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

Baird has 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.

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