The organization is based in Atlanta and has tapped a senior figure in the local financial industry to lead family offices services and private capital.

Balentine, a Southeast-based wealth management firm, has appointed Mark Bell as its family offices services and private capital head.

A prominent figure in the Atlanta business community, Bell is experienced in asset management, private capital, and family office management. His background includes leadership roles at Diversified Trust, BlueArc Capital, D E Shaw & Co, and McKinsey & Co.

“Bell’s track record of working with entrepreneurs and high net worth clients is key to building out the multi-family office platform at Balentine,” the firm, which is employee-owned and based in Atlanta, said in a statement yesterday.

Bell has studied and lectured at the University of Oxford in England where he earned both a master’s and doctoral degree. He serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Alternative Investments at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Bell devotes significant time to the community as a trustee of Trinity School and The Schenck School in Atlanta, as well as board roles at the University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, the Atlanta Ballet, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.