A summary of all the moves in North American wealth management during April.

Customers Bank opened a Chicago office in its private and commercial banking arm, adding to operations in Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and New England. Banking veteran John R Ross was named banking group head of the Chicago banking group. Prior to this, he served as senior vice president and team leader of Chicago’s Associated Bank. Ross began his career in finance in 1984 and has served in various management and producer roles at Chicago banks including The Private Bank, US Bank, Cole Taylor Bank, LaSalle Bank, and others.

Canadian firm Foresters Asset Management appointed Vivian Lo as vice president and senior portfolio manager and Evan Minsky as analyst within its North American equity team. Lo has over 15 years’ industry experience. She was previously vice president and portfolio manager for over ten years at LOGiQ Asset Management (formerly Aston Hill). Minsky has 12 years’ investment experience and was formerly at 1832 Asset Management in a similar capacity.

US-based LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor, hired Tom Anderton and Ryan Howard. Both hires are affiliated with 626 Financial, an independent firm on LPL’s broker-dealer and corporate advisory platforms. Based in Portage, Michigan, 626 Financial was founded in 2009 by Anderton’s cousin and uncle, Brant and Robert Shrimplin.

Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank appointed a new banking group to its private and commercial banking operation in New York. Oleg Karaman was appointed as senior vice president and banking group head. He co-leads the banking group. Karaman previously served as a select branch manager at Santander and assistant branch manager at Independence Community Bank  

Daniel Topple was appointed as senior vice president. Prior to joining Customers Bank, Topple worked alongside Karaman in Manhattan at Signature Bank and Sterling National Bank, respectively. Topple also held posts at HSBC as a senior premiere relationship manager and at First Republic Bank as a branch manager.

Mississippi-based Hancock Whitney Bank, the subsidiary of Hancock Holding Company, appointed Mark Christopher Smith as executive vice president and director of private wealth management. Smith leads the high net worth teams within Hancock Whitney’s private wealth management group. He joined the firm from BBVA Compass, where he spent 12 years as an executive vice president and the global wealth executive.

LPL Financial appointed certified financial planner Ric Kellogg to its broker/dealer platform, working with IHT Wealth Management, an independent advisory firm on LPL’s hybrid registered investment advisor platform. Kellogg reported that, based on prior business, he served about $123 million of client brokerage and advisory assets, as of March 29, 2018.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Tim Garigan as managing director and financial advisor in the Tucson. He joined with 41 years of industry experience.  He manages approximately $225 million in client assets and joins RBC from Wells Fargo Advisors. Kim Gray, senior registered client associate, also joined the firm.

Intellectus Partners appointed Trevor Mottl as head of portfolio structure, risk and alternative data. Mottl leads portfolio optimization strategies, derivatives, risk management, cryptocurrencies and private investments for Intellectus. In this role, Mottle is based in the firm’s San Francisco headquarters and joins its Investment Committee. He reports to the chief executive of Intellectus, David J La Placa.

WisdomTree, an exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor, appointed Christopher Gannatti as head of research in Europe. Gannatti moved from WisdomTree’s headquarters in New York, where he has worked since December 2010. Gannatti joined WisdomTree in 2010 as research analyst and was promoted to associate director in 2014. Prior to that, he was a regional consultant at Lord Abbett.

In his role, Gannatti leads the research team in Europe.

First Republic Bank recruited a wealth management team from Merrill Lynch. The team is led by Jim Atwood, joining First Republic Private Wealth Management. Atwood is joined by senior team members Jeff Atwood, Tom O’Brien, Julie Rousseau, McClane Cover, Brendan York, and Zach Calahan, along with client services and operations professionals.

Goldman Sachs promoted a Los Angeles, California-based executive to head of its private wealth management operation across the US and Latin America. John Mallory, who remains in LA, drives growth and business expansion across 14 offices, while continuing to oversee private wealth management institutional client business.

TaxAct, a US tax advisory business, appointed former senior KeyBank figure Fazir Jameer Ali as head of product development and customer service. He reports to Sanjay Baskaran, president of TaxAct. A member of the TaxAct senior executive team, Ali leads conduct market/customer research. Prior to this, Ali was SVP, head of mobile strategy, digital product management and innovation for KeyBank in Cleveland.

Raymond James recruited financial advisors Gary Rosen, Daniel Kramer, Grigori Lvov and Robert Kikin to Raymond James & Associates in Hackensack, New Jersey. The advisors join from Wells Fargo Advisors. The new office is managed by complex manager Christopher Leavy. Rosen and Kramer operate as Constantine Wealth Management and previously managed $621 million in client assets. They provide wealth management services to high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners and healthcare professionals.

Advisors Lvov and Kikin operate as the Lvov-Kikin Financial Consulting Group of Raymond James and previously managed $162 million in client assets. Rosen, a founding partner of Constantine Wealth Management, has been in the sector for more than 23 years, beginning at Dean Witter Reynolds in 1994, and later Prudential Securities and Wells Fargo.

Kramer, a partner of Constantine Wealth Management with more than 24 years of industry experience, previously served as vice president with Thomas Weisel Partners and Morgan Stanley before moving to Wells Fargo in 2002, where he served as managing director. Lvov began his financial services career in 2003. He has worked at RBC Dain Rauscher and later joined Wells Fargo. Kikin began his financial services career at PHD Capital, followed by Citigroup and later, Wells Fargo.

Brinker Capital, an investment management company focused on multi-asset class investing, appointed one member and has made several promotions to its operations across the US. They all report to Ed Kelly, executive vice president of national sales. Sterling Moore joined Brinker Capital as a regional director responsible for new business development and client service for the PacWest territory including, northern California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Prior to joining the firm, Moore was a vice president at MassMutual Pacific, regional vice president at Global Atlantic, and divisional sales director and regional vice president at Invesco/Van Kampen Investments.

Matt Mileski was promoted from business development consultant to regional director covering the areas of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Mileski has been with Brinker Capital for more than three years.

In addition to his sales responsibilities as regional director in Florida and Puerto Rico, Tom Rieman provides sales support and training as a speaker for The Center for Outcomes, an educational program backed by Brinker Capital. Avery Cook has been promoted as the retirement plan services regional director. Cook has over 21 years of experience in the financial services industry.

HSBC Global Private Banking named a new chief operating officer for the Americas, Dennis Duggan, who took over from Louis Marino, who moved to a new role at the bank.  Duggan reports to Joe Abruzzo, head of the private bank in the Americas, and John Armstrong, COO for global private banking.

Prior to joining HSBC in 2006, Duggan spent 13 years with UBS where he led various operational teams including serving as Head of US operations for the private bank. He also held several relationship management and client service roles within the private banks both at Citibank and JP Morgan.

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed Brian C McK. Henderson as a senior advisor, a founding partner of Henderson International Advisors and a veteran of Merrill Lynch. Henderson has worked in the sector for more than 40 years.

As well as being the founding partner of Henderson International Advisors, LLC, which he started in April 2014, he held a number of roles at Merrill Lynch over a 23-year career span there, including director of communications, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets; senior vice president, Merrill Lynch International; and executive assistant to the chairman and president. He was also on the boards of Prime Merrill SpA (Italy) and Merrill Lynch South Africa. Before joining Merrill, Henderson spent 14 years with Chase Manhattan Bank, with responsibilities that covered multiple divisions and continents.

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed Mark Patterson as senior advisor to the firm. In this role, Patterson helps the firm across its wealth management, asset management and strategic advisory operations. Patterson has been a real estate consultant and financial advisor since leaving Merrill Lynch in 2009.

Tennessee-based Acumen Wealth Advisors, an independent asset management and financial planning firm, appointed Julie McLain as a private client relationship manager. McLain collaborates with Acumen’s chief investment officer, chief compliance officer, and wealth strategist to improve services for the client. Prior to joining Acumen, she was a trust advisor assistant and she was responsible for account management and maintenance.

RBC Wealth Management hired the Bivona Consulting Group to its Glastonbury, Connecticut operation. The team consists of Joseph Bivona, managing director and financial advisor, who joins with 36 years of industry experience; Thomas Bivona, managing director and financial advisor, who has 25 years of experience; and Robert Impelluso, vice president – financial advisor, who has seven years of experience. Accompanying them at RBC WM were Lori Carroll and Eileen Martyn, senior registered client associates.

Janus Henderson Investors appointed Georgina Fogo to its executive committee as chief risk officer. He was global head of compliance at Blackrock. Fogo is based in the firm’s London headquarters. Her appointment follows the retirement of David Kowalski as CRO in 2017.

Global asset manager Och-Ziff Capital Management appointed Thomas Sipp as chief financial officer. Sipp joined from Magis Partners, where he served as managing partner for the venture firm focused on wealth management products. He replaced  CFO, Alesia J Haas, who resigned to pursue another career opportunity in a different industry. 

PNC Wealth Management appointed Don Heberle as head of wealth management

Heberle joined PNC from BNY Mellon where he served as the chief executive of BNY Mellon Wealth Management. He has 20 years of experience in wealth management, asset management and investment strategy.

Blackhorn Ventures, the venture capital firm specializing in industrial impact investing, added former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter as a strategy partner. Ritter’s role is advise Blackhorn on energy investment and to build partnerships in Colorado.

Atlanta-based BIP Wealth, formerly Buckhead Investment Partners, appointed Kyle Schmidt to its team of advisors. Schmidt, who previously had a professional baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles before training as a wealth manager, was most recently an advisor for SunTrust Private Wealth.

The Private Bank, a subsidiary of US-based Union Bank, appointed Charity Babington Falls as director and senior wealth strategist. Based in San Diego, she reports to Jason Liu, head of wealth planning. Most recently, Babington Falls served as a vice president and senior wealth planning strategist at Wells Fargo Private Bank.

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BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Thomas Moran as senior wealth manager, fiduciary specialist in Menlo Park, California. Moran reports to president of US markets, Northwest, Robert Kricena. He is responsible for driving the growth and expansion of the Fiduciary business in Northern California. Prior to joining BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Moran was a senior fiduciary advisory specialist, regional trust manager and senior trust team manager at Wells Fargo Private Bank.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Alistair Lowe as managing director and senior portfolio manager of quantitative beta strategies (QBS). In this new role, Lowe will oversee QBS’s team of alternative beta and quantitative equity portfolio managers in New York. He reports to Yazann Romahi, chief investment officer of QBS, and will be based in New York. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Lowe was an independent consultant advising asset managers in asset allocation and portfolio construction. Lowe spent the bulk of his career at State Street Global Advisors, most recently as CIO of the firm’s global equities business.

Northern Trust has appointed Chahin Pahlavi as senior private banker in its New York office.

Pahlavi will be responsible for broadening banking relationships with existing clients and for developing new wealth management client relationships.

He has over 30 years of experience in financial services. Most recently, he served as a senior private banker to high net worth clients at BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

Glenmede named Michael Dellapa has portfolio manager in the firm’s Washington, DC office. In partnership with advisory, tax and wealth planning colleagues, he is responsible for providing investment advice, asset allocation and ongoing portfolio management for Glenmede’s clients. Dellapa reports to Michael Hickey, regional director of Glenmede's Washington, DC office. Dellapa joins Glenmede from Hawthorn, where he worked closely with wealth strategists and fiduciary advisors to provide investment advice and guidance for high-net worth families as a senior investment advisor.

Law firm Stroock appointed Michael Emanuel as partner in its New York office, growing its private funds group. Emanuel joined from Eagle Investment Solutions, a Princeton, New Jersey-based asset management firm, where he served as general counsel, chief compliance officer, and co-chief operating officer. He advises public and private funds, hedge funds, family offices, and investment managers and commodity advisors on all regulatory, legal, compliance, infrastructure and risk issues.

Umpqua Bank, which has a wealth management operation, promoted Tory Nixon to senior executive vice president and chief banking officer. Nixon joined Umpqua in 2016 as executive vice president and head of commercial and wealth. Previously, Nixon served as division president and managing director for California Bank & Trust in San Diego and Northern California.

Argent Trust Company has named Mark Milton as senior vice president of institutional services, based in its New Orleans office. He reports directly to Argent chief executive Kyle McDonald. Prior to this role, Milton was regional marketing director for Iberia Bank in New Orleans, where he managed the bank’s wealth management business unit for Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Before that, he spent 18 years at Regions Bank, working at its trust and asset management division. While at Regions, he specialized in M&A strategy, funeral trusts and asset gathering for institutions.

Harvest, the US-based investor network, hired three executives.

Jon LaNasa was named chief financial officer and head of corporate development, while Robert Caputo and Jared Longhitano were both been named vice president, account executive.

Prior to joining Harvest, LaNasa was on the founding team of Photofy, a mobile photo enhancement app and brand engagement platform, and served in the role of Chairman and CEO. Caputo is based in Boston and brings more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and product management at top financial services firms, including Fidelity Investments, Ameriprise Financial, and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.

Longhitano is based in New York and joins Harvest with a two decade track record as a financial services sales executive and entrepreneur. Prior to joining Harvest, he was head of sales for CapSo Inc, a financial technology company that specialized in the distressed debt/high yield and bankruptcy/restructuring marketplaces.

Callan, an institutional investment consulting firm, hired Ryan Cunningham, CAIA, into its fund sponsor consulting group. Cunningham, a senior vice president, reports to Greg DeForrest, who leads the firm’s San Francisco FSC team. He is based in the firm’s new downtown Portland, OR office. Cunningham has more than 10 years of extensive consulting experience working with sophisticated institutional clients, most recently with Arnerich Massena, Inc, as a generalist consultant.

Fiduciary Trust Company International appointed Suzanne Kline as regional managing director for the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Kline, who has worked in the investment and wealth management industry for 30 years, oversees the company’s private wealth business in Northern California from Fiduciary Trust’s office in San Mateo, California. She came to Fiduciary Trust following 10 years at Wells Fargo, where she was most recently a manager of investment and fiduciary services for the Greater Los Angeles region.

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Dien Yuen as a managing director and Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor in the San Francisco office. She joined from Kordant Philanthropy Advisors, a research and advisory group. Yuen served as a managing director of the firm, responsible for its strategic direction. Prior to joining Kordant in 2013, Yuen served as chief philanthropy officer at Give2Asia, and earlier, as a senior trust officer at US Trust. She has also worked at IIT Bombay Heritage Fund, Asian Pacific Fund, and the American Cancer Society.

Hirtle Callaghan, a prominent US example of the outsourced chief investment officer model, named Mark Hamilton as its CIO, reporting to chief executive Ranji Nagaswami. This is a new position at the firm. Hamilton, who most recently served as CIO of asset allocation for OppenheimerFunds, is responsible for Hirtle Callaghan's entire investment program. Before joining OppenheimerFunds in 2013, Hamilton spent nearly two decades at AllianceBernstein, where in his last role he was investment director of the Dynamic Asset Allocation portfolio management team.

Mercury Capital Advisors, a global placement agent specializing in alternative investments, named Reymundo Calcanos chief financial officer. Calcano reports to chief executive, Michael Ricciardi, and leads the Mercury Capital Advisors’ finance team. Calcano has worked in the financial sector for more than 15 years. Prior to Mercury, he served as head of finance and a member of the executive committee for Brevan Howard US. During his tenure at the firm, he worked as finance and operations principal for Brevan Howard's FINRA member broker-dealer division.

Canaccord Genuity Group hired Stanley Asset Management to its Canadian wealth management business. Graham Stanley, senior vice president and portfolio manager, has more than two decades of experience. He is the lead portfolio manager for Stanley Asset Management. He joined Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management in Canada with a team of five professionals.

Oppenheimer & Co, the wealth and investment banking firm that is part of US-listed Oppenheimer Holdings, named Paul A McFeeley as branch manager of its Sarasota, Florida practice. This office is part of Oppenheimer's West Florida complex. As well as managing assets and relationships for existing and prospective clients, McFeeley is also in charge of regulatory and human resources functions, new business outreach, and recruiting financial advisors. McFeeley has more than 30 years of experience in the industry, having worked for major firms in New York City. McFeeley joined Oppenheimer in 2009 and moved to the Sarasota office in 2012.

Miami-headquartered Starwood Capital Group, a global private investment firm, appointed Alex Waterbury as managing director and head of development, and Andrea Pierce as managing director and head of office asset management. Prior to joining Starwood Asset Management, Waterbury served as president of Northern California development for Lennar Multifamily Communities.

Pierce previously spent eleven years at JP Morgan Investment Management in various roles.

AW Jones Private Advisors, a US boutique wealth manager, appointed Eric Ingber as managing director and wealth advisor. Ingber is based at the firm’s headquarters in New York City. He joined AW Jones following a 18-year spell at JP Morgan, where he served as an executive director.

Sand Hill Global Advisors, a wealth management firm in northern California’s Silicon Valley area, promoted Caroline Curts, CFP®, IACCP®, to chief compliance officer, having been previously manager of client service. Curts took over from Cynthia Lee as CCO, who continues with the firm as MD through 2018 and be of counsel for compliance and operational matters. Since joining Sand Hill more than five years ago, Curts has served as the manager of client service. She was previously a group director in the Private Wealth Management division of Morgan Stanley, and prior to that, at Smith Barney.

Fiduciary Trust Company, an advisor and investment management firm for high net worth individuals, appointed Patricia Schatzlein Smock as vice president and trust counsel of its estate planning team. Smock joined Fiduciary Trust from Cambridge Associates, where she advised investment teams on tax matters including gift, estate, partnership, and income tax. Prior to Cambridge Associates, Smock operated her own estate planning practice. She began her career as an associate attorney with Ropes & Gray’s Private Client Group.

Edelman Financial Services, US-based independent financial planning and investment management firm, appointed Letha Steffey as chief marketing officer. Steffey joined Edelman Financial Services with more than 20 years of experience at consumer brands like Hallmark, AMC Theatres and most recently ADT Security.

New Hampshire-based Ledyard National Bank, which has a wealth management operation, appointed Teresa Rhodes Rosenberger to its board of directors. Rhodes is the president of Devine Strategies, and the former President of FairPoint Communications in New Hampshire.

Financial services firm State Street Corporation appointment of Sara Mathew and William Meaney to its board of directors. Mathew most recently served as chairman and chief executive of Dun & Bradstreet, a company that provides commercial data, analytics and insights for businesses. Prior to this role she served as president and chief operating officer. Before Dun & Bradstreet, Mathew had an 18-year career at Procter & Gamble within finance, technology, investor relations and brand management.