Royal Bank of Canada has made a senior wealth management hire in the US to oversee its retirement and fund solutions business.

Former BlackRock director Kim Mickelson has joined RBC Wealth Management as head of the firm’s US retirement and fund solutions group.

Mickelson will oversee product management teams covering mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, 529s, annuities, IRAs and other individual and institutional retirement solutions. She replaces Megan Gorman, RBC confirmed to Family Wealth Report.

At BlackRock, she served as a director in the US wealth advisory group, working with wholesalers, national account managers and wirehouse executives. She was also a national speaker on topics such as retirement planning, Social Security strategies, and women and wealth. 

Earlier, she worked at Ameriprise Financial as a vice president of financial planning and product management.