A summary of all the people moves reported by Family Wealth Report in January 2014.

Fieldpoint Private named Timothy Tully as its new chairman of the board, succeeding Daniel Donahue, who retired.

Donahue, who has been chairman since co-founding Fieldpoint in 2008, will continue to serve as a member of the board of directors.

Tully is managing partner of Tully Capital Partners and Tully Investment Fund, which are private investment partnerships. He has been a Fieldpoint Private director since 2012, leading the board's compensation committee, as well as serving on its asset and liability committee and loan committee.

BNY Mellon hired James Horvath as senior director for business development, responsible for the firm’s non-profit wealth management practice in New York.

Reporting to managing director Katia Friend, Horvath steps into a newly-created position that is part of BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s previously-announced intention to grow its sales force by 50 per cent by year-end 2014.

Horvath was previously a senior vice president at Atlantic Asset Management, responsible for marketing alternative investments to institutional investors. Before that, he was managing director at Commonfund, serving non-profit organizations. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant to financial advisors targeting institutions in the non-profit and pension markets.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co, the brokerage firm, appointed Michael O’Keeffe as a managing director of investments in Florham Park, NJ. O’Keeffe will partner with managing directors Michael Sullivan and Josh Bledsoe.

O’Keeffe’s past experience includes serving as chief investment officer for Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and CIO/head of Wilshire Funds Management Group at Wilshire Associates, the global advisory firm specializing in investment products, consulting services and technology solutions.

New York-headquartered Tiedemann Wealth Management added Robert Hormats - former Under Secretary of State for economic growth, energy and the environment – to its investment committee.

Hormats – currently vice chairman of New York City-based international consulting firm Kissinger Associates - will advise Tiedemann on policy, economic and investment issues.

Before joining Kissinger Associates in 2013, Hormats served as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2013. Other roles in government he has held include Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs; Ambassador and Deputy US Trade Representative; Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs; and senior staff member for international economic affairs on the National Security Council. Hormats also served for 25 years as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, International.

Fieldpoint Private, the wealth advisory and private banking firm serving ultra high net worth families and institutions, appointed Nicole Bonica as a managing director and senior advisor in New York City.

Bonica was latterly a managing director at Sterling Bank, having previously been a senior private banker with Capital One and its predecessor, North Fork Bank.

Palo Alto, CA-based wealth management firm Sand Hill Global Advisors appointed its president and chief investment officer, Brian Dombkowski, as chief executive.

Jane Williams, Sand Hill's co-founder and former CEO, will become chairman.

Over the past two decades, Dombkowski has held a variety of senior investment and operational leadership roles throughout the asset management industry.

In his role as CEO and CIO of Sand Hill Global Advisors, he provides overall strategic direction and leadership to the investment management, client services, finance and operations groups.

Before joining the firm, he was co-CIO of Stafford Capital Management, where he actively managed funds for a client base comprising high net worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired Paul Allen as head of corporate business development within its equity plan advisory services group.

Allen will lead a sales team that will work with UBS financial advisors who specialize in the equity compensation space.

A 30-year veteran of the equity compensation industry, Allen has served as a consultant to UBS for the past year and has held leadership positions at a number of financial services firms including Fidelity Investments, Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney.

Industry veteran Steve Lockshin joined Carson Wealth Management Group’s executive board to help grow the firm's three companies: Carson Wealth, Peak Advisor Alliance and Carson Institutional Alliance.

Lockshin, founder and chairman of Convergent Wealth Advisors, was elected to the executive board at the group's most recent meeting.

Morgan Stanley appointed Erskine Bowles as lead director of the New York-listed firm’s board of directors, taking over from C Robert Kidder.

Bowles has served as a Morgan Stanley director since December 2005 and as chair of the compensation, management development and succession committee since 2010. He was named co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010, and served as president of The University of North Carolina from 2006 through 2010.

Additionally, Bowles has been a senior advisor to private investment firm Carousel Capital since September 2001, and served as a managing director from March 1999 to September 2001. Between 1999 and 2001, he was a general partner of Forstmann Little & Co, a private investment firm.

Fusion Family Wealth hired Fred Gold, a former partner at Arthur Andersen, as head of business development for Metro New York.

With offices in New York City and Long Island, Fusion Family Wealth is an investment management firm founded last year by former UBS senior vice president Jonathan Blau. Gold will be based in Long Island and will report to Blau.

Gold spent 32 years at Arthur Andersen, serving as partner-in-charge of the Metro New York enterprise group audit division and partner-in-charge of Andersen’s audit division in the Long Island office.

Gold spent his first 13 years at the firm as a member of the small business audit division in New York. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPAs since 1972.

Baird promoted Jarrett Kovics, previously director of the Texas market, to regional director (Western), based in Dallas.

Kovics will oversee Baird’s wealth management offices in the Western region, which includes Texas, Arizona, Oregon and California. He joined Baird in 2010 as branch manager of the Dallas wealth management office.

Kovics started his career as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley before moving to Citi Smith Barney. At Smith Barney, he spent 11 years in numerous roles, including assistant branch manager of the private client/institutional headquarters office in New York and complex manager of the global wealth management offices in Hawaii.

Kinetic Partners, an advisor to the global financial services industry, added Todd Kaplan to its New York office as an associate director within the regulatory compliance practice.

Kaplan will work alongside Kinetic Partners’ compliance team and provide regulatory compliance services to hedge fund and private equity firms.

A licensed attorney in the state of New York with over seven years of investment management experience, Kaplan joins Kinetic Partners from Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, where he was an associate in the hedge fund group.

There, Kaplan advised clients on various aspects of their businesses, covering areas including complex regulatory and compliance issues such as insider trading and protection of personal data. Before that, Kaplan was an investment management attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel.

RBC Wealth Management looked across the Atlantic for a new trust director for its Grand Cayman branch, reporting to Brian Taylor, head of trust management, Caribbean.

Moving from Farrer & Co in London, Alison Parker left her international private client associate role to help direct RBC Wealth Management’s Caribbean Trust.

Parker will work with RBC’s trust officers and managers to provide fiduciary solutions to international high net worth clients.

A new managing director for strategic relationships was named by asset management company Whitebox Advisors.

Based in the New York/Tri-State area, John Olstein will be responsible for building strategic relationships for the firm’s global clients.

Olstein joined from Waterstone Capital Management, where he was in charge of global and sales and investor relations as director for business development.

Ronald O’Hanley, head of asset management at Boston, MA-based Fidelity Investments, is stepping down after less than four years in the role.

Confirming O’Hanley’s departure, a note to employees from president Abigail Johnson revealed that Fidelity plans to replace O’Hanley with an internal successor, who will be named in the coming weeks. O’Hanley, in a separate memo, said he plans to spend more time with his family and non-profit organizations, before considering a new professional challenge.

O’Hanley has already begun working with the CEO of Fidelity’s family office, Geoff von Kuhn, to transition the corporate services functions. The memos added that O’Hanley will depart the firm by the end of February.

O’Hanley joined Fidelity in 2010 from Bank of New York Mellon, where he also oversaw money management. He was hired at a time when Fidelity was struggling to recover from the 2008 financial crisis and investors fled the firm’s actively managed stock funds.

INTECH Investment Management, the global investment manager, created a new senior role as the firm expands its client services team.

Richard Yasenchak became the first client portfolio manager for the Florida-based firm.

Yasenchak will work with INTECH's client and consultation relations teams as an investment expert. He will also be involved with sales presentations and other campaigns, both in the US and globally.

Moving from opposite ends of the country, Yasenchak left Russell Investments after eight years based in Seattle, WA, to join INTECH in West Palm Beach, FL. He served as US equity portfolio manager at Russell Investments, overseeing approximately $5 billion.

A new president and chief investment officer was appointed at VisionQuest Wealth Management in Raleigh, NC.

Steven Laska will lead the firm's acquisition strategy, as VisionQuest gears up to acquire nearly $1 billion in assets under management through M&A activity.

He will also take charge of the firm’s asset management business, and both its private and public investment strategies.

Laska joined from Gerstein Fisher in Florida, where he was director of global advisor distribution for the firm's mutual funds and separate accounts. Prior to entering the financial world, Laska served in the US Army as an armor officer during the first Gulf War.

Dynasty Financial Partners appointed Ronald Sallet as senior vice president of network development, reporting to Shirl Penney, president and chief executive.

Sallet will be responsible for growing Dynasty's network of independent advisory firms and will target RIAs, large-scale IBD reps and captive employee advisors who are looking to explore independence.

He joined from Wells Fargo's independent channel, FiNet, where he was a managing director, co-leading the branch development and marketing team.

Prior to Wells Fargo, he worked at Citigroup/Smith Barney for 14 years, where he was senior vice president and director of financial services groups in NYC at Citigroup Global Markets. Before this, he worked in various roles including financial advisor, national training officer, assistant branch manager and branch office manager.

The drive for internal succession is ripe at a wealth management firm in San Rafael, CA, as Private Ocean expanded its equity ownership.

The Marin County-based firm made four of its leaders new equity owners: Justin Hult, director of investment operations and chief compliance officer, as well as advisors Sarah Wotherspoon, Alex Gangl and Charles Pyfer.

RBC Wealth Management recruited The Kerr Wealth Management Group, which works with business owners, in San Antonio, TX.

The Kerr Wealth Management Group helps business owners with succession planning and investment management, and also specializes in company-sponsored retirement plans.

Kelly Kerr has more than 14 years of industry experience and is latterly of UBS. Kerr has assets under management of more than $115 million, with $850,000 in production. Joining Kerr is Audra Kerr, an investment associate with seven years of industry experience.

Milford, CT-based Beirne Wealth Consulting, a Focus Financial Partners firm, hired two former Allentown, PA-based Morgan Stanley advisors: Christopher Englebert and Daniel Reitz.

This is the third office that BWC has opened in two years. The firm has expanded from seven to 19 employees and now has eight financial advisors. It has satellite offices in Allentown and Miami.

Elizabeth Garnto and Jamie Englebert joined Englebert and Reitz at BWC to provide consulting services on defined benefit public pensions and defined contributions, as well as retirement, educational, tax and estate planning issues.

A former Olympian was appointed as managing partner of Hemenway & Barnes in Boston, MA.

Kurt Somerville, who previously rowed for the US team, will continue to serve clients in the firm’s private client group and as a professional fiduciary. He has advised high net clients for over 30 years, serving as both a lawyer and a trustee.

Specializing in the trust and estates, Somerville has a number of relations with charitable trusts, foundations and private family trust complexes. This includes serving as a co-trustee of Jane's Trust, a charitable trust in New England.

Chief executive Mohamed El-Erian is leaving Pacific Investment Management Company, the US-based asset management subsidiary of Allianz, as the firm reorganizes its leadership structure.

El-Erian, chief executive and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, has resigned from his functions effective end-March and will leave the firm at the same time. He will stay on the international executive committee of parent company Allianz and will advise the firm’s board on global economic and policy issues. In his new role, El-Erian will report directly to Michael Diekmann, CEO of Allianz SE.

William Gross, founder of PIMCO, will remain chief investment officer, while managing directors Andrew Balls and Daniel Ivascyn will help lead the firm’s portfolio management in their new roles as deputy chief investment officers.

PIMCO also elected Douglas Hodge, managing director and currently chief operating officer of PIMCO, as CEO and Jay Jacobs, managing director and currently global head of talent management, as president. In addition, Craig Dawson, managing director and currently head of PIMCO Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, will assume the position as head of strategic business management.

UBS Wealth management Americas recruited The Apex Group – with $500 million in assets under management - from Morgan Stanley in Atlanta, GA.

The team consists of Adam Thomas, Mike Hennessy, Araya Mesfin, Brandon Brown, Jansen Bailey and Julie Bailey.

Thomas, executive director and senior portfolio management director, has been a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since 1999, while Hennessy, also executive director and senior portfolio management director, has been a financial advisor with the firm since 2006.

Mesfin, vice president and portfolio management director, has been a member of Morgan Stanley’s Pacesetter’s Club for 2010, 2011 and 2012. Mesfin is a member of the Atlanta Association of Corporate Growth.

Brown, second vice president and senior portfolio manager, has also been a member of Morgan Stanley’s Pacesetter’s Club for 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Jansen Bailey, a chartered retirement planning counselor and chartered retirement plans specialist, has been in the financial services industry for over nine years.

Lastly, Julie Bailey serves as a financial advisor, portfolio manager and chartered retirement planning counselor.

Support staff for the group include Lynn Pattison, senior client service associate; Jeannine Brookman, registered client service associate; Elle Pineda, client service associate; and Louise McMahon, registered client service associate.

US Bank Wealth Management hired Hank Zewald as a wealth management consultant for The Private Client Reserve of US Bank in Portland, OR, and named John Paul Sweeney as a senior trust officer in Chicago, IL.

Zewald has over 25 years of experience with a background as a certified public accountant, financial services professional, managing principal and institutional business consultant. For over 18 years he ran his consulting business, Quantum Financial Partners, working with large financial services organizations, independent brokers and registered investment advisors.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, Sweeney will provide administration for trusts of high net worth clients, including the coordination of financial, tax, investment and legal services. Sweeney was latterly a managing director and senior trust officer with the Private Bank and Trust Company. He has also worked at Chicago Trust Company and Northern Trust Company.

Manulife Asset Management appointed Gary Li as a managing director and portfolio manager in Boston, MA, responsible for derivatives portfolios.

Li reports to Barry Evans, president of asset management in North America and chief investment officer of asset allocation.

Li helps manage some $34 billion in John Hancock wealth management portfolios, as well as developing and managing synthetic asset exposures inside certain asset allocation portfolios. He also provides advisory and risk support to the firm's equity and fixed income portfolio managers with respect to their derivative positions.

Previously, Li worked at MetLife Insurance Corporation as an assistant vice president and manager of derivatives risk management. Before that, he was director of risk management and asset allocation for the South Carolina Retirement Investment Commission. Earlier still, he was director of derivatives and alternative strategies for Wells Fargo Capital Management.

First American Trust, which provides investment management, trust and wealth planning services to high net worth individuals, families and foundations, appointed Eric McMullen as executive vice president and chief fiduciary officer.

McMullen, who has more than two decades of wealth management and investment experience, will oversee the firm's wealth management and trust activities. He will also help lead First American Trust’s growth efforts as it expands in the West.

McMullen previously held executive management roles in the financial services sector, primarily in the Midwest. Past positions include managing director of the trust and wealth management division of a publicly-traded bank in Chicago, IL, and president of a Midwest-based broker-dealer.

BBVA Compass appointed a new market executive of trust and wealth management in San Antonio, TX.

Mary Mahlie, who serves as the bank’s wealth management market executive in Beaumont, Corpus Christi and College Station, TX, will continue to oversee operations in the former two cities.

Northern Trust expanded its alternatives group with two hires focused on investment opportunities in venture capital and secondary markets for private equity.

James Hart, who is responsible for sourcing and analyzing venture capital investment opportunities in the US and Asia, joined Northern Trust from Greenspring Associates, a global venture capital fund-of-funds based in Baltimore, MD.

Adam Freda, who focuses on sourcing, valuing and executing private equity and venture capital transactions on the secondary market, was previously at Wind Point Partners, a middle-market leveraged buyout fund based in Chicago, IL.

Brown Advisory, an independent investment management firm with some $46 billion in client assets, hired Edward Tune as a portfolio manager and partner in North Carolina.

Tune will advise private clients, non-profits and other institutions, while working to expand Brown Advisory's business in the Carolinas and throughout the US.

Tune joined Brown Advisory after 14 years at Brown Brothers Harriman, where he was a managing director and chief operating officer/chief financial officer for the firm's wealth management business.

Prior to that role, he headed BBH's Chicago, IL, wealth management office in addition to advising private clients and families. Before joining BBH, he served private clients at Stein Roe & Farnham in Chicago.

Ogier, the international legal and fiduciary firm, added Shameer Jasani as a partner within the Cayman Islands corporate and funds team, while naming Ray Ng as partner and head of litigation for the British Virgin Islands and Asia.

Jasani joined Ogier in 2007 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Taylor Wessing in London. Jasani’s practice is focused on investment funds, including hedge funds, funds-of-funds and private equity funds.

He advises investment managers on all aspects of their structuring, formation and ongoing operational requirements, as well as regularly advising strategic and seed investors.

Ng has detailed experience in the area of complex multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes relating to shareholder rights, directors' duties, corporate governance, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, trusts and commercial fraud.

Peapack-Gladstone Bank appointed Gary Todd Pancoast as a senior managing director of wealth.

The move followed the retirement of Craig Spengeman, president and chief investment officer of Peapack-Gladstone Bank Trust & Investments, earlier in January. John Babcock was brought in shortly after as a senior executive vice president and president of private wealth management, effective March 10, 2014.

Pancoast has 20 years of experience in the wealth management industry, with expertise in portfolio management, client acquisition, estate planning and private banking.

Since 2004, he has held various roles at US Trust/Bank of America Private Wealth Management, directing teams focused on client development strategies, portfolio management, asset allocation, tax and estate planning, and private banking services.

Toronto-listed Canaccord Genuity Group appointed Stuart Raftus as president of its wealth management arm in Canada.

Raftus, who has held senior roles at a raft of companies, took up the post at Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management in Canada.

Additionally, John Rothwell was the previous president at the wealth management business. He left the business.

Rockville, MD-based Highline Wealth Management, the $1.3 billion RIA, hired Aviva Pinto and Micheal Moritary from OpenArc and Morgan Stanley respectively.

Pinto, who joined in New York City, has over 25 years of experience as a financial advisor, while Moriarty, who stepped into the Rockville, MD, office, has over 20 years of experience as a financial advisor. Together, they manage around $2 million in client assets.

Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, the Irvine, CA-based fund of hedge funds investment firm, promoted Ronan Cosgrave, Putri Pascualy, Anne Gaelle Pouille and Jeffrey Willardson to partner.

All four appointments were in Pacific’s Irvine office and brought the total number of active partners at PAAMCO to 18.

Cosgrave is the sector specialist for convertible bond hedging and joined PAAMCO in 2005, while Pascualy is the senior credit strategist for PAAMCO and joined the firm in 2006.

Pouille is the portfolio manager for PAAMCO’s Pacific Corporate Opportunities commingled fund and joined PAAMCO in 2007. Before this she was at UBS.

Willardson joined the firm in 2007 and is a portfolio manager within the portfolio solutions group, as well as a member of the portfolio construction group.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management opened its doors in San Diego, CA, and made three appointments in Chicago, IL.

The new Del Mar office is headed by Paul Thiel, senior director for business development, who reports to Southern California regional president Shannon Kennedy. The move was the latest step in the firm’s expansion in Southern California, having made 25 key hires serving Los Angeles and Orange and San Diego Counties in 2013.

Thiel said the San Diego office represents one of the top wealth markets in the US and is one of the fastest-growing regions for the business. BNY Mellon has six wealth management staff dedicated to San Diego County and the firm plans to hire an additional private banker this year.

The firm appointed Neil Kohler and Michael Castronovo as mortgage bankers in Chicago, while also naming Jennifer Lucas as senior director for business development – a newly-created role – there.

The three appointments were part of a “robust local hiring effort” that has more than doubled the size of BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s Chicago staff over the past two years.

Lucas was latterly a senior vice president at the Chicago office of US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, where she had business development, relationship management and team leadership responsibilities. Prior to that, she served for six years at BoA in a different role within its derivatives group. In her new role she will report to regional president Michael DiMedio.

Both mortgage banker appointees report to managing director Erin Gorman, who is head of the firm’s national mortgage sales division.

Kohler, who has 23 years of experience in financial services, was for nearly four years vice president and a private banker with Morgan Stanley. There, he provided residential mortgage and other loan products to financial advisors and their high net worth clients. Prior to that, he served as a senior mortgage consultant in originating and refinancing mortgages with Wintrust Mortgage.

Castronovo has 29 years of experience in financial services, and at two different time periods served as a sales manager with Wells Fargo Private Mortgage Banking for a total of 13 years. In his most recent tenure there, he helped rebuild the Chicago private mortgage banking office. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a private mortgage banker responsible for establishing a new office in Lake Forest for PERL Mortgage.

Nicole Cost joined Convergent Wealth Advisors as a managing director in New York.

Prior to joining Convergent, Cost was a managing director at Evercore Wealth Management, where she managed several hundred million dollars in client assets for some 62 high net worth relationships.

Atlas Private Wealth Management, a Williamstown, MA-based Focus Financial Partners firm, hired two wealth advisors in Albany, NY.

Michael Hickey and Donald Carman are latterly of Albany Financial Planners, where they spent the past 30 years. Atlas manages approximately $1 billion in client assets and offers wealth management, financial planning, investment management and tax services across the US.

Hickey will serve as executive vice president, a member of the Atlas investment committee and managing director of the Albany office. He has over 30 years of wealth counseling experience, particularly with clients who have received sudden wealth from an inheritance, legal settlement, lottery winnings or sale of a substantial asset, for example.

Meanwhile, Carman will serve as senior vice president and director of tax and financial planning. He has around 30 years of experience in tax preparation services for individuals, small businesses, estates and trusts. Carman specializes in retirement plan allocations, long-term care costs and education funding needs.

GrizzlyRock Capital, an alternative asset management firm which specializes in the credit and equity markets, appointed Chris Ricciardi as managing partner and head of business development, and Doug Laux as chief financial officer.

Ricciardi has worked in the alternative investment space for around eight years and was latterly director of strategic relationships at Altegris Investments. There, he distributed private and public investment solutions to investors, wealth managers, banks and financial services platforms.

Laux has detailed knowledge of private and public companies, balance sheet and operational restructuring, initial public offerings, bankruptcy situations and mergers and acquisitions. He spent 20 years at Ernst & Young in Chicago, IL, where he was a partner for nine years.

Canada’s Dundee Goodman Private Wealth, a division of Dundee Securities, bolstered its wealth management business with the addition of 60 investment advisors – collectively managing $2 billion - and their related staff from wealth manager Richardson GMP. The addition of 60 people more than doubled the firm's roster of advisors.

Geneos Wealth Management, a Denver, CO-based broker-dealer, appointed its former senior vice president of recruiting and business development, Ryan Diachok, as its new president.

Russell Diachok, who served as the firm’s president and chief executive, remained as CEO and is involved in all strategic decisions while handing over the day-to-day operations of the firm to his successor.

Although stepping back from some in-office functions, Russell will spend more time meeting face-to-face with Geneos advisors at their home offices.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management tapped the upcoming millionaire markets of Arizona and Nevada by hiring two new staff in those states.

Both latterly of Wells Fargo’s Private Bank, David Dasari and Chad Maze joined BNY Mellon Wealth Management's Western market division.

Dasari will serve as senior portfolio manager, while Maze will lead business development efforts.

Raymond James hired financial advisors S Benjamin Weiner, Michael Hlavek, Duke Marsh and Daniel Iosue - the independent Winter Park Wealth Group - in Winter Park, FL.

The group is latterly of Morgan Stanley, where they managed over $550 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of over $2.3 million. The team focuses on financial planning and wealth management.

Weiner began his financial services career with Shearson Lehman/American Express as an options strategist in the commodities department. He became a financial advisor in 1986 and remained with the firm through the various name changes. 

Hlavek began his career as an analyst for Smith Barney in Atlanta, responsible for money manager research and analysis. He moved to Winter Park in 2001 as a financial advisor with Smith Barney to become a partner with Weiner.

Marsh, meanwhile, began his advisory career in 1977 with Merrill Lynch, transitioning to Shearson/American Express two years later and then spending over 33 years with the same firm as it merged into Morgan Stanley. Marsh became a partner with Weiner and Hlavek in 2009.

Lastly, Iosue began his financial services career in 2011 with Morgan Stanley in Winter Park. Iosue formally became a partner with Weiner, Hlavek and Marsh as they all transitioned to the Winter Park Wealth Group.

Independent wealth advisory firm Snowden Capital Advisors appointed Caesar Cepeda as a vice president in Pasadena, CA.

The addition of Cepeda, who has spent the past 26 years as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, came after a growth capital investment from private equity fund Estancia Capital Partners in November.

The profits from Estancia’s investment were also put towards the hiring of vice presidents in New York, Connecticut and other target markets.

Houston, TX-based wealth management firm Kanaly Trust named Drew Kanaly – the son of Deane Kanaly, who founded the firm in 1975 - as president.

Kanaly will oversee all client service and business development activities firm-wide while maintaining his existing duties as chairman of the board.

Meanwhile, Jeff Kanaly will continue to serve as vice chairman and chief financial officer, working with the firm’s CEO, Bill Rankin, on a number of strategic initiatives. 

LPL Financial, the US independent broker-dealer, RIA custodian and wholly-owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings, added Brookfield, WI-based Granite Financial Group as an independent RIA.

Granite Financial Group is led by financial advisors Ellen Duhamel and Thomas Dornoff, who oversee some $130 million in client advisory and brokerage assets as of December 18, 2013.

The pair previously spent 26 and 22 years respectively at other firms in the wirehouse space.

New York-headquartered Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the non-profit organization, added four members to its board of directors.

The appointees include: writer and historian Barbara Bellows Rockefeller; Peter Rockefeller, a managing director of G2 Investment Group; Wendy Gordon, co-founder and chief executive of 3P Partners; and Sarah Teacher, a consultant at Sancroft International.

The New York-headquartered financial law firm Richards Kibbe & Orbe made Jennifer Grady and Craig Newman managing partners of the firm. They succeeded Kenneth Werner who has served as managing partner for the past four years.

Grady joined RK&O in 2004 and is a partner within the firm’s corporate group, where she has represented banks, broker-dealers, funds and other financial institutions in connection with transactions in the derivatives, distressed debt and claims trading markets. She has also advised trade organizations and financial institutions on regulatory changes affecting loan-based derivative transactions. In addition, Grady is a member of the firm’s executive committee.

As a partner in the firm’s litigation group, Newman joined RK&O in 2007 to represent global companies with an emphasis on complex corporate and business litigation, cyber-security and regulatory matters. Newman is also a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Homrich Berg named William Bolen, who helps lead the firm's family office practice and marketing efforts, as a principal.

Bolen works in the areas of investment strategy and alternative investments, which involves writing economic and investment commentaries for the firm and speaking regularly about these topics.

Bolen joined Homrich Berg in 2009 as a director, having previously served as chief financial officer of the Terwilliger Family Office and as president/chief operating officer of the Atlanta Dream WNBA sports franchise.

He started his career as a manager at McKinsey & Company's Atlanta, GA, office before co-founding The DaVinci Group, a strategy and marketing consulting firm. 

Lisa Hudson joined People's United Bank Wealth Management as a senior private banker in Boston, MA.

Hudson – most recently a SVP in commercial banking at Citibank in Boston - is charged with expanding the firm's private banking business in the Boston Metropolitan area.

Prior to her Citibank role, Hudson was a regional director in New England at Alliantgroup, responsible for working with company owners and executives on the subject of tax regulations. She has also worked at Keybank in Boston as vice president in the middle-market commercial group, and before that was vice president and head of the financial institutions group at Credit Lyonnais in Boston.

OppenheimerFunds named Mary Ann Picciotto as its new chief compliance officer to succeed Mark Vandehey, who is retiring after 31 years at the firm.

Picciotto will be responsible for all aspects of regulatory compliance for the firm’s five affiliated investment advisors in addition to its three commodity pool operators and advisors, two transfer agents, broker-dealer, and state-chartered trust company.

Based in New York, she will provide compliance services to over 100 mutual funds and dozens of institutional accounts. She will oversee some 30 compliance professionals in three US locations, reporting to Ari Gabinet, general counsel.

Picciotto previously worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where she most recently served as global head of compliance and chief compliance officer for the Morgan Stanley funds. Before that, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers on the assurance and business advisory services team in the investment management services division. Picciotto’s appointment will be effective in the first quarter of 2014.

Deepak Sharma, who has been chairman of the private bank at Citigroup since 2009, has decided to retire from the US-listed banking firm at the end of April this year, capping 38 years at the same firm.

Sharma, whose almost-four decades of work for the same firm sets him apart from many peers in the revolving-door culture of some financial institutions, started his career in 1976 as a Citi management associate in India.

He has held management positions within operations and technology, treasury, strategic planning, electronic banking and private bank and investment management.

His leadership positions include serving as CEO of Citi’s Global Wealth Management-International business, head of Citi Smith Barney, and as chairman of the private bank. Prior to his current position in Singapore, he worked in Korea, Saudi Arabia, the US and Switzerland.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery named Laurelle Gutierrez as a Silicon Valley-based partner within the firm’s private client group.

Gutierrez designs and implements tax planning and wealth transfer strategies while working to minimize the impact of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

She advises on a range of domestic and multi-national estate planning issues and was latterly a director at a California-based law firm.

Gutierrez also prepares federal gift tax returns and federal estate tax returns, and advises trustees and executors with complex probate and trust administrations.

BNY Mellon, which is in the throes of a previously-announced recruitment drive, hired Todd Carlton as regional president to lead the firm’s wealth management business in Dallas and the state of Texas.

This is a newly-created role in which Carlton, based in Dallas, will report to David Emmes, president of BNY Mellon Wealth Management's US Western market.

Carlton was latterly the Texas-area wealth executive at Regions Private Wealth Management in Dallas. Previously, he was vice president of private client services at First Horizon Bank and earlier in his career provided personal financial services at JP Morgan Chase. He has also served as a financial advisor with UBS Paine Webber.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Tim Houghton to the newly-created role as head of business development for the Caribbean and British Isles.

Based in Jersey, Houghton will develop and lead a consolidated business development function across the Channel Islands, UK and Caribbean. He will distribute strategies across the firm’s key target markets, while serving the “key facilitator” between the business’ manufacturing solutions and distribution activities.

Houghton joined the British Isles and Caribbean operating committee, reporting to Stuart Rutledge, chief executive of RBC Wealth Management for the British Isles and Caribbean.

Houghton, who joined RBC in 1999, has served as head of offshore private client wealth management since 2011. In this role, he oversaw the distribution teams in Jersey and Dubai, as well as the banking platform in the British Isles.

The international law firm Withers appointed two partners with experience in tax controversy, criminal tax law and tax litigation from Hass & Hecht in New York and New Haven, CT.

David Moise joined in New York, while Seth Cohen will work out of the New Haven office.

Moise has over 25 years of experience in the tax procedure and controversy area. His practice focuses on federal, state and local tax examinations and appeals, tax court litigation and voluntary disclosure agreements.

He also has experience in tax collection procedures, including tax liens and levies, as well as collection administrative appeals, installment agreements and offers in compromise.  Moise is admitted to practice law in New York and before the US Tax Court.

Cohen also has extensive experience representing clients in tax controversies, including tax examinations and appeals, criminal tax matters, tax litigation and voluntary disclosure agreements.

He has worked in the area of tax collection defense, including collection administrative appeals, installment agreements and offers in compromise. Cohen is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and before the US Tax Court.

The international law firm Withers, which is known as Withers Bergman in the US, named trusts and estates attorney Louis Mezzullo as a consulting partner.

Mezzullo, a US-based estate planning and business succession planning attorney, has written extensively on taxation, estate and business succession planning, and employee benefits issues.

Based in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, Mezzullo will advise Withers' national and international clients as well as help expand the firm’s service to clients in California.

Mezzullo is the immediate past president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he has also served as chair of the business planning, employee benefits in estate planning and elder law committees, and will chair the organization’s nominating committee this year.

He is also a former chair of the American College of Tax Counsel; current chair of the chapter 14 subcommittee of the estate and gift taxes committee of the American Bar Association section of taxation; former vice-chair of publications of the ABA section of taxation; and past chair of the ABA section of real property, trust and estate law.

Six financial advisors joined Raymond James & Associates, the traditional employee broker-dealer of Raymond James Financial, representing a combined $308 million in client assets under management and almost $4 million in annual fees and commissions.

They joined branches in Portland, OR, St Louis, MO, and Dallas, TX, said Tash Elwyn, president of RJA’s Private Client Group.

Joining the firm in Portland from Morgan Stanley was the team of Saunders Kelly Acheson Wealth Management. The team is made up of Jason Saunders, vice president of investments; Stephanie Kelly, associate vice president of investments; and Kendall Acheson, financial advisor.

Saunders began his career with A G Edwards, where he served as a financial advisor and branch manager until the firm was acquired by Wachovia Securities in 2007. 

Kelly worked as a financial advisor at A G Edwards and Morgan Stanley, starting her career in financial services in 2004.

Acheson began his financial services career in 2008 after graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in helping mid- to late-career professionals, particularly business owners.

Meanwhile, joining the firm in St Louis was senior vice president of investments, Alan Spilker, who joined from Merrill Lynch. He began his career in 1984 with E F Hutton and now specializes in middle-market fixed income business.

Lastly, joining RJA’s Sherry Lane office in Dallas was Anthony Vaccaro and Bill Callis - both senior vice presidents of investments - as well as financial advisor Matt Ferrell. All of them are latterly of Southwest Securities and the team operates as the Advanced Planning Group of Raymond James.

BNY Mellon named Abigail Bensimhon as a senior private banker in the Washington, DC, market.

Bensimhon was latterly a senior commercial loan officer at Capital Bank in Rockville, MD. Prior to that, she was with PNC Bank, where she served as a commercial relationship manager and team leader.

In her new role at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, she reports to managing director Arthur Grugan.

OppenheimerFunds appointed portfolio manager Michelle Borré and her team of three analysts to the global multi-asset group, reporting to Mark Hamilton, CIO Asseat Allocation.

Borré joined OppenheimerFunds in 2003 as a senior research analyst on the value investment team. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds, Borré held various positions at J&W Seligman, including managing director and and partner.

UK-listed Barclays appointed Stephen Thieke, a former senior official at the US Federal Reserve and a divisional head at JP Morgan, as a non-executive director.

Thieke has four decades of experience in financial services, both in regulation and investment banking.

Thieke worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 20 years, where he held several senior positions in credit and capital market operations and banking supervision. He became a non-executive director at the UK’s Financial Services Authority, the former financial regulator now replaced by the Financial Conduct Authority.

He has also held senior roles in investment banking and risk management with JP Morgan, where he spent ten years. Thieke was head of the bank’s fixed income division, co-head of global markets, president and chairman of JP Morgan Securities, and head of the corporate risk management group, retiring from JP Morgan in 1999.

He has spent seven years as a director of Risk Metrics Group, where latterly he served as chairman of the board, and nine years on the board of PNC Financial Services Corp.

Platinum Wealth Solutions, of Rosemont, CA, hired Ray Ortega as director to work with existing advisors as well as bringing on board new ones.

Ortega joined Platinum Wealth Solutions having spent eight years in the financial services industry, four of which he worked as an advisor and the other four in firm management. 

Synovus, the Columbus, GA-based financial services company, named Katherine Dunlevie as managing director of Synovus Family Asset Management.

Dunlevie joined FAM in 2004 after two years in banking with Columbus Bank and Trust, a division of Synovus Bank.

Atlanta, GA-based Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an SEC-registered fixed income investment firm, appointed Chuck Baldiswieler as president to focus on strategic initiatives for the firm.

Baldiswieler joined TCW in 1995 and recently served as group managing director, president and chief executive of TCW Funds.