Ronald Macleod has been named senior vice president at New York-based wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial.

Macleod is based in Santa Barbara, California where he will focus on national and west coast new business opportunities and work closely with managing director Loraine Tsavaris.

Most recently, Macleod was a managing partner of a private family investment firm in California. He was also a senior vice president of Nuveen Investments' Global Family Office Group and a senior vice president with the US Trust Family Wealth Group.

Rockefeller Financial is still conducting a search for a chief executive officer to replace Jim McDonald, who died last year.

“The board is pleased with the progress that is being made,” a company spokesman said.