Here is a round-up of all the comings and goings in the wealth management industry last month.

The UK
Brewin Dolphin opened a new office in Cambridge in the East of England. It will be led by Heather Sonnet, a chartered financial planner who joined the firm.

The firm said Cambridge has benefitted from the ascent of technology-driven companies and entrepreneurs in recent years, linked to the university city’s cluster of research facilities.

Towry’s chief investment officer, Robert Dawkins, cut down his responsibilities as he prepared to retire after more than five years at the firm. Dawkins joined Towry as CIO in 2010. He acts as chairman of the firm’s investment management committee. Prior to Towry, Dawkins was head of multi-manager at Aberdeen Asset Management. Before that, he was managing director of RBS Asset Management.

Hargreave Hale hired Brewin Dolphin’s Marcus Low as an investment manager. Low joined after a decade as divisional director at Brewin Dolphin. He has over 20 years’ industry experience.

Julius Baer International Limited, London, part of Julius Baer, appointed a new boss in the person of David Durlacher, who took on the chief executive role to replace Adam Horowitz, who retired as planned in the wake of integrating the Merrill Lynch International Wealth Management business.

Durlacher took on the role pending regulatory approval. When the Merrill Lynch International Wealth Management (IWM) UK was acquired by Switzerland-listed Julius Baer in 2013, Durlacher joined the enlarged business.

Brown Shipley's chairman, Jim Willens, stepped down from the firm's board of directors due to personal health concerns. Willens became chairman at Brown Shipley in April last year, having been non-executive director since the beginning 2014. He also sat on the firm’s audit, risk and compliance committees. The departure came after Brown Shipley's former head of private banking, Hugh Titcomb, became chief executive of Thomas Miller Investment. David Rough, who has served as non-executive director on the board for 11 years, was appointed acting chairman. Brown Shipley will appoint a permanent replacement for Willens in due course.

EFG Private Bank appointed former Coutts chief financial officer Jennifer Mathias as CFO and deputy chief executive. Mathias served as CFO at Coutts between 2012 and late last year. She has 20 years of industry experience, having previously held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group.

Vestra Wealth hired Robert Juxon within its private office team, which caters to ultra-high net worth individuals. Juxon previously spent a decade as director and senior private banker at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management, where he specialised in resident non-domicile clients. He also worked at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. In the new role, he is based in London.

Unigestion hired Stefanie Mollin-Elliott as a fundamental analyst, senior vice president, within its equities team. Mollin-Elliott, who has over 20 years' industry experience, was previously global emerging markets analyst at Allianz Global Investors. 

Andrew Bailey, deputy governor for prudential regulation at the Bank of England, became new permanent CEO at the Financial Conduct Authority. The changes took place after the previous CEO, Martin Wheatley, stepped down after the UK government said in July that the regulator needed “different leadership”. 

Sesame Bankhall Group appointed Jeff Woods as business development director. Woods had been national accounts director at Vitality Life. He has 25 years' industry experience, having previously held senior roles at Linear Mortgage Network, Pink Home Loans and PruProtect. In the new role, Woods works with advisor firms to help them develop and meet their business objectives. He reports to the group's sales director, Mark Graves.

UBS made a total of seven appointments in the UK, naming two new professionals within its wealth planning advisory team and five people for its financial planning “para-planning” and administration teams.

Shabana Ahmed joined as a wealth planning advisor. She was previously a tax manager at KPMG, where her portfolio of clients consisted of high net worth and ultra HNW UK residents and non-domiciled individuals.

Euan O'Neill returned to the Zurich-listed bank as a wealth planning advisor, as cover for maternity leave, which he also did in 2012. O’Neill is a qualified solicitor and Chartered Tax Advisor and has previously worked in wealth planning at UBS in Zurich, as well as for trust companies in Jersey, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

Both these persons are based in London and report to Jeremy Franks, head of wealth planning advisory.

The financial planning para planning and administration teams also appointed:
- Natasha Ward, who joined the financial planning team as a financial planning para planner. She was previously a para planner at Connor Broadley;
- Farida Hassanali, who also joined as a financial planning para planner. She was previously a senior technical consultant at EQ Investors;
- Hayley Jones, who joined the team as a financial planning assistant. She was previously at London & Colonial;
- Ciara Oliver, who also joined as FPA, following her recent graduation from University of Cardiff;
- Nick Turnbull, a recent graduate of University of Exeter, who joined the firm as FPA.

HSBC Global Asset Management hired Adrian Gordon from BNY Mellon as its new UK head of institutional as his predecessor moves on to lead the firm's strategy. Gordon was previously head of the institutional business at BNY Mellon Investment Management and has also held senior roles at OppenheimerFunds and Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock).  Based in London, Gordon replaced Stuart White, who was appointed as head of strategy at HSBC Global Asset Management. He reports to global asset management chief Andy Clark.

Sanlam UK appointed chief financial officer Jeremy Gibson and former Ashcourt Rowan pair Steven Haines and Alfio Tagliabue to its senior management team. The appointments came as part of the group's plans to merge all of its UK businesses into one corporate entity, led by Jonathan Polin. Polin was recently appointed chief executive of Sanlam UK, just months after stepping into the role of CEO of Sanlam Private Wealth. Gibson, who served as CFO at Sanlam UK since 2012, became CEO of Sanlam Investments & Pensions. He continued as a director of the firm. Haines and Tagliabue joined the Sanlam UK board as group COO and group CFO respectively. The duo previously worked with Polin at Ashcourt Rowan, where Haines was head of governance and Tagliabue was CFO. They left the firm last year after it was acquired by UK wealth manager Towry.

Aviva Investors made three promotions as David Lis, chief investment officer, multi-asset and equities, prepares to retire in March after 18 years with the firm. Mark Connolly, who joined Aviva Investors last January as CIO, fixed income, was promoted to CIO for liquid markets. This role covers multi-asset, fixed income and equities. He was previously global head of fixed income at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. Dan James, who joined the firm in 2011, took on the role of global head of fixed income. He continued to co-manage the AIMS Target Return Fund. Lastly, Chris Murphy, who joined in 2006 and has served as head of global income, equities, became global head of equities. He continues to run the Aviva Investors UK Equity Income and Aviva Investors UK Equity funds. The firm's global head of multi-asset, Peter Fitzgerald, continued in his role. Based in London, James, Murphy and Fitzgerald reported to Connolly. Meanwhile, Lis continues to work with Aviva Investors as a consultant.

Prudential appointed John Foley as chief executive for UK and Europe following an internal and external search. Foley was appointed interim CEO of Prudential UK & Europe in October last year after Jackie Hunt stepped down after two years at the helm. Foley, who joined Prudential in 2000, was previously the group's investment director and, before that, chief risk officer. Based in London, he continues to be responsible for Prudential Capital and Prudential Portfolio Management Group.

Liverpool-based Seneca Investment Managers promoted chief investment officer Peter Elston to executive director of its board. Elston, who joined the company in 2014, will continue to serve as CIO. Before Seneca, he ran Aberdeen Asset Management’s Singapore-based multi-asset business.

Legal & General Investment Management hired Nicholas Bamber from the Royal Bank of Scotland as head of private assets within its private debt business. Bamber spent over 20 years at RBS, most recently as head of corporate coverage in the UK. He was also the bank's head of private placements and head of investment grade corporate debt capital markets for Western Europe.

The UK's Charles Stanley appointed Jonathan Cunliffe as interim chief investment officer. Cunliffe previously worked at Tesco Pensions Investments, where he was head of fixed income and multi-asset investment strategy. He left the firm in September 2014. Prior to Tesco, Cunliffe held senior roles at Aberdeen Asset Management, ABN Amro Asset Management and Brown Shipley. As interim CIO, Cunliffe is based in London until a permanent appointment is made.

Luxembourg-headquartered Oracle Capital Group hired Rakesh Naker as managing director and head of international business at its subsidiary Machlin Oracle. Following a management buyout by chairman Martin Graham in October, the group’s asset management and investment advisory business became conducted through Machlin Oracle. The business serves high net worth individuals, family offices and entrepreneurs. Naker, who has 16 years of private banking experience in the UK and Middle East, set up financial advisory firm Priamos Capital Advisors in Dubai in 2012. He previously worked at Liechtenstein LandesBank, Societe Generale, Credit Suisse and Man Group. In the newly-created role, Naker leads strategic business development, with a focus on the Middle East and Asia. He will be based in London.

Liontrust Asset Management hired Martin Weisinger from Charles Stanley as discretionary sales manager. Weisinger joined from Charles Stanley’s fund management arm, Matterley, which he joined in March last year as head of distribution. He previously spent 12 years at F&C Asset Management/Thames River Capital, where he worked across the UK wholesale market. In the newly-created role, Weisinger is based in London and will report to Liontrust's head of discretionary sales, Stephen Corbett.

The UK's Wealth Management Association welcomed JM Finn's head of investment management, Sarah Soar, to its board of directors. Soar worked at Brewin Dolphin from 1984 to 2013, latterly as a board member, before joining JM Finn & Co as head of investment management in January 2014.

Edinburgh-headquartered Baillie Gifford promoted Tim Garratt and John MacDougall to partners. Garratt, who joined Baillie Gifford in 2007, is a director in the firm's clients department. His responsibilities include clients in the long-term global growth strategy. His appointment came as Peter Hadden, partner in the clients department with responsibility for North American clients, prepares to retire at the end of April after 15 years with the firm. MacDougall joined Baillie Gifford back in 2000 and is an investment manager on the long-term global growth team. He previously worked in the firm's global discovery team, which focuses on fast-growing, innovation-led smaller businesses worldwide.

Smith & Williamson Investment Management appointed Myria Evdokimou as fund sales manager. Evdokimou joined from Liontrust where she has worked in sales and client relations for the past three years. She previously held an investor relations and sales support role at a hedge fund.

Aspinalls, the London-based financial planning firm, wealth manager and private office, appointed Matthew Parden as chief executive, a newly-created role. Parden formerly spent 17 years at Duncan Lawrie Private Bank as finance director and latterly group managing director. Following his departure from the bank in 2014, he went on to become managing director of Butterfield Bank.

KPMG hired Ken McCracken to drive its new consulting offering to the family business market. He joined the London-based team from Withers Consulting Group, where he was joint managing director.

Ashburton Investments appointed Marianna Georgakopoulou as multi-asset strategist in London. She previously worked at Pivot Capital Management (Monaco). In her new role, she seeks investment opportunities in developed and emerging markets on a cross-asset basis.

Hycroft, the New York-headquartered alternative investments-focused bank, hired HSBC's Christopher Cooke to head up its London office and oversee business in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He was previously a managing director at HSBC Bank in London.

DataArt, the technology consulting firm, hired financial technology expert Cliff Moyce to head up its financial practice globally. Based in London, Moyce has led a range of companies through periods of significant change. These companies include London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, Markit and Lloyds of London.

Brown Shipley appointed Gavin Wiggans as business development director in Manchester. He joined after 19 years with Standard Life. In the newly-created role, he is responsible for further building Brown Shipley’s relationships with intermediaries, with a focus on accountants and solicitors.

Brown Advisory appointed Beatrice Hollond and Robert Murley to its board of directors to provide long-term strategic guidance and oversight. Hollond is currently chair of Millbank Investment Management, a UK-based family investment office, and Keystone Investment Trust. Murley is Credit Suisse's vice chairman – senior advisor and chairman of investment banking for the Americas.

Cofunds hired Marc Bulstrode as operations director, replacing Graham Jackson who left the firm last year. Bulstrode was most recently head of change and business management for the UK business at Fidelity Worldwide Investment.

Psigma Investment Management appointed Simon Kay to the newly-created role of business development director of its Edinburgh office. He joined from SEI Investments where he spent six years as director of asset management distribution.

Zurich-headquartered Bellecapital expanded its London business with the appointment of Jason Sharp, Henry Simpson and Steve Holmes. The trio joined as a result of Bellecapital's agreement to acquire Williams de Broë Private Investment Management from Investec Wealth & Investment.

Julius Baer added to its UK and Ireland management team with five hires from rivals. Terry Gyorffy joined as deputy head of relationship management, having previously served as a London-based team manager in Barclays' international private banking division. Paul McCafferty also joined from Barclays where he was offshore business manager. He was appointed head of supervision, as were Julia Cole-Turner and Rebecca Frowde.  Cole-Turner and Frowde were previously business partners at Coutts. Lastly, Gileyd Romeo Eliav-Cruz joined as a business assurance specialist from UBS, where he was a risk manager responsible for the UK high net worth business.

Brewin Dolphin announced its head of investment management, Stephen Ford, was leaving the business amid a shake-up of its executive committee involving five internal appointments, made with a view to boost client-facing representation. The new additions were Charlie Ferry, leading the private client business in the South East of England; Stephen Jones, responsible for all other private client business; Nick Fitzgerald, responsible for financial planning; Robin Beer, responsible for the intermediary and charities businesses; and Paul Jones as chief of staff.

Quilter Cheviot has hired Henry Flather from HSBC Global Asset Management within its investment management team. As part of the London team headed up by Quilter Cheviot's executive director, Tim Healy, Flather works with both intermediaries and direct private client introductions to develop new business opportunities.

Law firm Howard Kennedy appointed Naomi O’Higgins, previously associate at boutique firm Harcus Sinclair, as partner within its contentious private client team.

Saffery Champness hired Allan Holmes from Deloitte as a partner in London. As part of Saffery Champness's private wealth and estates group, Holmes is responsible for building the firm's UK trust practice.

Kames Capital appointed Andy Kelly as business development manager. Based in London, Kelly is responsible for introducing the firm’s cash and liquidity solutions to corporate treasurers, pension funds, banks and insurance companies. He was previously head of corporate and financial institutions at Legal & General Investment Management.

Kames also made two internal appointments of co-managers to a pair of its funds. Juan Valenzuela was appointed co-manager on the UK domiciled Kames Strategic Bond Fund alongside David Roberts and Phil Milburn, while Colin Finlayson became co-manager with Roberts and Milburn on the Dublin-domiciled Kames Strategic Global Bond Fund. He remains support manager on the UK version of the fund and Valenzuela became support manager on the Dublin-domiciled fund.

Source, the UK-based investment firm and provider of exchange-traded products, appointed its chief operating officer, Gary Buxton, to take on the additional role of chief financial officer, replacing Anne Marie Whelehan who left the firm last summer.

As part of its purchase of London-based long/short Japanese equities boutique PK Investment Management, UK investment house Martin Currie acquired a team led by Paul Kirkby who was appointed lead manager of the Legg Mason Japan Absolute Alpha Fund, a Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund.

Schroders appointed Makoto Fukui to the newly-created role of director of strategic partnerships. Based in London, Fukui is also responsible for helping to develop Asian and Japanese business relationships. He previously spent 19 years at Japanese firm Mitsui Fudosan.

AllianceBernstein hired Jamie Hammond as chief executive for the UK and head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa client group, replacing Tim Ryan who left the firm in the spring of last year. Hammond joined from Franklin Templeton where he was managing director of Europe, leading its retail and institutional business in the region.

Hermes Investment Management appointed non-executive director David Stewart as the new chairman of its board, replacing Paul Spencer who had been chairman of Hermes since May 2011. Prior to Hermes, Stewart spent nine years at Odey Asset Management, initially as chief executive and then as a non-executive director.

Aviva Investors appointed David Clayton as its new chief financial officer and Mike Craston as global head of business development. Clayton, who was previously director of group finance at Standard Life, took the reins from Clifford Abrahams, who left late last year to become CFO at Delta Lloyd. Craston replaced Ted Potter, who recently relocated to the US to become head of Aviva Investors' Americas business.

Switzerland

Generali's chief executive, Mario Greco, returned to Zurich Insurance Group as CEO. He took over from Tom de Swaan, who has held the role on an interim basis since Martin Senn stepped down in December last year. Before joining Generali as CEO in 2012, Greco worked at Zurich since 2007, latterly as CEO of general insurance. Subject to regulatory approval, he will take up his new position in May.

Pictet Asset Management hired Cyril Benier as a senior investment manager within its small cap equities team. Benier previously managed small cap portfolios at AXA Investment Managers since 2008. Based in Geneva, he works alongside Alain Caffort, the firm's lead manager for the European small cap strategy.

Pictet Asset Management also hired Simon Gottelier, Peter Lingen and Christian Roessing as senior investment managers within its thematic equities team in Geneva. Gottelier joined from Impax Asset Management in New York, where he managed the Impax Global Water strategy. He covers Pictet's $4.11 billion water strategy, while Lingen co-manages the $315 million robotics strategy. Roessing, who previously spent seven years at Vontobel Asset Management, work on the firm's $1.04 billion clean energy strategy.

Following Vistra Group's acquisition of Zurich-based family office and consulting company globalOne, the globalOne team, led by Bruno Sidler, joined the Vistra Zurich office.

Tanja Weiher stepped down from the board of directors of GAM to take an executive role in the Swiss financial services industry. GAM said it would nominate a new candidate for election to the board at its annual general meeting on 27 April.

Zurich-headquartered Julius Baer created the new Investment Management division and brought in Yves Henri Bonzon, a former investment chief from Pictet's wealth management arm, to lead it. The IM division complements the Investment Solutions Group, an existing division headed by Burkhard Varnholt. Varnholt and Bonzon are co-CIOs.

Swiss private banking and investment firm Vontobel paid tribute to Dr Hans Vontobel, honorary chairman of the firm bearing his name, who passed away at the age of 100. Dr Vontobel joined the-then J Vontobel & Co in 1943, taking over as chairman of the board of directors in 1981. He had served as honorary chairman since 1991.

Europe
Thomas Miller Investment (Isle of Man) promoted David Thomas to chairman, replacing Ian Jarrett, who is to retire in July. Thomas joined the firm in 2008 and became managing director in 2013. The firm appointed Tom Richards to succeed Thomas as managing director. He joined in 2012 as head of private investment management (offshore), a role he retains, and has sat on the board since 2013.

Guernsey-based fund business Orangefield Legis appointed Julian Carey to the newly-created role of head of client services. Carey formerly merged IAG’s Far East business with Asian corporate services provider Tricor Group in 2013, before developing business for Tricor IAG in the Far East. Last year, he returned to Guernsey, where he began his career in fund administration with Credit Suisse.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management hired Arthur Molloy as investment director as part of its growth drive in the Isle of Man. Molloy was previously head of private wealth at Creechurch Capital.

Elian appointed Lisa Mclauchlan and Mari Hietala-David to its commercial team. Mclauchlan joined from Sure where she was head of commercial operations across the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. She was appointed business development and marketing director, while Hietala-David, who joined from State Street, oversees marketing and business development for Elian's private equity and real estate services.

Elian made a further two appointments in Guernsey as well as a senior promotion. Kees Jager, who previously worked at Northern Trust, joined the firm as associate director, in charge of the local fund services team. Working with Jager, Leasa Callaway, who joined Elian four years ago as associate, was promoted to manager. Sally Ann Brehaut joined the firm from Heritage as assistant manager for compliance.

AXA hired Laurence Boone as chief economist and head of research at AXA Investment Managers, replacing Eric Chaney who will retire in September. She joined from the Elysée, where she advised the French president on multilateral and European economic and financial affairs. Based in Paris, Boone leads a global team of ten economists and investment strategists.

Enhance Group, the financial technology-focused investment and wealth consultancy firm, appointed Guernsey Finance's chairman, Lyndon Trott, as non-executive director. Trott has been a board member of Guernsey Finance since 2013 and was appointed chairman late last year. He served as Guersey's chief minister from 2008 to 2013.

Barclays appointed Francesco Grosoli, its head of wealth management in Europe, to take over some of the roles carried out by Didier Von Daeniken, who joined Standard Chartered to be global private banking head and who previously ran Barclays’ wealth business in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of US-listed State Street, appointed Philippe Roset as head of SPDR ETFs for the Netherlands. Roset previously spent three years as head of Benelux for ETF Securities.

Germany's Berenberg announced it will add a five-strong team from BHF-Bank after opening a private banking office in mid-2016. The team, which makes up the Münster branch set up by BHF-Bank seven years ago, will move to Berenberg by July. They consist of Dieter Baumewerd, Konstantin Faut, Ursula Quiel, Annette Klein and Sebastian Plath.

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Middle East
Emirates NBD appointed Saod Obaidalla as executive vice president, head of private banking, replacing Michael Chahine who will retire at the end of March. Obaidalla, who has worked at Emirates NBD for over 20 years, most recently oversaw its private banking business in United Arab Emirates and GCC markets. Based in Dubai, he is now responsible for relationships with high and ultra-high net worth clients as well as family businesses with over $1 million in assets.

Gary Dugan, a former chief investment officer at the private banking arm of Emirates NBD, returned to the bank, remaining in the United Arab Emirates. Dugan, who left Emirates NBD in July 2012, served as CIO, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, from June 2014 to December 2015 in the UAE.

Reyl Finance (MEA), part of Reyl & Cie, appointed Loulwa Bakr as an independent board member to help guide its expansion strategy in Dubai. Bakr was previously head of investment banking for Saudi Arabia at Credit Suisse, which she joined in 2007. The appointment came after Reyl received regulatory approval in October to carry out asset management and corporate advisory activities in Dubai. The company also provides wealth management services in the city.

Deutsche Bank appointed Rafik Nayed as chief country officer for the UAE and senior executive officer of its Dubai branch. Nayed, who joined the bank in 2013, continues to serve as vice chairman for the MENA region. He replaced Nadeem Masud, who left at the end of 2015 to pursue opportunities outside of the banking industry.

International
Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda) promoted Mark Rogers to the newly-created position of vice chairman. Rogers, who joined Northstar as a director in July last year, is responsible for driving the company's expansion into the Middle East and Africa.

North America 

Banc of California hired Andre Sarkissian from Wells Fargo as a senior vice president and private banking manager to oversee its new branches in Woodland Hills and Calabasas. Sarkissian was joined by former Wells Fargo employees Jennifer Zebio, Dan Nguyen, Perris Kaufman, Esper Elhelou and Ara Asatourian. Sarkissian was most recently branch manager of Wells Fargo's Calabasas office; Zebio was a vice president and private banker, as was Nguyen; Kaufman was an assistant vice president and premier banker, as was Elhelou; and Asatourian was a vice president and private banker.

Kevin Dolan joined The Colony Group as a vice president, based in Naples and tasked with expanding the firm's footprint on the east and west coasts of the Sunshine State. Dolan was previously a principal and managing director at a Florida-based investment advisor and subsequently founded Dolan Family Enterprises, a consulting firm serving investment advisors. He also spent 11 years at Fidelity Investments as a regional consultant and was previously part of the counseling teams at Merrill Lynch, Dreyfus Service Corporation and Investors Diversified Services.

Alternative Investment Management recruited Ryan Quinn as a managing director focused on portfolio management and researching hedge fund and private equity managers and investments. Prior to joining AIM, Quinn was a shareholder and director at Canterbury Consulting, an institutional investment consulting firm, where he worked with endowments, foundations and high net worth families on asset allocation, investment manager selection and performance evaluation. Before that, Quinn was a senior analyst at Monticello Associates and earlier in his career worked on the New York Stock Exchange for Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch.

Morgan Stanley promoted its investment banking chief, Colm Kelleher, to president, making him the heir apparent to current chief executive James Gorman, and prompting Greg Fleming, the head of wealth management, to depart. In addition to becoming president, Kelleher will take on Fleming's responsibilities overseeing wealth management as well as institutional securities.

Shelley O’Connor and Andy Saperstein meanwhile were appointed as the new co-heads of wealth management, reporting to Kelleher. Shelley has more than 30 years of experience in Morgan Stanley's wealth management business and led the private wealth management business in Southern California before moving to a management role in purchase in 2004. She then headed the private bank before becoming head of field management in 2014. Saperstein joined Morgan Stanley in 2006 and served as head of field management; then as head of investment products and services before taking up his current role as co-coo of ISG last year. In other changes, Jim Rosenthal, in addition to his role as COO, will now lead the development of Morgan Stanley's digital offering for financial advisors and wealth management clients. Lastly, Jeff Brodsky, in his continued role as head of human resources, will now report to Gorman.

Fiduciary Trust Company International, the wealth management firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, made a string of organizational changes following the departure of its president and chief executive, Henry Johnson. Lawrence Sternkopf became president and chief operating officer of Fiduciary Trust, and will continue to oversee operations and technology, as well as custody, tax services, treasury and finance functions. He will take on additional responsibilities for compliance and human resources.

William Yun, former president of Fiduciary Trust and current board member, will serve as interim chief executive while an external search for a new CEO is underway. Yun will also continue leading Franklin Templeton’s specialized and alternative investment groups. Meanwhile, Gail Cohen became chair of Fiduciary Trust’s board of directors, succeeding James Goodfellow. As general trust counsel, Cohen will continue to oversee trust and estate services, as well as client relationship functions. Lastly, James Goodfellow will remain on its board and transition his chairman responsibilities to Cohen.

Wilmington Trust boosted its wealth advisory team in the Greater Philadelphia region by adding three senior leaders. Joe Cozza was hired as a senior private client advisor, and Marc Dinacci and Kevin Zosulis joned as senior investment advisors. They were all named as managing directors. Cozza provides wealth management advice to high net worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, business owners, and foundations and endowments, throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. He was previously a managing director in JP Morgan’s Philadelphia office for nearly 20 years. Before that he worked at Brown Brothers Harriman as a manager in the corporate finance department, and at Philadelphia National Bank as vice president in the corporate finance group.

Dinacci works with HNW clients, focused on investment portfolios. He too joined from JP Morgan, where he spent the last five years directing the investments business for the Mid-Atlantic wealth management team. Before JP Morgan, he worked at A G Edwards & Sons as a financial consultant. Zosulis - who works with HNW individuals and families, as well as business owners - was previously a senior director and team leader at BNY Mellon Wealth Management and before that worked in M&T Bank’s investment group as a senior portfolio manager. Earlier still, he was a senior portfolio manager at Evergreen Private Asset Management.

First Republic Bank promoted Kelly Johnston to president, taking over from Michael Harrington, who has been appointed as chairman. Johnston, who has more than 20 years of trust and wealth management experience, joined First Republic Trust Company in 2013, and previously served as deputy manager. Harrington, who has served as president of First Republic Trust Company for the past nine years, will maintain a leadership role in the trust company.Withers Bergman, the international law firm, appointed Christina Baltz as a partner in its New York office. An experienced lawyer in the field of wealth management and structuring, Baltz has previously headed teams at UBS and JP Morgan. She has also worked as an estate planning attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and as a partner in the same practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Baltz has also worked with Latin American clients, including a number of wealthy families and entrepreneurs across the region.

TIGER 21, the peer-to-peer learning network for wealthy investors, added Marvin Blum to its board of directors. Blum founded Texas-based Blum Firm P C and has skills in estate planning and probate, asset protection planning, planning for closely-held businesses, tax planning and charitable planning.

First Republic Bank appointed its former president, Katherine August-deWilde, as vice chair of the board of directors – a new role at the company. August-deWilde served as president of First Republic from 2007 until December 31, 2015, and was chief operating officer from 1996 to 2014. She joined First Republic as its initial chief financial officer in 1985 in San Francisco, CA. The firm confirmed that it has not replaced her in her former role as president. Going forward August-deWilde will also serve as a senior consultant to First Republic and work with certain clients as well as on strategic initiatives.

Steve Booth, president of Baird, took on the additional role of chief executive at the company. Booth previously led Baird’s investment banking team and has served as co-head of the firm’s equity capital markets business since 2006 (he will remain involved with Baird’s private equity business). He was named as president in 2014 as part of a multi-year transition plan and as CEO succeeds Paul Purcell, who will continue as chairman.

Purcell was appointed as president of Baird in 1998, added the title of CEO in 2000 and also became chairman in 2006. Under Purcell’s leadership, Baird once again became an employee-owned, independent firm following the firm’s buyback from Northwestern Mutual in 2004. The firm also embarked on a global expansion, adding talent and capabilities in the US, Europe and Asia.

Threshold Group, the wealth management firm and family office, welcomed back Luther Ragin - the recently-retired president and founding CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network - to its board. Before joining the GIIN, Ragin was vice president of investments at New York-based F B Heron Foundation from 1999 to 2011. Earlier, he was chief financial officer of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities.

Oppenheimer & Co appointed Joan Khoury as a managing director and chief marketing officer - a new role at the firm. Khoury has over 20 years of B2B and B2C leadership experience in the financial services industry, having most recently held the same role at LPL Financial. She will be based at Oppenheimer's New York headquarters and report to Rob Lowenthal, senior managing director. Her responsibilities will include oversight of firm-wide communications, websites, social media presence, public relations and all marketing materials. Before her time at LPL, Khoury was head of marketing at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Her earlier roles include global head of marketing at Wachovia Evergreen Investments (now Wells Fargo Advisors); group head of the global marketing division at Bank of New York Mellon; and marketing manager at Bank of America.

Kirk Reid joined OppenheimerFunds as head of operations to help the firm further grow its retail, high net worth and institutional businesses. Reid will be based in Denver, CO, and report to Eric Meltzer, chief technology and operations officer. Before joining OppenheimerFunds, Reid was a senior vice president of global institutional operations at Janus Capital Group. He started his career at Janus in 1995 as an investor service representative.

US Bank Wealth Management, part of US Bancorp, named Steven Blazek as a wealth management advisor for The Private Client Reserve in Denver, CO. Previously, Blazek was a private banking relationship manager with The Private Client Group of US Bank, which caters to mass affluent investors. He has worked in the sector since 1989.

Canada-headquartered precious metals firm Bullion Management Group appointed industry veteran George Parrill to its board of directors. Parrill’s career spans 42 years at the Bank of Nova Scotia; his business areas have included 33 years with Scotiabank’s bullion team. He specialized in commodities, risk and liquidity management. He also managed the trading desk. In addition, he worked with mining companies, central banks, mutual funds, investor clients and media, and oversaw the needs of Scotiabank’s branch network as it related to bullion products. Parrill advises on issues related to precious metals storage and custodial agreements for both the BMG BullionBars program and BMG Funds.

SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, appointed Stuart Keeler as the new managing director of SimCorp Coric, the firm's global client communications and reporting business.

Keeler has extensive experience in both asset management and IT services, having held a variety of commercial and general management positions at software firms in the UK and US. His experience includes 13 years as managing director at eFront, a software provider to private equity markets in the UK, where he oversaw the firm's expansion into the Middle East and North America, for example. Stuart Keeler replaced Klaus Andersen, who assumed responsibility for SimCorp Coric upon acquisition of the business (then known as Equipos) in February 2014.

Ascendant Compliance Management, a global compliance consultancy, brought in investment management specialist Dianna Zentner in San Francisco. Zentner was most recently director of global manager oversight and due diligence at Russell Investments. Before that, she was chief investment officer and director of research at SunGard Advisor Technologies. She has also worked at Page Mill Asset Management, Kemper Securities Corporation and First Boston Corporation. At Ascendant, Zentner is tasked with bolstering the firm's West Coast presence while providing compliance services to investment advisors, RIAs and private investment funds. She will also assist clients with drafting policies and procedures and preparing regulatory filings.

Advisor Software made two senior hires, adding a chief technology officer and a sales vice president. David Cooper will serve as CTO, responsible for leading the architecture, software engineering and deployment of the cloud platform. He took over from Thuyen Nguyen, who was appointed as CTO in June 2015.

Cooper has over 25 years of experience delivering technology solutions including turnkey systems, enterprise software, software-as-a-service, web and mobile products. He has held CTO and other senior technology positions at large public companies including Fiserv and Greendot, as well as several small start-ups. Meanwhile, Tom Flint joined as a vice president of sales to help accelerate the growth of Advisor Software’s applications and APIs.

In addition to co-founding San Francisco, CA-based Tiburon Wealth Management, Flint has held senior roles at Advent Software, Salesforce.com and Schwab Institutional. Before joining Advisor Software, Flint led West Coast sales for the Mountain View-based investment management technology company Addepar.

Catie Tobin was named as head of Royal Bank of Canada's US wealth consulting division, succeeding Ward Ring, who retired at the end of January and spent the last 13 years of his financial services career at the company. Tobin has spent the past 23 years at RBC Wealth Management, most recently as head of the firm’s correspondent and advisor services business, which provides clearing, custody and execution services to independent broker-dealers and RIAs.

Following Tobin’s move to her new role, Brett Thorne, who has been at the firm for 20 years, took over as head of RBC CAS. Thorne most recently served as chief operating officer of the unit, overseeing administration, regulatory and financial risk management, as well as billing and reporting.

Foundation Source, which serves private foundations, brought in former Bloomberg executive Susan Calzone as chief operating officer. Calzone spent the last five years as COO of two early-stage companies in the medical devices and ecommerce industries. Before that, she served for 19 years as chief administrative officer of Bloomberg and from 2006-2010 was also an executive with Bloomberg Philanthropies. Calzone’s principal responsibility at Foundation Source will be managing client services, financial operations, tax and legal, account services, and the technology and infrastructure that supports these areas. She will report to Robert Chartener, chief executive.

Russell Investments, the global asset manager, recruited Vernon Barback as president – a new role at the firm. Barback will focus on leading strategic infrastructure initiatives, with reporting responsibility for business units within the offices of the chief financial officer, chief legal officer and chief operating officer.

He joined from Altß Partners, which he co-founded. Before that, he was president and chief operating officer at GlobeOp Financial Services, formerly a TA Associates portfolio company. TA Associates said in October 2015 that it entered into an agreement with Reverence Capital Partners to acquire Russell Investments from London Stock Exchange Group. Prior to GlobeOp Financial Services, Barback worked at Citigroup asset management as the global head of operations and technology. At Russell Investments, he will report to chief executive Len Brennan.

Robertson Stephens, the wealth advisory and investment management firm, recruited Alice Wu as managing director and president of the Asia region of Robertson Stephens International Group. Wu was previously a vice president at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) in San Francisco, CA – a role in which she advised wealthy Chinese individuals and families in the US and provided financial solutions to clients in Asia. Before Credit Suisse, Wu worked at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in San Francisco. Beyond her career in financial services, Wu was an associate director at The Asia Foundation, advising trustees and donors on their philanthropic activities in Asia.

WealthHub Solutions, a cloud-based technology company serving the global wealth management industry, hired Tim Fisk as director of sales. Fisk was most recently a wealth advisor at Glenmede, where he was also involved in new business development, strategic planning and technology. Before Glenmede, he headed up fiduciary new business efforts in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee as part of Merrill Lynch's wealth structuring group. He started his career as an attorney in a boutique Chicago, IL, law firm specializing in trusts and estates.

The former chief executive of Fiduciary Trust Company International, Henry Johnson, was appointed as an executive vice president and vice chairman of wealth management at Northern Trust in the east region. Johnson will be based in New York City and will lead the Northeast business, with John Hoffman, president of Greater New York, and Bill Buccella, president of New England, reporting to him. This is a new role at the firm, Northern Trust confirmed, in which Johnson will report to David Blowers, president of the east region. Johnson was previously CEO at Fiduciary Trust Company International, where he held various leadership roles since 1994. That firm too made a string of senior moves last week, as reported by this publication here.

Julie Riewe, co-chief of the enforcement division’s asset management unit at the SEC, left the agency. As co-head of the unit for the past two-and-a-half years, Riewe has overseen a staff of nearly 80 attorneys, industry experts and other professionals responsible for conducting investigations into investment advisors, investment companies and private funds.

Riewe began her SEC career in 2005 as a staff attorney in the enforcement division in Washington DC and was promoted to branch chief in 2008. In 2010, she was promoted to assistant director in the newly-formed asset management unit, was appointed co-deputy chief of the unit in 2012, and then co-chief in 2013. Co-chief Marshall Sprung will continue to lead the unit following her departure.

Chicago, IL-based Kovitz Investment Group became the fourth RIA to join Focus Financial Partners in the greater Chicago area. Mitchell Kovitz, Marc Brenner and Jonathan Shapiro, who previously worked together at Rothschild Investment Corporation, founded Kovitz in 2003. Shortly after this, former Deloitte partner Bruce Weininger joined the founding principals.

Former Credit Suisse man Doug Fiek joined First Republic as a managing director and portfolio manager in San Francisco, CA. Fiek, who has over 20 years of industry experience, previously worked at Credit Suisse Securities in San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he worked at CS First Boston and was a CPA at Price Waterhouse.

Trusted Family hired Wolfgang Hafenmayer – previously a managing partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy – as head of its impact advisory practice. Prior to LGT, Hafenmayer managed the investments of a family-backed social venture fund, and has contributed to launching a sustainable asset management company.

Westfield, NJ-headquartered Round Table Wealth Management hired Francis Hayes as director of strategic relationships. Hayes was previously a managing director of institutional sales at TD Ameritrade, focused on the northeast region of the US. Before that, he worked at two NYSE-listed financial services firms in the areas of sales management, marketing, regional management, practice management and advisor recruitment.

Baird added Andrew Schlafer to its Eau Claire, WI, office as a SVP and financial advisor. Schlafer joined from Edward Jones, has a production of $1 million and $101 million in AuM. Baird also named Chris Trumble - latterly of Morgan Stanley - as its new branch manager in Wichita, KS, where the firm established a presence in June 2015.

Dynasty Financial Partners hired Jeremy Zoladz as a vice president of relationship management in Chicago, and also launched a new office in the area. Zoldaz will report to senior vice president John Sullivan and work with advisors in the central division - including the upper Midwest, south to Texas and west to Colorado - on business planning and practice management. He joined from Morgan Stanley where he was most recently a corporate retirement director and institutional consultant at Graystone Consulting since 2012.

RBC Wealth Management recruited a new team of financial advisors in Palm Desert, CA. The Prentice Group is comprised of financial advisors Tom Prentice and Young Chung, along with Tricia Prentice, registered client associate, and Stephanie Barsness, senior registered client associate. The team joined the firm from Merrill Lynch and has approximately $280 million in AuM and $1.8 million in production. 

FolioDynamix, a provider of wealth management technology and advisory services, named Steve Dunlap as president and chief operating officer. Joe Mrak, formerly president/chief executive, will continue as CEO. Dunlap previously ran the wealth management business at the US brokerage firm Cetera Financial Group, which was acquired by RCS Capital in 2014 in a $1.15 billion cash transaction.

There, he was also CEO of the asset management arm, known as Tower Square Investment Management. Before Cetera, Dunlap was CEO at Lockwood Advisors and president of Pershing Managed Investments, the managed investments businesses of BNY Mellon. As president and COO of FolioDynamix, he will oversee product strategy and development, client services, operations, marketing and public relations.

Partners Capital, an outsourced investment office with UHNW families among its client base, hired Suzanne Streeter as a senior investment principal to lead the firm's private equity asset class in North America. Streeter's primary professional experience was at the Yale University Investments Office, where she was associate director of the private equity program. Most recently, she was managing director of fund investments and advisory at Babson Capital Management, where she led private equity fund and equity co-investments on behalf of MassMutual. Before joining the Yale Investments Office in 2007, Streeter was a vice president at Morgan Stanley in global capital markets and investment banking. 

Third Street Partners, the executive search and human capital advisory firm in the asset management space, brought in Amanda Grant as a principal. Grant has a strong background in the asset management industry, having been a managing director and head of institutional client service at Columbia Management from 2007-2011. Before Columbia Management, she was head of global relationship management at Babson Capital Management.

RBC Wealth Management promoted Tim Grantham to branch director in Oklahoma City. It is unclear if he replaced anyone in this role. Grantham joined RBC in Dallas last year from UBS, where he was a senior vice president. He has around 26 years of financial services experience overall and specializes in the high net worth market.

Wilmington Trust made two senior hires in Palm Beach, FL: Jonathan Fitzgerald was appointed as a senior private client advisor while Gerald Williston joined as a senior fiduciary advisor. Fitzgerald previously advised wealthy individuals on their estate and federal tax planning and earlier worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City, focused on banking and capital markets.

Williston is part of Wilmington Trust's advisor solutions group, which provides products and services to professional investment advisors. His new position is the first for the group in Florida. Williston was previously a senior trust officer and team leader at Reliance Trust Company of Delaware in North Palm Beach. Before that, he held senior trust roles at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.

City National Bank, the private and business bank, recruited Brandon Williams to lead and expand its private client services division in New York. Williams and his team provide advice and services in investment management, credit, depository and cash management, wealth planning and trust services to high net worth families, non-profit organizations and professional services firms.

Williams replaced Scott Witter, who has been promoted to executive vice president. Witter heads City National’s branch and small business division and will relocate to Los Angeles. Williams spent the past 14 years building and leading teams at TD Bank in New York – most recently in wealth management. He also led the retail build-out of TD Bank (formerly Commerce Bank) in New York City and was the chief of staff to the chief executive and president. In his new role at City National, he reports to Michael Pagano, division head of private client services.

California-based Advisor Partners, the investment advisory firm, named Vikas Oswal as chief executive and chief investment officer. Oswal spent 18 years at Mellon Capital Management in San Francisco, CA, where he became an executive vice president and chief investment strategist.

Family-owned, Indiana-based Salin Bank & Trust Company promoted John Coughlin to wealth management market president for Indianapolis. Salin Bank appointed Coughlin and William Varanka as vice presidents and wealth management business development officers in October last year. Coughlin was previously a vice president and business development officer at First Financial Bank, having previously held the same roles at Regions Bank from 2007 to 2013. Coughlin's career in financial services began in 1989 when he joined Charles Schwab until 1999.

Robert Fell joined Southeastern Trust Company, a division of Atlantic Capital Bank, as a trust officer from Wilmington Trust. Fell has 17 years of experience in trust and estate administration, investment management and estate planning. He will be working with the firm's private wealth group, based in Buckhead in Atlanta, GA.

Morgan Stanley brought in former Charles Schwab executive Naureen Hassan as chief digital officer within its wealth management division. This is a new role at the company in which Hassan will lead the strategy and marketing of digital tools and platforms serving its 16,000 financial advisors and 3.5 million clients. She starts on March 1.

Boston Private Wealth hired executives from the wealth advisory firms Filigree Advisors and Mikus Capital Management. The team from Filigree Advisors will be based in Beverly Hills, while maintaining a presence in the Northwest.

Gerald Graves joined as executive managing director of the West Coast division. Before co-founding Filigree Advisors, Graves was president at M Financial Wealth Management and earlier executive director and a managing partner at LEAP Partners in San Francisco. He also held senior leadership positions at Charles Schwab.

Chris Dudley joined as a senior wealth advisor and director of sports and entertainment, transitioning from his role as chief investment officer at Filigree Advisors. Prior to Filigree, Dudley was a vice president at M Financial Wealth Management. He also had a 16-year career as a player in the National Basketball Association, during which time he served as executive treasurer of the NBA Players Association and as a member of the Players Association Negotiating Committee.

Previously director of wealth services at Filigree Advisors, Sarah Pearce joined as an associate client advisor. Prior to Filigree, Pearce was a program manager at a branding and design agency. Meanwhile, with the addition of Mikus Capital Management, Boston Private Wealth expanded its presence to the island of Palm Beach, complementing its existing office in Palm Beach Gardens.

William Mikus – founder, president, and chief executive of Mikus Capital Management – joined as a managing director and senior business development officer. He has over 36 years of industry experience, having started his career in the trading rooms of Bank of Boston, Citibank, and Salomon Brothers.

Blackstone, the global investment titan, added Bloomberg executive Peter Grauer to its board of directors. Grauer has been chairman of Bloomberg, the global business and financial information company, since March 2001 and joined full-time as president and chief executive in March 2002 (until 2011). Before joining Bloomberg, Grauer was a managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1992 to 2000 when DLJ was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. He is a founder of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and DLJ Investment Partners and also served as a managing director and senior partner of CSFB Private Equity.

William Wilby, former head of equities at Oppenheimer Funds, became a member of Tiedemann Wealth Management's investment committee. Wilby will work alongside fellow committee members Richard Nye, David Coulter, Robert Hormats, Yves Istel and Frederick Thorne to advise Tiedemann on investment strategies, asset allocation and manager selection.

At Oppenheimer, Wilby was responsible for over $120 billion in equity assets and 70 portfolio managers, investment analysts and support staff, at the time of his retirement in 2007. He is also known for his tenure as portfolio manager for the Oppenheimer Global Fund. Earlier in his career, Wilby held international finance and investment roles at AIG, Northern Trust, Brown Brothers Harriman and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as well as having served in US Army Intelligence in Vietnam and Europe.

John Bankson was appointed as head of Wells Fargo Private Bank's business advisory services group, taking over from David Isaacson, who the firm confirmed retired last year. The unit works with business owners and their advisors to develop a succession plan, value the business, sell the business or manage closely-held interests held in trust or agency accounts.

In his role, Bankson will be responsible for national leadership of the group, and growing its client base, which includes clients of The Private Bank and the ultra high net worth individuals, families and foundations that are clients of Wells Fargo’s Abbot Downing business. Prior to his new role, Bankson served as Wells Fargo’s business banking manager for northeastern South Carolina. In his more than 32 years of experience in the financial services industry and 18 years with Wells Fargo and predecessor banks, he has held various roels including market president for Florence, SC.

Fiduciary Trust Company International hired Theresa McGinley as a managing director and trust counsel, based in the firm's New York City headquarters. McGinley will help high net worth individuals and families with estate planning and trust administration including tax planning, preparation of estate tax returns, settlement agreements, reporting and valuation. She will also guide them on complex trust and estate arrangements including estate planning, gifting techniques and charitable strategies. McGinley joined Fiduciary Trust from Katten Muchin Rosenman, where she was an associate specializing in estate planning and trust administration. Previously, she was with Schlesinger Gannon & Lazetera.

The retail investment advisory firm and independent broker-dealer, LPL Financial, named Tracy Calder as a managing director and deputy chief risk officer. Calder will be based in Charlotte, NC, and report to Michelle Oroschakoff, managing director and chief risk officer.

Calder joined LPL from JP Morgan Securities, where she was most recently a managing director and chief compliance officer. There, she led a compliance program that spanned the firm's institutional and private client broker-dealer and RIA businesses. Before JP Morgan, she was a senior vice president at Wells Fargo Advisors, leading the retail compliance program for the firm's broker/dealer.

Earlier still, Calder spent 18 years at UBS Wealth Management Americas in a variety of legal and compliance roles, including as head of legal for the wealth management advisor group and as chief compliance officer. She was also senior deputy general counsel at UBS Financial Services.

First Republic Bank hired René Henriksen as a managing director and portfolio manager in Century City, CA. Henriksen was previously a senior vice president at UBS in Century City since 2009 and before that worked at Deutsche Bank and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He began his career as a US Naval Officer.

Boston Private, a subsidiary of Boston Private Financial Holdings, hired Marie DelRossi as a vice president and senior business development officer in its trust and fiduciary services group, and David Macdonald as a senior vice president of commercial lending. DelRossi is tasked with expanding Boston Private’s trust and estate administration presence in New England while developing a portfolio of individual and family clients. Before joining Boston Private, DelRossi was a SVP and trust officer at US Trust and a trust and estates associate at Ropes & Gray, and Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye.

Macdonald, meanwhile, has extensive experience working with small to medium-size businesses on matters including working capital, asset finance, management and family buy-outs, recapitalizations and acquisition financing. As leader of Boston Private’s California commercial lending team, Macdonald’s primary focus is to manage new commercial and private banking relationships with privately-held businesses, professional services firms, private partnerships, real estate entities and non-profit organizations across California and the West Coast.

He was previously regional commercial executive and SVP at HSBC, establishing the company’s Southern California middle market commercial banking business and running its corporate business. Before that he was head of corporate banking at Lloyds Banking Group, covering 10 loan production offices across the US.

Northern Trust added Gregory Jordan and Christine Holm to its foundation and institutional advisory group in the Midwest, based in Chicago, IL. Jordan is a senior vice president and managing director for the central region. He was previously the national philanthropic investment officer at Wells Fargo. Holm is a vice president and regional director for the central region. She previously spent 15 years as vice president and director of charitable management services at Fifth Third Bank.

Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of listed hedge fund firm Man Group, appointed Guillermo Ossés as head of emerging market debt strategies, based in New York. The role has been newly created, Man Group later confirmed to this publication. Ossés brings 24 years of experience in emerging markets fixed income investing. He previously worked at HSBC Asset Management, joining in 2011. Prior to this, Ossés was an emerging markets fixed income portfolio manager at PIMCO and held emerging markets positions at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. The recruitment of Ossés by Man GLG followed its acquisition of Silvermine and the recent hire of Himanshu Gulati last year, as the firm expands its presence in the US. Ossés will report to Man GLG’s co-chief executive Teun Johnston.

Andrew Randak joined Greenwhich, CT-headquartered Fieldpoint Private from Brown Brothers Harriman as a managing director and senior advisor in New York City. Randak spent 15 years at Brown Brothers Harriman, where he was responsible for much of the firm's Latin American wealth advisory business in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. Before BBH, Randak was a private banker at The Chase Manhattan Bank, where he spent time in the firm's Santiago, Chile, offices.

Perspecta Trust hired R Angus West as a senior wealth strategist at its Hampton, NH, headquarters. West previously served as executive director and chief investment officer at the Cabot-Wellington family office – roles he held for ten years. He is a graduate of Harvard College and began his career as an investment analyst at JP Morgan. At Perspecta, which oversees around $8 billion in assets across a few dozen families, West will work with wealthy families and industry practitioners in the Boston area.

Asia-Pacific

Morningstar Investment Management Asia appointed Manfred Wong as director, portfolio specialist, responsible for teams in Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China. He is based in Hong Kong. Wong previously worked at Mesirow Financial in Chicago, where he was a research analyst focusing on sourcing and monitoring hedge fund investments for the firm's fund-of-hedge funds business. Before Mesirow, Wong held senior roles at Mercer, AMP Capital and Macquarie. 

AXA Investment Managers appointed Masanori Tanabe as external director and chairman in Japan as part of its growth drive in the country. Tanabe, who joined AXA Life Japan and AXA General Insurance Japan last year as director and chairman, spent 30 years in leadership roles at the Bank of Japan between 1975 and 2005. He has also served as governor of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan. He is based in Tokyo for the newly-created role.

Schroders, the UK-listed asset management and private banking house, confirmed the departure of a senior Singapore-based manager. Gerald Koh, director of private bank distribution in Singapore, is to leave the firm in March.

ABN AMRO’s private bank appointed former ANZ senior executive Gracelyn Ho as chief commercial officer for Asia and the Middle East. Ho’s role covers strategy, business development as well as marketing and communications. She previously was head of wealth solutions for Asia at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, overseeing the bank's various wealth solution segments in Asia. Before joining ANZ, she was at Morgan Stanley for 10 years, where in her last role she was head of capital markets, private wealth management for Asia.

A former managing director at the private banking arm of Credit Suisse in Hong Kong moved to JP Morgan, where she works in the private bank team covering China. Grace Lin left the Zurich-listed lender in November last year. She had worked at Credit Suisse from August 2010 to November 2015. Previously, Lin worked at HSBC Private Bank for eight months, and prior to that was at UBS for 10 years.

Andrew Géczy, the chief executive for international and institutional banking at Melbourne-headquartered ANZ, left after two and a half years at the group. Géczy, who joined ANZ in 2013, previously held senior executive roles at Lloyds Banking Group and Citigroup.

EFA Group, the Singapore-headquartered asset manager specialising in private credit, appointed Jacques-Olivier Thomann as senior advisor. Thomann previously worked at BNP Paribas as general manager of the Switzerland branch, a post he held from 2009. He was responsible for structured finance, which includes among other areas, commodity finance, commodity structured finance, export finance, project finance and shipping. Before taking over those responsibilities, he held various senior positions within the bank in Geneva, Singapore and Paris, including as global head of commodity finance.

Shinsuke Takarada joined Nissay Asset Management, a joint venture partner of investment house RWC Partners, as a senior portfolio manager in Tokyo. Takarada has the specific role of working on the corporate engagement-focused RWC Nissay Japan Fund and the Dublin-domiciled Japanese Stewardship Fund. Previously, Takarada worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, specialising in environmental, social and governance issues. Prior to that, he worked for Dainippon Printing as a consultant on corporate social responsibility management.

Union Bancaire Privée saw the exit of Ron Lee, Asian head of investment services. He has been based in Singapore. Lee joined the firm in 2011, having previously worked at rival Swiss banking firm Lombard Odier, where he worked from 2007.

Credit Suisse appointed DBS Wealth Management’s former chief operating officer to the role of team leader. Kelvin Ho reports to Rickie Chan, who is market leader for Greater China at the Zurich-listed bank.

AMP Capital appointed Andrea McElhinney as investment director in its social and aged care infrastructure team, based in Sydney. McElhinney took responsibility for the day-to-day portfolio management of AMP Capital’s Community Infrastructure Fund, which includes portfolio optimisation, client interaction and investment activities. She took the role from Anne Mizzi, who retains overall accountability for the fund.

Pictet Asset Management hired Niall Quinn as its new global head of institutional business (excluding Japan), replacing Christoph Lanter who retired after 17 years with the firm. Quinn was most recently managing director of Eaton Vance Management International, responsible for all operations outside North America, with a focus on institutional business development.

Standard Chartered’s private bank announced a raft of top-level appointments for the Asia-Pacific region. Stephen Richards Evans was named market head, Indonesia, a role in addition to his position as global head for the ultra high net worth proposition. He has held his current role since May last year and works with Peter Kok, regional head, ASEAN and South Asia. Gary Goh, who joined Standard Chartered in December last year, was named market head for Singapore, and reports to Kok. He has 18 years’ experience in global private banking and was most recently desk head for the Chinese entrepreneur segment at UBS. Kimmis Pun, who most recently was managing director of the China market for BNP Paribas and who joined Standard Chartered last December, was made market head for Greater China. He reports to Kok.

Huddleston Jones, the Singapore-headquartered executive search firm specialising in wealth management, made a raft of senior appointments. In a newly-created role, Peter Henke joined as managing director and regional head of asset management. Henke has an extensive background within the sector in Asia, based in Singapore and Japan.

Huddleston Jones also hired in the compliance and risk sector. Katherine Ho joined from Tom Roche & Associates as executive director and regional head of treasury and risk management, in addition to Vivien Lai, who will lead the compliance focus in the Asia-Pacific region. Amod Jain was hired as a director to increase support for front-office assignments within the group’s wealth management division. Jain joined mid-2015 from Carlton Senior Appointments to develop and expand communication with senior relationship managers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East/GCC region.

The international securities business of MUFG made key changes to its senior leadership team in Asia, adding to an appointment made recently at its operations in Hong Kong.

Trent Hagland, head of Asia and chief executive, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (Hong Kong), stepped down from these positions and returned to Australia for personal reasons. Hagland was in Hong Kong in his latest role for four years and at the firm for seven years; he joined the board of directors as a non-executive director for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (Hong Kong) and for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (Singapore), effective 29 April. Yasutaka Suehiro, a 28-year veteran of MUFG and the current deputy CEO, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), shifted to the Asia team to take on Hagland's vacated role and is based in Hong Kong.

Srinivas Siripurapu, who was head of wealth management, Southeast and South Asia, at Barclays, left the UK-listed bank. Siripurapu was appointed by the bank in August 2009 and took up the role in February 2010. He joined from UBS, where he had been head of India international Asia at the Swiss banking group. Separately, Vikram Malhotra was appointed head of sales for Singapore; he has been at the bank since 2010 and continues to head the GSAC (global South Asia community) team.  

Julius Baer  created a new division to bolster its investment management arm, bringing in a former investment chief from Pictet to lead it. The move was announced on the same day that the bank announced it had appointed a new head for its Southeast Asia business. 

The new division is called Investment Management (IM) and is led by Yves Henri Bonzon. He became a member of the bank’s executive board, reporting to Boris Collardi, chief executive. The IM division will complement the Investment Solutions Group (ISG), an existing division headed by Burkhard Varnholt. He and Bonzon are co-CIOs.

Julius Baer also appointed Torsten Linke, a former senior figure at Credit Suisse in Asia, as the head of private banking for Southeast Asia and branch manager for Singapore. David Lim, who previously held these roles, became vice chairman for Southeast Asia. Linke reports to Jimmy Lee, head of Asia-Pacific at the Zurich-listed bank.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (HK), part of Japan’s Mitsubishi UFG Financial, appointed Rick Mattila as managing director, international head of research. He relocated to Hong Kong. Mattila worked for the past five years driving MUFG’s businesses in Europe and North America. He spent 15 years covering investment-grade and high-yield credit in Europe. Prior to joining MUFG in 2010, he held positions at Merrill Lynch Bank of America and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

In Hong Kong, he reporta to Dong Nam, head of credit trading and sales, Asia, and internationally to Jim Higgins, international head of credit.

Friends Provident International, part of UK-based Aviva group, appointed Charles Barrows as managing director of FPI Hong Kong. He took over the helm from James Tan, who stepped down to pursue other interests. Barrows reports to Adrian Emery, chief executive of the business. Barrows has been with Aviva for more than 20 years. 

Lombard International hired Tammy Lu Tsui as chief executive of the Asia region. Tsui brings over 20 years of industry experience, with a focus on the high and ultra-high net worth markets. She was most recently deputy chairman in Greater China for Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, having previously served as regional managing director of private risk at AON. In the newly-created role, Tsui is based in Hong Kong.

Sharon Loh was appointed as head of advisory, Southeast Asia for BNP Paribas Wealth Management. 

Loh previously worked at UBS Wealth Management in a similar role, based in Singapore. She has also worked for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.

VP Bank (Singapore), part of Liechtenstein-headquartered VP Bank, appointed former Pictet senior manager Sylvain Gysler to the post of head of intermediaries. Previously, Gysler was head of the external asset managers’ department, Asia, at Pictet. In that role, he ran and developed a portfolio of external asset managers and multi-family offices based in Hong Kong, Switzerland and Singapore; he ran a team of relationship managers in Singapore and Hong Kong.

HSBC Private Bank appointed Abdel Ben Tkhayet as regional head of sterling structured products and fixed income, currencies and commodities, ISPS Asia. Tkhayet has almost 20 years of international investment experience, joining Hong Kong/London-listed HSBC in Paris in 1997.