The moves and appointments that took place during April in North America.

Raymond James welcomed advisors Don Prescott, Tennelle Nickel and Marc Cooper to Raymond James Financial Services, in Medford, Oregon. The advisors joined the team at SilverTree Wealth Partners from Edward Jones where they previously managed about $180 million in client assets. 

Prescott has more than 19 years of industry experience gained at his previous firm. After beginning her career in 2014 as a branch office administrator, Nickel became a financial advisor at Edward Jones. She transitioned to Raymond James to partner with her brother, Don, and the professionals at SilverTree Wealth Partners. Cooper has been serving clients as a financial advisor since 2017. Previously, he worked in several leadership roles with Edward Jones, including field trainer, mentor and level leader.

The firm welcomed Virginia-based financial advisors Jon Schubert, Brent Bigney, Mike Morrison and Adam Stalcup to Raymond James Financial Services â€“ the firm’s independent advisor channel. As Resolute Private Wealth, the advisors were joined by client service associates Stacey Hytree and Amy Tesi. Based in Forest, Virginia, they serve clients including business owners, corporate executives, family offices, women investors, endowments and foundations. The team previously managed about $340 million in client assets at Merrill Lynch. Chief operations officer at RPW, Stalcup also joined the advisor team in 2018.

The firm brought in financial advisors Keith Haller and Cory Shepard to Raymond James Financial Services. The duo operates as Haller and Shepard Capital Group and is based in Kirkland, Washington. They joined from Edward Jones where they previously managed about $327 million in client assets. 

SVB Financial Group, parent of Silicon Valley Bank, named Kay Matthews as chair of its board of directors. She joined SVB's board in 2019, after retiring from her 36-year career at Ernst & Young where she served in several leadership roles for the global organization.

Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, appointed Lauren Oschman as chief executive. Oschman succeeded Tommy Martin, who focuses as a member of Vestia’s board of directors. Oschman, who co-founded Vestia in 2018, is based in Nashville, Tennessee. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Justin Williams as senior client strategist. Previously, he worked at worked at Wells Fargo. Williams serves ultra-high net worth families, business corporate executives, private equity and hedge fund principals and their family offices, as well as foundations and endowments on their comprehensive wealth needs. He is based in Seattle and reports to Bo Lee, market president, Pacific Northwest. At Wells Fargo, Williams served as a wealth advisor, senior vice president. 

State Street, the US financial group, named Michael Knowling as head of its global clients division. Knowling reports jointly to Joerg Ambrosius, executive vice president of State Street Corporation, and Chris Coleman, global client management head.

Fiduciary Trust International appointed Philip Jodz as senior relationship manager, based in its Radnor office. Jodz manages the delivery of a broad range of services to ultra-high net worth, family office, non-profit clients and their advisors.

With two decades of industry experience under his belt, Jodz was a director in the Philadelphia office of Abbot Downing, where he was responsible for managing client relationships through the coordination of investment management, fiduciary administration, wealth transfer, and multigenerational planning for individuals and families. He also provided philanthropic and administrative services to foundations and endowments. 

Law firm Katten recruited high net worth attorney Kevin T Keen as a partner in its private wealth practice in Dallas, Texas. Previously, Keen served as managing partner at another international law firm’s Texas office and practiced as a US-qualified private client attorney in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Sanctuary Wealth welcomed Santa Barbara-based Saige Private Wealth, its seventh team of advisors in California. The three-person team, with around $270 million in client assets, is led by founder and managing partner Antonia La Rocca. 

La Rocca previously spent 14 years with UBS Financial Services where she was senior vice president, wealth management. Prior to that she worked as a tax consultant for a major international accounting firm in Los Angeles, as well as having owned and managed a small medical services business in Maryland. La Rocca, who is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, with a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Southern California, earned a CPA license from the State Board of Accountancy in California. 

New York-listed Franklin Resources, which operates as Franklin Templeton, appointed Sandy Kaul as senior vice president to provide advisory consulting and thought leadership as part of the Franklin Templeton Institute. Based in New York, Kaul has more than 25 years of industry experience. She joined from Citigroup, where she served as managing director and global head of business advisory services.

Glenmede appointed Kenneth Spruill as managing director and team leader of the Center for Family Philanthropy and Wealth Education. He reports to the center’s director, Nina Cohen, who has led Glenmede’s Philanthropic Advisory business for more than a decade. Spruill most recently served as senior philanthropy advisor of private foundation solutions for PNC Private Bank Hawthorn. Previously, he served as a senior talent consultant and manager of diversity strategies for PNC, and as the workforce diversity officer and relationship manager for Wachovia Corporation. 

Capital Group appointed three new members to join its RIA advisory board, bringing membership to 12 practitioners, specialists and industry leaders. The new members are Ann Gookin, managing director, investment and firm management, Freestone Capital Management; Damon A White, chief operating officer and co-founder, Evermay Wealth Management, and Jayman Yi, founder and chief investment officer, Roehl & Yi.

Credit rating and market intelligence firm S&P Global appointed prominent economics writer and historian Dr Daniel Yergin as vice chairman following its merger with IHS Markit. Dr Yergin serves as a member of the leadership team and reports directly to S&P Global president and chief executive Doug Peterson. Previously vice chairman of IHS Markit, his appointment became effective at the close of the merger. 

Allspring Global Investments formed a “chief diversity office” to promote greater diversity, equity and inclusion across the business and the wider industry. Ann Miletti serves as chief diversity officer while continuing as Allspring’s head of active equity. She reports directly to Joe Sullivan, Allspring’s chair and chief executive officer. Additionally, Sonya Rorie was named deputy chief diversity officer, a full-time role, reporting to Miletti. With more than 30 years of asset management industry experience, Miletti has worked as an investment leader, portfolio manager, and analyst.

Sonya Rorie, CFA has more than 25 years of industry experience and joined the chief diversity office from Allspring’s institutional client group. 

KKR, aka Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, appointed Pamela Alexander as managing director and head of corporate citizenship. Based in New York, Alexander oversees the development and execution of KKR’s corporate citizenship and strategic philanthropy programs globally. 

Alexander joined from Ford Motor Company, where she spent more than two decades in senior community development and government relations roles. Most recently, Alexander was director of community development for the Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, where she directed and led community engagement for the US. 

Lafayette Square Foundation, an affiliate of US-based Lafayette Square and a non-profit public charity, appointed Susannah Vickers as executive director. With 25 years’ public sector and capital markets experience, Vickers most recently served as the New York City Assistant Comptroller for Pensions and designated trustee to the NYC pension systems.

Insigneo, the the Miami-based independent broker-dealer and registered investment advisory firm, appointed Peter Isern as a senior vice president in Miami. Isern partners with Gonzalo Milian, SVP who has been part of the Investment Professionals Insigneo network since 2018. Isern's and Milian's combined assets are $250 million.

Isern, who has nearly 24 years of financial services experience, worked for Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch prior to joining the UBS Miami branch. Milian, part of the Investment Professionals network of Insigneo, manages affluent clients and institutions from Venezuela, Italy, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Argentina, Panama, Nicaragua, and other countries within Central, South America and the Caribbean. He has more than 10 years of experience as an international financial advisor and has been registered with Insigneo since January 2018. 

Hamilton Lane, a private markets firms with $753 billion in advisory assets, has made promotions in its UK team. The senior promotions spanned investments, client solutions, legal and operations.

London-based Antony Anastasiadis and Nina Kraus were promoted from vice-presidents to principals. Anastasiadis, who joined Hamilton Lane in 2017, is responsible for conducting diligence and execution of secondary transactions in the private equity market. Kraus works in Hamilton Lane’s fund investment team, where she focuses on fund investment opportunities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The promotions include those of nine individuals to managing director and 18 individuals to principal. Among the MDs, five were women, equating to 36 per cent of the firm’s senior leadership:

Adam Shane, head of fund formation counsel;
Chenkay Li, direct equity investments;
Emily Nomeir, direct credit investments;
Kristin Jumper, head of transaction legal;
Matt Barbato, head of operational due diligence;
Michael Woollatt, head of Canada;
Ryan Cooney, secondary investments;
Sarah Mehra, head of primary transactions counsel: and 
Stephanie Davis, private wealth solutions.

The firm also promoted the following individuals to principal:
Antony Anastasiadis, secondary investments; 
Brian Reilly, Taft-Hartley Services; 
Bryan Jenkins, private market analytics;
Dan Connaughton, head of Asia compliance;
Denise Dunbar, director of accounting;
Dominic Mammarella, direct equity investments;
Donald Duncan, head of broker dealer and AML compliance; 
Drew Carl, director of external reporting; 
Gina Ro, head of Evergreen operations; 
Jennifer Maier, head of client services; 
Joseph Fritz, director of tax; 
Jungchul Shin, client solutions – Korea; 
Kate McGann, marketing and communications; 
Nina Kraus, fund investments; 
Salvador Almeida, client solutions – Latin America; 
Santiago Rivera, director of valuation; 
Vivienne Watganai, fund investments; and 
William Lo, secondary investments.

In addition to the promotions, the firm recently welcomed Christian D’Amico as principal, client solutions based in the firm’s Frankfurt office, Elizabeth Bell as principal on the real assets investment team, and Steve Binder as head of Taft-Hartley Services.

Argent Trust Company vice president and trust officer Heather Webb was selected as a member of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. She was chosen for her contributions to the legal profession and her dedication to improving the justice system throughout Texas.