Barclays Wealth added six investment representatives in the US, strengthening its presence in the key markets of Boston, New York and Washington DC.

In Boston, Daniel Caso joined the firm from Merrill Lynch, where he worked for the past four years. Before working at Merrill Lynch he was a managing director in the private client services division of Bear Stearns. He reports to Marty Courage, regional manager for Boston.

In New York, Barclays Wealth hired Robert Miller from Goldman Sachs, where he had worked since 1996 and was most recently part of the wealth management division, and Jorge Carreras and Carlos Molina from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s private wealth unit.

Miller, Carreras and Molina report to Mark Stevenson, regional manager for New York.

In Washington DC, the bank brought in Douglas Bayer and Joseph Gilbert as investment representatives from MSSB.

Citi Private Bank hired Alexander Zaharoff as managing director and head of the North America investment lab.

Zaharoff will be based in New York and report to Steve Bodurtha, head of investments for North America. He joins Citi from Carleon Capital Partners, a New York-based private wealth firm focused on ultra-wealthy families. 

Northern Trust appointed Brian Donovan as the new managing director of its Stamford, Connecticut office.

Donovan will be responsible for leading the Connecticut office and coordinating business development efforts throughout the state, as well as being a senior wealth advisor working with clients on wealth management and trust administration. 

Donovan joined Northern Trust last year as a senior vice president and wealth advisor. Prior to joining Northern Trust, he served as a senior manager at Ernst & Young in Stamford focusing on tax, estate planning, and financial planning for HNW individuals.  Three former consultants at The Gleason Agency spun off the financial services division of the firm to create a new entity focusing on wealth management.

DSF Wealth Management Group, built by Gleason consultants Peter Diulus, Dennis Spangler, and Ryan Franks, will take over the clients of Gleason Financial, who will continue to work with their current representatives. Joining the trio as associates are Michael Wolfe, Jay Shaffer, and Neil Crowell.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired 38 financial advisors in June, who had a combined $24.3 million in annual production and managed $2.8 billion in client assets.

Among these, the Swiss bank recruited Irwin Shapiro from RBC Wealth Management, a unit of Royal Bank of Canada, to its Beverly Hills office. Shapiro generated $1.7 million in fees and commissions, and had $420 million in assets under management. He reports to David Bigler, complex director.

Other new hires include Dimitrios Michelis and Garrick Montenegro, who joined UBS in New York from JP Morgan. The two advisors, who report to complex director Mara Glassel, had $1.4 million in combined production and managed $110 million in client assets.

Bessemer Trust continued to strengthen its operations with another key hire in San Francisco.

Kennen Hagen joined the branch as a managing director and head, reporting to Mark Lipson, the western region head. In this new role, he is responsible for wealth management services for clients in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Prior to the appointment, Hagen was an independent advisor for private equity firms.

Sovereign Bank, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Banco Santander, appointed Carlos Garcia as chief of staff.

Garcia was the chairman of the board, president and chief executive of the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico and brings 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. In his new role, he will also serve as chief of corporate affairs and communications officer. He takes over from Edvaldo Morata and reports to Jorge Moran, president and CEO of Sovereign Bank and country head of Santander businesses in the US.

Citigroup announced that Jerry Grundhofer resigned from the board of directors of both Citigroup and Citibank.

Grundhofer left to serve as chairman of Santander Holdings USA, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Spain's Banco Santander. He started on 1 July.

Ohio-based Huntington Bancshares hired Marita Grobbel from Northern Trust as a senior trust officer in Southeastern Michigan.

She is charged with assisting in managing the East Michigan trust and asset management team at Huntington and helping to grow the firm’s Wealth Advisors Group, which works with business owners and professionals on wealth creation, preservation and transfer.

At Northern Trust Grobbel was president and managing director of the Grosse Pointe office.

New York-listed First Republic Bank appointed Linnea McArt as a managing director in Los Angeles, California.

McArt latterly worked for Citi Private Bank in Los Angeles for seven years and was most recently senior vice president. Before that, she worked for Goldman Sachs.

Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management president Sallie Krawcheck  announced that Andy Sieg, head of BofA Merrill Lynch's retirement services division, will be assuming an additional role as head of global investment solutions.

The company said that Sieg will be instrumental to driving further collaboration across GIS and retirement services, specifically in areas of planning tools, specialist coverage, and institutional consulting.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management appointed Cyril Moulle-Berteaux as managing director and head of the global asset allocation team.

Moulle-Berteaux steps in from the hedge fund firm Traxis Partners, which he co-founded. He rejoins MSIM after working with the company from 1995 to 2003 as head of asset allocation, head of asset allocation research and a research analyst.

Going forwards, he will assume the day-to-day management responsibilities for all investment vehicles under the long-only business. He takes over from Henry McVey, who was appointed head of global macro and allocation at KKR & Co, and reports to Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets equity.

TD Wealth Management appointed Mark DiGangi as vice president of private banking in Burlington, Vermont.

DiGangi previously served as a retirement specialist at Morgan Stanley and as a senior relationship manager in business banking at KeyBank. He will be responsible for coordinating financial services specialists serving high net worth clients in the state.

Northern Trust’s personal financial services business is pushing into the Washington DC market and appointed Joanne Stringer as a managing director there, charged with leading a new office.

Stringer previously led a number of office openings for Northern Trust, both in the US and abroad. Internationally she held roles such as head of business development for the Nordic region of Europe for Northern Trust's corporate and institutional services division.

She took over the role directly from her previous position as MD of the Stamford, Connecticut PFS team, which in turn was taken over by Brian Donovan.

Going forwards, Stringer will be responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the personal financial services team in Washington DC, leading around 20 people. She will focus on building the team, sourcing new business and building the firm’s brand in this new market.

Alabama-based Regions Bank created a new wealth management unit that integrates its trust, private banking, and insurance operations.

The group will be led by Bill Ritter, who most recently served as senior executive vice president and central region president. His old post as central president will then be occupied by John Turner, previously the president of Whitney National Bank. Both will report to Grayson Hall, the president and chief executive.

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing strengthened its equities franchise with the appointments of David DiNardo as chief operating officer of securities lending and Robert Chiuch as managing director of the same unit.

DiNardo joined the securities lending division in 1994 and served as manager since 1997. In his new post, he reports to James Slater, who he succeeds following the latter's appointment as global head of securities lending.

Chiuch joins the company from CIBC Mellon, where he served as co-head of global securities lending. He will be based in New York for his new position and will also report to Slater.

The Boston-based wealth management firm Silver Bridge promoted Allison Taff to take on broader responsibilities as director of strategic planning, a newly-created role. She was previously director of family officer partners at the firm.

As director of strategic planning, Taff’s responsibilities will include managing partnerships with external firms, to provide services Silver Bridge does not offer itself.

She joined Silver Bridge in early 2009.

Going forwards, the firm’s chief executive Steve Prostano will continue to oversee the family office partners division, and Taff will remain involved with this side of the business. As such there are no plans to extend the team at this point.

Burnham Gibson Financial Group, the California-based financial planning firm, appointed Tia Cirksena as director of retirement services.

Cirksena previously held senior positions at Principal Financial Group, MetLife, and Transamerica Retirement Services. In addition to dealing directly with clients, she will be contributing to operations, client retention programs, and related development strategies.

Affiliated Managers Group, the New York-listed asset manager, selected Andrew Dyson for the newly-created position of executive vice president, with responsibility for the company’s global distribution platform. He will be based in AMG’s office in London.

Dyson joins the firm from one of its competitors, BlackRock, where he was head of the global institutional client business. He was previously responsible for international distribution at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which merged with BlackRock in 2006.

US-based Guggenheim Partners appointed Bryan Moss as chairman of its business aircraft investments activities, a role in which he is charged with expanding this division’s global reach.

Moss was previously the vice chairman and president of Gulfstream Aerospace, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. He is also a former executive vice president of the parent company. In the past he served on councils such as the US-China Business Council and he currently sits on the board of directors of  RTI International.

Bank of America said it is poised to double its roster of financial solutions advisors to over 1,000 before the end of 2011 as it moves to capture a wider share of the country's mass affluent.

New Jersey-based advisor Brinton Eaton appointed Mary Ellen Hancock as a financial advisor.

Hancock is a certified financial planner practitioner and joins the company after 12 years at Wells Fargo Private Bank, where she held various roles, including client management associate, financial advisor and reigonal financial planner.

In her new role at Brinton Eaton, she will be part of a team that specializes in financial planning, income tax and estate planning, investment management and family office services.

Northern Trust appointed John Hoffman as president of its New York personal financial services business, a role in which he is responsible for overall management of the division.

Hoffman joined Northern Trust when it opened its New York office back in 2003, where, as a senior wealth advisor, he helped develop the wealth advisory unit. Before joining Northern Trust he was with US Trust for eight years, latterly as a senior vice president within the firm’s high net worth planning group.

In his new position Hoffman reports to Jeff Kauffman, northeast region president and chief executive.

Citi Private Bank appointed Patricia McDermott – latterly of US Trust – as a managing director and head of the bank in Connecticut and Westchester.

At US Trust, part of Bank of America Private Wealth Management, McDermott was managing director and market executive for Westport and New Haven, Connecticut. She joined that firm in 2007 from BNY Mellon Wealth Management, where she was Connecticut market leader.

In her new position at Citi she is based in Greenwich and reports to Paul Hubert, eastern regional executive.

New wealth manager Canal Capital Management opened its main office in Shockoe Slip in Richmond, Virginia, a month after it was established.

The firm was set up by Neil Gilliss, a former a partner at Johnson and GiIliss Wealth Management Group, to provide financial planning and investment management services for individuals, business owners and endowments.

Gilliss brought a number of employees to the new venture, including Charles Renner, marketing director; Noah Greenbaum, advisor; Hunter Hopcroft, research analyst; and Charlene Harkrader, director of client relations.

Paracle Advisors, the Mercer Island, Washington-based wealth management firm, named Scott Szeman as its new chief investment officer.

In this role Szeman will be responsible for the overall investment strategy and investment research responsibilities of the firm. The firm said his appointment was part of plans to strengthen and enhance its investment advisory services.

St Louis-based Enterprise Financial Services appointed Joseph Gazzoli as the new chief executive of Enterprise Trust, its wealth management and trust unit.

Gazzoli’s most recent employer was AHM Financial, also in St Louis, Missouri, where he established an asset management capability. Before that he was responsible for wealth management at UMB Financial, based in Kansas City in the same state.

Wealth Management Solutions, the advisory firm which is part of Prudential Financial,  appointed John Yackel as senior vice president and director of sales and relationship management.

Yackel most recently worked with ultra high net worth clients at Fortigent. Before that, he was with SEI. His expertise covers banks, trust companies, registered investment advisors and family offices.

Religare Global Asset Management, the multi-boutique asset management arm of Religare Enterprises, named Alan Berkshire as president for North America.

Berkshire most recently served as founding partner at Estancia Capital Management and worked for over 10 years at Nuveen Investments before that.

Boston Private Bank & Trust hired four senior portfolio managers and promoted two members of staff.

Carl Young and David Goss were brought into the firm as senior vice presidents and portfolio managers, while William Lavelle and Kelly McKernan were appointed as vice presidents and portfolio managers. They will all work with both individual and institutional clients.

Christopher O'Connell was promoted to the role of sales manager, responsible for managing the bank’s sales team, in addition to his responsibilities as a senior vice president and portfolio manager.

Jason O'Connell was promoted internally to become director of research, responsible for overseeing the firm’s analyst staff; coordinating in-house primary research; and managing the relationships with and budget allocations to external research, brokerage, and analytics technology providers. He takes on the position in addition to his role as a vice president and portfolio manager.

NewBridge Bank, the North-Carolina based state-chartered community bank, appointed Bill Green as a senior vice president and private banking executive in Forsyth County.

Green will be based in the Winston-Salem office and reports directly to Jerry Beasley, executive vice president and director of private banking.

Goldman Sachs elected Dr Debora Spar as an independent director of the firm with immediate effect, bringing the number of directors on Goldman’s board to 11, including nine independents.

Dr Spar will be a member of each of the firm’s audit, risk, compensation and corporate governance, and nominating committees.

Dr Spar is president of Barnard College, the New York-based liberal arts college for women. Before joining Barnard in July 2008, she spent 17 years on the faculty of Harvard Business School.

Royal Bank of Canada appointed Heather Munroe-Blum and Bridget van Kralingen to its board of directors.

Dr Munroe-Blum is a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Canada as well as the committee on research universities of the National Research Council in America.

Van Kralingen is the general manager of North America, IBM Corporation in New York, responsible for strategy, execution, business results and client satisfaction for IBM's businesses in Canada and the US.

PrivateBancorp named Chris Carman as the new regional manager of St Louis and Kansas City for the private wealth division of The PrivateBank.

Carman joined The PrivateBank from the St Louis-based financial technology firm Exegy, where he held the position of senior vice president for business development since 2007. In his new role he will lead the delivery of the firm’s trust, investment management and private banking services, and will also work with the commercial banking team to introduce private wealth services to clients.

UBS Wealth Management Americas brought in a family of veteran advisors from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for its Charlotte office in North Carolina.

Charles Stoner, his wife Eileen Stoner, son Chuck Stoner Jr and daughter-in-law Christina Stoner, joined the company bringing a total of $3.9 million in fees and commissions and $300 million in assets under management.

Charles and Eileen Stoner were appointed as senior executives at the UBS branch, while Chuck and Christina are client services associates. They will work with other new client service associates Julie Stewartson, Heather Budgick, Julia Krauss and Amy Lowe. They report to Craig Cmiel, complex director, and Dan McLaughlin, assistant branch manager.

Cayman-based Cedrus Investments appointed Denise Gower – latterly the head of marketing for Cayman Finance – as vice president of business development.

Based at the firm’s Grand Cayman headquarters, Gower is responsible for global business development, client relationship management, and marketing.

Prior to working at Cayman Finance, Gower was a senior business development and market manager at the offshore legal and fiduciary services firm Ogier.

CCH Trust Services, part of the Wolters Kluwer business, appointed Patrick Alyward as general manager of Trust US, a tax compliance system for bank trust divisions and wealth organizations.

Alyward joined the company from PNC Bank, where he was executive vice president and director of client services. In his new role he is responsible for the company's overall product strategy, sales and development.

Bermuda-headquartered hedge fund administrator Butterfield Fulcrum appointed Brian Young as a director of business development.

Based in the Pacific Northwest, Young will be responsible for promoting Butterfield Fulcrum’s fund administration services to investment managers across the west coast and mid-west markets. Young, who joined Butterfield Fulcrum in 2010, was previously located in New York.

Citi Private Bank hired Christopher Adams as managing director of investment finance for its New York office.

Adams most recently served as an executive director in the tailored lending group of Morgan Stanley Private Bank, a role he took up in 2009.

He rejoins Citi, having previously worked there for 20 years, including at the firm's private banking and global wealth management businesses in New York and Los Angeles.

BlackRock appointed Terrence Keeley as managing director and head of the official institutions group.

Keeley steps into this newly-created position from Sovereign Trends, where he served as founder and senior managing principal. As part of the BlackRock management team, he is responsible for overseeing the development of the relationships and services the firm provides to clients worlwide, comprising central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and supra-nationals.

In addition, he will also be instrumental in the design and execution of the recently launched BlackRock Investment Institute. He reports jointly to Robert Fairbairn, the senior managing director and head of the global client group, and Lee Kempler, the managing director and executive director of the Investment Institute.

Affiliated Managers Group, the New York-listed asset management giant, appointed John Copeland as president of AMG Wealth Partners, a newly-formed subsidiary focusing on investments in boutique wealth management firms.

Copeland joins AMG Wealth Partners from Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior partner at one of the firm’s largest private wealth management teams. He is also a former managing director at Lehman Brothers in the Private Investment Management business.

In his new role he will be based in West Palm Beach, Florida, and report directly to Sean Healey, AMG’s chairman and chief executive.

JP Morgan Chase & Co made a number of changes to its leadership structure following the announcement that Heidi Miller, president of its international business, will retire early next year.

Miller, a 30-year financial veteran, held roles such as chief financial officer of Citigroup and Bank One, and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase’s Treasury & Securities Services business.

On leaving, she recommended JP Morgan’s international activities be embedded into the various business lines.

Accordingly, the position of Todd Maclin, chief executive of Commercial Bank, was extended to include parts of the retail business, including the branch network, the consumer franchise, small business banking and the Chase private client business.

Charlie Scharf, who heads up retail financial services, will become a partner in One Equity Partners, JP Morgan’s private equity arm. He will continue to work with the retail business to help with the transition, the firm said.

On the investment banking side, Jes Staley, CEO of that business, takes on added responsibilities for the oversight and coordination of the international franchise.

Lastly, Gordon Smith, CEO of card services, will be in charge of JP Morgan’s auto finance and student lending divisions, in addition to his current role.

Integrated Wealth Management expanded its staff numbers with several new hires.

The new appointments include Erin Scott as business development coordinator, John Wong as chief compliance officer and operations coordinator, Melissa Scheinwald as vice president of operations, and Amber Lembo as a documentations specialist.

The entire IWM team is led by president and chief executive Jim Casey.

Curian Capital, an RIA which provides fee-based separately managed accounts to financial professionals, expanded its sales force with the addition of 11 regional consultants covering eight new territories.

The firm added positions for one external consultant and one internal consultant to each additional region, bringing its sales force headcount to 90. To complete the hiring, five more internal consultants will be hired.

Overseeing distribution efforts in the new eastern territories is divisional vice president Mike Petko, while in the west divisional vice president Tim Parkinson will manage the efforts.

The external consultants are Carl Robinson for west Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; AJ Amos for Tennessee and east Kentucky; Ben Keith for south New Jersey; Anthony Ramondo for the District of Columbia, northwest North Carolina and Western Virginia; Tom Bauer for southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, Oklahoma, and northwest Texas; Rodger Hoofnagle for Louisiana and east Texas; Scott Gunderson for North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana; and Dominick McPeake for Oregon and south Idaho.

The internal consultants appointed so far are Will Sherrard for west Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; Felicia Lewis for southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, Oklahoma and northwest Texas; and Jamie Hart for Louisiana and east Texas.

Philip Sachs, a senior vice president at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, left to become a partner at the advisory firm and multi-family office WMS Partners, taking with him colleagues Christine Buckley and Tanika McNair.

Maryland-based WMS Partners was established by Timothy Chase and Martin Eby in 1992.

Union Bank, the primary subsidiary of San Francisco-based UnionBanCal Corporation,  appointed Dennis Mooradian as executive vice president for the wealth markets division, overseeing units including The Private Bank.

Prior to this appointment, Mooradian was executive vice president for the wealth and institutional management unit of Comerica Incorporated, where he led 1,300 employees in the private banking, institutional, personal trust, and 401(k) industries. He has also worked at Wells Fargo, initially heading the private client service division and later leading the financial consultant advisory group.

In his new role, Mooradian will be overseeing several of Union Bank's subsidiaries, including The Private Bank, Highmark Capital Management, and UnionBanc Investment Services. He reports directly to John Erickson, vice chairman and chief corporate banking officer.

City National Bank hired Kristin Stansbury from Northern Trust as a vice president and senior private banker at its private client services team in the East Bay area, San Francisco, California.

Stansbury brings around 20 years of financial services experience to the position and will focus on developing new client relationships at City National. She was at Northern Trust for nearly 18 years.

In her new role she will work with both high net worth families and select non-profit and professional services firms. She reports directly to David Lawrence, senior vice president and manager of private client services in the region.

David Easthope rejoined Celent’s securities and investments team as a research director, based at the research and advisory firm’s San Francisco, California office.

Easthope worked for Celent in the past, joining the firm in 2005 and going on to become a research director there. He left in 2010 to join Charles Schwab, where he worked as a director of strategy until recently.

He specializes in global financial exchanges and market structure, advanced trading technology, and North American retail brokerage.

Bank of America appointed Ken Sheldon as state president of its New Hampshire business.

Sheldon joined predecessor institution Fleet Bank in 1990. In his new role, he will be responsible for integrating Bank of America's business lines in the state and overseeing corporate social responsibility activities, including philanthropic giving and employee volunteerism.

First Republic Bank hired Basant Kedia from HSBC as a senior relationship manager in Palo Alto, California.

Kedia comes from a background of working with venture capital clients, for which the bank has just opened a dedicated office in Menlo Park, California.

Kedia was at HSBC Bank for six years, latterly as a vice president at the Hong Kong-and London-listed banking group. Prior to that, he worked for the US Small Business Administration and the private equity firm Growth Capital Partners.

Oppenheimer & Co added three new members to its institutional sales team.

Bryan Welch, John Edelman, and Fredrik Martenson joined as executive directors in the equities group. They all report directly to Charles Holmes, managing director, head of equities.

Allianz Life Insurance hired Roberta Eckert and Michael Agan as wealth management consultants at its fee-based distribution unit.

Eckert, who joins the company from Genworth Financial where she was head of the sales development team, will be responsible for the Southeast district. Agan, meanwhile, who joins from the AXA Distributors group where he led the retirement income center, will cover the Great Lakes district.

BBVA Compass appointed Shelaghmichael Brown to the board of directors of BBVA Compass, as she leaves her role at the helm of the firm’s retail banking division.

Brown oversaw a network of some 700 branches in her former role, and has also appeared in the list of “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking,” from US Banker.

Going forwards, Jeff Talpas will take over responsibility for BBVA Compass’ retail network and product team. He was latterly in charge of the day-to-day operations of the branch network.

Enrique Gonzalez was appointed to lead the corporate shared services area with responsibility for marketing, customer intelligence and alternative delivery channels.

Brett D’Arcy, the former chief investment officer of CBIZ Wealth Management, founded a new company, D’Arcy Capital Management, following the sale of CBIZ to Mariner Wealth Advisors early this year.

D’Arcy was at CBIZ Wealth Management, as well as predecessor firm Nation Smith Hermes Diamond, since joining in 2003.

The recently-launched firm is headquartered in San Diego, California and will focus its research on the large-cap value stocks and investment-grade bonds spaces. Krysta Cordill, a former senior auditor and planner at CBIZ, also joined the venture as director of advisory services.

Brown Brothers Harriman appointed Mark Egert as director of compliance for its investment management and markets lines of businesses, based at its New York office.

Egert, who will also be the firm’s chief compliance officer for FINRA, will report to Kathryn George, a partner at BBH. He replaces Beth Haddock, who is taking up a role in the firm’s office of the general counsel.

Egert joins BBH from Crowell & Moring’s corporate, financial services and white collar and regulatory enforcement groups where he was responsible for the firm’s regulatory and compliance practice for financial institutions.

UBS Wealth Management Americas added financial advisor David Mattia to its growing team in Rochester, New York.

Mattia was hired from Convergent Wealth Advisors, where he had $1.2 million in fees and commissions and $170 million in assets under management. He reports directly to Sam Messina, the complex director.

Baird ramped up its new San Francisco wealth management office with the hiring of financial advisors Jonathan Fitzgibbons, managing director, and Joyce Linker, senior vice president. In addition to the financial advisory duo, Katherine LeClair was hired as a registered client relationship specialist.

All three joined Baird from ThinkEquity, which is also based in San Francisco, where they worked for several years. Fitzgibbons and Linker oversaw a combined $300 million in assets and generated nearly $2 million in annual production.

Barclays Americas chairman Archibald Cox tendered his resignation, with effect from 30 June 2011, to pursue outside interests.

Cox became part of the UK-listed banking giant in 2009, after serving for several years as chief executive of Morgan Stanley International and as president and chief executive of CS First Boston Corporation. As chairman of Barclays Americas, he had been working with the firm's various leaders to strengthen client relationships and extend the firm's banking platform in the US, Brazil, and Mexico.

HTG Investment Advisors, a firm which caters to individual clients, appointed Valerie Connolly as a senior investment advisor.

Connolly previously held management positions at Krauss Whiting, US Trust, and Fleet Investment Advisors. She has been in the financial services industry for around 25 years and focuses on areas such as retirement planning, wealth transfer strategies and education funding.

The international law firm Bracewell & Giuliani expanded its wealth management practice with the appointment of Glen Eichelberger and Brian Teaff to its Houston office.

Both lawyers joined the firm from Fulbright & Jaworski. In his new role, Eichelberger will focus on trust, estate and philanthropic planning and administration for high net worth clients. Meanwhile, Teaff will be focused on wealth management services, such as dealing with wealth preservation and tax-related concerns.

Minnessotta-based White Oaks Wealth Advisors hired Preston Koenig as a portfolio administrator.

Koenig joined the company from Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust, where he served as a trust administrator for the last five years. At White Oaks, he will be responsible for day-to-day client relations activities, including account set-up, trading and portoflio management, common fund administration, cash allocation, and disbursement.

Kansas-based asset manager Waddell & Reed appointed Shalisa Pierce as an associate managing principal.  

Pierce joined the firm from the wealth management group of the financial services company TIAA-CREF, where she was a vice president.

In her new role, Pierce, a financial services industry veteran of some 23 years, will reportedly oversee 10 financial advisors throughout the Napa area.

JP Morgan Chase appointed Glenn Tilton as chairman of its Midwest business and member of its firm-wide executive committee.

Tilton, who was latterly the chairman and chief executive of UAL Corporation and United Airlines, is now the senior executive across all JP Morgan’s businesses and functions in the region.

He will be based in Chicago for his new position, in which he will focus on recruiting talent, overseeing the firm's charitable contribution budget in the region, and coordinating government and public affairs initiatives, as well as maintaining key relationships with elected officials.

Rockefeller Financial appointed John O’Hara as a managing director and senior advisor.

Based in New York, O'Hara focuses on business development activities for the firm. Given his role in new business development, he will be working across all business groups at Rockefeller Financial.

He was latterly the chief operating officer of Franklin Street Partners, a North Carolina-based wealth management firm, prior to which he was a managing director in the investment management division of Goldman Sachs, and of Commodities Corporation, which Goldman acquired in 1997.

Quarles & Brady, the US law firm, brought in Kirk Hoopingarner as a partner at its trust and estates practice.

Based in the firm's Chicago office, Hoopingarner joins both the trust and estates and tax exempt organizations group. He will focus on trust and estate administration, wealth planning and philanthropy for high net worth families and individuals.

Also joining Quarles & Brady is Nicholas Schmidbauer, as a partner in the intellectual property group. Schmidbauer will work on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications.

American Century Investments appointed Peter Cieszko as head of intermediary and institutional sales in North America.

Cieszko was previously the head of distribution at Fidelity Investments and comes in at a time American Century is looking to expand its sales force in the region. The company also is planning to add to its line of offerings to include more alternative and international-equity products.

Cardinal Bank hired Quentin Roos and Gregory Cartrette as assistant vice presidents for its wealth management division.

Roos and Cartrette, both licensed financial advisors, will join as investment advisors with Cardinal Wealth Services. Both will be responsible for trading and investment oversight, individual portfolio management and business development in their respective markets.

Roos joined from TD Wealth Management; he also previously worked for Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley and UBS Paine Webber.

Cartrette was with PNC Investments; before that, he owned his own financial company in Maryland.

Marcum, the accounting and advisory services company, appointed James Ashe as partner-in-charge of its advisory services group.

Ashe took over from Sam Rosenfarb, who will continue to lead the advisory division in the New York City office. Ashe is responsible for the growth and development of the advisory unit, which provides forensic, bankruptcy, investigative and valuation services.

Morgan Stanley hired Michael Brakey, formerly at Bank of America, as head of high net worth lending.

Brakey, a 21-year industry veteran, is assigned with leading the continued development of lending products, including commercial and securities-based loans, within the investment bank's private banking group. He reports to Mark Connolly, head of products for the business.

UBS Wealth Management hired Tom Ulrich and Nick Bryant from Merrill Lynch Wealth Management as advisors for its Ohio office.

At Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Ulrich and Bryant together generated $1.6 million in fees and commissions, and handled $260 million in client assets. They report directly to Michael Lundon, the complex director.

The fund services firm Butterfield Fulcrum appointed Jeff Nason as managing director, global and strategic relationships, a newly-created position.

For the role, Nason will be based in New York and will be responsible for further developing the company's relationships, particularly with large, complex alternative asset fund groups. He will work with a team of client integration professionals, as well as CAs and CFAs, to provide portfolio and investor reporting.

Before Butterfield, Nason founded and ran the investment firm Marlin Holdings and its wholly-owned subsidiary Marlin Global Insight.

ING Insurance appointed Maliz Beams as chief executive of its US retirement business.

Beams moved to ING after serving as president and CEO of TIAA-CREF's individual and institutional services. In her new role, she is responsible for linking ING Retirement Services and ING Individual Retirement to create a unified operation.

She is based in the firm's Windsor, Connecticut and Braintree, Massachusetts offices and reports directly to Rob Leary, the president and CEO of ING US.

Peregrine Financial Group appointed John Courtright as president of Peregrine Asset Management, and Mark Lishchynsky as president of Peregrine Diversified Investment Services, its RIA subsidiary.

Courtright joined the firm as a managing director in 2008. He takes over the president role from Neil Aslin, who is becoming the chairman of the board of directors for both Peregrine Asset Management and Peregrine Diversified. Aslin is also vice chairman of the parent firm.

Lishchynsky joins Peregrine Diversified, which was established only last year, from Brewer Financial Services. It is unclear who held this role previously.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management added to its Southern California team with the hiring of Boryana Zeitz as a senior portfolio manager for high net worth clients.

Zeitz was previously a trust and estates attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman and specializes in trust and estate administration, and gift and estate philanthropic planning. She joins a team of 80 professionals in the region and reports directly to James Hillman, regional managing director.

Boutique broker-dealer Financial Advisers of America made changes to its roster of senior managers. Effective immediately, Ken Johnston takes the lead as the firm's chairman, with Jodi Johnston acting as chief executive and Todd Pack as president and chief operating officer.

Previously, Ken Johnston was the CEO, Jodi Johnston the president, and Pack the COO.

In these new roles, Ken Johnson will be responsible for overseeing the firm's growth initiative for 2011, as it targets a wider presence. Jodi Johnston will take care of overall direction, particularly in sales, marketing and recruitment, while Pack will supervise day-to-day operations and due diligence processes.

First Republic Bank appointed Betsy Sullivan as a managing director and relationship manager in Boston, as it continues to expand its coverage of the US market.

Prior to this position, she served as vice president for Boston Private Bank and also previously earlier worked at Sovereign Bank and Citizens Bank. She will be based at the Federal Street office, serving clients in the Boston, South Shore, and Cape Cod areas.

HighTower recruited the Blanke Schein group in Palm Desert, California to its advisor network.

The group is led by William Blanke, Robert Schein and J Michael Shields, all of who took up the role as partners and managing directors at HighTower.

Blanke has 37 years of industry experience, including 20 at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; Schein has 20 years of experience, having spent the last 10 at MSSB; and Shields had also spent three years at MSSB.