Asset manager brings in veteran business-development head for eastern U.S.. San Francisco-based asset manager Hall Capital Partners has hired financial-service veteran Richard Grand-Jean as director of business development for the eastern U.S. The appointment is meant to help Hall Capital, traditionally a firm with a high-net-worth focus, bring in more institutional business.

Ramping up

"We're delighted to recruit Rick, with his extensive background and expertise, as we ramp up our marketing focus on the institutional market," says Hall Capital Partners' president John Boneparth. "With Rick's appointment to cover the eastern United States, the key elements of our distribution strategy are now in place."

Grand-Jean comes to Hall Capital Partners from serving, simultaneously, as president of Abel's Hill Capital and Global Film Equity, New York-based firms that specialize in capital raising, M&A, and advisory services for the media and entertainment industries. Earlier in his career he spent more than two decades with Solomon Brothers (now part of Citigroup), a stint that included senior roles in New York, London, and Tokyo including those of managing director in the firm's investment-banking media group and head of global capital markets.

Grand-Jean will work out of Hall Capital Partners' New York office.

Hall Capital Partners oversees more than $22 billion in traditional and alternative assets for its mainly high-net-worth clients. -FWR

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