People Moves
Summary Of Industry Moves: January 2016

Here is a round-up of all the industry moves covered by Family Wealth Report last month.
Banc of California hired Andre Sarkissian from Wells Fargo as a senior vice president and private banking manager to oversee its new branches in Woodland Hills and Calabasas. Sarkissian was joined by former Wells Fargo employees Jennifer Zebio, Dan Nguyen, Perris Kaufman, Esper Elhelou and Ara Asatourian. Sarkissian was most recently branch manager of Wells Fargo's Calabasas office; Zebio was a vice president and private banker, as was Nguyen; Kaufman was an assistant vice president and premier banker, as was Elhelou; and Asatourian was a vice president and private banker.
Kevin Dolan joined The Colony Group as a vice president, based in Naples and tasked with expanding the firm's footprint on the east and west coasts of the Sunshine State. Dolan was previously a principal and managing director at a Florida-based investment advisor and subsequently founded Dolan Family Enterprises, a consulting firm serving investment advisors. He also spent 11 years at Fidelity Investments as a regional consultant and was previously part of the counseling teams at Merrill Lynch, Dreyfus Service Corporation and Investors Diversified Services.
Alternative Investment Management recruited Ryan Quinn as a managing director focused on portfolio management and researching hedge fund and private equity managers and investments. Prior to joining AIM, Quinn was a shareholder and director at Canterbury Consulting, an institutional investment consulting firm, where he worked with endowments, foundations and high net worth families on asset allocation, investment manager selection and performance evaluation. Before that, Quinn was a senior analyst at Monticello Associates and earlier in his career worked on the New York Stock Exchange for Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch.
Morgan Stanley promoted its investment banking chief, Colm Kelleher, to president, making him the heir apparent to current chief executive James Gorman, and prompting Greg Fleming, the head of wealth management, to depart. In addition to becoming president, Kelleher will take on Fleming's responsibilities overseeing wealth management as well as institutional securities.
Shelley O’Connor and Andy Saperstein meanwhile were appointed as the new co-heads of wealth management, reporting to Kelleher. Shelley has more than 30 years of experience in Morgan Stanley's wealth management business and led the private wealth management business in Southern California before moving to a management role in purchase in 2004. She then headed the private bank before becoming head of field management in 2014. Saperstein joined Morgan Stanley in 2006 and served as head of field management; then as head of investment products and services before taking up his current role as co-coo of ISG last year. In other changes, Jim Rosenthal, in addition to his role as COO, will now lead the development of Morgan Stanley's digital offering for financial advisors and wealth management clients. Lastly, Jeff Brodsky, in his continued role as head of human resources, will now report to Gorman.
Fiduciary Trust Company International, the wealth management firm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, made a string of organizational changes following the departure of its president and chief executive, Henry Johnson. Lawrence Sternkopf became president and chief operating officer of Fiduciary Trust, and will continue to oversee operations and technology, as well as custody, tax services, treasury and finance functions. He will take on additional responsibilities for compliance and human resources.
William Yun, former president of Fiduciary Trust and current board member, will serve as interim chief executive while an external search for a new CEO is underway. Yun will also continue leading Franklin Templeton’s specialized and alternative investment groups. Meanwhile, Gail Cohen became chair of Fiduciary Trust’s board of directors, succeeding James Goodfellow. As general trust counsel, Cohen will continue to oversee trust and estate services, as well as client relationship functions. Lastly, James Goodfellow will remain on its board and transition his chairman responsibilities to Cohen.
Wilmington Trust boosted its wealth advisory team in the Greater Philadelphia region by adding three senior leaders. Joe Cozza was hired as a senior private client advisor, and Marc Dinacci and Kevin Zosulis joned as senior investment advisors. They were all named as managing directors. Cozza provides wealth management advice to high net worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, business owners, and foundations and endowments, throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. He was previously a managing director in JP Morgan’s Philadelphia office for nearly 20 years. Before that he worked at Brown Brothers Harriman as a manager in the corporate finance department, and at Philadelphia National Bank as vice president in the corporate finance group.
Dinacci works with HNW clients, focused on investment portfolios. He too joined from JP Morgan, where he spent the last five years directing the investments business for the Mid-Atlantic wealth management team. Before JP Morgan, he worked at A G Edwards & Sons as a financial consultant. Zosulis - who works with HNW individuals and families, as well as business owners - was previously a senior director and team leader at BNY Mellon Wealth Management and before that worked in M&T Bank’s investment group as a senior portfolio manager. Earlier still, he was a senior portfolio manager at Evergreen Private Asset Management.
First Republic Bank promoted Kelly Johnston to president, taking over from Michael Harrington, who has been appointed as chairman. Johnston, who has more than 20 years of trust and wealth management experience, joined First Republic Trust Company in 2013, and previously served as deputy manager. Harrington, who has served as president of First Republic Trust Company for the past nine years, will maintain a leadership role in the trust company.Withers Bergman, the international law firm, appointed Christina Baltz as a partner in its New York office. An experienced lawyer in the field of wealth management and structuring, Baltz has previously headed teams at UBS and JP Morgan. She has also worked as an estate planning attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and as a partner in the same practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Baltz has also worked with Latin American clients, including a number of wealthy families and entrepreneurs across the region.
TIGER 21, the peer-to-peer learning network for wealthy investors, added Marvin Blum to its board of directors. Blum founded Texas-based Blum Firm P C and has skills in estate planning and probate, asset protection planning, planning for closely-held businesses, tax planning and charitable planning.
First Republic Bank appointed its former president, Katherine August-deWilde, as vice chair of the board of directors – a new role at the company. August-deWilde served as president of First Republic from 2007 until December 31, 2015, and was chief operating officer from 1996 to 2014. She joined First Republic as its initial chief financial officer in 1985 in San Francisco, CA. The firm confirmed that it has not replaced her in her former role as president. Going forward August-deWilde will also serve as a senior consultant to First Republic and work with certain clients as well as on strategic initiatives.
Steve Booth, president of Baird, took on the additional role of chief executive at the company. Booth previously led Baird’s investment banking team and has served as co-head of the firm’s equity capital markets business since 2006 (he will remain involved with Baird’s private equity business). He was named as president in 2014 as part of a multi-year transition plan and as CEO succeeds Paul Purcell, who will continue as chairman.
Purcell was appointed as president of Baird in 1998, added the title of CEO in 2000 and also became chairman in 2006. Under Purcell’s leadership, Baird once again became an employee-owned, independent firm following the firm’s buyback from Northwestern Mutual in 2004. The firm also embarked on a global expansion, adding talent and capabilities in the US, Europe and Asia.
Threshold Group, the wealth management firm and family office, welcomed back Luther Ragin - the recently-retired president and founding CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network - to its board. Before joining the GIIN, Ragin was vice president of investments at New York-based F B Heron Foundation from 1999 to 2011. Earlier, he was chief financial officer of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities.
Oppenheimer & Co appointed Joan Khoury as a managing director and chief marketing officer - a new role at the firm. Khoury has over 20 years of B2B and B2C leadership experience in the financial services industry, having most recently held the same role at LPL Financial. She will be based at Oppenheimer's New York headquarters and report to Rob Lowenthal, senior managing director. Her responsibilities will include oversight of firm-wide communications, websites, social media presence, public relations and all marketing materials. Before her time at LPL, Khoury was head of marketing at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Her earlier roles include global head of marketing at Wachovia Evergreen Investments (now Wells Fargo Advisors); group head of the global marketing division at Bank of New York Mellon; and marketing manager at Bank of America.
Kirk Reid joined OppenheimerFunds as head of operations to help the firm further grow its retail, high net worth and institutional businesses. Reid will be based in Denver, CO, and report to Eric Meltzer, chief technology and operations officer. Before joining OppenheimerFunds, Reid was a senior vice president of global institutional operations at Janus Capital Group. He started his career at Janus in 1995 as an investor service representative.
US Bank Wealth Management, part of US Bancorp, named Steven Blazek as a wealth management advisor for The Private Client Reserve in Denver, CO. Previously, Blazek was a private banking relationship manager with The Private Client Group of US Bank, which caters to mass affluent investors. He has worked in the sector since 1989.
Canada-headquartered precious metals firm Bullion Management Group appointed industry veteran George Parrill to its board of directors. Parrill’s career spans 42 years at the Bank of Nova Scotia; his business areas have included 33 years with Scotiabank’s bullion team. He specialized in commodities, risk and liquidity management. He also managed the trading desk. In addition, he worked with mining companies, central banks, mutual funds, investor clients and media, and oversaw the needs of Scotiabank’s branch network as it related to bullion products. Parrill advises on issues related to precious metals storage and custodial agreements for both the BMG BullionBars program and BMG Funds.
SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, appointed Stuart Keeler as the new managing director of SimCorp Coric, the firm's global client communications and reporting business.
Keeler has extensive experience in both asset management and IT services, having held a variety of commercial and general management positions at software firms in the UK and US. His experience includes 13 years as managing director at eFront, a software provider to private equity markets in the UK, where he oversaw the firm's expansion into the Middle East and North America, for example. Stuart Keeler replaced Klaus Andersen, who assumed responsibility for SimCorp Coric upon acquisition of the business (then known as Equipos) in February 2014.
Ascendant Compliance Management, a global compliance consultancy, brought in investment management specialist Dianna Zentner in San Francisco. Zentner was most recently director of global manager oversight and due diligence at Russell Investments. Before that, she was chief investment officer and director of research at SunGard Advisor Technologies. She has also worked at Page Mill Asset Management, Kemper Securities Corporation and First Boston Corporation. At Ascendant, Zentner is tasked with bolstering the firm's West Coast presence while providing compliance services to investment advisors, RIAs and private investment funds. She will also assist clients with drafting policies and procedures and preparing regulatory filings.
Advisor Software made two senior hires, adding a chief technology officer and a sales vice president. David Cooper will serve as CTO, responsible for leading the architecture, software engineering and deployment of the cloud platform. He took over from Thuyen Nguyen, who was appointed as CTO in June 2015.
Cooper has over 25 years of experience delivering technology solutions including turnkey systems, enterprise software, software-as-a-service, web and mobile products. He has held CTO and other senior technology positions at large public companies including Fiserv and Greendot, as well as several small start-ups. Meanwhile, Tom Flint joined as a vice president of sales to help accelerate the growth of Advisor Software’s applications and APIs.
In addition to co-founding San Francisco, CA-based Tiburon Wealth Management, Flint has held senior roles at Advent Software, Salesforce.com and Schwab Institutional. Before joining Advisor Software, Flint led West Coast sales for the Mountain View-based investment management technology company Addepar.
Catie Tobin was named as head of Royal Bank of Canada's US wealth consulting division, succeeding Ward Ring, who retired at the end of January and spent the last 13 years of his financial services career at the company. Tobin has spent the past 23 years at RBC Wealth Management, most recently as head of the firm’s correspondent and advisor services business, which provides clearing, custody and execution services to independent broker-dealers and RIAs.
Following Tobin’s move to her new role, Brett Thorne, who has been at the firm for 20 years, took over as head of RBC CAS. Thorne most recently served as chief operating officer of the unit, overseeing administration, regulatory and financial risk management, as well as billing and reporting.
Foundation Source, which serves private foundations, brought in former Bloomberg executive Susan Calzone as chief operating officer. Calzone spent the last five years as COO of two early-stage companies in the medical devices and ecommerce industries. Before that, she served for 19 years as chief administrative officer of Bloomberg and from 2006-2010 was also an executive with Bloomberg Philanthropies. Calzone’s principal responsibility at Foundation Source will be managing client services, financial operations, tax and legal, account services, and the technology and infrastructure that supports these areas. She will report to Robert Chartener, chief executive.
Russell Investments, the global asset manager, recruited Vernon Barback as president – a new role at the firm. Barback will focus on leading strategic infrastructure initiatives, with reporting responsibility for business units within the offices of the chief financial officer, chief legal officer and chief operating officer.
He joined from Altß Partners, which he co-founded. Before that, he was president and chief operating officer at GlobeOp Financial Services, formerly a TA Associates portfolio company. TA Associates said in October 2015 that it entered into an agreement with Reverence Capital Partners to acquire Russell Investments from London Stock Exchange Group. Prior to GlobeOp Financial Services, Barback worked at Citigroup asset management as the global head of operations and technology. At Russell Investments, he will report to chief executive Len Brennan.
Robertson Stephens, the wealth advisory and investment management firm, recruited Alice Wu as managing director and president of the Asia region of Robertson Stephens International Group. Wu was previously a vice president at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) in San Francisco, CA – a role in which she advised wealthy Chinese individuals and families in the US and provided financial solutions to clients in Asia. Before Credit Suisse, Wu worked at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in San Francisco. Beyond her career in financial services, Wu was an associate director at The Asia Foundation, advising trustees and donors on their philanthropic activities in Asia.
WealthHub Solutions, a cloud-based technology company serving the global wealth management industry, hired Tim Fisk as director of sales. Fisk was most recently a wealth advisor at Glenmede, where he was also involved in new business development, strategic planning and technology. Before Glenmede, he headed up fiduciary new business efforts in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee as part of Merrill Lynch's wealth structuring group. He started his career as an attorney in a boutique Chicago, IL, law firm specializing in trusts and estates.
The former chief executive of Fiduciary Trust Company International, Henry Johnson, was appointed as an executive vice president and vice chairman of wealth management at Northern Trust in the east region. Johnson will be based in New York City and will lead the Northeast business, with John Hoffman, president of Greater New York, and Bill Buccella, president of New England, reporting to him. This is a new role at the firm, Northern Trust confirmed, in which Johnson will report to David Blowers, president of the east region. Johnson was previously CEO at Fiduciary Trust Company International, where he held various leadership roles since 1994. That firm too made a string of senior moves last week, as reported by this publication here.
Julie Riewe, co-chief of the enforcement division’s asset management unit at the SEC, left the agency. As co-head of the unit for the past two-and-a-half years, Riewe has overseen a staff of nearly 80 attorneys, industry experts and other professionals responsible for conducting investigations into investment advisors, investment companies and private funds.
Riewe began her SEC career in 2005 as a staff attorney in the enforcement division in Washington DC and was promoted to branch chief in 2008. In 2010, she was promoted to assistant director in the newly-formed asset management unit, was appointed co-deputy chief of the unit in 2012, and then co-chief in 2013. Co-chief Marshall Sprung will continue to lead the unit following her departure.
Chicago, IL-based Kovitz Investment Group became the fourth RIA to join Focus Financial Partners in the greater Chicago area. Mitchell Kovitz, Marc Brenner and Jonathan Shapiro, who previously worked together at Rothschild Investment Corporation, founded Kovitz in 2003. Shortly after this, former Deloitte partner Bruce Weininger joined the founding principals.
Former Credit Suisse man Doug Fiek joined First Republic as a managing director and portfolio manager in San Francisco, CA. Fiek, who has over 20 years of industry experience, previously worked at Credit Suisse Securities in San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he worked at CS First Boston and was a CPA at Price Waterhouse.
Trusted Family hired Wolfgang Hafenmayer – previously a managing partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy – as head of its impact advisory practice. Prior to LGT, Hafenmayer managed the investments of a family-backed social venture fund, and has contributed to launching a sustainable asset management company.
Westfield, NJ-headquartered Round Table Wealth Management hired Francis Hayes as director of strategic relationships. Hayes was previously a managing director of institutional sales at TD Ameritrade, focused on the northeast region of the US. Before that, he worked at two NYSE-listed financial services firms in the areas of sales management, marketing, regional management, practice management and advisor recruitment.
Baird added Andrew Schlafer to its Eau Claire, WI, office as a SVP and financial advisor. Schlafer joined from Edward Jones, has a production of $1 million and $101 million in AuM. Baird also named Chris Trumble - latterly of Morgan Stanley - as its new branch manager in Wichita, KS, where the firm established a presence in June 2015.
Dynasty Financial Partners hired Jeremy Zoladz as a vice president of relationship management in Chicago, and also launched a new office in the area. Zoldaz will report to senior vice president John Sullivan and work with advisors in the central division - including the upper Midwest, south to Texas and west to Colorado - on business planning and practice management. He joined from Morgan Stanley where he was most recently a corporate retirement director and institutional consultant at Graystone Consulting since 2012.
RBC Wealth Management recruited a new team of financial advisors in Palm Desert, CA. The Prentice Group is comprised of financial advisors Tom Prentice and Young Chung, along with Tricia Prentice, registered client associate, and Stephanie Barsness, senior registered client associate. The team joined the firm from Merrill Lynch and has approximately $280 million in AuM and $1.8 million in production.
FolioDynamix, a provider of wealth management technology and advisory services, named Steve Dunlap as president and chief operating officer. Joe Mrak, formerly president/chief executive, will continue as CEO. Dunlap previously ran the wealth management business at the US brokerage firm Cetera Financial Group, which was acquired by RCS Capital in 2014 in a $1.15 billion cash transaction.
There, he was also CEO of the asset management arm, known as Tower Square Investment Management. Before Cetera, Dunlap was CEO at Lockwood Advisors and president of Pershing Managed Investments, the managed investments businesses of BNY Mellon. As president and COO of FolioDynamix, he will oversee product strategy and development, client services, operations, marketing and public relations.
Partners Capital, an outsourced investment office with UHNW families among its client base, hired Suzanne Streeter as a senior investment principal to lead the firm's private equity asset class in North America. Streeter's primary professional experience was at the Yale University Investments Office, where she was associate director of the private equity program. Most recently, she was managing director of fund investments and advisory at Babson Capital Management, where she led private equity fund and equity co-investments on behalf of MassMutual. Before joining the Yale Investments Office in 2007, Streeter was a vice president at Morgan Stanley in global capital markets and investment banking.
Third Street Partners, the executive search and human capital advisory firm in the asset management space, brought in Amanda Grant as a principal. Grant has a strong background in the asset management industry, having been a managing director and head of institutional client service at Columbia Management from 2007-2011. Before Columbia Management, she was head of global relationship management at Babson Capital Management.
RBC Wealth Management promoted Tim Grantham to branch director in Oklahoma City. It is unclear if he replaced anyone in this role. Grantham joined RBC in Dallas last year from UBS, where he was a senior vice president. He has around 26 years of financial services experience overall and specializes in the high net worth market.
Wilmington Trust made two senior hires in Palm Beach, FL: Jonathan Fitzgerald was appointed as a senior private client advisor while Gerald Williston joined as a senior fiduciary advisor. Fitzgerald previously advised wealthy individuals on their estate and federal tax planning and earlier worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City, focused on banking and capital markets.
Williston is part of Wilmington Trust's advisor solutions group, which provides products and services to professional investment advisors. His new position is the first for the group in Florida. Williston was previously a senior trust officer and team leader at Reliance Trust Company of Delaware in North Palm Beach. Before that, he held senior trust roles at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.
City National Bank, the private and business bank, recruited Brandon Williams to lead and expand its private client services division in New York. Williams and his team provide advice and services in investment management, credit, depository and cash management, wealth planning and trust services to high net worth families, non-profit organizations and professional services firms.
Williams replaced Scott Witter, who has been promoted to executive vice president. Witter heads City National’s branch and small business division and will relocate to Los Angeles. Williams spent the past 14 years building and leading teams at TD Bank in New York – most recently in wealth management. He also led the retail build-out of TD Bank (formerly Commerce Bank) in New York City and was the chief of staff to the chief executive and president. In his new role at City National, he reports to Michael Pagano, division head of private client services.
California-based Advisor Partners, the investment advisory firm, named Vikas Oswal as chief executive and chief investment officer. Oswal spent 18 years at Mellon Capital Management in San Francisco, CA, where he became an executive vice president and chief investment strategist.
Family-owned, Indiana-based Salin Bank & Trust Company promoted John Coughlin to wealth management market president for Indianapolis. Salin Bank appointed Coughlin and William Varanka as vice presidents and wealth management business development officers in October last year. Coughlin was previously a vice president and business development officer at First Financial Bank, having previously held the same roles at Regions Bank from 2007 to 2013. Coughlin's career in financial services began in 1989 when he joined Charles Schwab until 1999.
Robert Fell joined Southeastern Trust Company, a division of Atlantic Capital Bank, as a trust officer from Wilmington Trust. Fell has 17 years of experience in trust and estate administration, investment management and estate planning. He will be working with the firm's private wealth group, based in Buckhead in Atlanta, GA.
Morgan Stanley brought in former Charles Schwab executive Naureen Hassan as chief digital officer within its wealth management division. This is a new role at the company in which Hassan will lead the strategy and marketing of digital tools and platforms serving its 16,000 financial advisors and 3.5 million clients. She starts on March 1.
Boston Private Wealth hired executives from the wealth advisory firms Filigree Advisors and Mikus Capital Management. The team from Filigree Advisors will be based in Beverly Hills, while maintaining a presence in the Northwest.
Gerald Graves joined as executive managing director of the West Coast division. Before co-founding Filigree Advisors, Graves was president at M Financial Wealth Management and earlier executive director and a managing partner at LEAP Partners in San Francisco. He also held senior leadership positions at Charles Schwab.
Chris Dudley joined as a senior wealth advisor and director of sports and entertainment, transitioning from his role as chief investment officer at Filigree Advisors. Prior to Filigree, Dudley was a vice president at M Financial Wealth Management. He also had a 16-year career as a player in the National Basketball Association, during which time he served as executive treasurer of the NBA Players Association and as a member of the Players Association Negotiating Committee.
Previously director of wealth services at Filigree Advisors, Sarah Pearce joined as an associate client advisor. Prior to Filigree, Pearce was a program manager at a branding and design agency. Meanwhile, with the addition of Mikus Capital Management, Boston Private Wealth expanded its presence to the island of Palm Beach, complementing its existing office in Palm Beach Gardens.
William Mikus – founder, president, and chief executive of Mikus Capital Management – joined as a managing director and senior business development officer. He has over 36 years of industry experience, having started his career in the trading rooms of Bank of Boston, Citibank, and Salomon Brothers.
Blackstone, the global investment titan, added Bloomberg executive Peter Grauer to its board of directors. Grauer has been chairman of Bloomberg, the global business and financial information company, since March 2001 and joined full-time as president and chief executive in March 2002 (until 2011). Before joining Bloomberg, Grauer was a managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1992 to 2000 when DLJ was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston. He is a founder of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and DLJ Investment Partners and also served as a managing director and senior partner of CSFB Private Equity.
William Wilby, former head of equities at Oppenheimer Funds, became a member of Tiedemann Wealth Management's investment committee. Wilby will work alongside fellow committee members Richard Nye, David Coulter, Robert Hormats, Yves Istel and Frederick Thorne to advise Tiedemann on investment strategies, asset allocation and manager selection.
At Oppenheimer, Wilby was responsible for over $120 billion in equity assets and 70 portfolio managers, investment analysts and support staff, at the time of his retirement in 2007. He is also known for his tenure as portfolio manager for the Oppenheimer Global Fund. Earlier in his career, Wilby held international finance and investment roles at AIG, Northern Trust, Brown Brothers Harriman and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as well as having served in US Army Intelligence in Vietnam and Europe.
John Bankson was appointed as head of Wells Fargo Private Bank's business advisory services group, taking over from David Isaacson, who the firm confirmed retired last year. The unit works with business owners and their advisors to develop a succession plan, value the business, sell the business or manage closely-held interests held in trust or agency accounts.
In his role, Bankson will be responsible for national leadership of the group, and growing its client base, which includes clients of The Private Bank and the ultra high net worth individuals, families and foundations that are clients of Wells Fargo’s Abbot Downing business. Prior to his new role, Bankson served as Wells Fargo’s business banking manager for northeastern South Carolina. In his more than 32 years of experience in the financial services industry and 18 years with Wells Fargo and predecessor banks, he has held various roels including market president for Florence, SC.
Fiduciary Trust Company International hired Theresa McGinley as a managing director and trust counsel, based in the firm's New York City headquarters. McGinley will help high net worth individuals and families with estate planning and trust administration including tax planning, preparation of estate tax returns, settlement agreements, reporting and valuation. She will also guide them on complex trust and estate arrangements including estate planning, gifting techniques and charitable strategies. McGinley joined Fiduciary Trust from Katten Muchin Rosenman, where she was an associate specializing in estate planning and trust administration. Previously, she was with Schlesinger Gannon & Lazetera.
The retail investment advisory firm and independent broker-dealer, LPL Financial, named Tracy Calder as a managing director and deputy chief risk officer. Calder will be based in Charlotte, NC, and report to Michelle Oroschakoff, managing director and chief risk officer.
Calder joined LPL from JP Morgan Securities, where she was most recently a managing director and chief compliance officer. There, she led a compliance program that spanned the firm's institutional and private client broker-dealer and RIA businesses. Before JP Morgan, she was a senior vice president at Wells Fargo Advisors, leading the retail compliance program for the firm's broker/dealer.
Earlier still, Calder spent 18 years at UBS Wealth Management Americas in a variety of legal and compliance roles, including as head of legal for the wealth management advisor group and as chief compliance officer. She was also senior deputy general counsel at UBS Financial Services.
First Republic Bank hired René Henriksen as a managing director and portfolio manager in Century City, CA. Henriksen was previously a senior vice president at UBS in Century City since 2009 and before that worked at Deutsche Bank and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He began his career as a US Naval Officer.
Boston Private, a subsidiary of Boston Private Financial Holdings, hired Marie DelRossi as a vice president and senior business development officer in its trust and fiduciary services group, and David Macdonald as a senior vice president of commercial lending. DelRossi is tasked with expanding Boston Private’s trust and estate administration presence in New England while developing a portfolio of individual and family clients. Before joining Boston Private, DelRossi was a SVP and trust officer at US Trust and a trust and estates associate at Ropes & Gray, and Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye.
Macdonald, meanwhile, has extensive experience working with small to medium-size businesses on matters including working capital, asset finance, management and family buy-outs, recapitalizations and acquisition financing. As leader of Boston Private’s California commercial lending team, Macdonald’s primary focus is to manage new commercial and private banking relationships with privately-held businesses, professional services firms, private partnerships, real estate entities and non-profit organizations across California and the West Coast.
He was previously regional commercial executive and SVP at HSBC, establishing the company’s Southern California middle market commercial banking business and running its corporate business. Before that he was head of corporate banking at Lloyds Banking Group, covering 10 loan production offices across the US.
Northern Trust added Gregory Jordan and Christine Holm to its foundation and institutional advisory group in the Midwest, based in Chicago, IL. Jordan is a senior vice president and managing director for the central region. He was previously the national philanthropic investment officer at Wells Fargo. Holm is a vice president and regional director for the central region. She previously spent 15 years as vice president and director of charitable management services at Fifth Third Bank.
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of listed hedge fund firm Man Group, appointed Guillermo Ossés as head of emerging market debt strategies, based in New York. The role has been newly created, Man Group later confirmed to this publication. Ossés brings 24 years of experience in emerging markets fixed income investing. He previously worked at HSBC Asset Management, joining in 2011. Prior to this, Ossés was an emerging markets fixed income portfolio manager at PIMCO and held emerging markets positions at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. The recruitment of Ossés by Man GLG followed its acquisition of Silvermine and the recent hire of Himanshu Gulati last year, as the firm expands its presence in the US. Ossés will report to Man GLG’s co-chief executive Teun Johnston.
Andrew Randak joined Greenwhich, CT-headquartered Fieldpoint Private from Brown Brothers Harriman as a managing director and senior advisor in New York City. Randak spent 15 years at Brown Brothers Harriman, where he was responsible for much of the firm's Latin American wealth advisory business in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. Before BBH, Randak was a private banker at The Chase Manhattan Bank, where he spent time in the firm's Santiago, Chile, offices.
Perspecta Trust hired R Angus West as a senior wealth strategist at its Hampton, NH, headquarters. West previously served as executive director and chief investment officer at the Cabot-Wellington family office – roles he held for ten years. He is a graduate of Harvard College and began his career as an investment analyst at JP Morgan. At Perspecta, which oversees around $8 billion in assets across a few dozen families, West will work with wealthy families and industry practitioners in the Boston area.