Pinebridge Investments appointed Mick Sweeney as its chief executive officer, EMEA, following regulatory approval. He replaced Klaus Schuster who left the firm in October 2022. Sweeney joined PineBridge in 2019 as CEO of PineBridge Investments Ireland. Prior to joining PineBridge, Sweeney was CEO of the Bank of Ireland Wealth Management, as well as serving as Interim CEO of the bank’s New Ireland Assurance business. 

Guernsey Finance’s board of directors appointed Kevin Boscher as deputy chairman. Boscher, who is chief investment officer at Ravenscroft, took on the role which will provide additional support to the board of the island’s promotional agency for financial services. He joined Paul Sykes, Kate Storey, Deputy Steve Falla, Guernsey Finance chief executive Rupert Pleasant and current deputy Lyndon Trott. Boscher has more than 35 years’ experience in financial services and investments. He has spent most of his career in the areas of portfolio management, fund management, asset allocation, investment strategy, fixed income, hedge funds, multi-manager investing and absolute return investing. 

UBS appointed senior Credit Suisse figure Mirko Bianchi as new group treasurer. He succeeded Beatriz “Bea” Martin Jimenez, the former UBS treasurer. She heads the wind-down unit to dispose of Credit Suisse assets for which UBS no longer has any use. Bianchi, based in Zurich, has been a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee at Credit Suisse for just over a year. Prior to Credit Suisse, Bianchi was CEO of group wealth management and private banking at UniCredit Group, based in Milan and before that he was group CFO at UniCredit.

Evelyn Partners appointed Craig Dowsett as a financial planning director, based in its London office. Dowsett is a Chartered Financial Planner who specialises in working with business owners and families in all areas of their business and personal financial planning. He was previously at Vintage Wealth Management Limited where he spent more than seven years working as an independent financial advisor. Prior to that he was a professional rugby player at Rotherham Titans RUFC and received representative honours for England Students Rugby, as well as full representative honours for Belgium.

Cazenove Capital, the wealth management arm of Schroders, appointed Nathalie Connell as associate portfolio manager in the North-West of England to support its regional expansion. Connell, who has eight years' experience in the wealth management industry, worked with a wide range of clients across the North of England. She joined from Brown Shipley, where she worked as a client advisor. She started her career in the industry at Tilney Investment Management. Connell reports to Simon Pearson, Cazenove Capital’s regional head of the North of England.

Franklin Templeton appointed Jacob Rowe as business development director for its UK wholesale distribution team. He covers the South West and the Midlands serving a number of large, strategic clients and reports in Harry Reeves, head of sales UK wholesale. Rowe, who has nearly 10 years of industry experience, joined from Russell Investments where he spent the last seven years in an intermediary distribution role.

Rowe started his career as a professional football player with Birmingham City FC at a time when they were a Premier League club. He later pivoted his career from sports towards financial services where he started with JP Morgan’s investment bank, before joining Russell Investments.

International law firm Charles Russell Speechlys hired Vanessa Duff as a partner within the its family team, joining the firm’s Hong Kong office from Withers Hong Kong. Duff has more than 15 years of experience advising high net worth individuals, professionals, and entrepreneurs on all aspects of family law. Her experience encompasses matters arising from the breakdown of a relationship including divorce, financial arrangements, and separation. 

ALFI elected Jean-Marc Goy as its new chairperson, following its annual general meeting, and named a new board of directors. Goy has been a member of the ALFI board of directors since June 2019 and was elected vice chairperson of ALFI in 2021. Goy has over 25 years of experience in the Luxembourg fund industry. 
 

Private wealth law firm Boodle Hatfield appointed specialist corporate tax partner, Andrew Loan. Loan joined the London-based firm from Fieldfisher, where he was a tax partner advising on a variety of corporate tax and VAT matters, particularly taxation in the context of acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies. 

Swiss fintech Leonteq appointed Antoine Boublil as chief financial officer and member of the executive committee, effective 1 January 2024. Boublil succeeded Marco Amato, who stepped down at the end of August. Boublil has been chief financial officer of Credit Suisse AG since 2016 where he has been responsible for the finance leadership of the Swiss Bank of Credit Suisse. 

MDR Mayfair, a UK firm, welcomed Azeem Rafiq and Dylan Hartley as consultants within its Sports and Entertainment division. Rafiq is a former professional cricketer who played cricket in England for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right arm spinning all-rounder, Rafiq made his senior debut at the age of 17. He captained the England under 15 and under 19 sides, and in 2012 became the youngest man to captain a Yorkshire side. Hartley, whose professional career spans 16 years, is a former England Rugby captain who played for the Northampton Saints.

Aaro Capital, the crypto assets and distributed ledger technology investment specialist, appointed Saul Benjamin as its chief operating officer. He has more than 20 years of financial services experience and is be based in London, reporting to chief executive Peter Habermacher.

Philipp Michel joined Mancuard Heritage in Singapore as managing director. Holding the post since May, Michel previously worked for almost 23 years at UBS, much of that time in the Asian city-state. Prior to Singapore, he worked with UBS in Hong Kong.

Evelyn Partners appointed Paul Geddes as its new chief executive, and took the helm from Chris Woodhouse, who retired after a stint of more than five years in the role. Prior to this, he was CEO at QA Group from 2019. QA, which provides higher education and workforce learning programmes, is owned by CVC Capital Partners. Prior to leading QA, Geddes spent 10 years as CEO of Direct Line, the FTSE 250 insurance group, until 2019.

Equipped.ai, a global intelligence software and data analytics provider for the alternative asset management space, has appointed James Ferguson as commercial director. He is joining from Genesis Global Technology where he was head of new business development and was formerly sales director for emerging markets at Bloomberg where he spent 10 years, the firm said in a statement this week. He will now lead the commercial development of Equipped as it seeks to expand its client roster and suite of technology product offerings in the second half of 2023. Ferguson will be responsible for the commercial development of all of Equipped’s products and services, comprising SaaS revenues for its Minerva platform and analytics and data management consultancy services.

Abacus Group appointed Jesse Sanders as chief financial officer. Sanders is a finance professional with a background in private equity and former CFO of an MSP. 

AXA Investment Managers appointed Caroline Portel as global chief operating officer. She took over from Laurent Caillot who is pursuing a new professional endeavour outside the AXA Group. Portel, who has been a programme director at AXA IM since 2022, is responsible for the integration of the AXA IM Prime and AXA IM Architas business units. 

SEI appointed Jim London as the CEO of SEI Investments , succeeding Brett Williams following his retirement. London maintained his responsibilities as head of SEI’s UK private banking and wealth management business. London has more than 25 years’ experience in financial services. 

Hargreaves Lansdown appointed Toby Vaughan as its new chief investment officer, taking the helm from Lee Gardhouse, who left after 28 years to pursue new challenges. Prior to Brown Shipley, Vaughan was head of multi-strategy solutions at Santander Asset Management, a fund manager at LV Asset Management and a director of asset allocation at F&C Asset Management.

Comgest, the equities investment firm, appointed Alicia Zhang and Francesco Manfredini as analysts based in Paris. Zhang has more than 10 years’ experience covering US stocks. Before joining Comgest in 2022, she worked at SAFE Investment Company in Hong Kong as an analyst covering the US healthcare sector, before becoming a sector portfolio manager in 2018. 

Azqore, a subsidiary of Indosuez Wealth Management, appointed Franck Bernay as deputy CEO, in charge of information technology. Bernay is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He reports to Pierre Masclet, CEO of Azqore. 

In 2018, he was appointed CEO of BPCE Infogerance & Technologies, an IT service company of the BPCE group . Franck Bernay holds a master's degree in engineering and telecommunications from Télécom Paris.

Vermeer Partners, part of Vermeer Investment Management, appointed Chris Hogarth as managing director, financial planning to lead the newly-launched Vermeer Financial Planning Limited. Previously a wealth planning director at Cazenove Capital, Hogarth held similar positions for around 20 years with firms including UBS, Kingston Smith Financial Advisers and RSM Tenon.

JM Finn appointed Rebecca Dawkins as an associate wealth planner. Dawkins has worked in wealth management for the last five-and-a-half years. She reports to Anna Murdock, head of wealth planning. 

West Country-based Old Mill promoted two of its compliance team staff to technical partners – chartered accountant Jamie Rudge and compliance director Duncan Parkes.

Ocorian, the specialist provider of alternative fund services, entity administration, corporate and fiduciary services, appointed Ross Thomson as business development director – fund services, based in Luxembourg. Thomson has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry working internationally for major global financial services providers. His experience includes managing operation functions in Luxembourg, Ireland and Canada in both the AIFM and fund administration sectors. 

WisdomTree appointed Carlos de Andrés, CFA, as director, Iberia sales, as part of its plans to expand the Iberia sales team. Based in Madrid and reporting to Adrià Beso, head of Iberia distribution, de Andrés focuses on supporting WisdomTree’s sales and business development plans across Spain and Andorra. De Andrés, who has more than 15 years of experience in the asset management and banking industries, was previously at Allfunds Investment Solutions Sales team where he was responsible for the design and execution of the Iberian business development strategy.
 

Asia-Pacific
First Sentier Investors appointed Sudip Hazra as director of the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute. Before joining the institute, Hazra was director of ESG Research for Invesco, where he led the implementation of a global Net Zero investment research framework. He is based in London. Prior to Invesco, he was head of ESG research and responsible investment at Kepler Cheuvreux.

Brisbane-headquartered Alvia Asset Partners appointed its first chief executive, Nathan Robertson, a former senior figure at UBS. Before UBS, Robertson worked at Colonial First State and Commonwealth Bank.

BNP Paribas named Lemuel Lee as head of wealth management for its Hong Kong site. Lee reports directly to Arnaud Tellier, wealth management Asia CEO, and reports functionally to Hugo Leung, CEO Hong Kong.  

With more than 15 years of extensive investment banking and wealth management experience, Lee joined BNP Paribas in 2017. He has worked with JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in capital market roles across Hong Kong, Japan, London and New York. 

Michael Yong-Haron, head of wealth management North Asia and Hong Kong CEO, left the group to pursue other professional opportunities. He had led the North Asia teams over the past two-and-half years. Ruth Chung, head of Taiwan and greater China Singapore reports hierarchically to Tellier. The future China market head also reports directly to Tellier.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation – HSBC – appointed longstanding KPMG figure Paul Jeremy Brough as an independent non-executive director. Brough worked at KPMG Hong Kong for almost 30 years and left the firm in 2012 as senior regional partner.

Deutsche Bank appointed former longstanding Credit Suisse figure Eleanor Lam as managing director and market head for Southeast Asia in the international private bank. Based in Singapore, Lam reports to Johanes Oeni, who is head of IPB, Southeast Asia. At Credit Suisse, Lam worked as a senior client partner in Singapore’s market. Before that, she worked for nine years at UBS. 

Hines, the global real estate investment, development, and property manager, appointed Tim Jowett as managing director, head of Asia research. He is based in Hong Kong, reporting to Josh Scoville, global head of research. Jowett has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate research and investment industry, of which almost 15 have focused on the Asia property markets. 

M&G Investments appointed Manabu Fujita as head of M&G Investments Japan. Fujita, who has more than 24 years’ experience in the Japanese financial services industry, was most recently at Schroders Investment Management , where he was head of sales.

Barclays Private Bank, part of UK-listed Barclays, made two senior hires in Singapore: Tom Road and Wengmun Loh. Both men moved from London. Road, appointed as deputy head, Barclays Private Bank, Singapore, reports to Evonne Tan, head of Barclays Private Bank, Singapore. Loh was appointed head of dealing and derivatives, Barclays Private Bank, Singapore. He has been with Barclays since 2008 and was most recently head of UK Direct Access for the private bank in London. 

Loh reports locally to Ken Sze, head of investments Asia and functionally to Aurelien Callegari, global co-head of capital markets and head of structured products.

Road, who has been at Barclays for 13 years, was previously a senior lawyer at Linklaters, specialising in M&A for real estate clients, ranging from sovereign wealth funds and listed property companies to private investors.

BNY Mellon named Winnie Chen as its Singapore chief executive. She replaced Francis Braeckevelt, who focuses now on leading international operations, including Latin America. Chen’s role added to her responsibilities as Asia Pacific head of treasury services. Chen has more than 20 years of experience working in the United States, Greater China and Singapore. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Chen was at UOB, where she was the bank's group head for financial institutions sales for almost five years.

North America
Global business advisory firm EisnerAmper appointed Pamela Dennett and John Clausen as partners with a specialization in taxation. Dennett, who is a partner in the firm's private client services group, has 30 years of industry experience. Clausen is a partner in the firm’s SALT Group and specializes in state and local taxation. 

Northern Trust Asset Management made several organizational and leadership changes:

-- John McCareins, head of international business. NTAM named one leader responsible for the Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. In this newly-created role, McCareins is responsible for leading regional and country strategies, managing daily operations, regulatory affairs, relationships with other businesses, and building out local capabilities tailored for the regional clientele. McCareins has a series of country managers reporting to him and he continues to report to Daniel Gamba, NTAM president.

-- Michael Hunstad, deputy chief investment officer and CIO of global equities, continues to report to global CIO Angelo Manioudakis.

-- Sheri Hawkins, head of investment platform services, leads a new group, Investment Platform Services, that will be closely tied with the investment organization. Hawkins continues to report to Gamba. 

Procyon Partners announced that advisors Frank J McKiernan and Jerry R Sneed had joined the firm, each as a senior private wealth advisor. Together, they previously managed over $600 million in assets at Baker Tilly Wealth Management. The team works in the New York and Massachusetts areas. 

Besides McKiernan and Sneed, the following team members joined Procyon: Christopher Sneed, financial advisor; Amanda DiGuiseppe, client service associate; and Emily Demers, client service associate.

RockX, an Asian tech and solutions firm working in the crypto finance and blockchain space, appointed Paul Mischenko as its Americas head as the firm expands into the region. 

AlTi, the multi-family office operating around the world, appointed Murray Stoltz as managing director, senior relationship manager. Prior to this, Stoltz was principal and senior wealth advisor at Bessemer Trust, where he led the team responsible for presenting client solutions across investment management, wealth planning and family office services. Stoltz also worked at Manchester Capital Management, Wilmington Trust, Fiduciary Trust International, Morgan Stanley and First Boston. 

Argent Financial Group promoted Jyotsaana Parajuli to Argent’s controller. Parajuli, who previously served as assistant controller, continues to report to Daniel Taylor, Argent’s chief accounting officer. In her new position, Parajuli oversees various areas of daily accounting operations. Her duties also include the administration of corporate budgets and forecasts as well as tax planning for Argent Financial Group and all subsidiaries.

Stratos Wealth Advisors hired wealth management veteran Robert A Hamer, who has more than $250 million in assets under management. Hamer joined from Asset Management Group where he had been a managing director since 2016. Prior to joining AMG in 2007, Hamer was a founding partner and managing director of Sunset Partners Capital Management.
 
SEI, the US-headquartered technology and investment solutions group, appointed former Refinitiv figure Sneha Shah as head of new business ventures – a newly-created role. Based in New Jersey, she reports to the group’s CEO, Ryan Hicke. Shah most recently served as managing director and group lead of the London Stock Exchange Group's Business Accelerator, where she created and scaled new businesses at the intersection of data, artificial intelligence, and technology. 

UBS brought in a team of advisors – who previously worked at First Republic Bank – for its “Pacific Desert” market in the La Jolla/San Diego office. The advisors are Gregg Palmer and Jason Kaimer, of Nautilus Wealth Management Group. They were joined by client service associate Saba Lak. Prior to joining UBS, Palmer worked at First Republic for nearly 12 years as managing director and wealth advisor. Kaimer, who joined as a financial advisor, has more than 30 years of experience working in financial services. He spent the past 24 years at First Republic. Lak also came from First Republic Private Bank, where she spent five years as a preferred banker. 

Certuity, the US multi-family office, appointed Mariia Eroshin as a managing director for its family office, foundations and endowments business. Eroshin brings more than 20 years of experience working with ultra-high net worth families, foundations, endowments and family offices. Previously, Eroshin was senior vice president and private wealth advisor for UBS Financial Services, where she created and led a UHNW family offices and foundations practice. 

CanDeal, a provider of electronic Canadian fixed income marketplace solutions, data, and information services, launched a new division to focus exclusively on benchmark administration and related services. Compliance veteran Louise Brinkmann was named head of CanDeal Benchmark Solutions. 

Financial advisor Michael Schwartz and his team joined Iron Birch Advisors, an independent channel of Ameriprise Financial. They had been working with Cetera Advisor Networks. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Chris Vella as the new chief investment officer for its Investor Solutions business. Vella is based in New York and reports to Sinead Colton-Grant, head of IS. Stephen Kolano was the previous CIO of BNY Mellon Investor Solutions.

Vella joined BNY Mellon from Northern Trust where he spent 20 years, most recently as chief investment officer of multi-manager solutions with responsibility for investment strategy, manager selection and portfolio construction for institutions and family offices. 

Alex Brown, a division of Raymond James, welcomed client advisor Eva Marina Ovejero, CPM®, to its Miami, Florida office. Ovejero was previously at Morgan Stanley, where she managed approximately $509 million in client assets and specialized in serving high net worth Central and Latin American families and business owners. She joined Alex Brown's Brickell Avenue branch, headed by Eric Termini, regional executive for South Florida. 

Calamos Investments, the Chicago-headquartered firm, added two senior executives to its Calamos Wealth Management business. Jon Adams joined as chief investment officer, for wealth management, and John Campbell joined as chief wealth strategist, head of wealth planning and trust services. They are both senior vice presidents, based in Chicago’s metro area, reporting to Joe Weidenbach, who was hired as head of Calamos Wealth Management in October last year.  

Cresset, the US wealth management firm, appointed Mark Rogozinski as executive managing director of its family office services group. Rogozinski, who brings 30 years’ experience in wealth management, including wealth advisory, wealth tech, and multi-family office firms, served in many C-suite roles. Before joining Cresset, Rogozinski was chief strategy officer for Pitcairn, the multi-family office. He took over from David Fisher, who moved into a senior advisor role with Cresset.

CIBC Private Wealth, US, appointed Robert McKeon as its new chief fiduciary officer responsible for overseeing the fiduciary activities and trust administration practices of the firm’s National Trust Company and Delaware Trust Company. Prior to joining CIBC Private Wealth McKeon, who has more than 25 years of experience, served as an executive vice president and senior director of fiduciary oversight at M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust. Previously, McKeon held leadership positions in the wealth management and fiduciary divisions of Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Capital One. 

Raymond James welcomed financial advisor David Weimer to Raymond James Financial Services – the firm’s independent advisor channel – in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Weimer founded and led Weimer Wealth Management. His team includes senior client services manager, Julie Pelland, and client service associates, Lisa Weimer and Debbie Bethell. Previously, the group was affiliated with Edward Jones where they managed more than $165 million in client assets. Weimer has gained more than 23 years of experience since launching his financial planning career at Edward Jones in 1999. 

Raymond James also welcomed financial advisor Charles Mann to Raymond James Financial Services. Mann owns Habit Financial in Canadian, Texas, where he is joined by branch operations coordinator Ashley Billings. Previously, he was affiliated with Edward Jones managing approximately $180 million in client assets.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisor Kyle Roulet to its independent advisor channel in Folsom, California. As managing partner at R6 Wealth Partners, Roulet serves select families, business owners, corporate executives, retirees and captive insurance holders with financial plans and strategies. His team includes client service administrator, Nancy Rhea, and client service associate, Logan Roulet-Disalvo. He was formerly at Edward Jones where he managed more than $145 million in client assets.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisor Juan Militello, MBA, to Raymond James & Associates – the firm's employee advisor channel – in Coral Gables, Florida. Militello joined RJA's South Florida complex, led by complex manager Stephen Sullivan. He previously managed more than $240 million in client assets at Morgan Stanley.