August, despite being a vacation month, produced a lot of moves. In the UK, for example, Evelyn Partners announced a raft of appointments as it built out business under its new brand. Credit Suisse was another prominent firm for senior changes.

BNY Mellon’s Pershing business appointed financial industry senior figure CĂ©cile Nagel as chief executive officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is based in London. Elizabeth Canning – the chief operating officer of Pershing EMEA – was acting as interim CEO until Nagel's appointment took effect. 

From 2018, Nagel was chief executive of the European Central Counterparty. She led the launch of its clearing equity derivatives service and oversaw the EuroCCP’s acquisition by Cboe Global Markets in July 2020.

Novia Financial, the UK-focused advisor platform business, appointed Investec Wealth & Investment chief technology officer Eden Scrivenger as CTO. Scrivenger works alongside chief executive Patrick Mill. She has worked in financial services for 18 years at M&G, Friends Life Investments, Pictet Asset Management, and AXA UK. 

Global law firm Ontier appointed James Dixon as a partner in the London office. Previously, he worked at the firm’s sister office in the British Virgin Islands. Dixon joined from Priestleys in the Cayman Islands where he advised on commercial disputes and insolvency. He first qualified in London with Fladgate before developing his career offshore in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands from 2011 to the present.

Fund platform Allfunds appointed Juan Pablo ValdĂ©s as Chile country head. He took over from Sebastián OchagavĂ­a, who left the business to pursue other opportunities. He is in charge of Allfunds’ local representative office in Santiago de Chile and reports to Laura Gonzalez, head of Americas. 

He has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having served in a variety of roles in which he oversaw the direction of investment on behalf of private bank clients. Most recently, Valdés served as commercial manager at LarrainVial Asset Management, where he led the distribution of mutual and investment funds across different channels.

Channel Capital Advisors, a UK firm, appointed Ion Fratiloiu as its new chief commercial officer. Fratiloiu has more than a decade’s experience in sales and commercial strategy within the finance and fintech sectors. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Bank and financial market consulting firm Dealogic. More recently, Fratiloiu was a sales director at core banking provider Thought Machine, where he managed growth across Central Eastern Europe, the Middle East and expansions into higher-growth Tier 1 banks.

Credit Suisse named former senior Deutsche Bank and HSBC figures to take up the posts of chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Dixit Joshi was named CFO and Francesca McDonagh was made COO. Michael J Rongetti was named as interim chief executive of the asset management division, filling the vacancy when Ulrich Körner was made overall group CEO – replacing Thomas Gottstein – in July. All three individuals report directly to Körner.

Francesco De Ferrari, CEO of the wealth management division, was appointed CEO of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region after serving in this role in an ad interim basis since January 2022.

Joshi replaced David Mathers who decided to step down after more than 11 years in his role. He is based in Zurich. For the past five years, Joshi served as group treasurer at Deutsche Bank, where he played a key part in the bank’s restructuring while overhauling the firm’s balance sheet.

McDonagh most recently served as group CEO at the Bank of Ireland after holding several senior management positions at HSBC Group. She is based in Zurich.

Rongetti continued to serve as head of asset management Americas and global head of investments and partnerships. Previously, Rongetti was CFO of the asset management division (2012 to 2021) as well as CFO for private banking wealth management products (2013 to 2015). He joined Credit Suisse in 1998 and continues to be based in New York.

In addition, Michael Bonacker was appointed group head of transformation, leading the operating model and cost transformation work for the group. 

HSBC appointed Julian Wentzel as head of global banking for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. He succeeded Gareth Thomas who took on the new role of chief risk officer for the MENAT region. Based in Dubai, he reports to Greg Guyatt, co-CEO of global banking and markets and to Stephen Moss, CEO of MENAT.

With more than 25 years of banking experience across client coverage, capital markets and advisory, Wentzel joined HSBC in 2015 in London before relocating to Johannesburg in 2016 to lead global banking’s Africa business. In 2019, he returned to London as head of global banking UK and international Europe. Before joining HSBC in 2015, Wentzel spent 10 years at Macquarie as head of equities for EMEA.

IQ-EQ appointed Shaun Geils as global head of Insurance in a newly-created position supporting IQ-EQ’s extended service offering. Geils first joined the business in 2015 as head of operations and was promoted to country delivery director. Prior to taking on his new role he was the managing director of Shared Services in Mauritius.

Kingswood Holdings appointed Jade Rose and Max Sullivan as financial advisors. They are based at the firm’s London and Kent offices respectively. With over half a decade of experience in the financial services profession, Sullivan provides advice to clients across financial planning and wealth management, with a focus on investments, retirement planning, and intergenerational wealth planning. Prior to joining, and in addition to being a financial advisor, Sullivan was director for a specialist IFA firm under Sandringham Financial Partners (part of M&G), and acquisitions manager at Quilter. Rose was previously a KYC officer at Byblos Bank and financial advisor community lead at US professional networking platform, Fishbowl. She is a qualified wealth planner.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management UK made two promotions in its Jersey office. Ryan Harrison was promoted to head of Wealth Management, Jersey. He leads the team in Jersey to deliver a range of integrated wealth management services to private and intermediary clients. Harrison has been with the firm in Jersey for more than 15 years. Rob Llewellin was promoted to head of stockbroking to lead a team of 11 brokers and advisory managers.

UK West country financial planners and accountants Old Mill strengthened their wealth management team, hiring chartered financial planner Tom Parry. Parry, who has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, previously worked at Independent Financial Advisers Integrity 365. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Francis Clark, where he developed his specialisms in retirement planning and business protection.

Personal Finance Society, the professional body for the financial advice and planning profession in the UK, appointed Don MacIntyre as interim CEO. He joined after leading the UK Cyber Security Council, a self-regulating body for the UK’s cyber security profession.

Standard Chartered Bank appointed Manpreet Gill as chief investment officer for the Africa, Middle East and Europe region. Based in the Dubai office, Gill reports to Steve Brice, group CIO. His appointment adds to his role as head of the CIO office’s fixed income, currency and commodity strategy.

Investment consultancy Mercer appointed two research leaders from within its own ranks. Simon Coxeter was named in the newly-created role of head of Asia-Pacific manager research and Jean de Kock became the strategic research director for Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Coxeter was the strategic research director for Asia, Middle East and Africa and Latin America for the past four years. De Kock succeeded Coxeter as strategic research director for AMEA. At the firm since 2012 and in Singapore since 2018, he is part of the firm’s fixed income boutique, and supports regional consulting teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Mainland China. 

C. Hoare & Co appointed Giles Andrews OBE, a fintech specialist, as an independent non-executive director. In 2004, he co-founded Zopa, the world’s first online peer-to-peer lending business, where he served as CEO from 2007 to 2015 and chairman from 2015 to 2019; he remains an active board member. He is also a non-executive director of Bank of Ireland Group and chairs carwow, a European online marketplace for buying new cars and helping consumers sell their current car.

Ocorian, a specialist in fund administration, capital markets, corporate and fiduciary services, appointed Stevie Christian as head of projects, to enhance client experience. Based in the Isle of Man, he has expertise as an operations director, sales director, programme manager and strategic planner, most recently at Equiom Group. 

Evelyn Partners, a wealth management and professional services group created from the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson, announced that a team from Buckinghamshire-based financial advisors 2hWealthcare had joined the firm.

Steve Wilson, managing partner and founder of 2hWealthcare, joined as part of a four-strong team through the group’s succession programme. 

Evelyn Partners also appointed Austin Flood as a financial planner in the firm’s Guildford office. Flood joined from Bespoke Independent Financial Advisers where he spent the past four years working as a financial advisor. He is based at Onslow House in the heart of Guildford.

Evelyn Partners appointed Charlotte Davies as its next general counsel. Davies took over the role from Nicola Mitford-Slade who retired after a handover period. Most recently, Davies was with Provident Financial Group, a London Stock Exchange listed specialist bank, where she had been group general counsel and company secretary since April 2019.

The firm appointed Hayley Jarvis to work in its Chelmsford financial planning team. Jarvis joined from Essex-based financial planners Forrester-Hyde. She has worked in financial services since 1996, with global insurers as well as with national and local independent financial advisors.

Stonehage Fleming, an international family office, appointed Dena Brumpton and Michael Solomon to join the group board. Brumpton is the former chief executive of Barclays' Savings, Investments and Wealth Management division who sat on Barclays’ UK Executive Committee. She spent most of her executive career at Citigroup, most recently as the global chief operating officer of the private bank. Brumpton currently sits on the board of Scottish Widows Schroders Personal Wealth, Maitland Group, Churchill Capital V. She is also an advisor to Mirabaud & Cie, UK, she formerly served on Cancer Research UK’s Women of Influence Board and was a member of British Airways International Business Advisory Board.

Michael Solomon joined the group board in April, following the completion of Stonehage Fleming’s acquisition of Maitland’s Private Client Services business. He is a corporate and commercial lawyer with extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international tax and corporate finance. His appointment followed his previous roles as chairman and, more recently, as non-executive director of the Maitland Group.
 

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HSBC Asset Management appointed François Xavier Douin as head of its institutional business in the Nordics and Ali Karmali as head of its institutional business for the Middle East and Africa. They both report to Maria Ryan, head of institutional business UK, Nordics, Middle East and Africa. Douin has more than 30 years’ asset management experience, most recently spending over 20 years at JP Morgan Asset Management focusing on institutional markets in the Nordic region. Prior to this, he worked at Lazard Asset Management and Paribas Asset Management.

Karmali has more than 20 years of institutional experience. He joined from First Sentier Investors (formerly First State Investments) where he spent 19 years, nine as head of Middle East and Africa from offices in the UK, the UAE and Singapore.

Ocorian, a financial services group, made two key hires to its newly-established Strategic Client Group with the appointments of Jamie Gleeson and James Kent.

Gleeson is an asset management specialist with over 22 years’ experience in senior business development roles. Most recently, he was head of EMEA Hedge Fund Sales at SS&C GlobeOp. Previously he worked for BNY Mellon, State Street, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He is based in London.

Kent has almost 24 years of experience in institutional relationship management and sales within large international banks. He worked at Northern Trust in London for more than 14 years, most recently as a senior relationship manager in the firm’s Asset Servicing business. 

LGT Wealth Management appointed Phoebe Stone as head of sustainable investing. She oversees the newly-structured Intermediary Investment Services team.

Latitude Investment Management, a London-based boutique investment partnership, expanded its investment team with the appointment of Mike Totton as a senior analyst. Totton joined the firm from Liontrust Asset Management. Prior to this, he spent nine years at Majedie Asset Management where he was a portfolio manager and analyst within the UK equity teams.

Northeast financial advisory firm, Lowes Financial Management, appointed a new wealth manager, Michael Stowe. Stowe, who was appointed at a time of wider restructuring and ongoing expansion at Lowes, has been part of the wider Lowes team for almost 10 years.

UK private bank Hampden & Co hired Gill Sanders formerly from Adam & Co as a banking director. Sanders had spent more than 20 years with Adam & Co, most recently as associate director in private banking. Sander reports to the bank’s head of banking, Mark Prentice, and works alongside the banking teams in Edinburgh and London.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority appointed Ruairi O'Connell, OBE, as the new director of its international work. He joined from the Home Office where he was director of international work. O'Connell has gained extensive experience at the Home Office and the Foreign Office, as well as from his tenure as British ambassador to Kosovo.

Sun Life, the US/Canada/Philippines-listed financial services group covering sectors including wealth management, appointed Chris Wei in the newly-created role of chief client and innovation officer. The chief sustainability officer, chief marketing officer, and head of corporate communications all report to Wei.

UK-based Nucleus Financial Platforms Group appointed former BGLi chief financial officer Mike Regan as its new CFO. BGLi is a UK digital insurer. Regan took over from Stuart Geard, CFO of Nucleus Financial, and Gavin Howard, CFO of James Hay. Howard and Hay, who have led these businesses for 10 and five years, respectively, decided to step down. 

Ocorian, a financial services group, appointed Gavin James as chief financial officer. James is an experienced CFO who has worked at both publicly listed and private equity-backed businesses at small and large scale across a range of industries, spanning professional services, technology, manufacturing and software.

Thomas Lloyd, a specialist impact investment solutions provider, advisor and asset manager, hired Marc Fischer as managing director, head of corporate, wholesale and institutional marketing â€“ a newly-created role at the firm. Fischer, who is based in Zurich, reports directly to chief executive Michael Sieg. Fischer was previously at Fidelity International in Zurich where he spent four years, most recently as head of marketing Switzerland, Austria and CEE.

Julius Baer appointed senior relationship managers Jonathan A Conner and Thomas E M Kloss for the Middle East and Africa markets. They work in Geneva and report to Yvan Wicht, group head of Middle East & Africa, Geneva.

Conner has over 25 years’ experience in financial services and, specifically, in the private banking industry. Prior to Julius Baer, he worked at JP Morgan for 14 years, where he provided wealth management services to ultra-high net worth individuals and families from the Middle East from its offices in New York and Geneva. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Conner was chief of staff to the CEO of Citigroup Private Bank.

Kloss joined from HSBC Private Bank in Geneva, where he was responsible for managing client relationships across the Middle East. Kloss worked at HSBC Private Bank for more than a decade, including in HSBC’s Qatar local office in Doha. 

IQ-EQ appointed Diana Senanayake as regional CEO for continental Europe and managing director of its Luxembourg headquarters. Senanayake has 26 years of experience in financial services, with extensive management and corporate governance experience in multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Senanayake spent four years as chief executive officer for BNP Paribas Securities Services, Southeast Asia. In the newly-created role at IQ-EQ, she leads the day-to-day running and strategic direction of the firm’s head office in Luxembourg. Senanayake is responsible for all activities across IQ-EQ’s continental European offices – including Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Cyprus.

Rathbones appointed Jemima Gregson to join the sales team as an investment sales consultant for the west of England. She reports to Victoria Wellings, head of the sales desk. Gregson is responsible for building new relationships and supporting existing advisor clients across the west of England, including Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, South Wales, Cornwall and Devon. She joined from Jupiter Asset Management where she was a sales support executive.

International law firm Charles Russell Speechlys appointed Nicola Saccardo as a partner within the firm’s private client team in London. Saccordo joined the firm from the London office of Maisto, an Italian law firm specialising in tax. 

Artorious Wealth appointed James Goddard, Helena Pratt and Max Di Lieto. Goddard, who has nearly two decades of experience in wealth management across Citi, Barclays and UBS, has spent the last five years specialising in partnering with business owners and entrepreneurs. Pratt, who has five years of experience at UBS, started her career at Rathbones. Max Di Lieto also has five years’ experience, starting at UBS as an apprentice and working his way up the ladder, supporting clients.

Ocorian, a specialist in fund administration, capital markets, corporate and fiduciary services, appointed Alice Miller as head of transformation. Based in London, she is responsible for leading a global transformation programme at the group, designed to deliver increased business value for Ocorian and its investors. She reports to chief operating officer Carole Murphy.

TrustQuay, a technology provider to the corporate services, trust and alternative fund administration markets, appointed Lawrence Nash as programme director. Prior to this, Nash worked at LGL Group where he was head of change and transformation. Before that, he was programme director heading up strategic projects at Ocorian. 

JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, appointed former Bank of America Merrill Lynch figure Charles-Henry Courtois as regional head – AMEA within its Private Client Services division. Courtois is based in London and has 25 years’ experience in the international private client space.

Asia-Pacific
Allianz Global Investors appointed Khalil Soubra as its chief operating officer, Asia-Pacific. Soubra, who is based in Hong Kong, reports to Alexandra Auer, global COO. Since joining Allianz GI in 2003, Soubra has held various positions across different functions within the organisation. He has extensive experience in operational management and leading regional and global teams. Prior to his current role, Soubra had been global head of trade and position in the life cycle team since 2018.

Findex Group, the Australian financial services firm, made a number of top-line wealth management appointments. Findex co-founder, Spiro Paule appointed co-chief executives in company veterans Tony Roussos, chief operations officer, and chief financial officer, Matt Games.

Paule's focus is on his role of managing director, which involves continuing to lead the overall strategic direction as well as overseeing the group’s expansion plans. 

Bordier & Cie appointed Carolyn Leng in Singapore as a managing director. Leng is responsible for expanding the business in the region, focusing on business development and partnerships. She has more than 20 years of private banking experience in the Malaysian market in particular. Previously, she worked at Maybank as its head of private wealth management from 2019. Prior to that, she worked at CIMB for nearly 18 years, most recently as its head of private banking in Malaysia.

UBS Global Wealth Management appointed Ming Geng as head of philanthropy services for Hong Kong and Greater China. Based in Hong Kong, Geng reports to Tom Hall, managing director and head of social impact and philanthropy services, with local supervision by Christina Tung, head of A&S client services.

Geng has over 25 years of professional experience in global health, global development, government affairs and philanthropy. Before joining UBS, Geng was the head of corporate affairs at Viatris Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, Greater China. She provided consulting for Gates Ventures and United National Development Programs as senior advisor. Previously, she was the deputy director at the China office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2007 to 2019. 

Citi appointed Aveline San as chief executive officer for Hong Kong and Macau. San is also the chief executive of Citibank N.A. in the Hong Kong branch. She reports to Tim Monger, head of the North and East Asia cluster. With 25 years of experience in banking, San joined Citi in April 2019 as regional chief compliance officer for Asia-Pacific. Prior to that, she was with UBS where she spent 14 years in various senior management positions, including APAC group regional head of compliance and operational risk control and general counsel of wealth management for North Asia.

Investment consultancy Mercer appointed two research leaders from within its own ranks. Simon Coxeter was named in the newly-created role of head of Asia-Pacific manager research and Jean de Kock became the strategic research director for Asia, Middle East and Africa.

LGT Bank (Singapore) appointed Neo Gim Huay, member of the managing board and head of the Centre for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum, and En Lee, managing director, head of Sustainable and Impact Investments Asia at LGT, to join its board of directors.

At the World Economic Forum, Gim Huay oversees climate and nature-related programmes and partnerships, including accelerating climate action and scaling nature-based solutions as well as regenerating food, water and ocean systems and resource circularity, the firm added. Prior to joining the WEF, Gim Huay served in a variety of managing director roles at Temasek International, namely climate change strategy, sustainability as well as enterprise development.

Having joined LGT in 2013, Lee leads and manages the regional impact investment portfolio in Southeast Asia and China. He is a founding partner and a senior advisor of Lightrock, LGT's global impact investing platform, an investment committee member of LGT Venture Philanthropy, and has served on LGT's Global Sustainability Board. Before LGT, Lee was an executive director with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, advising on investment funds.

Singapore-based financial services company Singlife with Aviva added a number of senior figures to the Navigator Investment Services team. The additions to the team follow Navigator naming Akhil Doegar as chief executive last November.

The new appointments included: Wei Lin Chin, head of strategy and business management. She has two decades of banking, compliance and legal experience. She was previously executive director, group strategy and planning at DBS, where she was involved in strategic projects such as Digital Exchange and Evolution X.

Farooq Lone, head of product and business development, worked in product management and sales at DBS, where he was digital product and business head for Indonesia. Ee Ghim Chua, brand marketing lead, advised and worked with various financial and technology brands across Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, helping to elevate brand profiles across digital and offline channels.

Indosuez Wealth Management made hires in Singapore and Hong Kong. It appointed Sandra Nilsson and Vikram Narayanan as investment advisors in Singapore, as well as Horace So as head of compliance in Hong Kong.

Nilsson joined Indosuez’s Singapore branch as an investment advisor. With close to 20 years in the banking and financial services industry, she is experienced in portfolio management, credit structuring, cross-border financing and wealth planning. Prior to Indosuez, she was an investment director at Bordier & Cie (Singapore) where she focused on thematic investments and discretionary mandates for key clients.

Narayanan also joined Indosuez’s Singapore branch as an investment advisor, managing mainly non-resident Indian clients and family office clients. Having worked at Standard Chartered Bank, ICICI Bank and Julius Baer, he has gained sales and advisory experience in private banking over the past 12 years, covering multi-asset class solutions for clients from Singapore, Indonesia, India, and the Middle East.

Horace So assumed the role of head of compliance at Indosuez’s Hong Kong Branch. Reporting to Olivier Livenais, chief executive officer of Indosuez’s Hong Kong Branch, So is overseeing the compliance function of the branch, such as the management and control of regulatory risks inherent in banking activities.

So, who is a veteran in compliance, has 20 years of experience in the field along with experience in private, investment, corporate and retail banking. He has worked in compliance at major financial institutions, such as Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Capital Asia and Barclays Bank in Hong Kong. Prior to Indosuez, he was head of compliance at East West Bank, Hong Kong.

Franklin Templeton appointed former Nomura top figure Yu Qing to the newly-formed role of China head, holding the title of managing director. Yu Qing reports to Dr Ben Meng, Asia-Pacific chairman of the California-based group. Based initially in Beijing, she will also work from the firm’s Shanghai office.With more than three decades’ experience in the financial services and government sectors, Yu Qing was previously chairman of the board at Nomura Orient International Securities and managing director at Nomura Securities in China. 

Sun Life, the US/Canada/Philippines-listed financial services group covering sectors including wealth management, appointed Chris Wei in the newly-created role of chief client and innovation officer. 

The chief sustainability officer, chief marketing officer, and head of corporate communications all report to Wei. The group said that Wei, originally from Toronto, “has experience working with several well-known and well-respected brands in the financial services industry in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.”

HSBC appointed one of its longstanding senior figures, Shayan Hazir, as chief digital officer, ASEAN. In this newly-created role, Hazir is responsible for setting the digital strategy, operating model and performance standards for digital and innovation at HSBC Singapore and, more broadly, across HSBC’s ASEAN franchise. Based in Singapore, Hazir reports to Kee Joo Wong, CEO of HSBC Singapore. Hazir brings 18 years of leadership experience from working in HSBC’s markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.

Indosuez Wealth Management appointed four new relationship managers in its Singapore and Hong Kong SAR branches. Jeremy Pek joined Indosuez’s Singapore branch as North Asia relationship manager. He brought over 15 years of experience in the banking and financial industry at global and regional banks, including Standard Chartered Bank, United Overseas Bank and Citibank. He was a relationship manager at OCBC Premier Banking, United Overseas Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. He was also director at Bordier & CIE (Singapore), where he managed the wealth of HNW and UHNW clients in Asia.

Chia Yuan Fui joined as a relationship manager at Indosuez’s Singapore branch. She has more than two decades of expertise in the wealth management industry, having worked at global and regional financial institutions, such as Maybank Private Wealth, ANZ Bank and Credit Suisse. 

Louise Chan, who joined as a relationship manager at Indosuez’s Hong Kong SAR branch, is a veteran banker with over 30 years of experience, most of it in wealth management. Most recently, she worked at DBS Bank in Hong Kong and before that, at Hang Seng Bank.

Paul Ng joined the firm’s Hong Kong SAR branch as a relationship manager. With more than 10 years’ experience in the banking and financial industry, he gained expertise as a relationship manager at the Bank of China and Credit Suisse. 

Value Partners, the Hong Kong-based investment house, appointed Alice Leung as managing director, head of digital. Based in Hong Kong, Leung reports to the group’s chief executive, June Wong. Most recently, she was head of digital, Asia-Pacific at Mattel. She led the company’s regional team and developed its e-commerce and digital marketing strategy for 12 markets in Asia-Pacific and 10 brands. Prior to that, Leung served as the digital branding lead at Accenture Interactive, where she managed digital strategies for institutions and brands, including Livi Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and AIA.

DBS appointed Lim Chu Chong, its chief operating officer in the institutional banking group, as the new president director of PT Bank DBS Indonesia (DBS Indonesia). He took the helm from Paulus Sutisna, subject to regulatory approval. His predecessor had been PD of DBS Indonesia in 2015, building out the Indonesia franchise and making it a substantial digital banking player. He oversaw the integration of ANZ Indonesia’s consumer and wealth business with DBS in 2018, and the launch of digibank Indonesia in 2017. Lim is a career DBS banker and has more than 25 years’ experience in institutional, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and consumer banking. Between 2016 and 2019, he was head of DBS IBG China. Prior to that, he was regional head of SME banking at the Singapore-based group.

JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, appointed former Bank of America Merrill Lynch figure Charles-Henry Courtois as regional head – AMEA within its Private Client Services division. Based in London, Courtois sits on JTC’s PCS executive committee and provides oversight for PCS’ client service and business development activities across the AMEA region. He is also responsible for its development and performance. 

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North America
Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Samuel Bates, Darin Frandsen and Adam Fluckiger to its independent advisor channel in Saint George, Utah.

Together the advisors form North Rim Financial Group were joined by client service managers Sara Bingham, Tabatha Ghramm, Michele Platt and Sheri Hamilton.
 
Raymond James brought in financial advisors Nicholas Troiano and Mathew Mattice to its employee advisor channel. Together, as Next Level Planning & Investments of Raymond James, with offices in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, the group provides financial and investment planning services.

Financial advisor, Robert Diaz joined Raymond James’s independent advisor channel in Alton, Illinois. Diaz is joined at Confluence Wealth Management – linked with Raymond James – by practice business manager Jack Hoelscher and client service manager Jennifer Mobley. Diaz was previously affiliated with Edward Jones where he managed more than $115 million in client assets.

Taiber Kosmala and Associates, an independent investment consulting firm, appointed Dan Pazar as executive vice president and senior member of the investment committee. Prior to this, Pazar was a senior-level investment professional at Lowery Asset Consulting, now a part of BDO USA. Pazar has worked in investment consulting for more than 15 years. 

Taiber Kosmala and Associates is an independent investment consulting firm advising more than $11 billion in client assets.

Millennium Trust Company, an Illinois-based provider of retirement, custodial, and consumer-directed benefit services, appointed Michelle Spellerberg as its chief marketing officer. Spellerberg spent more than eight years with Alliant, a nationwide digital credit union, where she was vice president and CMO.

IQ-EQ, an investor services provider, appointed Cory Thackeray as its head of Caribbean, a newly-created regional leadership position. Thackeray is responsible for overseeing strategy, operations and performance across the group’s Cayman, Curaçao and Bermuda offices. 

Prior to this, Thackeray was chief financial officer for CrossTower, a crypto investment and trading firm operating in New Jersey, Bermuda and India. Thackeray is based in the Cayman office reporting to Mark Fordyce, regional CEO of the Americas.

Sanctuary Wealth welcomed the Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group in St Louis to its network of partner firms. Formerly affiliated with Wells Fargo Advisors, the named partners are Peter F Mackie and Paul P Waller IV. They joined Sanctuary Wealth as an affiliate of another partner firm, Cape Rock Private Wealth in Jackson, Missouri.

Peter F Mackie has decades of experience as an investment portfolio manager at Wells Fargo in St Louis as well as the former Bankers Trust in New York, London, and Palm Beach. Paul Waller, who had been with Wells Fargo since 2008, joined Mackie & Waller Wealth Management Group in 2014. His expertise includes investment planning, IRA distribution, and Federal benefits strategies.

Fiduciary Trust International appointed Sam Fraenkel as a wealth director based in Coral Gables, Florida. Most recently, Fraenkel was head of mergers and acquisitions at REDZONE, a software business delivering plant floor connectivity for companies in the food and beverage industry. He was also founder and president of Tomahawk, a leader in the aggregation and analysis of web-based data for hedge funds. 

Steward Partners Global Advisory welcomed Barr Wealth Management, led by advisor Thomas Barr. Most recently, Barr spent 14 years with Wells Fargo where he managed around $220 million for 35 client households.

Fund platform Allfunds appointed Juan Pablo Valdés as Chile country head. He took over from Sebastián Ochagavía, who left the business to pursue other opportunities.

ValdĂ©s, who oversees Allfunds’ local representative office in Santiago de Chile, reports to Laura Gonzalez, head of Americas. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having served in a variety of roles in which he oversaw the direction of investment on behalf of private bank clients. Most recently, ValdĂ©s served as commercial manager at LarrainVial Asset Management, where he led the distribution of mutual and investment funds across different channels. 

Duff & Phelps Investment Management, an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners, appointed Evan Lang as a portfolio manager for its water strategy. Lang's job title is managing director and senior research analyst. Lang reports to David Grumhaus, president and chief investment officer; the two share co-portfolio management duties of the Virtus Duff & Phelps Water Fund. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Lang was a portfolio manager at TortoiseEcofin, where he co-managed a sustainable global water strategy. 

Venerable, a US firm that owns and manages a legacy variable annuity business acquired from other entities, appointed Ron Tanner as vice president and deputy general counsel. Tanner reports to chief legal officer Tim Brown. Before this role, Tanner served as executive director and assistant general counsel for FS Investments where he led securities regulation, financial reporting, and corporate governance efforts in addition to orchestrating fund mergers, product development efforts, and preparing securities documentation and corporate governance. 

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Family Office Exchange, aka, FOX, appointed Gaby Griffin and David Toth as interim co-presidents. Their appointments followed the recent death of Glen Johnson.

Griffin has been involved with FOX for more than 20 years. Prior to this, she was a member of FOX’s senior leadership team, serving as market leader for business owners and family office executives and other FOX member councils. She has worked in strategic wealth advisory, investment management and corporate banking for 25 years. Among her previous roles, Griffin has worked at Capital Group Private Client Services, Abbot Downing and LaSalle Bank NA.

Toth has been FOX’s market leader for wealth advisor members for seven years and is co-chair of several FOX councils, including the multi-family office, integrated wealth advisor, and strategic chief investment officer councils. Prior to FOX, Toth was a senior executive at PNC Financial Services, Spectrem Consulting and Boatman’s Trust Company (now Bank of America).

Sanctuary Wealth brought The Alteri Group into its embrace. The organization was formerly with Merrill Lynch. Headed by Max Alvis and based in Lufkin, Texas, the team joined through partner firm 6 Degrees Wealth, a joint venture of G Squared Private Wealth led by George Georgiades and Victoria Greene, and Concenture Wealth Advisors led by Robert Gilliland. 

Max Alvis, who served as the senior resident director of the Lufkin, Texas office, began his career as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in 1991. Joining Alvis at 6 Degrees Wealth is the team members of The Alteri Group, including wealth advisors Will Alvis, Alexis Hudson Pigg as well as registered client associate Jennifer Hansard, and client associates Elisabeth Alvis Kennedy and Viridiana Cruz. 

Eisner Advisory Group, a business advisory arm of US-based consultancy EisnerAmper, admitted 10 new partners. 

The partners:

Jennifer Cuello is a partner in the financial services group, based in the Dallas, Texas, office. She has more than 10 years of experience serving clients in the financial services sector with a focus on private equity, venture capital, fund of funds and hedge funds.

Rebecca De Leon is a partner in the financial services and technology groups, based in the San Francisco, California, office. She has more than 10 years of experience in serving broker-dealers, venture capital and private equity funds, registered investment advisors, technology and life science companies, and commercial entities.

Nina Kelleher, who is a partner, leads the risk advisory services practice within EisnerAmper Digital, based in the New York office. She is the national leader of the special purpose acquisition company services practice. 

Daniel Krauss is a partner in the tax group, based in the San Francisco office. He has more than 15 years of experience providing tax controversy, equity compensation planning, QSBS and other taxation services to privately held companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.

Lindsey Layman is a tax partner in the financial services group, based in the San Francisco office. She has more than 10 years of experience providing tax compliance and planning services to a broad range of asset management clients, including private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds and funds of funds.

Allyson J Milbrod is a tax partner and co-leader of the firm’s National S Corporation tax services team, based in the Iselin, New Jersey, office. She has more than 20 years of experience providing tax compliance and advisory services to closely held businesses, high net worth individuals and multi-generational families.

Ling You is a tax partner in the real estate service group, based in the San Francisco office. She has nearly 20 years of experience in providing consulting services to real estate PE funds, and management and operating companies. 

R Charles Waring is a partner in the assurance and technology control services practice, based in the Philadelphia, office. He has more than 15 years of experience in internal controls, IT risk management, regulatory compliance and third-party assurance/SOC reports. 

Steven Bisciello is a partner in the healthcare services group, based in the Iselin, New Jersey, office. He has nearly 25 years of experience in operations, compliance and revenue cycle management within disparate healthcare sectors including but not limited to hospitals, hospital systems, physician groups and homecare organizations.

Sarah Brand is a partner in the real estate services group, based in the Philadelphia office. She has more 20 years of experience providing accounting services for a variety of real estate clients.

Chicago-based financial services firm Mesirow appointed four new internal directors: Erik Barefield, Robert DeBolt, Jesse Keig, and Ketan Shah.

SEI, a financial services company, appointed Sandy Ewing as executive vice president to lead the company’s family office and regulatory services. She reports to CEO Ryan Hicke. Ewing is 27-year SEI veteran who brings more than 40 years of financial services experience, spanning the wealth management, trust, custody, and securities servicing industries.

CIBC hired four senior professionals to expand its private wealth team across key US markets. The hires included Daniel Grady, managing director and regional private banking director in Newport Beach, California; Christopher Sporer, CFP®, senior vice president and business development officer in Chicago, Illinois; Patricia Tiralongo, CFA, managing director and institutional business developer in New York; John Welsh, managing director and family office executive in Chicago, Illinois and St Louis, Missouri.

Financial advisor Jim Petrizzo, founder of Petrizzo Financial in Boulder City, Nevada, partnered with Independent Financial Group, a broker-dealer based in San Diego, California. Jim Petrizzo operates his family firm with his wife, Michelle Petrizzo, and daughter, Chelsea Petrizzo. Jim and Chelsea are registered financial advisors, and Michelle covers administrative support. 

Nuveen appointed Kelly Hagg in Denver to the newly-created role of senior managing director, head of Responsible Investing Strategy & Solutions. He is based in Denver and reports to Amy O’Brien, global head of responsible investing at Nuveen. He joined from Janus Henderson Investors, where he served as global head of product strategy and ESG for distribution. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named William Eady as market president in Palm Beach, Florida. He reports to Kent Moegerle, regional president, Southeast. Eady, who has more than 14 years of experience in the financial services industry, served as senior banker and executive director for JP Morgan’s Private Bank in Palm Beach. 

Seventy2 Capital Wealth Management, based in Bethesda, Maryland, joined forces with Eric Bost, partner, and Jodelle Jones, senior wealth associate, of LII Wealth Management. Eric Bost, who founded LII, has more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry working at firms including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley. Jones also has over 30 years of experience in client service. 

New York-listed First Republic Bank appointed David Loeb to join its investment management arm as managing director and wealth manager. Loeb has more than 28 years of wealth management experience providing customized wealth management solutions for entrepreneurs, CEOs, partners in private equity and hedge fund firms, and ultra-high net worth families. 

Deutsche Bank hired former Goldman Sachs executive Rod Colburn to join its wealth management Americas business. Colburn joined the European bank as managing director and senior relationship manager after 14 years at Goldman Sachs. He focuses on lending solutions for ultra-high net worth clients and report to Anthony Valvo, market head for New York and South East. 

Colburn, who worked in similar roles at US Trust and Citi Private Bank, has more than three decades of experience working with ultra-high net worth clients.

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UBS Private Wealth Management recruited Carolin Botzenhardt as a private wealth advisor, working in La Jolla. Prior to UBS, she worked for more than five years at Wells Fargo in a private wealth advisor role, according to her LinkedIn profile. 

Falcon Capital Advisors hired industry veteran Walter Allen as its managing director, Natisha Dawson as its new director of finance and promoted Ken Yoo to chief operating officer.

Allen has more than 20 years of experience in using technology solutions to drive transformational business initiatives in both the government and private sector. Prior to Falcon, Allen was the president of HouseAmp, a fintech company where he managed and oversaw all aspects of the operation. Dawson has more than 20 years of finance and leadership expertise. Prior to joining Falcon, she founded and was chief financial officer of The Griffin Way, a firm designed to provide outsourced finance and accounting services to small- and mid-sized businesses. 

US-registered investment advisor Coastal Bridge Advisors appointed veteran marketing leader Deirdre Childs as its marketing director. Childs has spent 17 years working in the marketing and business development space, involved with brands such as Dove, Broadridge, Patagonia and Pepsi.

AmeriTrust Holding Company, a subsidiary of Argent Financial Group, appointed Leisa Gebetsberger as trust administrator.  She reports to Kenny Brown, senior vice president and chief operating officer of AmeriTrust.  

Gebetsberger has more than three decades of experience in business development, regulatory compliance and service delivery, gained while spending her career as an attorney and a health care administrator. She also brings 25 years of experience gained at the Oklahoma Tax Commission. 

Capitol Securities Management appointed financial advisor John Scarpino. He recently left Key Bank and founded his own firm, Pivotal Wealth Management. Capitol Securities Management appointed Paul J Grod to join Pivotal Wealth Management – the business that CSM recently acquired. Grod, who began his career in the financial services industry in 2007, was with KeyBank as an investment licensed banker from 2009 until 2022. 

PIMCO, the fixed income house, appointed former Federal Reserve vice chairman, Richard Clarida, as global economic advisor and managing director. He is based in New York. Joachim Fels MD, the predecessor, is retiring at the end of 2022.

Buckingham Advisors, an Ohio-based independent financial advisory firm that provides investment management, financial planning, tax, and business services, promoted Nicole Strbich, Ryan Johnson, and Jessica Distel to managing director status.

Argent Trust Company, a subsidiary of Argent Financial Group, hired Jonathan D Berry as senior vice president. Based in Fort Worth, Berry reports directly to Kathy Christoffel, Fort Worth market president. Before joining Argent, Berry served as an attorney and counselor at law, at Jonathan D Berry, PLLC.

UBS Private Wealth Management brought back Stephen McCashin as a private wealth advisor and managing director. Prior to re-joining UBS, McCashin served as a regional director at JP Morgan Wealth Management, where he oversaw the San Francisco and Seattle offices. Previously, he spent 17 years at UBS in various roles, most recently as complex director, private wealth management in San Francisco.