The Texas-based financial services firm and RIA has brought in a regional director in the Golden State.

Alan Lennick has joined Hilltop Securities’ private client group in Beverly Hills, CA, as a regional director for the West Coast, and senior vice president of practice management.

As West Coast director, Lennick will help private client managers boost their productivity, while also concentrating on recruiting wealth management talent.

In his practice management role, Lennick will support private client and HilltopSecurities independent network advisors with their fee-for-advice programs, as well as help to ensure that advisors meet the requirements of the Department of Labor’s recently adopted rule defining fiduciary investment advice and conflicts of interest related to retirement assets. 

Lennick was previously a complex director at Ameriprise in Los Angeles, and before that managed branches in the Minneapolis/St Paul area.