Pioneer Investments, the global asset management firm, has named Lisa Jones as president and chief executive of Pioneer Investment Management USA, the firm’s US division.

Pioneer Investments, the global asset management firm, has named Lisa Jones as president and chief executive of Pioneer Investment Management USA, the firm’s US division.

Jones will be a member of Pioneer’s global leadership team and will report to Sandro Pierri, CEO of Pioneer Investments. She will start on August 11, 2014, and be based in Boston, MA.

Jones replaces Daniel Kingsbury, who will remain at Pioneer until September 5, 2014, to assist with the transition, the firm said. His departure follows a 15-year career at Pioneer, the last seven of which he spent as head of the US.

Jones joins Pioneer Investments from Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where she was global head of distribution and president of MSIM Distribution, a position she left in 2013.

Prior to MSIM, she was head of the global institutional division at Eaton Vance Management and spent more than 16 years at MFS Investment Management, holding leadership roles in the retail and institutional divisions.

Pioneer’s US division has approximately $72 billion in assets under management and 560 employees including 79 investment professionals and a sales and marketing team of over 150.

Boston is one of Pioneer’s three major investment hubs, with others located in Dublin and London, the firm said.