A summary of executive moves in the Americas during the month of February.

Raymond James recruited Thomas Dedrick and Pam Franklin at the Tuscaloosa, AL-based office of Raymond James & Associates.

Between them, Dedrick and Franklin have more than 35 years of industry experience. They joined from Merrill Lynch, where they managed more than $162 million in client assets and had fees and commissions in excess of $1 million. 

Registered client service associate Beth Holman, a long-time assistant to Dedrick and Franklin, also joined in Tuscaloosa.

Dedrick began his financial services career in 1982 with Merrill Lynch. His areas of expertise include investment management consulting, portfolio management, retirement and financial planning services for non-profit organizations, high net worth individuals, professional athletes and business owners.

Franklin began her financial services career in 1987 as a certified public accountant, joining Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor in 2007.

Delaware-headquartered Wilmington Trust bolstered its wealth advisory team in New Jersey with the addition of an eight-strong team whose time will be split between offices in Saddle Brook and Princeton.

Based in Saddle Brook is: John Trobiano, private banker; Julie Burmeister, assistant private banker; Michael Huxley, senior private client advisor; and Susan Mistretta, relationship manager.

Meanwhile, working from the Princeton office is: Timothy Wade, senior investment advisor; Robert Brown, senior private client advisor; and Robert Gelsi, senior private client advisor.

The team of eight is headed by Fernando Garip, an investment professional in the New York Metropolitan area.

Fiduciary Trust Company International’s vice chairman and chief investment officer, S Mackintosh Pulsifer, is to step back from his role as CIO on June 1, 2014.

Pulsifer will become a senior advisor to the investment department, continuing to work with individual clients and helping with investment policies. He will also continue to serve on Fiduciary’s board of directors.

Pulsifer joined the firm in 1988 after 15 years of managing portfolios at a private, independent investment counsel firm based in New York City.  He was named as CIO in 2006.

Succeeding Pulsifer as CIO will be Ronald Sanchez, who joined Fiduciary Trust in 1993 and has been responsible for the development of fixed income strategies and management of fixed income portfolios for individuals and family groups.

Since 2007, Sanchez has served as co-chairman of the firm's asset allocation committee and a member of the fixed income policy committee of Fiduciary’s parent company, Franklin Templeton. He is also a member of Fiduciary’s management committee.

Jim Brockelman rejoined John Hancock Retirement Plan Services as national director, as the firm expands into the 401 (k) mid-market sector. Brockelman will report to Bob Carroll, national sales manager at JH RPS.

Brockelman returned to John Hancock after six years in other roles outside the firm. He first joined Manulife in 2002 as national sales manager for the company's managed account business, having formerly held executive roles in the mid-market defined contribution business.

After Manulife acquired John Hancock in 2004, Brockelman joined John Hancock's RPS business as senior vice president of intermediary services, coordinating retirement plan sales activity with the firm’s intermediary sales channel.

HighTower's Pagnato-Karp Group recruited Amanda Knott as director of financial planning, working with the group’s family office solutions team.

Knott will create financial plans - including pre-liquidity planning, lifestyle assessment, cash flow analysis and tax and estate planning - for the firm’s ultra high net worth clients.

The Pagnato-Karp Group oversees more than $2 billion in client assets and also offers custom stock portfolios, indexes and direct private investment opportunities.

US Bank Wealth Management hired Allison Cox as managing director for trust at its high net worth Private Client Reserve, while also bringing in Mercedes Givens as a wealth management consultant at the unit. Both are based in Kansas City, MO.

Cox will lead a team that administers trusts for high net worth clients, including coordinating financial, tax, investment, and legal services for clients and trusts.

Cox has over 20 years of experience administering complex estates, trust asset allocation and managing private foundations. Prior to joining the PCR, she was vice president and trust officer for Commerce Trust Company in Kansas City.

Meanwhile, Givens will work with HNW individuals and families in developing strategies to help them meet their financial objectives.

Givens has around ten years of experience in the financial services space and was latterly a branch manager for US Bank’s consumer bank. He has held various other posts at North American Savings Bank in Kansas City and Wells Fargo Bank.

BMO Private Bank appointed Rick Kollauf as an estate planning manager, based in Milwaukee but serving clients throughout the US.

Kollauf has over 27 years of industry experience advising high net worth clients, having previously held a similar role at Harris myCFO, the ultra high net worth BMO unit.

Before that, he spent seven years as director of business and tax planning for Vogel Consulting in Brookfield.  He started his career as a tax manager at Arthur Andersen.

A new president was recruited at wealth management firm Sargent Bickham Lagudis, as the firm’s reigning chief stepped down in Boulder, CO.

Replacing Brad Bickham, Richard Lawrence will also serve as chief executive of the firm. He moved from the University of Colorado Foundation, where he served as president, CEO and chief operating officer.

Bickham ended his 15-year tenure to become chief investment officer and chairman of Sargent Bickham Lagudis - a role in which he will focus on portfolio management and investment research.

Boston, MA-based research and advisory firm Celent, part of the Oliver Wyman Group, appointed William Trout as a senior analyst in the firm's wealth management group.

His role will focus on technology strategy and innovation in the securities, wealth management and banking industries.

Before joining Celent, Trout was head of product and segment development for affluent and high net worth customers at BBVA Compass, as well as a member of the BBVA Group's global private banking management team.

Prior to joining BBVA Compass, he worked in a marketing capacity for a boutique investment management firm with interests in Latin America. He is also a co-founder of the Bank Innovators Council.

Raymond James recruited a financial planning practice at its office in Chicago, IL.

Leaving Wells Fargo to join the firm, Ann Fleming and Thomas Turnbaugh brought with them almost $140 million in client assets.

The team, which also provides investment advisory services for individuals and families, operate as The Turnbaugh-Fleming Group of Raymond James.

Between them, the pair have been in the industry for 58 years. Turnbaugh joined Prudential Securities 30 years ago, seeing it through its mergers into Wachovia and Wells Fargo, prior to joining Raymond James.

Fleming’s financial history also lies with Prudential Securities and its various renames, having started at the firm in 1991.

The duo brought with them fellow Wells Fargo colleague, Cheryl Sanchez, a registered service associate who has served alongside them for over 17 years.

HORAN Capital Advisors, an SEC registered investment advisory firm, brought in Dale Wiethe as a senior portfolio manager.

Wiethe has been in the investment management business for 23 years, working as a portfolio manager for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans.

Prior to joining HORAN Capital Advisors, Wiethe worked at several regional banks before joining Merrill Lynch. Prior to entering the portfolio management space, he worked for a large family firm in the accounting and treasury division, carrying out credit analysis, foreign exchange trading and financial analysis.

First Republic Bank, a private bank and wealth management company, promoted senior executive vice president Mike Selfridge to chief operating officer.

Selfridge joined First Republic two years ago and has served as the firm’s deputy chief operating officer. Prior to joining First Republic, he was with Silicon Valley Bank for 18 years, where he was head of regional banking.

Meanwhile, First Republic also extended the employment contracts of chairman and chief executive Jim Herbert and president Katherine August-deWilde, for an additional year in each case.

Herbert will now remain as chairman and CEO until June 30, 2017, and will continue as chairman until December 31, 2020. August-deWilde will now remain as president until December 31, 2015, and will serve as senior advisor through December 31, 2017.

Wilmington Trust tightened its grip on the New Jersey market as it brought in a new team in the state.

The eight-strong team, headed by Fernando Garip, included two employees of Wilmington Trust, with the other six joining the firm from either TD Bank or TD Wealth Management.

Garip, president of the New Jersey market for Wilmington Trust, has been in the asset and wealth management business for over 30 years, having held senior posts at TD Wealth and Commerce Asset Management amongst other banking institutions in the state.

Delaware-headquartered Wilmington Trust put the team in motion to cater to demand in the Garden State from the high net worth individuals and families. The firm is also eyeing expansion in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Garip’s team will be split between two offices in New Jersey. Joining him in the Saddle Brook branch will be: John Trobiano as private banker, Julie Burmeister as assistant private banker, Michael Huxley as senior private client advisor and Susan Mistretta as relationship manager.

The new residents in Wilmington Trust’s Princeton office are senior investment advisor Timothy Wade, and senior private client advisors Robert Brown and Robert Gelsi.

Wealth management firm The Colony Group named six senior financial counselors as principals, bringing to firm’s total number of principals to 28.

The appointees are: Patrick Donnelly, Rick Macdonald, Erin Manganello, Peter Mitrano, Joseph Salvati and Janet Tighe.

Dr Frederick Dopfel joined the Marin County, CA, wealth management firm Private Ocean as an owner and co-chair of the firm's investment committee with Dr Frank Jones.

Dopfel has worked as an investment professional in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. In addition to his role as co-chair of the investment committee at Private Ocean, he is also a professor in the School of Business and Leadership at Dominican University of California.

Dopfel has worked with institutional investors on portfolio issues and solutions in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. Previously, he was managing director and head of client advisory at global asset manager BlackRock.

Glenmede, the privately-held and independent investment and wealth management firm, hired Christopher Poch as director of business development and member of the management committee, while promoting Denise Hayden as director of specialized fiduciary and administration services.

Poch will broaden the firm’s client base across high net worth, family, endowment, foundation and institutional relationships. Until recently, he was regional director of the Mid-Atlantic region for Bessemer Trust. His appointment follows the 2013 year-end retirement of Stan Broadbent, Glenmede said.

Poch will relocate from the Washington, DC, area to Glenmede's headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to Bessemer, he was executive vice president of LPL Financial and chief executive of The Private Bank Company; director of wealth management for Citigroup’s international personal banking group; and a managing director of Smith Barney’s global private wealth management group.

Meanwhile, Hayden will work with Glenmede’s wealth advisory professionals, while managing special asset administration, estate and trust settlement services, and other specialized fiduciary business processes.

Hayden also serves on the firm’s risk management committee and will manage the client resource team, which works on system processes and client on-boarding procedures.

With more than 16 years of trust administration and compliance experience, Hayden joined Glenmede in 2012 from Morgan Stanley Private Bank, where she was vice president and senior trust officer. Before that, she was a vice president and senior trust officer at Goldman Sachs, following an early career in the trust and banking industry.

Charlotte, NC-headquartered Park Sterling Corporation, the holding company for Park Sterling Bank, added three to its wealth management team, which is headquartered in Richmond, VA, and directed by Michael Williams, head of wealth management.

The firm also hired Angela Ross – previously chief branding officer at the commercial bank StellarOne - as chief marketing officer, based in Richmond.

George Meyls, who joined as senior vice president and head of private banking, was most recently a private banking director at StellarOne Bank and has over 20 years of wealth management and private banking experience, including roles at Paine Webber, Smith Barney and Wells Fargo Bank.

Russell Carter – latterly a trust advisor at Union First Market Bank in Richmond – is now a trust advisor in Richmond at Park Sterling. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the trust area, having held roles at JP Morgan Chase, SunTrust Bank and StellarOne.

Alan Smith was also named as a trust advisor, based in Charlotte, NC. Smith has seven years of banking experience, most recently with PNC Bank, where he was a relationship manager in wealth management, and with Bank of America as a client manager.

US Bank made a raft of hires at its high net worth Private Client Reserve unit in Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, and Naples, FL.

In Denver, Chad Hume was named as trust managing director for the PCR, with 21 years of experience in trust administration and investment management.

Hume’s areas of expertise are in administration of revocable and irrevocable trusts, investment agency accounts, foundation management and estate planning.

Prior to joining the PCR, he served as vice president, senior trust and fiduciary specialist at Wells Fargo Private Bank in Denver and as a trust officer with Northern Trust in Chicago.

Meanwhile, in Seattle Heidi Gordon was named personal trust officer, with over 17 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Gordon has detailed knowledge in the areas of trust administration, including revocable and irrevocable trusts. She has significant experience advising families and charities on the management of private foundations and giving programs.

Before joining the PCR, Gordon held various roles at Bank of America in Seattle and Bellevue, WA. Most recently, she was vice president and philanthropic trust officer for US Trust Private Wealth Management of Bank of America in Seattle.

Also in Seattle, LeeAnn Gudeit was appointed as a vice president and senior portfolio manager, with 16 years of experience as an equity analyst and portfolio manager in a range of industries and privately-held companies.

Gudeit has advised clients on complex financial modeling, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and global capital markets. She was previously a valuation manager with WTAS in Seattle, responsible for the valuation of privately-held companies and investments.

Rounding off the Seattle hires, Tiffany Koenig was named as senior vice president of wealth management advisor and managing director.

Koenig provides wealth management strategies in investment management, private banking, trust and estate services, and wealth planning. She has over 23 years of experience in the financial services industry and was latterly senior vice president and senior relationship manager at Key Private Bank in Bellevue and Seattle.

Lastly, US Bank brought in Michael Nurenberg as a vice president and portfolio manager for the PCR in Naples.

Nurenberg has over 30 years of experience in the banking and financial services industries, with a focus in portfolio management and commercial banking. He was formerly vice president, team leader and senior portfolio manager for the wealth management group at BNY Mellon.

Merrill Lynch hired the team of Michael Bromberg and Daniel Gerschel from Morgan Stanley, responsible for managing over $400 million in client assets.

Bromberg joined as a managing director, while Gerschel was named as an assistant vice president. The team joined the Rockefeller Center Complex in NYC and reports to branch manager Michael Simonds.

Meanwhile, UBS Wealth Management Americas recruited The Grueninger Group from Merrill Lynch in Beverley Hills, CA.

The team is made up of Mark Grueninger, senior vice president of wealth management and portfolio manager; Ben Sauer, wealth strategist; and Mariam Aziz, client service associate.

The group, which specializes in retirement planning and family trusts, has a T-12 of $2,670,000 and reports to David Bigler, managing director and complex director.

Raymond James recruited financial advisors Peter and Lisa Walsh, who opened the first full-service branch of Raymond James & Associates in Buffalo, NY.

They joined Raymond James from Morgan Stanley, where they managed $255 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of $2 million.

The team, known as The Walsh Group of Raymond James, will serve corporate executives, business owners, affluent families and women investors in the Buffalo area and throughout the Eastern US.

Also joining the team from Morgan Stanley is senior registered financial planning assistant, Jennifer York, and client service associate, Kasandra Crosby.

Peter Walsh began his financial services career in 1984 as a specialist clerk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He went on to work at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management for 26 years, where he was a senior vice president.

Lisa Walsh served as a vice president of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where she worked for 19 years. Earlier in her career, she was an account executive with ADP and a claims representative with CIGNA Insurance.

Seattle, WA-headquartered wealth manager Moss Adams Wealth Advisors added John de Carvalho as its new chief investment officer.

With more than 10 years of capital markets experience, de Carvalho will be responsible for overseeing more than $1.6 billion in managed assets. He will work with clients across the nation from the firm’s Seattle office.

Fidelity Investments appointed Charles Morrison as president of the firm’s asset management unit, succeeding Ronald O’Hanley, who is stepping down after less than four years in the role.

Morrison will now oversee Fidelity’s investment divisions that collectively manage $1.9 trillion in retail and institutional assets on behalf of individual investors, intermediaries, and institutions globally. He will report to Abigail Johnson, president of Fidelity Financial Services.

Morrison was most recently president of Fidelity's $750 billion fixed income division – a role he assumed in 2011. He joined the firm as a corporate bond analyst in 1987, and, over subsequent years, assumed roles with increasing responsibility including managing portfolios for Fidelity Management Trust Company.

BNY Mellon added three new business development professionals – previously of Northern Trust - to its family office solutions group.

Senior director Margaret O’Leary is based in San Francisco, CA, and responsible for the West Coast. Meanwhile, directors Kelly Dean and Thomas Smith are based in Chicago, IL. All three report to managing director, Eileen Foley, in Boston, MA.

US Capital Advisors brought in Mark Casey – latterly regional MD for Merrill Lynch’s private banking and investment group - as a managing director.

Specifically, Casey is tasked with developing the firm’s ultra high net worth and family office platform in Texas.

He will work with market leaders Ford McTee in Austin, and Steve Head in Dallas, along with Patrick Mendenhall, managing partner and head of wealth management, and his team in Houston.  Casey will also assume a key role in business development, USCA said.

Casey has over 20 years of financial services experience with leadership positions at Merrill Lynch's private banking and investment group and New Ventures.  He has a strong background in recruiting and has extensive experience in establishing UHNW businesses in Texas and surrounding states, the firm said.

O’Leary was with Northern Trust for 25 years in a range of roles - most recently as a senior wealth strategist in the global family and private investment offices group, where she directed new business development and account expansion throughout the Western US. Prior to that, she served as a senior relationship manager for institutional clients in the firm’s international global services group.

During his 20-year stint at Northern Trust, Smith held business development and management roles, including managing director of the Northeast family office practice and managing director within the global family and private investment offices group.

New York-listed City National Bank appointed Scott Witter to head the firm's private client services group in New York, taking over from Robin Balding, who joined in 2003 and is retiring.

Witter is a senior vice president and a private client advisor with more than 25 years of banking experience. He has managed the private client services office for City National Bank in downtown Los Angeles since 2008.

In his new role, Witter will lead New York-based relationship managers who provide advice and services in investment management, credit, depository and cash management, estate planning, trust and wealth transfer management, and retirement planning. Clients include high net worth individuals and families, professional services firms and non-profit organizations.

Witter began his career at Lloyds Bank California, followed by 18 years at Security Pacific, which in 1992 became Bank of America. At BoA, he held a range of roles, including treasury operations manager, consumer regional executive and premier banking market executive, as well as a private client advisor in the private banking division.

Falls Church, VA-based Lara, May & Associates, an independent wealth management firm, named Charles Shaw as chief executive.

Shaw has around 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, having held senior roles at wealth management organizations including Fifth Third Private Bank, KeyCorp, McDonald Investments and Federated Investors.

Matawan, NJ-based Atlas Private Wealth Advisors joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer platform as an independent RIA group.

Atlas Private Wealth Advisors is the new name of a team of five professionals, led by financial advisors Vladislav Krubich and Tony Mayo. The firm provides financial planning for individuals, families and business owners, primarily in the New York/New Jersey region.

As part of the move, the firm has also partnered with Flagship Harbor Advisors, an independent RIA group, for its fee-based advisory services.

Sapient Private Wealth Management, a Eugene, OR-based RIA, hired former RBC financial advisor, Ross Anderle - who previously managed nearly $100 million in client assets – to expand the firm’s financial planning and wealth management services.

With the addition of Anderle, Sapient’s total client assets now stand at approximately $700 million.

The Sapient team left Morgan Stanley in 2010 after more than three decades at the firm. They launched their own independent wealth management firm through Focus Connections, a program that helps wirehouse teams transition their business.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management appointed Simon Mendelson to the newly-created role of managing director and head of product management and development in the Americas.

Based in New York, Mendelson reports to Jerry Miller, head of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, Americas.

Mendelson will oversee the development, implementation and positioning of DeAWM’s investment products and solutions in the Americas.

Mendelson has around two decades of leadership and operating experience, having spent nine years at BlackRock and 14 years at McKinsey & Co. He was most recently global head of product development at BlackRock, which he joined in 2005. From 1990 to 2005, he was a senior partner in the financial institutions practice at McKinsey & Co, where he focused on insurance, brokerage and asset management.

Ziegler, the investment bank and wealth management firm, hired Geoffrey Brown as a vice president and financial advisor at its recently-opened Glen Allen, VA, office.

Brown served as a wealth advisor for Morgan Stanley before joining Ziegler and brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the Glen Allen office.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s chief investment officer for international and emerging markets equity left the firm to take a similar role at Eaton Vance Management.

Edward Perkin was also a managing director and portfolio manager at GSAM, based in London.

Raymond James recruited Alex Gallego as senior vice president of investments in the Woodbury, NY, office of Raymond James & Associates, the traditional employee broker/dealer of New York-listed Raymond James Financial.

Gallego will operate as the Gallego Financial Group of Raymond James and later open an office in the Octagon building in Oyster Bay, NY.

Gallego has more than 20 years of investment experience and specializes in professional asset management, retirement planning and customized financial planning.

He began his financial services career in 1992, having held roles at both Merrill Lynch and UBS. Most recently, he was a senior vice president and branch manager of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co in Oyster Bay, where he managed some $94 million in client assets and had fees and commissions in excess of $1 million.

Financial services industry newcomer Cornerstone Capital named Phil Kirshman as chief investment officer of Cornerstone Capital Investment Management in Denver, CO.

Overseeing the firm’s private client wealth management investment strategies, Kirshman will help expand Cornerstone Capital’s geographic reach and open up new business opportunities.

Kirshman is latterly of The Leonard Sustainable Investment Group, a UBS consulting group, where he served as account vice president and senior portfolio manager. With over 20 years in the wealth management industry, he specializes in sustainable investment consulting.

Wilmington Trust hired Anthony Lunger as managing director for wealth advisory in Delaware, and named Hunter Wilson as a managing director and senior private client advisor at the same division in North Palm Beach, FL.

Having joined the firm in 1999, Lunger works with commercial banking officers and trust professionals to provide wealth management advice to high net worth individuals, families, entrepreneurs and executives. While based in North Palm Beach, Wilson will work with families nationally.

Lunger is a board member and treasurer for both the Delaware Estate Planning Council and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington. He also serves on the boards of the Wilmington Library Institute and the Eleutherian Mills Residence Committee, and is a former board member of the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation.

Before joining Wilmington Trust, Wilson was a senior partner at GenSpring Family Offices, as well as serving as chairman of GenSpring in Florida. He was with GenSpring for more than 18 years. Previously, he was a director at Ocwen Financial in West Palm Beach, worked at Deloitte & Touche as a senior manager in Miami and spent time at Rinker Materials in West Palm Beach as director of auditing.

Eaton Vance Management, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance, hired Edward Perkin as chief equity investment officer, effective April 29.

Perkin will report to Thomas Faust, chairman and chief executive of Eaton Vance. He replaces Duncan Richardson, who retired on October 31, 2013, and Faust, who has served as interim chief equity investment officer since Richardson's departure.

Perkin is latterly of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he was chief investment officer for international and emerging markets equity, as well as a managing director and portfolio manager in London. Before relocating to London in 2008, Perkin was a portfolio manager and analyst on GSAM's US value equity team in New York.

Prudential Financial, which has operations in the US, Asia, Europe and Latin America, made a raft of senior management changes including the resignation of Ed Baird, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Prudential’s international division, on April 4.

Baird, who joined Prudential in 1979, was appointed to head the company’s international businesses in 2008 after serving in several senior management roles. He previously served as president of Prudential’s Group Insurance business; chairman and president of Pruco Life Insurance Company; and chief representative of Prudential Investment Management, where he oversaw the firm’s retail and institutional asset management business in Japan.

Taking over the top international post will be Charles Lowrey, who for the past three years has served as executive vice president and COO of Prudential’s US-based businesses. They are comprised of Prudential Investment Management; Prudential Retirement; Prudential Annuities; Individual Life Insurance; and Group Insurance. Together, these businesses had approximately $1 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2013.

Before his current role, Lowrey was president and CEO of Prudential Investment Management, Prudential Financial’s asset management business. Previously, he was CEO of Prudential Real Estate Investors, having joined the firm in March 2001.

Steve Pelletier, currently CEO of Prudential’s Group Insurance business, will succeed Lowrey as head of US businesses and will be promoted to executive vice president. Prior to his current role, Pelletier was president of Prudential Annuities and has held several senior leadership roles in the US and abroad.

Meanwhile, assuming Pelletier’s role as CEO of the Group Insurance business will be Lori Fouché, who currently serves as president and COO of Group Insurance. She will be promoted to senior vice president.

Fouché joined Prudential in 2013 and has more than 20 years of insurance industry experience, including serving as president and CEO of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Michael Puleio as senior director for business development in Manhattan, reporting to managing director Katia Friend.

Before joining the firm last month, Puleio was a financial advisor at MetLife, where he worked with entrepreneurs and business owners to implement business risk management, wealth management and estate planning strategies. He also trained other advisors in employee benefits, financial planning for entrepreneurs and advanced estate planning techniques.

Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group appointed Jackie Roberts as chief sustainability officer, a newly-created position that she will assume in mid-February, based in Washington, DC.

Roberts will lead Carlyle’s global environmental, social and governance efforts, working with the firm’s portfolio companies to “drive understanding and adoption of ESG principles.”

A 17-year veteran of EDF, Roberts has been active in emerging technologies and climate and energy issues as director of sustainable technologies for the Washington-based non-profit group. At EDF, she also launched the Corporate Partners Program, and, additionally, spent a year working on corporate sustainability issues as a senior faculty fellow at Harvard Business School.

Glenmede, the privately-held independent investment and wealth management firm, promoted Denise Murray Hayden as director of specialized fiduciary and administration services.

Hayden will manage special asset administration, estate and trust settlement services, and other specialized fiduciary business processes.

In addition to her day-to-day responsibilities, Hayden will manage Glenmede’s client resource team, which focuses on improving system processes and client on-boarding procedures. She also serves on the firm’s risk management committee.

Hayden joined Glenmede in 2012 from Morgan Stanley Private Bank, where she served as vice president and senior trust officer. Previously, she was a vice president and senior trust officer at Goldman Sachs.

Natixis Global Asset Management hired Rodrigo Nunez Aguilar as director of global key accounts for Latin America and US offshore.

Based in New York, Nunez Aguilar will manage the US offshore and Latin America fund distribution sales teams. He will report to Sophie del Campo, head of Latin America for NGAM International, and Ed Farrington, head of US offshore sales.

Nunez Aguilar has over 17 years of asset management industry experience, most recently as head of funds and advisory sales for Latin America and US offshore at Barclays.

He previously served as New York-based executive director for Latin America and US offshore distribution at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, as well as previous roles at ING Barings and Bank Boston.

Raymond James recruited David Rodrigo and Jason Goldberg as vice presidents of investments in the Blue Ash, OH, branch office of Raymond James & Associates, the traditional employee broker/dealer of Raymond James Financial.

The team, known as the Goldberg and Rodrigo Financial Group of Raymond James, joined from Wells Fargo, where they managed more than $101 million in client assets and had $900,000 in annual fees and commissions.

Rodrigo began his financial services career as a CPA at an international accounting firm. In 2006, he joined A G Edwards, which through mergers eventually became Wells Fargo Advisors. He has experience serving high net worth clients, particularly specialists in the medical field.

Goldberg has more than 16 years of industry experience, having previously worked as a financial advisor at A G Edwards before it merged into Wachovia and later, Wells Fargo Advisors. He specializes in investment strategies for high-net-worth families, corporate executives and small business owners.

US Bank Wealth Management appointed a vice president in Vancouver at its Private Client Reserve division.

Cindy Luckman joined the firm from Cincinnati, OH, and will lead the Vancouver branch while providing wealth management advice in the areas of private banking, personal trust, investment management and financial planning.

National Advisors Trust, the Kansas-based independent trust company, appointed John Sullivan as chief financial officer and John Abbuhlhas to the newly created position of chief client officer.

Vice president Colleen Berry, who joined the firm in August, will oversee the newly-created position of director of product management.

Prior to joining National Advisors Trust, Sullivan served as chief financial officer for a number of business units within JPMorgan Chase, including corporate trust, global investment management technology and operations, corporate finance, and 401(K) recordkeeping.

Abbuhl has significant experience managing trust and custody services technology, mergers and acquisitions, and developing and implementing wealth management strategies. He joined from Fiserv, where he was director of global services analytics, and before this he was as a wealth manager at Bank of America.

Berry was previously the associate director of major gifts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where she was responsible for developing and implementing strategies with donors. Prior to that, she was an executive at SEI Investments, where she led the development and coordination of integrated marketing strategies for the worldwide private banking division.

Six financial advisors moved from Morgan Stanley to RBC Wealth Management as the firm continues to nurture its Austin, TX, office.

Looking after $635 million assets under management and with more than $3.4 million in production, the new hires will form two teams.

Heading the Lone Star Group will be John Riffle, Patrick Easter, Terry Sherman and Mike Roche. Tim Marwill and Eric Wittek will form the eponymous Marwill Wittek Group.

The two groups will provide personal consultations for their clients’ financial concerns, advising on matters such as investment management, retirement income planning, wealth protection and estate planning to help individuals and business owners reach their goals.

Banyan Partners, the Florida-based independent wealth management and investment advisory firm, announced several senior-level promotions.

Sherri Daniels has become chief operating officer and her role will expand to encompass management of the day-to-day operations of the firm, including compliance, human resources, family office services in addition to marketing and client relationship management.

Meanwhile Christopher Parker was appointed as chief administrative officer, overseeing the firm’s administrative functions, including back-office operations, portfolio and client services and regional office administration.

Lauri London was promoted to general counsel and chief compliance officer. In addition to managing the firm’s compliance department, she will now serve as chief legal counsel.

David Costigan became executive vice president of client advisory services and will now oversee the firm’s client advisors across all nine branches nationwide.

Timothy Brann assumed the role executive vice president of business development and will direct and oversee strategic business development efforts across all channels on a nationwide basis.

Another day brought another wealth management appointment at BNY Mellon.

The US firm appointed H Belin Robertson as senior director for business development in the mid-Atlantic region. He joined the Philadelphia wealth management team along with three other investment professionals. Robertson reports to managing director Garrett Alton.

Robertson previously worked at Merrill Lynch, where he was a financial advisor focused on serving high net worth clients. Before that, he led business development efforts for Neuberger Berman in several Western and Midwestern markets.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management also hired three senior portfolio managers in its Philadelphia regional office: Renzo Cerabino, Carolyn Melzer and Clark Stossel. Combined they brought more than 40 years of financial services experience and all report to managing director Mark Haslam.

FSC Securities Corporation, the broker-dealer and member of Advisor Group, hired Cherrington Brotsky Conscious Capital from Morgan Stanley, taking almost $300 million in client assets under management to FSC.

Tompkins Financial Advisors, the wealth management arm of New York-based Tompkins Financial Corporation, appointed Stephen Angelis as president, effective February 18.

In addition, he will serve as a member of the leadership team of Tompkins Financial Corporation.

Angelis has 28 years of leadership experience and was most recently a managing partner and private equity investor with GAN Investments. Prior to this, he served in leadership positions responsible for revenue growth and strategic initiatives.

Chicago-based investment advisory firm RMB Capital appointed Kerry Jordan as director of business development for Iron Road Capital Partners, the firm’s alternative investment platform.

In her role, Jordan will be responsible for promoting Iron Road and introducing new clients to each of the various portfolios on the platform, as well as ongoing investor relations.

Jordan’s background includes 15 years of domestic and international financial services experience. Before RMB, she served as head of marketing and investor relations at Chicago Capital Management, focussing on raising capital and other business development initiatives.

She previously worked as a director at Bank of America’s global derivative products group, where she was responsible for the structuring and sales of interest rate derivative products.

Stanford Investment Group, a Mountain View, CA-based firm, appointed Regina Wohl as a portfolio manager.

She will work with SIG’s Wealth Advisors to manage client portfolios and conduct investment research and serve on the firm’s investment committee.

Prior to joining SIG, Wohl served as senior portfolio manager with Key Private Bank in Cleveland, OH. Previously she worked for Victory Capital Management as a portfolio manager and as compliance specialist and audit manager for KeyCorp.

David Barrett Partners, the boutique executive search firm specializing in investment and wealth management, named John Knapp as a partner in New York, although he will spend half his time in Boston, MA.

Knapp was most recently based in Egon Zehnder's (the global executive search firm) Boston office, where he was head of the asset management search practice for the US and a member of the global board and financial officers practice groups.

Prior to Egon Zehnder, he spent six years at Fidelity Investments - most recently as vice president for institutional wealth products.

He has over 20 years of financial services and management consulting experience, having spent the past decade in investment and wealth management leadership roles.

Prudential Fixed Income, part of New York-listed Prudential Financial, hired Gregory Peters as a senior portfolio manager within the multi-sector strategy team.

Peters, who most recently created and led Morgan Stanley’s cross-asset and asset allocation department, joined the firm last month. As previously announced, Kay Willcox will retire from the multi-sector team in the second half of 2014.

Before Peters became head of global/macro and chief global cross-asset strategist at Morgan Stanley, he was global head of fixed income research and economics and had served as head of US credit research.

Before that, he worked on Salomon Smith Barney’s corporate bond strategy, after having worked as a mortgage-backed securities analyst and in risk management. He also worked for the US Treasury as a bank regulator who specialized in distressed loan workouts and examined the quality of assets.

A new managing director and private banker was appointed at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management in Los Angeles, CA.

The hire of Brandt Daniel was part of the firm’s plans to expand in the region, forming a new team in the area. He will focus on ultra high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and family offices in Southern California.

He will report to Michael Davis, managing director and head of the US private bank for the West Coast region.

Prior to joining DeAWM, Daniel was a senior vice president for Comercia Bank’s wealth management decision, managing the Orange County and San Diego private banking teams.

Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, a Boston, MA-based investment management firm, added Ted Melhado as managing director of investment services.

Melhado has over 30 years of experience in investment management and financial services. Prior to joining he was the founder and managing partner of Colorado-based money management firm EHM Resources.

He also directed investments for a number of family offices at Trillium Consultants, after having founded TalMor Capital Management, an investment management organization that served individual investors.

The growing wealth in the Rocky Mountain region prompted BNY Mellon Wealth Management to expand its presence in the area, with the hire of a new senior portfolio manager.

Benson joined from Northern Trust, where he was portfolio manager and senior investment consultant in Denver. There, he managed accounts for high net worth individuals and institutions.

In his new role at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, he will report to Tracy McCarthy, regional president.

Margaret Paddock was appointed as Twin Cities market leader for The Private Client Reserve of US Bank, reporting to Michael Ott, president of the PCR.

Paddock latterly served as the Milwaukee market leader for the PCR and was also the PCR’s first market leader in Chicago, IL.

In her new role, Paddock oversees wealth management professionals providing investment management, private banking, trust and estate services and wealth planning to high net worth clients in the Twin Cities.

Paddock began her banking career at AMCORE Bank (a predecessor of BMO) in the Chicago region, where as a senior private banker she was responsible for market development and client and portfolio management.

FolioDynamix, a provider of web-based technology to the financial services industry, added three wealth management staff to its business development and client relationship teams.

Steve Dorsey, senior vice president of business development, was most recently vice president of sales for Advisor Software. Past positions he has held also include West Coast strategic account manager for Thomson Reuters Retail Wealth Management Sales and vice president and national sales director at Emmett A Larkin Company.

Meanwhile, Aubrey Good, senior vice president of business development, was recently vice president of wealth management sales and client development for S&P Capital IQ and business development for Relationship Science. Good also spent 20 years at Standard & Poors.

Lastly, Colleen Thatcher, senior vice president and account executive, specializes in financial services client relationship management and joined FolioDynamix from GXS. Her past positions also include director of consulting services for Fortigent and vice president and project manager for Key Bank. Colleen has also held client-facing roles with National City Bank (now PNC) and Morgan Stanley.

Homrich Berg promoted Stephanie Lang, who joined the firm in 2005, as chief investment officer. The firm told Family Wealth Report that Lang does not replace anyone in her new role.

Lang oversees a team within Homrich Berg’s investment department and is responsible for investment matters including asset allocation, the selection and monitoring of traditional and alternative investments, as well as the research efforts for the firm's internal private fund-of funds. She also chairs the firm's investment committee.

Lang has over 16 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to Homrich Berg, she spent around two years as a portfolio manager for Bank of America's private bank. In that role, she managed assets for individuals, charitable trusts, and foundation and retirement accounts.

Prior to BoA, Lang spent about six years in equity research with the corporate and investment bank Robinson Humphrey, covering technology and media companies.

Commonwealth Financial Network added UICCU Wealth Management of Iowa City, IA, and Cedar Rapids, IA, to its network of independent financial advisors.

Formerly affiliated with LPL Financial, Mark Law, managing director and chief investment officer, along with his team of 14 advisors, brought with them more than $500 million in total client assets.

RBC Wealth Management hired James Leslie as a financial advisor in Pittsburgh.

Leslie joined RBC Wealth Management after close to 30 years at Wells Fargo Advisors.  He has 32 years of financial industry experience, $140 million in assets under management and close to $1 million in production.

Ken Ross, senior managing director of the Pittsburgh complex at RBC Wealth Management in the US, said the firm hired six financial advisors in the region in 2013 and has set its goals high for this year too.

Philadelphia, PA-headquartered wealth management and investment banking firm Janney Montgomery Scott recruited The Griffith Chapman Group - formerly of Ameriprise - in Columbia, South Carolina.

The team includes Jack Griffith, first vice president of investments; Jack “Trey” Griffith, assistant vice president of investments; John Chapman, financial advisor; and Linda Pittman, private client assistant.

Griffith has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, having previously held advisory and management positions at H&R Block Financial and Merrill Lynch.

Ross Harter was added as a private banker for The Private Client Reserve of US Bank in San Diego, CA.

Harter joined the PCR from Union Bank, where he served as a vice president and client advisor.