Private equity firm Warburg Pincus appointed Dominic Casserley as a senior advisor in its financial services group. Prior to joining Warburg, he spent 30 years at McKinsey & Company, where he held several leadership positions with a focus on financial services and risk management.

First Foundation, the US financial services group, appointed Kori Dolkas and Justin Stewart as branch managers in its San Diego and Oakland locations, respectively. Dolkas leads the team in growing existing relationships in the San Diego region while also focusing on team development and training. He has more than 35 years of leadership experience in San Diego’s banking industry and joins as the bank moves to a new office location within San Diego. Stewart began his new role in First Foundation’s Oakland office after working as a client service manager in the San Diego office.

Cambridge Associates appointed former employee Jeff Blazek as managing director and chief investment officer in the pension practice. Blazek, in his newly-created role, is based in New York City. He is also a member of Cambridge Associates hedge fund ratings and advisory committee. He has 15 years’ experience in investment of pension plans as well as managing portfolios. His previous role at the firm was in the Dallas, Texas office as managing director.

Prudential Financial appointed Lucien Alzjari as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Alzjari replaced Sharon Taylor, who retired after more than 40 years' of service.

FinMason, a Boston, MA-based fintech and investment analytics firm operating in the wealth management space, brought three senior industry figures in positions for data science, marketing and sales. The hires were Mark Carroll, who is made director of data science; Bob Leaper, named head of marketing, and Rich Lenihan, director of enterprise sales. Carroll was previously the lead financial engineer for the risk and valuation product group at Eze Software. Prior to Eze, he was the director of research at Direxion. Leaper was formerly involved in helping financial technology firms with go-to-market strategy and sales execution for more than 20 years, including roles as head of global sales and marketing at Eagle Investment Systems, interim CEO of start-up Data Agent, head of sales at start-up Verilytics and head of global business development at Thomson PORTIA. Lenihan spent the first 13 years of his career at Oppenheimer, Cowen and Paine Webber before making the leap over to WealthTech, where he has been operating in a senior business development role for the last 17 years.

Amherst Capital Management, a BNY Mellon investment boutique specializing in US real estate, appointed Damon Pitler as managing director of its private funds team. Pitler managed its US single family equity and commercial real estate lending portfolios. He reports to Sean Dobson, chief executive chief investment officer, and is based in Austin, Texas.

Lombard International appointed Sandra Locke as executive vice president, global director of human resources. Locke responsible for developing the firm’s HR strategy and reports to executive chairman John Hillman. Locke joined from Guy Carpenter, part of Marsh & McLennan, where she was managing director, global head of human resources.

RBC Wealth Management brought over the Schusterman Mazzone Group to the Midtown-New York office from UBS Financial Services, according to John Moran, director of the Midtown complex. Tracey Schusterman, managing director, and financial advisor, has more than 25 years of industry experience and focuses on financial, retirement and estate planning strategies, as well as wealth preservation and transfer. Rosa Mazzone, first vice president, and financial advisor, has more than 17 years of experience in the industry. The team manages $375 million in client assets with $2.7 million in production.

HilltopSecurities appointed Victor Medina as senior vice president, branch manager of the firm’s new wealth management office in Forth Worth, Texas. Medina previously worked at Morgan Stanley where he served as senior vice president, financial advisor and earned a good reputation in the region.

RBC Wealth Management recently snapped up the Piché Group, led by Joe Piché, from Merrill Lynch. 

State Street hired Heman Bhide to head up its US asset owner business, and Bruce Shain to serve as senior vice president and client service department manager.  Bhide joined the financial services giant from PicewaterhouseCoopers, where he was most recently a partner in its financial services advisory practice. Shain, who reports into Bhide, oversees the firm's corporate pension, non-profit and endowment and foundation asset owner business. Previously, he spent nearly 20 years with BNY Mellon.

Boston-based Acadian Asset Management appointed Catherine Canney as director of corporate and digital marketing, a newly-created role. Canney is based out of its Boston headquarters. She reports to Laurent De Greef, director of client solutions and product strategy.

First National Bank, a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, promoted Marga Spangler as managing director of its wealth management team in Colorado. Spangler leads the bank’s advisor practice and is based in Fort Collins. She has 30 years’ experience in the banking industry. Spangler joined the firm in 2005 and most recently served as lead director for wealth management in Overland Park, Kansas.

UBS appointed Matthias Musch as its new global market head of central, Andean and southern (CAS) Latin America. Musch is based in Zurich. He reports to UBS’ Latin America wealth management head Alejandro Velez, who was appointed to the role in March.

Financial services firm BTIG appointed four managing directors to join its fixed income credit group based in New York. Anthony Guido, Steven Jones, Jay Sommer and Jeffrey Walsh joined BTIG’s fixed income credit group and they report Drew Doscher and Darren Haines, co-heads of the fixed income credit group.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management hired Susan August as a senior wealth manager and fiduciary specialist and Charles Sachs as a senior wealth manager, serving clients in South Florida. August is based in the firm's Palm Beach Gardens office while Sachs joined its Miami unit. Both work with high net worth clients, their attorneys and accountants to address their wealth management and fiduciary needs.

August's financial services career spans more than 20 years. Most recently, she served as a vice president and trust officer at JP Morgan's Palm Beach office. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Sachs spent nearly five years as a founding principal of Private Wealth Consel, a Miami-based wealth management and financial planning firm.

Key Family Wealth, a division of Key Private Bank, announced that Jeffrey Getty, managing director of family wealth consulting, and Edwin Morrow, national wealth specialist, had been elected Fellows by American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, a national estate planning and trust organization.

Northern Trust appointed Robert Ashcroft as senior vice president and director of business owner consulting in wealth management. He replaced John Honney. 

Prior to joining Northern Trust, Ashcroft worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 12 years, where he worked in its Chicago and London offices. Previous to entering financial services, he was an engineer at BAE Systems. Ashcroft is a qualified chartered accountant (FCA) and holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses. 

Advisor Group, the US network of independent financial advisor firms, appointed Greg Stockett as its new chief financial officer and Nina McKenna as chief legal officer and general counsel. McKenna's roles are new ones for the firm. In Stockett's case, he replaced Tom Lux, who agreed to step in as Interim CFO until a permanent replacement was found. Both appointees are located in Advisor Group’s Phoenix, AZ headquarters and report to Jamie Price, President and chief executive.

Previously, Stockett was at REDI Global Technologies, a multi-asset execution management system used by large broker-dealers and their institutional trading clients, where he held dual roles as chief operations officer and chief financial officer. McKenna previously worked at Cetera Financial Group, where she served as chief legal officer and general counsel. Earlier roles include senior legal counsel at ING Americas’ Broker-Dealer Group, the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in its corporate and securities group, NASD Regulation in its District 4 Enforcement Department and Oppenheimer Industries.

Merrill Lynch appointed financial advisor Leon Friedlander and client associate Johanna Trujillo to its Florida office, continuing a run of recent hires across the country. Friedlander specializes in serving clients in Latin America. He had been with Morgan Stanley before his new role at Merrill Lynch. Friedlander has 14 years’ experience as an international financial advisor.

Canada-based investment company Empire Life Investments appointed Jennifer Law, as new senior portfolio manager of Canadian equities. Law manages small-cap equity GIF and the small-cap equity mutual fund as well as the equity portion of the monthly income GIF and monthly income mutual fund. Law has spent more than 20 years as a lead manager in Canadian small cap equities. 

New Jersey-based investment manager Blenheim Capital Management appointed Thomas Kopczynski, James Wohlmacher, Gus Rossi, and Terence Kooyke as partners. The new partners joined its founder and chairman Willem Kooyker as owners of the firm.

Merrill Lynch appointed Tim Chapman and Paul Wargnier to join its newly-opened office in Portland. Chapman and Wargnier formed the Chapman Wargnier Group and were the first team to join Merrill Lynch’s recently opened private banking & investment group in Portland. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Chapman has been providing investment management, private banking, brokerage, insurance, and philanthropic services for high net-worth individuals, families, and foundations in the Oregon region. He previously worked for Wells Fargo Private Bank. Wargnier has more than 30 years’ experience in investment management. His most recent role was at Wells Fargo Private Bank. He was also a member of the global portfolio management team at Trust Company of the West.

Merrill Lynch also appointed financial advisor Aaron Dykas to its Boise, Idaho office. He came from Wells Fargo Advisors where he was responsible for $185 million in assets. Dykas was joined by senior registered client associate Lisa Schaffer, also from Wells Fargo Advisors.

Dykas has more than 20 years of industry experience. He works with families, foundations, and corporations to develop appropriate investment strategies that work. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Boise State. Schaffer has worked in the financial services industry since 1993.

First State Investments assembled a new high-yield bond market team of managers, based in New York. The five-person group is led by Matt Philo, who has been at First State since May last year. Philo was previously head of high-yield at MacKay shields, overseeing more than $22 billion of group assets. The new team includes Michael Elkins, formerly of Avenue Capital and Jason Epstein, previously managing director at Oak Hill Advisors, both of whom joined First State in September 2016.

Financial technology platform iCapital Network appointed Thomas Fortin as managing partner and chief operating officer. Fortin reports to chief executive Lawrence Calcano. He joined from BlackRock, where he was head of retail technology, responsible for strategy, design, and development of retail sales enablement and digital distribution solutions.

Hamilton Lane, the alternative investments firm headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA, promoted 15 of its team to the rank of principal across its international business areas such as Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Seoul, San Francisco and London. The following persons hold the status of principal:

Sungji (Steve) An, Business Development and Client Services, Seoul; Robert Flanigan, Real Assets, Bala Cynwyd; Tarang Katira, Fund Investment Team, London; Ilene Levinson, Product Management, Bala Cynwyd; Miguel Luina, Co-Investments. San Francisco; Trevor Messerly, Credit Investments. Bala Cynwyd; Emily Nomeir, Product Management, Bala Cynwyd; James Noon, Information Technology, Bala Cynwyd; Mitesh Pabari, Secondary Investments, London; Lars Pace, Real Assets, Bala Cynwyd; Matthew Pellini, Secondary Investments, Bala Cynwyd; Demetrius Sidberry, Investor Relations, Bala Cynwyd; Matthew Silverio, Relationship Management, Bala Cynwyd, Collwyn Tan, Co-Investments, Hong Kong and Kristin Williamson, Marketing & Communications, Bala Cynwyd. The firm also promoted Lydia Gavalis as general counsel, and Frederick Shaw as chief compliance officer.

The Gemini Companies - aka Gemini - a firm which helps financial institutions bring pooled investment products to the marketplace, appointed a new chief executive, Kevin Hesselbirg, taking over form Andrew Rogers, who resigned after more than 16 years at the US firm. Rogers continued working at Gemini in an advisory capacity to ensure a smooth transition.

Bank of Montreal promoted Darryl White to chief executive as he succeeded Bill Downe who retired. White worked at the bank for more than 20 years and was appointed chief operating officer in November 2016. Downe, who held his position for longer than any other chief executive of a major Canadian bank, stays in his role until the end of October 2017.

BMO Wealth Management appointed Nick Paldrmic as president of BMO Wealth Management’s CTC|myCFO, a wealth advisory company. Paldrmic’s role as president sees him oversee the business strategy and growth for the ultra-high net worth practice. He previously held the positions of regional president of Chicago and senior managing director for BMO Private Bank, part of BMO Wealth Management.

TFC Financial Management reshuffled its leadership team: Renee Kwok became chief executive; Daniel Kern was made chief investment officer; and James Joslin remained as chairman. Kwok joined TFC in 1991 and became the firm’s president in 2005. She took over from Joslin as CEO. She began her financial services career as an investment analyst with Asian Oceanic Limited, a Hong Kong-based merchant bank. Kern joined TFC in 2015 as chief investment strategist and has also become a shareholder. Prior to joining TFC, Kern was the head of asset allocation for Charles Schwab Investment Management, where he managed approximately $3.5 billion of assets.

Key Private Bank, the wealth management division of KeyCorp, made a senior hire covering two significant markets. It brought in Tom Scaturro as senior market leader to lead its Florida and Hudson Valley/Metro New York market teams, based in the Big Apple. Scaturro is also tasked with driving collaboration within business segments to grow the private banking client base. He reports to Terry Jenkins, president of Key Private Bank, and Peter Cosgrove, senior vice president and regional market leader at the company. Scaturro was previously a regional managing director at Wells Fargo Private Bank, overseeing all client relationship teams in suburban New York. Before his time at Wells Fargo - where he also held roles as national sales director and senior director of sales - he worked at BNY Mellon, responsible for private bank sales, training, product development and compensation.

US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management appointed Stephen Lanzo as senior institutional sales director. He has the job of growing the philanthropic business for US Trust and Merrill Lynch in the Northeast markets. Lanzo will report to the national philanthropic sales executive Bernie Reidy and is based in New York City. He has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services and investment management. Lanzo was a managing director at Commonfund, an independent, non-profit asset management company. He also held roles with Gartmore Global investments, Montgomery Asset Management and JP Morgan.

Raymond James hired financial advisor Harmon Wright Jr to join its Florida office. Wright operates as Northpoint Wealth Management of Raymond James. He serves individuals with financial planning and portfolio and investment management services. He joined the firm from Morgan Stanley, where he managed approximately $106 million in client assets and had more than $1 million in annual production.
Management consulting firm Cornerstone Advisors made a raft of hires. Banking technology and operations expert Quintin Sykes joined as managing director. Sykes previously held senior advisory roles at Crescent Consulting, Hitachi Consulting and Price Waterhouse, and was chief information officer of The South Financial Group.

Mary Keegan joined Cornerstone as chief marketing officer. Keegan previously led marketing and corporate communications for global and early-stage companies in the technology space. In Cornerstone's performance solutions practice area, meanwhile, Joe Ganzelli joined as senior director and Melissa Rogers as director. Niel Devasir and Steve Koenemann joined the technology solutions practice as senior director and senior consultant, respectively.

Raymond James recruited a $150 million team comprising four financial advisors to its North Carolina office, according to Jodi Perry, Southeast regional director. John Chidwick, Ealon Thompson III and Richard Megorden II joined from Triad Advisors, where they managed more than $120 million in client assets. Metin Kurkcu joined from Merrill Lynch, where he managed more than $30 million in client assets. 

Fairfield, CA-based Solano Wealth Management appointed Carlos R. Mendoza to its team of wealth advisors, Mendoza has more than 15 years of experience in financial services and is a designated certified financial planner and accredited asset management specialist. He joined Solano Wealth Management from a bank-owned brokerage business.