New York-based Brown Brothers Harriman appointed Jamie Cann as a vice president and relationship manager within its Charlotte, NC wealth management office. Cann will be responsible for managing investment portfolios and advising clients on investment-related matters, the firm said. He will report directly to Rand Ayer, managing director and head of the Charlotte office.

Prior to joining Brown Brothers, Cann worked in business development for Afton Capital Management and spent seven years with Credit Suisse in the equities division in New York and San Francisco before that.

New York’s Geller & Company named Jerry Leamon, formerly global managing director at Deloitte, as vice chairman of its advisory board - a newly-created role at the firm. Leamon will advise Martin Geller, founder and chief executive, in addition to the firm’s senior leadership team, on a range of business matters. Leamon will also support the firm as it grows its business lines and considers expansion into new areas.

Colombus, OH-based Huntington Bancshares named Steven Short as director of Huntington Wealth Advisors, part of its wealth management business. Short will report to Daniel Banhase, director of Huntington’s wealth, government finance and home lending division. Prior to joining Huntington, Short served for five years as chief executive of UnionBanc Investment Services, a subsidiary of Union Bank of California, as well as executive vice president at US Bank.

Northern Trust hired Brian Heilman as a senior portfolio manager in the Washington DC market. Heilman was most recently a senior portfolio manager at US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, as well as its predecessor firm in the DC area. 

In his earlier career he has also served in the Los Angeles, CA and Tokyo offices of Bank of America. At Northern Trust Heilman reports to Joanne Stringer, managing director of the Washington DC office, which the firm opened last year.

San Francisco-headquartered First Republic Bank appointed Philip Hayes as deputy head of its trust unit, along with Alistair Christopher, who joins as vice president and senior trust officer, based in Boston. Prior to joining First Republic, Hayes worked at Bessemer Trust for 11 years, most recently as managing director. Christopher was previously a senior vice president and senior trust officer at US Trust in Boston.

Baird launched a second office in Florida with an 11-strong team, including six financial advisors, and brought a veteran William Blair advisor into its Chicago office. In Sarasota, FL, Baird brought in six advisors with over $825 million in client assets; the office is temporarily located at Two North Tamiami Trail, Suite 806, but will move to a permanent location later this year.

Paul Buskey was appointed managing director to lead the office. He joined Baird earlier this year as part of the Buskey McGinty Group, with around $265 million AuM. He will continue to work closely with investment clients while serving as branch manager. Other additions to the new office are Scott Woods, managing director; Jane McGinty, senior vice president; Charles Fortenberry, vice president; Chip Alario, vice president, and Meredith Woods.

In Chicago, Douglas Mabie joined Baird as a managing director at the firm's private wealth business, along with registered client relationship specialists Jennifer Krohn and Kate Pawela. Mabie is a William Blair veteran; he joined that firm - which like Baird is employee-owned - nearly 24 years ago.

Oppenheimer & Co, part of New York-listed Oppenheimer Holdings, hired Gordon Morse as managing director of investments and branch manager of its Atlanta, GA office. Morse, who has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, joined Oppenheimer from Raymond James in Atlanta. In his new roles, he reports to Bob Okin, executive vice president of national sales. Before Raymond James, Morse worked at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Bear Stearns, where he managed and developed branch offices, the firm said.

The Bank of New York Mellon named PeterPaul Pardi as global head of distribution for its investment management business. He joined from Arcapita, a private equity firm, where he was executive director and global head of institutional investment placement.

In his new position, Pardi will be in charge of creating and carrying out strategies for the organization’s distribution, marketing and client service functions. All the firm’s sales teams in the world will report to Pardi, who will be based in London. He reports to both Curtis Arledge, chief executive of BNY Mellon Investment Management, and Mitchell Harris, president.

TD Ameritrade Institutional, part of TD Ameritrade, appointed Christine Gaze as director of practice management – a role in which she will develop and execute all advisor practice management and business consulting services for RIAs.

Most recently, Gaze served as executive director at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, where she led business development initiatives, helping advisors focus on their relationships with high net worth investors.

RBC Wealth Management brought in four financial advisors from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for its Houston, TX office, according to Houston director, Jeff Heberling.

Gene Theobald joined the firm with more than 28 years of experience, while Otho Evans and Teresa Castillo have been in the industry for 28 years and seven years respectively.

The trio form part of a team and have an aggregate $330 million in assets under management and $2.6 million in production. Their primary focus is on tax-free municipal bonds, the firm said.

Additionally, Tim Hudnall, with approximately $90 million in AuM and $525,000 in production, joined from MSSB with a focus on fee-based asset management.

Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank appointed Brian Vowinkel as regional managing director for Ascent Private Capital Management, the bank’s wealth management unit that caters for clients with at least $25 million in assets. Additionally, the bank said it is due to open an office in Seattle, WA within the next few months.

Vowinkel’s main task is to drive growth within the new office while leading an initial team of seven professionals. He reports to Ascent president Michael Cole, and has 13 years of experience assisting UHNW families.

Previously, Vowinkel headed his own wealth management firm, Ranger Select, in Seattle. Prior to that, he opened Convergent Wealth Advisors’ Seattle office, where he was an equity partner and served as regional managing director.

M&I Wealth Management, part of BMO Financial Group, promoted Steve Marsich to senior vice president, managing director for its wealth management groups in Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin.

Marsich is responsible for the management and direction of the team in the areas of private banking, investment management, financial advisors, personal trust and estate settlement services, the firm said.

Marsich joined M&I in 2004 and has served as the managing director of the Northwest Wisconsin group since 2006.

RBC Wealth Management added five advisors with combined assets of $530 million to its New York office, according to the firm’s Philadelphia, PA branch director, Scott Ceniccola.

Scott Sides, Josh Smeltzer and Brock Hively - who currently operate as the Sides group - join RBC from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and will also see the addition of financial advisor Thomas McCracken, who also joins from MSSB. The Sides group has a production of $2.4 million, with assets of $295 million in-house and a further $200 million of held away 401(k) assets.

Financial advisor Denise Potter also joined RBC as an individual producer from MSSB. She partnered with the Sides team on her 401(k) business. Amy Jacobs and Linda Hickman also started as client associates.

Three wealth management executives who joined BMO Financial Group as part of the Toronto-listed firm’s acquisition of Marshall & Ilsley last year departed the firm.

Kenneth Krei, executive vice president and head of BMO Global Private Bank, which includes Canadian and US operations, is believed to have retired while Jim Duca, executive vice president, BMO Global Private Bank for the US, and Jamie Cahn, president of BMO Institutional Trust Services, left to pursue other opportunities.

Before joining BMO, Krei served as chairman, president and chief executive of Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company and chairman and CEO of M&I Investment Management. He joined Marshall & Ilsley in July 2003 as head of M&I's wealth management businesses.

Duca was previously senior vice president and managing director of private wealth management for M&I Trust Company, while Cahn held the same job title before the acquisition.

Philadelphia-based Glenmede, the investment and wealth management firm, added Michael Schiff and Richard Giarrusso to its New Jersey branch as business development manager and senior portfolio manager respectively.

Schiff is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with high net worth individuals, families and tax-exempt entities, while Giarrusso provides investment counsel to client portfolios, the firm said.

Schiff and Giarruso both report to director Robert Kiep, who succeeded John Phillips at the start of the year when Phillips moved to become a portfolio and relationship manager.

Prior to joining Glenmede, Giarrusso was an investment manager within Morgan Stanley’s private client group, as well as a financial advisor at RBC Wealth Management. Schiff was previously sales director of Amicorp Services and currently serves on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council.

Fairhills Group, the New York-based alternative asset manager that was founded as a family office for Edward Bronson, appointed Steven DiNunzio as principal and chief financial officer.

The appointment was made as Fairhills launched a strategy to expand its investment operations via acting as an “incubator” for experienced portfolio managers setting up new hedge fund strategies. Principals David Benway and Heather Malloy are leading these efforts.

DiNunzio’s appointment sees him look after all aspects of financial management, operations, accounting, auditing, compliance and reporting throughout the middle- and back-office across all funds managed by Fairhills. He joined the firm from Diamond Notch Asset Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund backed by BNP Paribas, where he had worked before Diamond, overseeing some $25 billion in hedge fund assets.

Florida’s Legacy Trust Family Wealth Offices appointed Tracey Devine as director of investment research and Ruthanne Lynch as relationship management coordinator.

Devine conducts economic and market research alongside the investment strategy team, which in turn directs Legacy's investment advice. She also facilitates strategic and tactical asset allocation, manager due diligence, portfolio management and client investment consulting.

Previously, Devine spent 18 years at Wachovia Bank, where she was most recently managing director and senior vice president of investment strategy and research within its wealth management division. Prior to that, she was director of research and vice president of portfolio strategies within Wachovia’s trust unit.  

Lynch is responsible for day-to-day interaction with clients, vendors and business partners, while managing all administrative functions for the relationship team, coordinating client events and providing marketing support to executive staff.  

Thomas Kalaris, chief executive of the wealth and investment management division of Barclays, relocated from London to New York and took on the additional role of executive chairman of the Americas, a new position at the UK-listed bank.

Kalaris retained his current executive responsibilities, both as CEO of the wealth and investment management division and his role chairing the Barclays client committee.

Kalaris and del Missier will co-chair the Barclays Americas management team, responsible for “capital, funding, risk appetite and the control environment across the businesses that operate in the region, as well as review and recommend the strategy for the Americas,” the bank said at the time.

Wilmington Trust added four wealth advisors from Wells Fargo Private Bank to its new Washington DC office, which it launched with William LaFond at the helm.

The four new hires were: Al Behar, vice president and senior private client fiduciary advisor; Bruce Hoffmeister, vice president and senior financial planner; Eric Schoener, vice president and senior private client advisor; and Jast Sohi, vice president and senior private banker.

Behar, Sohi and Schoener joined Wells Fargo together in early 2010, with Sohi and Schoener joining from US Trust Co.

Sallie Krawcheck, one of the most high-profile women in wealth management and the former president of Bank of America’s global wealth unit, joined Gold Bullion International’s advisory board.

Krawcheck left the world’s biggest wealth manager last year as part of a management layer removal by BofA chief executive Brian Moynihan.

Krawcheck joined four other business and government executives on GBI's advisory board, made up of: Wesley Clark, John Hathaway, Arthur Levitt and Dan Tapiero.

The former leadership team of Florida Investment Advisors, an affiliate of The Bank of Tampa, set up a new wealth advisory business in Tampa, FL.

The team, which includes Fenn Giles, president, Roger Martin, senior portfolio manager, and Lori Nadglowski, chief operating officer, has $350 million in assets under management, and the trio are all partners in the new venture, Wealth Advisors of Tampa Bay.

Janney Montgomery Scott, the Philadelphia-based financial services firm, expanded its presence in Florida with a new office in Sarasota, appointing Barry Havener as senior vice president of investments.

Havener, who was latterly an advisor at Morgan Keegan, oversees $83 million in client assets and will be joined by two registered private client assistants: Donna Smothermon and Becky Havener. The trio previously worked together at Morgan Keegan and will operate as the Havener Financial Group.

Douglas Torretta was appointed as vice president/private client group. He also assumes leadership as branch manager in Sarasota, reporting to Michael Levin, senior vice president and regional manager.

Michael O'Neill was named chairman of Citi at the New York-listed bank’s annual meeting of stockholders in Dallas, TX.

In March, it emerged that O'Neill, a former chief financial officer of Bank of America, had been selected to take over from Richard Parsons as chairman of the board, after Parsons said he would not seek re-election at the April stockholders’ meeting and would be leaving the board. Parsons had been chairman of the board since 2009 and a board member since 1996.

In addition to O’Neill’s appointment, Dr Franz Humer and Joan Spero were elected to the board of directors of the banking group.

Additionally, it was announced in March that Alain Belda and Timothy Collins, who have been board members since 1997 and 2009 respectively, would not seek re-election to the board.

JP Morgan appointed Ian Leisegang as an executive director and private banker, responsible for delivering the firm’s investing, wealth transfer, credit and philanthropic services to ultra high net worth clients in southern California.

Based within the Orange County branch, Leisegang reports to regional executive Michael Walsh.

Leisegang was previously a private banker in Orange County at Deutsche Bank, and a trader in the firm’s South Africa office before that.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Rodrigo Buller Souto as director of its international solutions team. Based in Miami, FL, Buller Souto will head the team’s extension into Florida and select Latin American markets.

Buller Souto will work alongside RBC partners and professional advisors to expand the business’s presence in these markets. He reports directly to Ralph Awrey, who is head of business development, Americas, within the wealth unit’s global trust business.

The wealth and investment management division of Barclays appointed John Houlihan - formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney - as a director and regional manager within its Atlanta, GA office.

Reporting to Steve Houston, managing director and head of sales management, Americas, Houlihan manages all aspects of the office while developing the regional business.

Southwest Securities, a broker-dealer subsidiary of SWS Group, hired Charles Eldemire from UBS in Texas as a regional director at its private client group.

Eldemire will be responsible for the Gulf Coast region in his new role, encompassing ten offices in Texas and two in Oklahoma. He also acts as branch manager of the private client group office in Dallas, TX.

Eldemire is a UBS veteran, having worked for the US business of the Swiss firm for 22 years as a managing director based in Dallas, TX.

Ian Lowitt, who served as chief operating officer at the wealth management division of Barclays in the Americas, is to leave the UK-listed firm. He was also the last chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers before its demise in 2008.

San Francisco’s Wells Fargo added David Halsch - latterly of UBS Wealth Management Americas – to its Denver, CO office as an advisor within its brokerage unit, as reported by SunSentinel.

Halsch started his new role from UBS' US brokerage, according to a recruiter with knowledge of the move, the publication said. Prior to UBS, Halsch was reportedly an advisor at Merrill Lynch for approximately 20 years.

The Investment Program Association appointed Ken Montgomery as education director – a role in which he educates advisors on diversifying client portfolios via direct investments.

Montgomery has eight years of experience within the broker-dealer community and will also lead the development and distribution of additional training resources.

In addition, Montgomery was previously responsible for providing an educational program for advisors at 1st Global Advisors. He also served as the resource partner liaison for all direct participation programs, mutual fund complexes and insurance carriers that support 1st Global firms.

New York-headquartered BNY Mellon appointed Jackie Franey as sales director for its Charitable Solutions Group. 

Franey, who joined the firm from Communities Foundation of Texas, remains based in that state and work to widen BNY Mellon’s network of philanthropic clients, as well as to develop existing relations. She reports to Eileen Foley, managing director of BNY Mellon’s Family Office and Advisor Solutions Group.

Northern Trust appointed Michele Havens as president of personal finance services, the Chicago-headquartered firm's wealth management unit, in the Los Angeles, CA region.

Havens will transfer from her current job as PFS president of the Seattle region in June. She will be replaced by Dino De Vita, who runs the firm’s private client services segment in Chicago, IL at the moment.

Itaú Private Bank International, part of Brazil's Itaú Unibanco, appointed Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa as chief executive.

Sevilla-Sacasa was latterly interim dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. Before that, she was president of US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. She served as chief executive of US Trust Company when Bank of America acquired the firm in 2007. Earlier in her career, she worked for Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.

In her new role, Sevilla-Sacasa will be based in Miami, FL and will spearhead the private bank’s expansion plans in Latin America outside of Brazil.

Sentinel Trust Company, the Texas-based multi-family office, hired Lissa Gangjee as a senior vice president and senior relationship officer.

Gangjee joins from Threshold Group, where she headed the company’s office in Portland, OR, as managing director and senior relationship manager in the wealth planning unit. Before that, she spent a decade at US Trust Company in New York in various roles.

In her new position, she will provide family wealth planning, together with Ross Nager, of counsel, as well as work on the overall strategic direction with a seat on the firm’s executive committee. She will be based in Houston, TX but work with clients across the country.

Virginia-based Cardinal Bank hired Adam Cohen as a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager within its wealth management division.

In his new role, Cohen will be responsible for investment oversight of Cardinal Trust and Investments, as well as individual portfolio management and client relationship management. He will be based at the bank’s headquarters in McLean, VA.

Dr Heinz Hockmann, a veteran of the asset management and banking industries, joined the independent private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners, which provides capital to financial services firms.

Dr Hockman, who joined LMP as a senior advisor, is a former executive officer of Germany’s Commerzbank. He was with the bank for nearly 20 years, and during his career there held responsibilities for asset management, private banking and investment banking. He also founded the firm’s global asset management platform for international institutional clients.

After leaving Commerzbank he led the restructuring of Westfalenbank through 2005 and went on to join Fortis Investments.

In his new role he will advise Lovell Minnick’s investment professionals on deal sourcing, due diligence and evaluation, with specific focus on international asset management opportunities.

RBC Wealth Management has appointed one of its senior managers, Michael Kay, to the newly-created position of head, international ultra high net worth credit solutions.

Kay will originate and structure tailored credit solutions for RBC Wealth Management’s international UHNW client base. He will report to Michael Lagopoulos, deputy chairman, RBC Wealth Management, who leads the coordination and servicing of leading UHNW families and institutional clients.

Formerly head of credit products for RBC Wealth Management’s global trust and UK businesses, Kay will relocate to Toronto and begins his new role in August.

Raymond James & Associates, the broker/dealer subsidiary of US-listed firm Raymond James Financial, announced a new private client group structure, a week after the firm closed its acquisition of Morgan Keegan & Company.

The new structure contains the following divisions: Southern – headed by co-division directors Dick Ferguson and Bill Geary, and supported by regional directors Jim Hamilton, Van Thompson and Michael Turnbough; Eastern – lead by Ira Federer, and supported by regional directors Tim Walrond and Tom Galvin; Great Lakes – headed by Bill Roney; Southwestern – headed by Patrick Allison, supported by regional director Tommy Orr; North Central – headed by John Kuklenski.

In addition, Erik Fruland was named chief operating officer and senior vice president of Raymond James & Associates Private Client Group. A 20-year veteran of Raymond James, Fruland has spent the past 12 years in asset management services, where he was vice president and a member of the AMS investment committee. Prior to that, he worked under the direction of both the CFO and controller of the parent company, Raymond James Financial, and before that for RJ&A’s Private Client Group. Fruland will report to Elwyn.

HPM Partners, a New York-based registered investment advisor, opened a fourth office, located in Orange Country, CA. The new office will be headed up by a four-person team, all formerly of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management’s operation in Costa Mesa, CA. The group, all financial advisors, is comprised of: Gerald Larr, Douglas McCrea, Stephen Nielander and Craig Wells.

California-based First Foundation Bank hired a new private banker in the shape of Nathan Raizman. Raizman, who has assumed the title of vice president, has a private banking background at US Bank and First Western Trust Bank. In his new role, he is responsible for generating real estate loans, business loans, and obtaining bank and investment deposits for new and existing clients.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired a number of new advisors, including a team from UBS Wealth Management Americas, as reported by Dow Jones. The hires included Jonathan Klausner and John Duffy, who joined MSSB’s Indianapolis, IN office from the UBS unit, along with other team members Derek Disalvo, a financial advisor, and client service associates Jenny Margason and Caryn Wilkinson.

The team reports to Kathy Birk, Indiana complex manager, and Kenneth Langston, branch manager, and generated $4 million in fees and commissions over the past 12 months and managed $650 million in client assets, the newswire said.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank, which targets HNW clients with more than $1 million in investable assets, appointed Joel Yudenfreund and Sandra Fleming to its Palm Beach, FL office, according to Palm Beach Daily News.

Yudenfreund is an attorney with a number of years’ experience in the investment industry, having formerly worked at US Trust and Citi Private Bank, the report said. He joined as a wealth management strategist.

Meanwhile, Fleming was appointed as a senior portfolio manager. She was previously president of the Florida Wealth Management Group at Wilmington Trust/M&T Bank, according to the report.

Bernhardt Wealth Management bolstered its investment advisory team with the hire of Kenneth Robinson as a senior financial advisor. Robinson joined from The Monitor Group, where he worked as a senior planner and, previously, director of operations. In his new role, Robinson will be working with clients in all aspects of wealth management, including investment management, retirement planning, tax planning, philanthropy, estate planning and other issues.

Dynasty Financial Partners, the US wealth management firm, added industry veteran Jerry Eberhardt to its board of directors. Eberhardt retired from Smith Barney, now majority-owned by Morgan Stanley, in 2009 after spending four decades at the firm. He latterly ran the company's western division and oversaw 2,500 financial advisors in 125 locations. He has also managed Smith Barney’s international operations in Asia and Australia.

Dynasty’s now 11-strong board is chaired by Todd Thomson, formerly chief financial officer and global wealth management chief executive at Citi.

Merrill Lynch veteran Myles Pritchard joined Concert Wealth Management as a managing director and financial advisor. Pritchard was formerly a vice president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Wealth Management business, having first joined Merrill in 1998.

Citi appointed Rohan Weerasinghe as general counsel and corporate secretary, while Michael Helfer, who currently holds that role, will become vice chairman as of 1 June. Weerasinghe is a senior partner at Shearman & Sterling, an international law firm that advises businesses and governments. He has specialized over the past 35 years in representing financial institutions on issues such as corporate governance, complex transactions, IPOs and debt issues.

John Bryan and Lois Juliber will not stand for re-election to the board of directors at Goldman Sachs’ next annual meeting of shareholders. Bryan has been a director and member of each of the board’s standing committees since 1999 and is retiring in line with the firm’s retirement policy. He is also lead director and chair of the board’s corporate governance and nominating committee, and will be replaced in these capacities by James Schiro.

Schiro has been a director since May 2009 and chair of the audit committee since September 2010. He was previously chief executive of Zurich Financial Services and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers before that. M Michele Burns, who has served as a director since October 2011, will be replacing Schiro in his role on the audit committee. Meanwhile, Juliber, who has been a director of Goldman Sachs since March 2004, is also stepping down.

Gresham Partners appointed Tim Joeng as a principal and senior member of its investment team, responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, performing manager due diligence and building portfolios for the firm’s high net worth clientele. Joeng has over 10 years of alternative investment and portfolio management experience and in his new role reports directly to president and chief investment officer Ted Neild.

New York-based Evercore Wealth Management appointed Paulo Coelho as a vice president and wealth advisor. Coelho is latterly of Convergent Wealth Advisors, where he was lead advisor to high net worth families, responsible for designing and implementing wealth management strategies.

Previously, Coelho was a senior investment analyst at Ipreo, and a senior analyst at Thomson Reuters before that. In his new roles, Coelho will be based in New York City, reporting to Wendy Barasch, who is partner and head of business development.

Westwood Trust, a subsidiary of New York-listed Westwood Holdings Group, appointed Douglas Gilbert as associate vice president within its private wealth management team, based in the Omaha, NE office. Gilbert has over 10 years of experience serving wealthy families, foundations and endowments through investment management and wealth advisory services. Prior to joining Westwood, he served as private client associate advisor for First National Bank/Wealth Advisors in Omaha, Nebraska.

Canada’sTD Bank Group added Colleen Goggins to its board of directors, bringing the firm's total number of directors to 15. Goggins is former worldwide chairman of the consumer group at Johnson & Johnson, where she held several senior roles as well as having been a member of its executive committee from 2001 to 2011.