Services Group. He worked at the firm for 18 years in total.

At Union, he will report to Dennis Mooradian, executive vice president and head of wealth markets. He replaces Steven Short, who left the firm earlier this year.

Cambridge Associates, the investment advice and research provider, appointed Jeffrey Mansukhani as a managing director, responsible for the firm’s research navigator strategy.

Mansukhani was previously a specialist consultant at Cambridge, creating and overseeing private portfolios for university, foundation, non-profit and family wealth clients, with total assets of between $200 million and over $100 billion.

Abigail Johnson was named president of Fidelity Investments, succeeding her father, Edward Johnson, who will now serve as chairman and chief executive.

In her most recent position at Fidelity, Abigail Johnson was president of the personal, workplace and institutional services organization, which includes the retail and institutional brokerage divisions, as well as retirement and benefits services.

Barclays named a new chief executive to succeed former leader Bob Diamond, who resigned last month over the interbank rate-rigging scandal. Antony Jenkins, who currently leads Barclays' retail and business banking business, starts immediately in the top role. He joined the group executive committee of Barclays in 2009. His previous role as CEO for retail and business banking included responsibility for retail banking in Barclays Africa and Absa.

Jenkins will report to newly-instated chairman-elect Sir David Walker, who himself replaced former chairman Marcus Agius. Agius, who resigned the day before Diamond, continues as chairman until November, when Walker will take up the mantle.

Nasdaq-listed Enterprise Financial Services appointed Michael Kowalkowski as chief investment officer of Enterprise Trust, the firm’s wealth management, private banking and financial advisory division.

Prior to joining Enterprise, Kowalkowski served as senior portfolio manager at TIAA-CREF Trust Company. 

Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of France’s Societe Generale, appointed Michael Bernstein head of North America business development.

Bernstein has been with Lyxor since 2009, most recently holding the role of head of US pensions and consultants. The firm is also looking to expand its local business development team to support its growth in North America.

Nasdaq-listed Calamos Asset Management added Keith Schappert and William Shiebler as independent board members, effective August 22, 2012.

Earlier in his career, Schappert spent just under three decades at JP Morgan Investment Management, eventually taking over the role of president and chief executive of that business. He has owned his own consulting firm since 2008.

Shiebler was CEO for the Americas for Deutsche Asset Management up until his retirement in 2007.

Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank has taken on Helen Zhou as managing director of private banking of its Private Client Reserve in San Francisco, CA.

Zhou will oversee specialized lending and depository services for clients, for both their personal and professional accounts. She will also be in charge of leading and expanding the private banking team and client base in San Francisco, Palo Alto and San Jose.

Previously, Zhou was a vice president and senior private banker at Wells Fargo, where she oversaw full-service banking, investment management and trust, and brokerage relationships with high net worth families.

SignatureFD, the Atlanta, GA-based RIA, appointed Jim Tally as a partner of the firm and senior relationship manager.

Tally joined from US Trust, where he was a senior vice president and private client advisor. Before that he worked at BofA Private Wealth Management, Merrill Lynch and SunTrust.

Bank of America's Merrill Lynch expanded its broker force in New York and North Carolina by recruiting three senior advisors from UBS’s Americas wealth management group.

The new hires, who moved to Merrill in early August, managed more than $323 million in client assets at UBS and generated roughly $3 million in annual production last year.

In New York, Lee Miller and Andrew Pleat joined Merrill's Saratoga Springs office after more than five years at UBS Wealth Management Americas. They managed $182.6 million in client assets together and had annual production of $1.2 million.

In North Carolina, Mark Kean joined Merrill's Cary office after eight years at UBS, where he managed $140.5 million in client assets and generated $1.8 million in annual production. Kean, a roughly three-decade industry veteran, worked at Citigroup prior to joining UBS's Raleigh office.

SunTrust Bank appointed Deborah Minnick as president and private wealth managing director for Collier County, FL.

Minnick is based in the Pelican Bay office from where she oversees SunTrust’s private wealth management client advisors throughout the Naples and Bonita Springs markets.

Kevin Cloherty was promoted to global compliance chief for Manulife Financial and John Hancock, based in Boston, MA.

Previously, Cloherty was senior vice president and deputy global compliance chief to James Gallagher, executive vice president, general counsel and chief administrative officer at John Hancock Financial Services.

Cloherty is responsible for Manulife's compliance activities throughout the US, Canada and Asia. He reports to J-P Bisnaire, Manulife's senior executive vice president of the corporate development and general counsel, and the audit committee.

The Hartford Financial Services Group is letting go of its wealth management head David Levenson effective September 28, ahead of an agreed departure date in February 2013.

The Hartford is undergoing significant restructuring at the moment, and earlier this year the firm offered Levenson a retention bonus of up to $2 million to remain “actively employed” through February 28, 2013. However, it filed a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it released Levenson from its earlier agreement.

Emerging Global Advisors, the emerging markets asset management firm, appointed Susan Ciccarone from Goldman Sachs as chief financial officer.

Ciccarone joined after three years at Goldman Sachs’ financial institutions group. She is also a former UBS employee, having joined Goldman from UBS in 2009 after working at the Swiss firm since 2002. She became a managing director at Goldman in 2010.

Legacy Family Office, a Naples-based multi-family office, took on Danielle Dion as a client service associate.

Prior to her appointment at Legacy, Dion was executive assistant and office manager for American Capital Wealth Managers, an SEC-registered independent investment advisor.

Los Angeles, CA-based accounting firm Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt appointed Dennis Ito as a tax partner within its Encino office.

Ito provides income, retirement and estate tax compliance and consulting for private business owners, investors, retirees and executives.

The PrivateBank appointed John Keegan as managing director and head of private wealth for the Michigan region, and named Bruce Beaumont managing director and investment advisor.

Keegan joined the firm from Bank of America/US Trust, where he spent most of his nearly 25-year career so far. Most recently, he served as senior vice president and Michigan market investment director. In his new role, he reports to Kristine Garrett, head of private wealth.

Bank of America named Michael Lawrence, who was recently promoted to complex director for New Mexico for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, as president for the state.

He replaces Jim Smith, who is moving to a new role at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Chicago.

Lawrence joined Merrill Lynch in 2000, when he started out there as a financial advisor. He now oversees 75 financial advisors along with other employees in six offices in New Mexico.

Calamos Investments appointed Gary Black as global co-chief investment officer as it acquired his firm, Black Capital.

Black will be responsible for leading the investment team along with founder John Calamos, replacing Nick Calamos. He will oversee portfolio management, research, trading and risk management. Concurrent with his appointment, Calamos Investments added a long/short equity capability through the acquisition.

Before founding Black Capital, Black served as chief executive of Janus Capital Group from January 2006 through July 2009.

Meanwhile, Nick Calamos, president of investments and global co-chief investment officer, is stepping back from his day-to-day role at the business while remaining on its board of directors. He will spend more time on personal interests.

DA Davidson & Co, the investment firm, appointed Dustin Brumbaugh as senior vice president, director of individual investor group research.

Brumbaugh will oversee equity research at the firm for its individual investor group, which provides services to individual investors, businesses and nonprofit clients. He will be based in Seattle. The firm has around 235 financial consultants and Brumbaugh will work on creating new channels to deliver research to them and their clients.

He joined the firm from EK Riley Investments, a Seattle-based firm, where he was senior vice president, director of research. Before that he worked at Wells Fargo Investments, where he was a senior equity analyst in his latest role.

RBC Wealth Management changed its senior leadership team.

Paul Patterson, currently head of global trust, was appointed to the position of deputy chair, RBC Wealth Management, for ultra high net worth - international. He is based in London.

This move followed Michael Lagopoulos’ decision to retire from RBC after 26 years’ service, on October 31.

Stuart Rutledge, who is currently head, global wealth services, strategy and transformation, was appointed to the position of head, global trust, RBC Wealth Management. He is based in Jersey. As chair of RBC's global trust advisory board, he will also oversee RBC Wealth Management’s trust business internationally.

Both men, whose appointments become effective as of October 1, will remain on RBC Wealth Management’s operating committee and continue to report to George Lewis, global head, RBC Wealth Management.

Malvern, PA-based Palladiem, an independent investment advisory firm that provides strategies to financial advisors and broker-dealers, appointed financial services veteran John Lake as national sales director.

Prior to joining Palladiem, Lake served as a regional director for Loring Ward and as an assistant vice president and senior regional director for Lockwood Advisors, an affiliate of BNY Mellon’s Pershing.

At Lockwood, Lake was responsible for wholesaling discretionary unified managed account, mutual fund wrap and separately managed account products to the independent advisor and RIA channels across 14 states.

KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory firm, added a raft of partners and managing directors to its alternative investment funds practice, citing the “increasingly complex” environment that investment managers face.

Ted Carreiro joined as a federal tax partner, based in Boston. He most recently worked with alternative investment fund clients, helping them become FATCA-compliant. He is a former managing director of State Street Bank and Trust’s alternative investment fund group.

Also in Boston, Laura Thompson joined as a managing director in the international tax practice, with a focus on asset management and fund families in Boston and New York. She joined from Bain Capital, where she was a vice president of the general partner group.

Angela Yu joined the New York office as a partner for the US real estate tax practice. Prior to this role, she was an international tax partner at KPMG’s Washington national tax practice and Vancouver US tax planning practice.   

On the West Coast, the firm added Michael Richards as a partner, responsible for leading its transaction services practice there. He was latterly a partner at another “Big Four” firm, where he provided M&A advisory services to large private equity clients.

Rounding off the hires, KPMG brought in Phillip DeSalvo as a senior manager for tax. Before joining the firm, he worked at an international public accounting firm, based in San Francisco.

Charlotte Beyer stepped down from her role as chief executive of the Institute for Private Investors.

Beyer founded the organization and had been at the helm for 20 years. At the beginning of last year she oversaw the firm’s sale to Campden Media, and going forward Dominic Samuelson, managing director of Campden Wealth, will take on full responsibility for IPI.

Mindy Rosenthal, executive director of IPI and managing director of Campden Wealth, US, has also taken on some of Beyer’s day-to-day responsibilities, along with Samuelson.

Beyer will remain involved, serving as a strategic advisor to the Private Wealth Management program, which the firm runs in collaboration with The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Singapore Management University.

Chicago’s HighTower took on the Dillig Bowen Group duo - managing approximately $1 billion for ultra high net worth families - from Credit Suisse.

Matt Dillig and Ted Bowen join as partners and managing directors and will operate from the firm's Chicago, IL, headquarters. Together, the pair has 22 years of experience in the financial services sector and represents the eighth new advisor team to join HighTower so far this year.

Bank of America's Merrill Lynch hired two private wealth advisors from Abbot Downing, Wells Fargo's ultra high net worth wealth arm.

Westcott Jones and Scott Vogel oversaw more than $1 billion in client assets for Abbot Downing. They joined Merrill Lynch's private banking and investment group in late July.

The pair was previously part of Lowry Hill, a boutique wealth management firm that merged with Wells Fargo's family wealth business in April to form Abbot Downing.

The two advisors, based in Wayzata, MN, joined the team of Swenson Jones & Associates, a part of Merrill Lynch's private banking and investment group which serves ultra high net worth clients.

San Francisco-based Sanctuary Wealth Services appointed Bernie Notas as chief financial officer of Sanctuary Securities, its registered broker-dealer firm.

Notas previously served as CFO of BTIG, OffRoad Capital, Montgomery Securities, and Rooney Pace Group.

Meanwhile, Jill DeMayo joined the firm as a compliance officer at both Sanctuary Wealth Advisors and Sanctuary Securities. She has 15 years of industry experience and will work alongside Talia Brandt, who has served as a compliance officer at Sanctuary for the past three years.

JHS Capital Advisors, a dual registered broker-dealer and RIA, appointed Steven Lofquist as a first vice president, financial advisor.

Lofquist is based in the firm’s Leawood, KS, office and manages $40 million in client assets. He joined from RBC Wealth Management, where he was a vice president for three years. During his time there he was selected to join a consulting group of advisors who had successfully built fee-based businesses.

Raleigh, NC-based Hatteras Funds, the alternative investment manager, promoted Robert Murphy to chief investment officer of the firm’s alternative mutual funds.

Murphy will lead the investment team while continuing in his role as director of risk management. He also remains as co-portfolio manager of the alternative mutual funds, alongside Mike Hennen.

Philadelphia-based Janney Montgomery Scott appointed Jeff Smith as senior vice president and branch manager of its Washington, DC, office - a role in which he will lead the firm’s expansion in the Capital Region.

Smith will report to James Dornan, regional manager. He started his career in the financial services industry in 1990 as a financial advisor, moving to Legg Mason in 2004 as director of sales for the central division.

Evercore Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Evercore Partners, appointed Jordan Szekely - latterly of Goldman Sachs - as a vice president and financial advisor.

At Goldman Sachs, Szekely served as a wealth advisor to high net worth individuals, families and foundations. In his New York-based role at Evercore he will work with colleagues in Minneapolis and San Francisco, reporting to Wendy Barasch, partner and head of sales and marketing.

Kansas-based Mariner Wealth Advisors, an independent advisory firm, took on Paul Lutz as an advisor in Lee’s Summit, MO.

New Jersey-based Beacon Trust Company, a subsidiary of The Provident Bank, hired Frank Deluca as a vice president and wealth advisor.

Deluca joined Beacon Trust from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was a client manager and wealth management banker. There he was responsible for a portfolio of 400 households with $100 million in total deposits and investments, and $75 million in loans.

Chicago’s Northern Trust appointed Norman Greenidge as national director of the firm's professional athlete group - a role in which he will focus on meeting the unique wealth management needs of this client segment.

Greenidge reports to Michele Havens, president for the Los Angeles, CA, region.

The tax firm WTAS brought in Paul Laughlin as a managing director at its private client services office, based in Chicago. Laughlin joined from Deloitte Tax, where he was a partner for a decade, following a 24-year stint at Arthur Anderson.

Peter Wyrough joined Concert Wealth Management as an advisor, launching the firm’s first office in the Washington, DC, area. Wyrough - who joined Concert in early August from brokersXpress - also plans to expand Concert’s advisor presence in the region.

M&I Wealth Management, part of BMO Financial Group, promoted Michelle McAfoos to regional director of private banking for the central states region.

McAfoos will oversee the operations, business development and client relationships of three private banking teams in the Kansas City and St Louis, MO, and Indianapolis, IN, markets. The teams serve clients with at least $1 million in investable assets.

Bank of America appointed Larry Otto, Midwest regional president for US Trust, to the additional roles of Missouri state president and St Louis market president.

Otto is a long-time BofA employee: he joined a predecessor institution of the firm in 1977. He replaces Patricia Mercurio in the state and market president roles. She held them for over a decade but is retiring in October.

New York-listed Raymond James added the Gables Legacy group, who latterly managed $300 million in client assets at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, to its practice in South Florida.

The team consists of advisors Vann Wilder, senior vice president of investments, and Van Martin, wealth management specialist and advisor, in addition to Maria Wilder, their associate.

RBC Wealth Management expanded its advisor base in California with a team of hires from Wells Fargo Advisors, the brokerage unit owned by San Francisco, CA-based Wells Fargo.

Tim Bockhold and Bob Voorhees, senior vice president and first vice president respectively, previously managed over $200 million in client assets with their team at Wells. At RBC they operate from the office in Newport Beach and are joined by client associates Maureen Ortiz and Kathleen Carroll.

Fifth Third Bank appointed Martin de St Pierre as a wealth management advisor for the South Florida affiliate, based in Naples. de St Pierre joins from US Bank, where he was vice president and regional wealth management consultant for the West Coast of Florida.

Two financial practices based in Connecticut and Utah joined Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, Wells Fargo's independent retail brokerage arm, with a combined $225 million in assets under management.

The JayPex Financial group in Uncasville, CT, is comprised of financial advisors Jayme Lemaire and Jamie Nowakowski, with $1.1 million in production and over $96 million in AuM. Lemaire and Nowakowski joined Wells from Citizens Bank.

Meanwhile, in St George, UT, the Schofield group investment management team consists of father and son Richard and Dustin Schofield, who were most recently with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Together, they manage $128 million in assets, with 35 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Palisades Hudson Financial Group expanded to the West Coast this month, naming Paul Jacobs as its new chief investment officer, among a raft of other hires and promotions at the Scarsdale, NY-based firm.

Jacobs, a long-time Palisades employee, took over as CIO from Jonathan Bergman, who left the firm last month. The firm said Jacobs will remain as manager of the firm's Atlanta, GA, office.

Fiduciary Trust Company International took on Gloria Fieldcamp as managing director of business development, based in New York. She is responsible for building new investment and trust client relationships with individuals, families and foundations. She reports to Chisholm Lyons, executive vice president of the firm’s business development and marketing teams.

Fieldcamp was previously first vice president of the private banking and investment group at Merrill Lynch.

Bank of the West bolstered its wealth management segment with the addition of Drew Brahos and Bruce Wetter as market strategist and senior portfolio manager respectively.

Brahos is formerly of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, where he was a senior portfolio manager. Before that, he served as senior economist at Bank of America, focusing on international equity strategy, asset allocation and fixed income strategy.

Wetter was latterly a portfolio manager at HighMark Capital Management and a relationship manager within Union Bank’s private banking group. In his new role at Bank of the West he is based in San Francisco, CA.

Rothstein Kass acquired a 16-person team in the shape of Boston-based JDJ Resources Corporation, which will be incorporated into the firm’s family office group. JDJ’s three partners, Doreen Biebusch, James Kittler and Steven Sarcione, joined Rothstein Kass as directors.

New York-headquartered Innovest Systems, the financial technology firm that specializes in trust accounting and wealth management services, appointed Glenn Schmidt as chief operating officer.

Schmidt is responsible for overseeing the client service, implementation, operations and product development teams, and will also contribute to overall strategic planning.

Most recently, Schmidt worked at JP Morgan as vice president of product and platform for its trust and estates business.

SEI appointed Douglas Pugliese as director of business development for its private wealth management segment, responsible for developing new client relationships with ultra high net worth individuals.

Prior to joining SEI, Pugliese served as executive managing director and principal of the Northeast region for a valuation consulting and financial advisory firm.

Michael Hutten rejoined Hatteras Funds, the alternative investment manager, as executive director - a role in which he will lead sales initiatives in the western US region, based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Hutten returns to the firm having served as western regional director from August 2006 until March 2011. In his new role, he will focus on business development and client relations, serving investment consultants, RIAs, and broker-dealers.

Laurie Burkhardt joined Modera Wealth Management as a financial advisor. Prior to joining Modera, she worked for LPL Financial as a financial planning consultant. She has also previously managed the financial planning services offering for high net worth and small business clients at a Boston-based financial services firm.

Robert Plaze, deputy director of investment management at the Securities and Exchange Commission, retired at the end of August after almost 30 years at the agency.

The SEC said Plaze had been a “key architect” of the rules governing investment advisors, investment companies, and private fund advisors.

Plaze joined the SEC in 1983 as an attorney within the investment management division. Most recently, he was in charge of rulemaking for money market mutual funds, as well as for implementing a Dodd-Frank Act requirement for hedge fund and other private fund advisors to register with the SEC.

Gentry Wealth Management added two wealth advisors who formerly worked at Fidelity to its office in Las Vegas, NV.

Dave Humphrey joined from Fidelity Investments, where he worked for 18 years. Taiya Thompson joined from Fidelity’s private client group, where she was a vice president and senior account executive. According to Gentry, the duo worked as part of a team which managed over $1 billion in assets.

BNP Paribas subsidiary Bank of the West appointed Scott Anderson as its chief economist, responsible for providing forecasts across the bank’s business lines and clients.

Anderson joined from Wells Fargo, where he was a director and senior economist. There, he contributed to macroeconomic forecasts and various outlooks and reports the bank publishes. He has experience analyzing the economies of the US and the major European and Asian countries.

California United Bank promoted Sam Kunianski, Stephen Pihl and William Sloan as executive vice presidents.

Kunianski, who joined the firm in 2006, manages commercial and private banking, while Sloan - who joined in 2005 - is the Santa Clarita Valley regional manager and also leads the firm's real estate lending business.

Meanwhile, Pihl joined from Premier Commercial Bank, which the firm acquired in July. He now serves as executive vice president of the Orange County market.

Cedar Brook Financial Partners, the Cleveland, OH-headquartered wealth manager, appointed David Anderson as chief compliance officer.

Before joining Cedar Brook, Anderson worked at ValMark Securities, providing compliance supervision for over 100 offices of registered representatives and investment advisor representatives. He has also served as a branch examiner at UBS Wealth Management, a role in which he led the conversion of performing and documenting branch exams to a paperless process.

RBC Wealth Management added two financial advisors - formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney - to its Washington, DC, broker force.

At MSSB, Paul Keats, a senior vice president, and John Keats, his son, managed $253 million in client assets. The pair was latterly based within MSSB’s Bethesda, MD, office.

McGladrey, an assurance, tax and consulting services provider, expanded its financial services investment practice in Connecticut, transferring partner Kislay Shah to its Stamford office.

In the Stamford office, Shah will guide clients on matters including reporting, management, incentive fees and performance measurement. Previously, Shah was based within the firm’s New York office, and has worked in the investment industry for over 22 years.

Northern Trust appointed Tony Glickman as senior vice president of global client solutions - a new position created to develop global solutions for clients including hedge funds, traditional asset managers and large institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds.

Glickman was most recently head of risk services for GlobeOp Financial Services.

Akron, OH-based FirstMerit appointed Michael Robinson as executive vice president, wealth management services.

Robinson joined from JP Morgan Chase, where he spent 27 years and held a number of leadership roles within the bank’s wealth management business.

He will relocate to Northeastern Ohio for the FirstMerit role and report to Paul Greig, chairman, president and chief executive.

BNY Mellon Investment Management’s strategic business development group took on Dan Cronin as senior vice president, responsible for expanding the firm's RIA channel.

Cronin joined the firm from RBC Advisor Services, where he was a senior vice president, responsible for developing the firm’s custody and brokerage offerings to RIAs. At BNY Mellon he reports to David DiPetrillo, head of the RIA channel.

Bank of America gave Daniel Statsick, market director for US Trust in Minneapolis, the additional role of Minnesota state president and Minneapolis-St Paul market president.

As state president Statsick will work with company leaders in the region to grow the bank’s business and individual customer base.

Silver Bridge expanded its philanthropy and foundation service capabilities, adding Susanne Salerno as director of foundation services to manage some of the firm’s largest foundation relationships.

For the past 15 years, Salerno has managed various activities for non-profit institutions and philanthropic entities, including Fidelity Charitable and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Citi Private Bank brought in Steven Young from Deutsche Bank as a managing director and ultra high net worth private banker, based in New York.

At Deutsche, Young was a managing director and senior private banker, roles he held since 2006. When he starts his new role at Citi in October, he will report to Charles Merrill, New York Metro region executive.

Wells Fargo hired Rich Baich as chief information security officer - a role in which he will oversee the firm’s security vision, strategy and programs designed to secure customer and company information.

Baich will join in late summer from Deloitte and Touche, where he led the global cyber threat and vulnerability management practice.

US Trust confirmed the appointment of Chris Biotti as market executive within the firm’s Boston office.

Prior to joining US Trust, Biotti spent three years as a branch manager and wealth advisor at Neuberger Berman, based in Boston.

Capital Guardian, the US wealth management firm, named Scott Chaisson as president of wealth management, responsible for growing this business - including its captive advisor offices. Most recently, Chaisson was regional managing director at Rehmann Financial.

John Bogle, the investment industry giant and founder of The Vanguard Group, is to serve as senior chairman of Advizent’s independent board of standards, charged with developing a concise set of standards of excellence for all investment advisors.

Taking up his role at Advizent, Bogle will work on developing standards “that embody the best practices of true fiduciary advisors,” the membership organization said.

William Blair & Company, the investment banking and asset management firm, appointed Jon Zindel as chief financial officer, replacing Tim Burke, who is retiring.

Zindel has been in the industry for 20 years and joins from American Century Investments, where he was also CFO.

At William Blair he reports to John Ettelson, president and chief executive.