Here is a round-up of all the wealth management industry comings and goings covered by Family Wealth Report in September 2015.

US-based Berkshire Bank made five senior appointments to its wealth management team.

Richard Bleser, who has served as senior vice president portfolio manager since joining the bank in 2010, was appointed as senior vice president and chief investment officer.

Jason Edgar, who joined Berkshire as senior portfolio manager last year from Enterprise Investment Advisor, became senior vice president, wealth portfolio manager and regional leader for New England.

Mary Ellen Cologero was appointed as senior vice president, wealth portfolio manager and regional leader for New York. With over 25 years' investment experience, she joined the team as a senior portfolio manager from Key Bank where she served as senior vice president and senior portfolio manager. She will work alongside Bleser and Edgar on the bank's investment portfolio.

Berkshire's wealth advisor and senior fiduciary officer, Janice Ward, who joined the bank in 2012 from Greenfield Savings Bank, assumed the additional role of first vice president. She works primarily with trust and estate clients, oversees fiduciary activities, and focuses on financial planning.

Lastly, Elizabeth Gore, who has spent over 20 years in Berkshire's trust business, was appointed to first vice president of trust operations and compliance.

SS&C Technologies, the Connecticut-headquartered fintech firm, appointed a leadership team to its recently-acquired Advent Software business unit.

SS&C, which completed its $2.63 billion acquisition of the wealth management technology and solutions firm in July, appointed Pete Hess to head up the business as senior vice president and general manager. Hess was previously Advent's president and chief executive.

Advent's Advisory Market Group will be responsible for serving clients and growing the business within the wealth management and investment advisor market. It will be led by senior vice president and managing director, Dave Welling, who previously served as the general manager of Advent's Black Diamond business group. He will report to Hess.

Meanwhile, Advent's Asset Management and Alternatives Market Group, led by Hess, will focus on providing solutions for the traditional and alternative asset management markets.

Philadelphia-headquartered Glenmede appointed Brian Green as director of its family wealth practice.

Green joined Glenmede last year as a senior relationship manager within portfolio management. Before this, he held a number of senior-level advisory roles at BNY Mellon and JP Morgan Chase & Co. In his new role, Green will be based in the firm's Philadelphia office, reporting to Susan Mucciarone, Glenmede's director of wealth advisory.

US Bank appointed Dawn Ripkey as a wealth management advisor at its HNW Private Client Reserve arm in Milwaukee.

Ripkey will connect clients with investment management, private banking, trust, estate and wealth planning professionals and services available in the group.

Ripkey brings more than 25 years of banking and financial services industry experience to her new post. Prior to this position, she was a wealth advisor with BMO Harris Private Bank in Milwaukee.

Virginia-based Signature Family Wealth Advisors appointed David Jallits as chief investment officer.

Jallits has 25 years of experience in leadership roles across the investment research and portfolio management sectors. He previously worked at Cambridge Associates, Citigroup, Putnam and various hedge funds.

Taking over from Anne Shumadine, who was the firm's chairman and chief investment office since founding, Jallits will be responsible for leading the firm's investment strategy and research team.

HighTower hired Melissa Duffy and Paige Todorich within its Portland, ME-based Simmons Wilkes Investment Advisors team, adding $150 million in client assets and boosting the team's total corporate, family and individual assets to around $650 million.

Duffy, who joined the team as managing director and partner, was previously founder and managing partner at Duffy Anderson Investment Management. Before this, she was vice president and investment advisor at Wachovia Securities.

Todorich joined as a financial advisor after a decade at Wells Fargo, where she most recently served as financial advisor. She will work with families and individuals to build and look after investment portfolios, wealth transfer strategies and retirement plans.

The US-based business and regulatory consultancy firm, MarketCounsel, appointed David Mrazik as a managing director and managing partner of Hamburger Law Firm, an affiliated entity.

Most recently, Mrazik was the general counsel and a managing director of Focus Financial Partners, where he was responsible for overseeing and advising on the internal and external legal affairs of the company and its affiliates.

Mrazik started his career in law at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher as an associate in its corporate and financial services department.  While there, Mrazik represented numerous public and private clients in mergers, stock and asset sales, venture capital investments and other transactions, in addition to serving as an outside general counsel and regulatory resource.  He next joined the M&A and Private Equity Department of Vinson & Elkins, where he led numerous transactions and other client engagements covering a broad range of industries and subject matter.

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Artivest, a technology-driven investment platform in the US designed to give investors access to private equity and hedge funds, appointed Tom Gatto, a 28-year financial services veteran, as head of business development.

Gatto will help RIAs learn about the institutional-quality private equity and hedge fund investments Artivest provides qualified clients and their advisors.

Prior to Artivest, Gatto headed advisor relations for Gotham Asset Management and helped lead sales for exchange traded fund issuer Reality Shares. Gatto has also held senior positions at investment firms such as Oppenheimer Capital, PIMCO, BlackRock, Merrill Lynch & Company and Prudential.

UBS recruited The Empire Group from Morgan Stanley in Melville, NY.

The team is comprised of David Sobocinski, Julian Frank, Marc Wong and Mark Remigio, and specializes in high net worth planning and portfolio management.

They have a T-12 of $5.6 million and $950 million in assets under management.

A group of former Wells Fargo Advisors launched an independent advisory firm with $250 million in clients assets through Dynasty Financial Partners.

Managing partners of SevenBridge Financial Group, Charles Eberly and Lawrence – who worked at Wells Fargo for 16 years – are joined by Michael McConahy, an advisor, consultant and planner, and Patricia Jakeway, director of client resources.

SevenBridge Financial Group took its name from the seven bridges in the heart of Harrisburg, PA. The firm works with high net worth families, business owners, land owners of oil and gas rights, professional firms, charitable institutions and endowments.

Rob Parker was named as a senior portfolio manager at US Bank's Private Client Reserve in Salt Lake City, UT.

Parker was previously a portfolio manager in the Colorado district at Key Private Bank in Denver, CO. He started his career in the financial industry in 1997.

Continuing its expansion in the northeast, Raymond James added a team of four financial advisors and two support staff to a new Worcester, MA, branch of Raymond James & Associates, the firm’s traditional employee broker-dealer.

The team, called Elm Wealth Management, includes senior vice president of investments and managing director Stephen Erickson; senior vice president of investments and managing director Michael Martin; vice president of investments Scott Louder; associate vice president of investments Christopher Lussier; and registered practice coordinators Diana Correa and Nancy Jones.

They joined from UBS, where they managed over $550 million in client assets and had approximately $3 million in annual production. They serve retirees, healthcare professionals, business owners and corporate executives.

John Houlihan, former regional manager at Barclays Wealth & Investment Management in Atlanta, GA, joined UBS in Jericho, Long Island.

Houlihan will report to Todd Locicero, regional director for the Metro region, and also cover UBS offices in Garden City, Melville, Southampton and Port Jefferson. He joined Barclays in 2012 after 20 years at Morgan Stanley.

Tim Woodall and Dustin Raring, two senior portfolio managers from UBS, joined First Republic in Newport Beach, CA, as managing directors and portfolio managers.

They work for First Republic Private Wealth Management, which provides trust, investment management and brokerage services to high net worth individuals and families, foundations and endowments.

Woodall has 17 years of investment management experience and before UBS worked at Merrill Lynch.  Raring has 19 years of investment management experience and before UBS, where he worked with UHNW families, he spent ten years at Oppenheimer.

RBC Wealth Management promoted Austin, TX, branch director Glen Hatch to director of the firm’s Phoenix, AZ, complex. Tim Marwill took over Hatch in the Lone Star State.

After 22 years with the US Navy, Hatch joined the financial services industry in 1998. He joined RBC Wealth Management in 2013 as Austin branch director and has over 16 years of financial industry experience overall.

Hatch will oversee around 58 financial advisors and 107 total employees serving clients in six offices: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sun City, Tucson in AZ; Albuquerque, NM; and Las Vegas, NV.

Marwill joined RBC Wealth Management’s Austin branch in 2014 from Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor. He is also part of the Marwill Wittek Group, along with financial advisor Eric Wittek.

BlackRock appointed Salim Ramji to lead its US wealth advisory business, succeeding Frank Porcelli.

Porcelli, who asked to step back after 11 years in the role, became the unit’s chairman to focus on developing offerings such as FutureAdvisor - the California-based digital wealth management firm BlackRock agreed to buy last month.

Meanwhile, Ramji was replaced as global head of corporate strategy by Geraldine Buckingham.

Separately, in the previous week BlackRock sadly announced that its co-president, Charles Hallac, has passed away after battling a terminal illness for nearly four years.

HighTower made three executive promotions: Chris Curtis to chief financial officer, Michael Parker to chief development officer and Larry Koehler to chief administrative officer and vice chairman.

Curtis joined HighTower in March from Envestnet as an executive vice president within finance and accounting. He now serves as CFO, reporting to Elliot Weissbluth, founder and chief executive of HighTower.

Parker, HighTower's first chief development officer, reports to Weissbluth. Parker will continue to lead HighTower's activities around the recruitment and growth of advisor teams. He also took on responsibilities for marketing, public relations and brand-building.

Koehler, HighTower's previous CFO and founding executive since the company's inception, assumed the newly-created role of CAO and vice chairman. He will continue to be responsible for HighTower's legal, compliance, human resources, facilities and M&A activities.

BNY Mellon appointed Kirsten Sandberg as a senior wealth manager in York, PA, to serve clients throughout the region and in Baltimore, MD.

Sandberg joined from US Trust, where she was a senior vice president and private client advisor leading a team of wealth management specialists in Baltimore. She has also worked at Wilmington Trust. In her new role, she reports to senior BNY Mellon director, David Sivel.

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Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management recruited Richard Ward and Matthew Sullivan to lead its investment solutions business for the West Coast private bank.

Based in Los Angeles, Ward is a director and Sullivan is an assistant vice president, both reporting directly to Todd Stevens, head of the investment solutions group in the Americas, and regionally to Lee Hutter, head of wealth management for the West Coast.

Ward spent the past five years at JP Morgan Private Bank as an executive director and global investment specialist in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a SVP and investment counselor at Citigroup. Sullivan also joined from JP Morgan Private Bank, where he was an associate.

Diversified Trust added two to its board of directors and named its new chair.

James Lientz, a partner at Safe Harbor Consulting, was appointed as a board director and chair while Sue Cole, founder and managing partner at SAGE Leadership & Strategy, was added as a board director.

Lientz succeeded Hal Daughdrill as chair of the board. Daughdrill held this role for 18 years and took on the title of founder and managing director, based still in Atlanta, GA.

Lientz and Cole joined the existing board consisting of Larry Bryan (founder and director), G Thomas Curtis (managing director, Nashville), J Hal Daughdrill (founder and managing director, Atlanta), Samuel Graham (chief executive and director), Wallace Johnson (managing director, Greensboro), Ashley Moore Remmers (director),  and William Spitz (founder and director).

John Pettenati – formerly of Fiduciary Trust Company International – joined Rockefeller & Co as a managing director to head up a new business development effort at the firm.

Based in New York City, Pettenati is tasked with extending the firm's reach in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.

He spent the last 11 years as a managing director and business development officer at Fiduciary Trust. Before that, he worked at Bank of New York and Chemical Bank.

TIGER 21, the peer network for wealthy entrepreneurs, appointed Robert Lorenzo as a New York group chair. It is unclear if Lorenzo replaces anyone in this role.

Lorenzo has 20 years of experience in finance, including investment sales, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. He has held senior roles at The Chase Manhattan Bank, Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and

UBS, and is a founding partner of Eden Roc Capital, a middle-market private equity firm.

He began his career as a CPA at Ernst & Young before embarking on his investment banking career at the family offices of William E Simon, the former US Treasury Secretary.

Daniel Daviau was appointed as president and chief executive of Canaccord Genuity Group, effective October 1, 2015.

Daviau will take over from David Kassie, who became chairman and CEO in April of this year after the death of past president and CEO, Paul Reynolds.

Based in Toronto, Daviau will join Canaccord Genuity's board of directors and continue as executive chairman.

Meanwhile, Alexis de Rosnay took on the additional roles of senior executive vice president of Canaccord Genuity Group and global head of investment banking.

de Rosnay will remain in London and continue to serve as CEO of Canaccord Genuity (UK and Europe), which includes overall responsibility for Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management operations in the region.

Daviau has been CEO of Canaccord Genuity's North American capital markets business since February 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, he was president of the firm's US capital markets business, and from 2010 to 2012 was head of investment banking for Canaccord Genuity. Before the Canaccord/Genuity merger in 2010, Daviau was a principal and founder of Genuity Capital Markets, where he held senior roles since 2005.

Online financial advisor Personal Capital appointed fintech veteran Mark Goines as chief marketing officer.

Goines, who brings over 30 years' experience in the financial technology industry, most recently served as Personal Capital's chief strategy officer. He has spent the majority of his career as an angel investor and advisor to companies including CreditInterlink, Mint and Better Finance. In his new role, Goines will be responsible for leading the company's strategy and growth.

Berkshire Bank, which provides services including wealth management, appointed Richard Marotta as president and Sean Gray as chief operating officer.

Marotta, who joined the bank in 2010 from KeyBank, has served as executive vice president, chief risk and administrative officer since 2013. As president, Marotta will be responsible for all aspects of administration, risk, and infrastructure, including people and systems, compliance and credit.

Gray, who has worked at Berkshire for nine years, has been EVP of retail banking since 2010. As COO, he will be responsible for the operating teams of the bank, including wealth management, retail, commercial, small business, home lending and insurance.

In other senior movements, the bank announced the promotions of executives George Bacigalupo, Josephine Iannelli, and Linda Johnston to senior executive vice president.

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UBS Private Wealth Management in the US appointed a new team from Merrill Lynch’s private banking and investment group, residing in the newly expanded office in Denver, CO.

The joiners were Melissa Corrado-Harrison, Greg Richardson and Ronald Kemp. The team has $1.322 billion in assets under management between them.

Corrado-Harrison, managing director, has worked with ultra high net worth clients since 1992, starting her career at the Family High Net Worth Planning division at Merrill Lynch. In 2001, she became a private wealth advisor in the PBIG team at Merrill Lynch.

Within the team, Corrado-Harrison directs the team’s portfolio management activities, liquidity-event and IPO planning strategies, and helps clients focus on estate planning issues.

Richardson began his career in 1992 at Northwest Bank (now Wells Fargo), where he built, implemented, and managed fixed income portfolios for affluent families and large institutions within the private client group. In 2000, he joined Merrill Lynch, where he has continued his focus in serving UHNW clients. He is the primary fixed income strategist for the team, directing the portfolio construction and management of all client bond portfolios.

Kemp advises HNW clients in “total portfolio guidance,” which includes portfolio and risk management, concentrated stock/option management, alternative investments, and ongoing asset allocation strategies. Kemp began his career in the financial industry in 1986.

Advisors Asset Management, a US broker-dealer and investment advisor firm, hired Robert Sowinski and Nicholas Scarpello as managing director for structured products and vice president of agency trading, respectively.

Sowinski has an extensive background in multi-asset origination, packaging, pricing, tactical sales and client development, and brings to his role expert global insight and a keen understanding of the structured product universe. Based in Manhattan, he reports to John Radtke, executive VP of capital markets and capital market sales.

Previously, Sowinski served as MD at Jefferies, where he headed third party structured products distribution in North America. Earlier in his career he served as a director at Citigroup ICG, holding various structured products leadership positions within Citi.

Scarpello joined AAM in the Boca Raton, FL, office as VP of agency trading. He has extensive experience marketing and selling agency products. Prior to joining AAM, Scarpello was a vice president of institutional sales at Amherst Pierpont Securities.

Additionally, the company opened a new office in Chicago, IL, to help accommodate its growing operations.

Boston-headquartered Acadian Asset Management hired Kurt Livermore as a portfolio manager within its equities team.

Livermore joined the Boston office from GlobeFlex Capital, where he was partner and portfolio manager for US and global equity strategies. Before this, he worked at Matikos Capital/Front Point Partners as partner and portfolio manager for its US equity market neutral strategy.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co appointed William Tyree as managing partner.

Tyree, who joined BBH 30 years ago and was named partner in 2001, has served as head of the firm's investor services business for the last eight years. He chairs the firm’s investor services oversight committee, and is a member of both the BBH executive and finance committees.

He will take on the new role at the beginning of 2016, replacing current managing partner Douglas Donahue, who BBH said will soon reach the customary age at which its partners relinquish managerial responsibility (65).

Donahue joined BBH back in 1976 and will remain one of the firm's general partners.

San Francisco-headquartered Bank of the West hired from BNP Paribas for the role of senior executive vice president and head of the wealth management group.

Pierre Ramadier is currently head of wealth management for international retail markets at BNP Paribas. Before this, he served as co-head of BNL-BNP Paribas Private Banking in Rome.

He will take on the new role in January next year and join the Bank of the West executive management committee, reporting to chairman and chief executive, Michael Shepherd.

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FallLine Securities, the US wealth management firm which recently launched a platform advisors serving the ultra high net worth clients, added two new executives to its team.

Paul Bigler and Shawn McCormick joined as chief operating officer and head of investments and capital markets, respectively.

Bigler, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, worked most recently as a senior global advisor to The FairWay Group, a start–up technology venture, where he was responsible for strategic planning, finance and budgeting, HR, compliance and risk-related functions. Previously, he was at UBS Securities, where he served as a managing director in the COO office of the investment bank.

He was also the COO and chief financial officer of CRT Capital Holdings a Stamford, CT-based broker/dealer and asset management firm. Earlier in his career, he worked for Deutsche Bank as managing director and COO of DB Advisors, global head of equity market risk and as regional treasurer for the UK and South Africa based in London.

McCormick joined FallLine from Snowden Lane Partners, an independent wealth advisory firm, where he was vice president and director of investment solutions, responsible for the development and implementation of the investment solutions platform, including managed account programs, third party research, private banking solutions and insurance. He worked previously at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as a senior financial analyst covering ultra high net worth clients, and at T Rowe Price Group, where he was a retirement specialist.

Morgan Stanley made two senior promotions: global head of equities Ted Pick became global head of sales and trading, while co-head of global capital markets Dan Simkowitz now oversees investment management.

Pick joined Morgan Stanley in 1990 and held senior posts within global capital markets before starting to run global equities - which he has done for the past six years.

Mike Heaney and Rob Rooney have started an “important turnaround” of Morgan Stanley's fixed income business, the firm said, and will report to Pick going forward.

Meanwhile, Simkowitz will be responsible for traditional asset management, alternative investments and merchant banking. He also joined Morgan Stanley in 1990 and has spent his time in capital markets and M&A.

Simkowitz will report to chairman and chief executive James Gorman, and Pick will report to Colm Kelleher, president of investment banking and trading.

In a separate but related memo, Morgan Stanley said Mo Assomull has become the firm’s sole head of global capital markets.

Lee Miller was promoted to regional director of Glenmede's New York office. Miller joined Glenmede in 2009 as a senior relationship manager and founding member of the New York branch.

She is now responsible for managing the growth and day-to-day operations of the office, and for the ongoing development of the investment management and wealth advisory professionals serving the greater metropolitan area. She reports to Howard Wilson, Glenmede’s executive director of relationship management.

Meanwhile, Glenmede also hired Lea Emery as a business development director in New York, reporting to Miller.

Emery has a strong background in fine art and family office-related concerns, and was most recently a senior vice president and deputy international commercial director at Christie’s, the global auction house. Before that, she was managing director of the charitable services group within US Bank’s private client group.

Andersen Tax made a raft of promotions, two of which were within its private client services department.

Private client experts Kellie Neuhaus and Tim Wylie joined a team of nine Boston, MA-based managing directors, and 17 South California-based managing directors, respectively.

Wylie has over 15 years of experience advising high net worth individuals and their related businesses, trusts, foundations and other entities. He provides global income, estate and gift tax planning and compliance, and advice on charitable giving strategies.

Neuhaus has nearly 16 years of experience in the industry delivering tax and financial advisory services to high net worth individuals, their families and related entities. She focuses on income tax compliance and consulting for individuals, fiduciaries, partnerships and private foundations, as well as providing multi-generational wealth transfer planning services.

Other promotions to managing director at the firm were made in Houston, TX, San Francisco, CA, and Chicago, IL.

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Financial Gravity Holdings named Kevin Schillo as its new director of wealth management – a role in which he will also oversee regulatory and statutory compliance matters.

Schillo began his career in the financial industry in 2004 as a broker at UBS. In 2007, he joined Rogers Capital Management in Fort Worth, TX, as a registered investment advisor representative, specializing in qualified retirement plan design, personal wealth management advice and financial planning. Then in 2012, he became director of operations and chief compliance officer at Whitley Penn Financial.

Tim Hodge, former managing director and head of global private wealth management at Goldman Sachs, joined LPL Financial as executive vice president of service.

Based in San Diego, CA, Hodge will oversee LPL's service organization and help support independent financial advisors, banks, credit unions, RIA firms and clearing clients. He will report to Tom Gooley, managing director of service, trading and operations.

Hodge held a range of brokerage operation and platform management leadership roles during his 20-year tenure at Goldman’s. In his most recent role overseeing global private wealth management, he led teams that support private wealth advisors and clients. Before that, he was vice president for global futures operations, having previously overseen various operations divisions. Earlier still, he spent several years at Bank of America.

Seven former Merrill Lynch private banking advisors joined forces to launch an independent wealth management firm called Corient Capital Partners.

Chris Copps, Gordon Hassenplug, Darren Henderson, Michael Phelps, Alex Stimpson, Jon Tenney and Greg Walters are all based in Newport Beach, CA.

Corient advises ultra high net worth individuals and families, non-profit organizations and corporations across the US.

Corient will use Dynasty's integrated wealth management services and technology, and has chosen Fidelity Investments and Addepar for custody and reporting, data aggregation, portfolio analytics and client web communications, respectively.

Joining the seven founding partners were Heather Hargrove, Tami Hay, Nicole McMann, Cole Turner and Austin Allen – all from Merrill Lynch.

InvestCloud hired John Stuart as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of hybrid solutions.

Stuart was previously director of operations at City National Rochdale, the investment management division of City National Bank, where he oversaw the firm's West Coast footprint and technology initiatives. Before that, he was CIO at Beverly Hills Wealth Management.

Perspecta Trust hired Stephen Tall as chief operating officer – a new role at the firm.

Tall will oversee all operational aspects of the firm, focusing on client support, technology, administration and operational efficiency.

He joined from Acadia Trust, where he was president and chief executive, and before worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International as chief administrative officer, chief technology officer and chief compliance officer.

Earlier still, he was an associate partner at Accenture, where he led international financial services client engagements in technology and operations consulting and outsourcing.

Fiduciary Trust Company of New England, a wealth advisor and investment management firm for high net worth families and charitable organizations, recruited Walter Abbott as vice president.

Abbott joined the firm's Manchester, NH, office and will report to Michael Costa, chief executive.

He previously worked at a Boston-based boutique investment advisor where he was a senior director and oversaw asset allocation strategies for ultra high net worth clients and their families. Before that, he spent 14 years at Fidelity Investments where he helped lead one of the top teams within the private client group, and worked with high net worth individuals and families on asset allocation, wealth management and estate planning.

SimCorp, the global provider of investment management software and services, hired Robert Overlock to head up its North American ASP [application service provider] operations.

Overlock spent the last 13 years working at Misys Banking Systems where he led the go-to-market process for managed hosting and ASP, from inception through to product launch. He has over 20 years' experience in the technology industry, with expertise in delivering software and services to the financial services industry.

As senior manager of North American ASP operations, Overlock will be based in New York.

Tom Leslie joined WealthVest as regional director in the eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and west Virginia territories.

Leslie began his career at Prudential Securities in 1992 and then became a personal investment consultant at Mellon InvestNet, a broker subsidiary of Mellon Bank. He continued working with Mellon Bank in its subsidiary of Dreyfus Investment Services as a financial advisor. In that role, he coached financial relationship managers and fixed annuity specialists.

Most notably, Leslie worked at Citizens Investment Services as senior regional sales manager and vice president, working extensively with the firm's wealth management broker-dealer, “premier” banking and private bank and trust divisions.