Among a number of significant moves was a big team hire at Cresset Family Office, the new wealth management organization.

Cresset Family Office brought in eight senior industry figures to its group, with seven of the recruits coming from Ascent Private Capital Management of US Bank, joining their old colleague Michael Cole who leads this business.

The joiners:

- Scott Winget, JD, CPA – senior managing director for family enterprise consulting, formerly senior vice president and senior managing director for wealth sustainability with Ascent Private Capital Management. 
- Melissa Donohue, Ed.D – senior managing director for family wealth education and leadership development, formerly senior wealth education specialist with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
- Mark Foster – senior managing director for banking and credit consulting; formerly senior managing director, head of private banking with Ascent. 
- Jan Farren – senior managing director of marketing, communication, learning and development, formerly senior vice president and senior managing director of marketing and professional development with Ascent.

Others were Will Amerine, MBA – managing director of strategic partnerships, formerly managing director of strategic relationships at Ascent; Martim De Arantes Oliveira – regional managing director, northern California; formerly regional managing director and senior vice president with Ascent; Sisi Tran, JD, LLM – managing director, wealth strategist, northern California; formerly senior vice president, managing director, wealth strategy with Ascent, and Tom Crotty, CPA – managing director, family office advisory, northern California; formerly managing director, CFO services at Ascent.

Raymond James Financial promoted its asset management group president to chief administrative officer and approved one of its division heads to join its executive committee. Jeff Dowdle, president of the Asset Management Group, was named CAO. Dowdle continues to head the AMG. Jodi Perry, president of the Independent Contractor Division of Raymond James Financial Services, was approved by the firm’s board of directors to join the company’s executive committee.

Banc of California appointed Steven Hamilton as senior director of private banking, Rafael Lopez Jr as senior director of private banking and Debbie Maisch as private banking officer. The trio joined the firm’s private banking division in Los Angeles, and will focus on entertainment and business management. 

Hamilton joined from City National Bank, where he served as a vice president and relationship manager in the entertainment banking division. He previously worked at MUFG Union Bank in Beverly Hills, California and Zions Bank in Park City, Utah. Lopez Jr joined from MUFG Union Bank, where he served as a vice president and private banker. Lopez has over 11 years of private banking experience focusing on high net worth and business management clients. Maisch joined from Pacific Mercantile Bank, where she served as personal banking officer focused on entertainment industries banking. Maisch has over 18 years of customized private and entertainment banking service experience, including previously at First California Bank.

Wells Fargo Asset Management announced that Anthony Norris, a portfolio manager of the Wells Fargo Multi-Sector Income Fund, had retired. Alex Perrin, Niklas Nordenfelt, Peter Wilson, Christopher Kauffman, Michael Lee, Philip Susser, Christopher Wightman, and Noah Wise continued their roles as portfolio managers of the fund. 

JP Morgan Private Bank appointed Emily Rodriguez as an investor on Andean, Caribbean and Central American clients, based in Miami. Rodriguez joined after over 11 years at Crédit Agricole in Miami, where she was most recently head of portfolio management for Indosuez.

Laird Norton Wealth Management appointed Carla Wigen as managing director of fiduciary strategy. She is part of LNWM’s senior leadership team and reports to Bob Moser, LNWM’s president and chief executive. Wigen has nearly 20 years of experience in wealth management and private banking focusing on trusts and estate planning. Wigen was regional manager of investment and fiduciary services at Wells Fargo Bank and the market leader for Bellevue and Alaska.

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Daniel Stolfa as a managing director and wealth and fiduciary advisor at the firm's office in Minneapolis. Stolfa reports to Martha Pomerantz, a partner at the firm and manager of the Minneapolis office. Prior to joining Evercore, Stolfa worked as a wealth advisor to high net worth families at Stiles Financial Services and, earlier, as a wealth advisor at Stolfa Private Wealth Advisors.

Financial services group Bank of Montreal appointed Craig Broderick to join its board of directors. Broderick is the former chief risk officer of the Goldman Sachs Group. He retired from Goldman Sachs in January 2018 after 32 years.

Union Bank appointed Robert Chamberlin III as a vice president and wealth management consultant of its wealth markets team. Chamberlin is based in the company's Irvine office and reports to Jason Liu, head of wealth planning and director of sales development and training for wealth markets. Prior to the role, he was most recently a vice president and team lead/investment product specialist at JP Morgan Chase. Chamberlin has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and wealth management. 

NNY Mellon Wealth Management named Bryan T McGrath as senior wealth director in Philadelphia, PA. McGrath reports to Robert Bowman, MD - business development in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Prior to joining the firm, McGrath was a wealth advisor and vice president at Key Private Bank for four years. Before that role, McGrath was wealth advisor at TD Wealth Management. McGrath has a bachelor of arts in economics  with minors in finance and business administration from Ursinus College. He is a graduate of Bucknell and Northwestern Trust schools, is Series 7 and 66 certified, and holds a Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS) designation.

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, appointed James Athanasoulas as a managing director. Based in Boston, Athanasoulas joined managing director, Peter Lipson, to help lead the firm’s private credit investment program and team. Prior to joining HarbourVest, Athanasoulas was an MD at Bain Capital Credit, formerly known as Sankaty Advisors, where he originated, structured, and underwrote private debt and equity investments in the middle market. Prior to joining Bain Capital Credit, he was a manager with Bain and Company.

Argent Trust Company, the Louisiana-based firm, appointed Deanna Rankin as chief compliance officer. Rankin, who is based in San Antonio and reports to Charles Wade, took charge of all regulatory compliance issues for the company. She is a Certified Fiduciary and Investment Risk Specialist with more than 30 years of industry experience, including 29 years at Frost Bank, where she was most recently head of fiduciary audit. She succeeded Kim Breithaupt, who was promoted to another role in the company. Breithaupt previously was CCO and was responsible for compliance and audit-related duties. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Bryan McGrath as senior wealth director in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McGrath reports to Robert Bowman, managing director – business development in the Mid-Atlantic region. Prior to this, McGrath was a wealth advisor and vice president at Key Private Bank for four years. Before that, McGrath was wealth advisor at TD Wealth Management.

Snowden Lane Partners, an independent, advisor-owned, wealth advisory firm, hired the Castleberry Advisory Group for its San Antonio office. Keary Castleberry, senior partner, managing director, and Lara Sterns, senior registered client relationship manager, established the Castleberry Advisory Group, join Snowden Lane from Wells Fargo, where they advised $126 million in client assets. Castleberry and Sterns worked alongside Snowden Lane’s existing teams in the firm’s San Antonio office, which includes the Hogan Eller Group, who joined in June of this year, and the Strategic Management Group, who established the office in 2017.

US-based Union Bank appointed Jeffrey Keating as vice president and private wealth advisor of its wealth markets team in San Jose.  He reports to Lisa Roberts, private wealth management executive, Northern California and Pacific Northwest. Keating manages the bank's relationships with its affluent clientele, providing solutions for their complex financial needs, including wealth planning, investment management, estate and business planning, as well as banking and lending products and services.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Barry D Miller, associate director of disclosure review and accounting in the Division of Investment Management, retired from the organization at the end of August after more than 40 years of public service, including more than 30 years of service at the SEC. Prior to his role as associate director, Miller held several senior positions within the division, including assistant chief counsel, assistant director in the Disclosure Review Office, and senior special counsel in the Exemptive Applications Office, where he was a member of the team that revised and recommended exemptive relief for the first exchange-traded fund, the S&P 500 ETF Trust ETF (SPDR), to the Commission.

First Republic Bank, private bank and wealth management firm, appointed Scott van der Marck as senior managing director and relationship manager. Van der Marck has over 30 years of experience as an advisor to both companies and private clients in the real estate and financial services sectors. Before joining First Republic, van der Marck was a private mortgage banker at Wells Fargo for 13 years.

Ascent Private Capital Management appointed Jason Burkey-Skye as regional managing director in Denver. Burkey-Skye continues to reside in the Denver area. In his new role, he manages a team of 10 professionals who currently work with 26 families in the Rocky Mountain region. He fills the position vacated by John Zimmerman, who was promoted to president of Ascent earlier this summer.

Raymond James brought in four financial advisors to its broker-dealer business in New York City. They are Stephen Adler, Mark Levy, Roger Jee and Michael Lubin. The team operates as Adler, Levy, Jee & Lubin Wealth Management of Raymond James and joins from Wells Fargo. The group previously managed more than $1 billion in client assets. Joining the four men are financial advisors Allison Guzman and Stephen Orzo, who are in Raymond James’ Advisor Mastery Program; Loriann Montanez, senior registered client associate; Christopher Swanson, CFA, senior investment management specialist; and James Havell, practice marketing associate.

Connecticut-based Fieldpoint Private, the wealth advisory and private banking boutique serving ultra-high net worth families and institutions, appointed Nicole Boutmy de Katzmann as managing director and senior advisor of its New York City office. De Katzmann joined from Oppenheimer & Company’s private client division, where she advised approximately 40 families in Europe, Latin America and the US. She began her career with Republic National Bank of New York, serving as an international private banker in Montevideo, Milan, London and New York. In all, she spent 25 years with Republic.

RBC Wealth Management hired Rosen Wealth Management Group to join its San Francisco office. The Rosen Wealth Management Group comprises Bruce Rosen, managing director and financial advisor who has 35 years of industry experience, Mary DuSablon, investment associate, and Mia Manahan, senior client associate.  The team manages approximately $390 million in assets and joins from Wells Fargo. It also appointed Michael Greth as senior vice president and financial advisor to its Des Moines, Iowa office. Greth joins with 14 years of industry experience. He manages approximately $170 million in client assets and joins RBC from Wells Fargo. 

SEI Investments Canada Company, part of the US-based financial services and technology firm SEI, hired Lucy Paglione as senior client portfolio manager in its Toronto office. Paglione is responsible for managing relationships with SEI’s non-profit and defined benefit Canadian clients. She focuses on delivering SEI’s outsourced chief investment officer services to clients.

Global asset manager Jupiter appointed William Lopez as head of Latin America and US offshore. Lopez, who joined Jupiter following four years at Columbia Threadneedle where he was responsible for US offshore and Mexico.

Raymond James hired Patton Wealth Management to Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS) – the firm’s independent broker/dealer – in Maumee, Ohio. The wealth management firm consists of financial advisors David Patton, Miles O’Mailia and Theresa Cooper. They join from Merrill Lynch, where they previously managed $235 million in client assets and had $1.1 million in annual production.

Sun Life Investment Management appointed Tom Murphy as head of affiliate development and business strategy. In this new role, Murphy is responsible for driving the global business strategy for Sun Life Investment Management's third-party institutional business. He has over 25 years of global investment experience including building Mercer's European Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business, and most recently overseeing its US wealth business. 

Oppenheimer & Co appointed Hugh Williams as branch manager of Oppenheimer's Greensboro office. This is the third branch manager appointment for the firm, following Bill Pomeroy in Asheville and Nelson Kelly in Winston-Salem. Williams has more than three and a half decades of experience in the sector.  He was a senior member of the Williams Monforton Watson Group of Oppenheimer & Co. Prior to Oppenheimer, Williams held positions at EF Hutton, Interstate Johnson Lane and Morgan Keegan. Before working in financial services, he served in the 422nd Civil Affairs Unit of the US Army Reserve.

HighTower sought a new chief executive to take over from founder and CEO Elliot Weissbluth, who became the chairman. Weissbluth continues to concentrate on merger and acquisition activity teams and attracting new advisory teams. As part of the changes, Gurinder S Ahluwalia switched to the position of lead director.

US-based First Business Financial Services announced that Jerry Smith would retire from its board of directors on October 26. Smith entered a consulting arrangement with the company. It elected Gerald Kilcoyne as chair. Smith was founding chief executive of both First Business Bank and its parent holding company and started First Business in Madison in 1990. Smith served as a director of the company since 1990, and chair of the board since July 2006.

US-based Regions Bank appointed Leslie Carter-Prall as head of private wealth management. She reports to Bill Ritter, head of regions wealth management. Carter-Prall was most recently private wealth management central region executive. Carter-Prall replaced Kate Danella, who was appointed head of strategic planning and corporate development. In this expanded role, Danella leads a team responsible for strategic planning; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and corporate development. Danella reports to the president and chief executive, John Turner.

Waddell & Reed Financial, a US-based investment management and financial planning firm, appointed Mark Buyle as senior vice president, general counsel and chief legal officer. Buyle joined Waddell & Reed in 1995 as senior attorney and, over the years, has provided legal guidance for nearly every area of the company. He most recently served as interim general counsel, a role he assumed in April.

US Bancorp appointed Jodi Richard as vice chairman and chief risk officer, succeeding P W (Bill) Parker, who announced he wanted to retire. Richard oversees the company’s risk management and compliance.

Foresight Wealth Management appointed David Wrigley as chief investment officer. Eric Stats, former chief investment officer, became director of strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Most recently, Wrigley served as a senior portfolio manager at Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA), and previously held investment management roles at Ivy Funds and JP Morgan.

Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm, appointed Jeffrey Gould as head of marketing and investor relations. Gould was previously a senior member of CrossBay Capital Partners, a placement advisory firm focused on private equity capital formation. Prior to this, Gould was a director at Societe Generale and associate director at Barclays Capital covering institutions for the corporate bond and syndicated loan trading desks.

Wilmington Trust, a wholly-owned subsidiary of M&T Bank Corporation, appointed William Buccella as president of US markets for wealth advisory, and Ann Silverman as president of private banking.

Previously, Buccella served as president of private banking, and Silverman as group manager for private banking. As president of US markets, Buccella is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of Wilmington Trust’s high net worth wealth management business across the country. Buccella has 30 years of experience in financial services, including banking and wealth management roles. He came to Wilmington Trust in 2017 from Northern Trust Company, where he was president of private wealth management for the New England region. Buccella is based in Wilmington Trust’s Boston office.

RBC Global Asset Management appointed Michael Kitt as head of real estate equity investments. Based in Toronto and reporting to Dan Chornous, chief investment officer of RBC GAM, Kitt is responsible for leading the firm's efforts to develop Canadian real estate pooled solutions. Kitt has experience in the North American and European real estate business. Most recently, he was chief financial officer and executive vice president, finance and strategy for Oxford Properties, OMERS' wholly-owned real estate investment unit.

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Toronto-based Avison Young, real estate financial services firm, appointed Jean Pierre Gagnon and Robert Metcalfe as principals of the firm. Gagnon has more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience, while Metcalfe has more than 30 years. Both joined Avison Young from CBRE in Montreal, where they were vice-presidents specializing in investment property transactions.

Wilmington Trust hired Tracy Nickl as national head of client development and engagement for wealth advisory. Based in the company’s Los Angeles office, she works with Wilmington Trust’s wealth management teams across the US to deliver solutions to high net worth clients. Previously, she worked for BNY Mellon as head of relationship development for asset servicing in the Americas, where she was responsible for driving approximately $180 million in new revenue annually.

Venerable venture capital house Bessemer Venture Partners, which has $4.5 billion of assets, promoted Anna Khan to vice president. Since Khan joined the business in 2012, she has sourced several of the firm's notable investments, including the customer messaging platform Intercom and the cloud contact center and inside sales technology provider NewVoiceMedia. She also co-authors BVP's State of the Cloud annual report with Bessemer partners Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen.

Based in San Francisco, Khan works with partner Byron Deeter. Outside Bessemer, Khan is the founder and chair of the incubator Launch X, which she launched in 2015 to help female entrepreneurs raise capital for their businesses. 

Florida-based Ocean Bank appointed five former employees of EFG International to its wealth management subsidiary Ocean Financial Services. Joining Ocean Financial Services from EFG International were Mario Fernandez, Alexandra Rumié, Henry De Valle, Daniel Cabrera and Maria Luisa De Jesus. Fernandez joined Ocean Financial Services as senior vice president. The former director of EFG’s KeyStar Group, Fernandez has 25 years of experience in financial services. Rumié, who has more than 30 years of experience in financial services, oversees the team’s family office offering.  Prior to the KeyStar Group, she worked as a wealth advisor at SunTrust Bank and as an international private banker at Grupo Santander.

US law firm Moore & Van Allen said Todd Ransom joined the firm as a member of the financial services team. Ransom was recently a partner at Haynes and Boone in New York City, and prior to that served as assistant general counsel at Bank of America Corp. He serves as counsel to large financial institutions, including banks, hedge funds and private equity funds, in connection with a full range of complex financing transactions.

US wealth manager Boston Private appointed Joy McCune as its chief human resources officer. McCune succeeded Martha Higgins to lead Human Resources as a member of the Boston Private management team. Prior to Boston Private, McCune was chief human resources officer at Boston Financial Data Services.

NewSquare Capital appointed Miguel Biamon as senior fixed income portfolio manager. Biamon was previously at Blue Bell Private Wealth Management he was a senior investment advisor, fixed income trader, and relationship manager.

Regions Bank appointed former Clara Green as head of diversity and inclusion. Green leads the Diversity and Inclusion Center of Expertise in Regions’ human resources group and reports to Dave Keenan, head of human resources. Prior to joining Regions, she worked for General Electric for 20 years, most recently as diversity and inclusion leader for GE Power, a 60,000 employee global organization. 

Rockerfeller Capital Management appointed Michael Outlaw as a managing director. He is responsible for recruiting and managing wealth advisors in the eastern US. In his new role, Outlaw opened Rockefeller Capital Management’s Atlanta office and is responsible for leading the firm’s growth strategy across the region. Outlaw joined from Morgan Stanley, where he was the complex manager for Atlanta Buckhead and led private wealth management for the Southeast region. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 as a financial advisor, where he had a number of roles during his 22-year tenure.

BlueMountain Capital Management appointed Scott Troeller as a portfolio manager to source, evaluate, and execute infrastructure-related private investments, with an initial focus on energy, environmental, and telecommunications infrastructure in North America. In the newly-created position, Troeller reports to Andrew Feldstein, co-founder and chief investment officer. Troeller is BlueMountain’s first senior investment professional to focus exclusively on infrastructure. Troeller joined from Fir Tree Partners, where he was a managing director focusing on private equity investments. 

Baird, an employee-owned wealth management firm, hired The Smith Group to join its Charlotte office located at 4350 Congress Street, Suite 400. The team is led by financial advisor H B Smith, managing director. He is joined by assistant financial advisor Daniel Bryant. Smith has nearly 30 years of industry experience. 

Global law firm Clifford Chance appointed Victor Levy as a corporate partner in its private funds group in New York. Levy started his career at Clifford Chance, where he focused on private funds and structured credit vehicles, and was with the firm for nearly nine years. He re-joined from DLA Piper, where he was made a partner in 2015.

Fiduciary Trust Company International, the wealth management firm that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments, appointed Edgardo Gonzalez as a managing director and senior portfolio manager in its Coral Gables office. Gonzalez was previously at US Trust in Fort Lauderdale, where he was a portfolio manager in the global wealth and investment management division. Gonzalez previously worked as a wealth management advisor for TIAA-CREF in Miami and New York. Earlier in his career, he spent more than eight years with JP Morgan, most recently as a portfolio manager in the firm’s private bank in New York.

New York-based Crayhill Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm that specializes in private credit investments, appointed Sloan Sutta as managing director. Sutta is a senior member of Crayhill's investment team. Prior to joining Crayhill, Sutta was a managing director at Och-Ziff Capital Management (now Oz Management), where he was responsible for the private structured credit business within the US structured credit team.

Global asset manager Janus Henderson appointed Dick Weil as its sole chief executive. Weil also serves as a member of the board of directors. He is responsible for the strategic direction and overall day-to-day management of the firm, and leads the firm’s executive committee. The firm scrapped the co-CEO roles, and Andrew Formica resigned as co-CEO and board member with immediate effect. However, Formica agreed to continue on as an advisor to assist with final integration efforts through the end of the year. 

BNY Mellon Investment Management announced that Joe Moran, head of US intermediary sales, had left the firm. Moran joined BNY Mellon in 2014 as head of the firm’s wealth solutions group, and later became head of US distribution.

US-based professional services firm EisnerAmper appointed Lori F Reiner to the newly-created role of chief people officer, moving from her previous position as the partner-in-charge of the firm’s Philadelphia office. Paul Dougherty was named as her replacement. Reiner is a board member of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Philadelphia-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance for Women Entrepreneurs, and the Abramson Center for Jewish Life as well as a past president of The Forum of Executive Women. 

US- and UK-based investment manager Epoch Investment Partners appointed Philipp Hensler as president and chief operating officer. Timothy Taussig, co-founder and current president and COO, will retire at the end of the year. Hensler was most recently the president and chief executive of Vontobel Asset Management. Prior to Vontobel, he was the head of distribution for OppenheimerFunds. He spent over a decade at Deutsche Asset Management / DWS, where he held numerous leadership roles in the US and Switzerland.

Silvercrest Asset Management appointed Christopher Long as managing director, concentrating on the business’s outsourced chief investment officer business. His role was a newly-created one. Long reports to J Allen Gray, managing director and head of the firm’s institutional business. Prior to this, Long worked at Glenmede Trust Company, where he was director of client development focusing on the firm’s OCIO business nationally. 

Raymond James hired financial advisors Jim Broadway Snr, Jim Broadway Jnr, Kyle Evens, Kent Nuzum and William Perkins to join Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS), the firm’s independent broker/dealer in Roswell, Georgia. The advisors joined from Wells Fargo Advisors, where they collectively managed more than $550 million in client assets and had $2.7 million in annual production. The advisors are located in the same office location in Roswell, and operate as four separate businesses: Broadway Financial Group, Evens Wealth Management, Nuzum Wealth Management and Perkins Wealth Strategies. 

Florida-based Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services appointed Kirk Hulett has senior vice president for organizational and practice development across the firm. He was head of practice management at the company. His new role covers the following subsidiaries: Securities America, Triad Advisors, KMS Financial Services, Investacorp and Securities Service Network (SSN). Hulett will report to Ladenburg’s chief operating officer, Adam Malamed.