A roundup of senior moves and appointments in wealth management from around the world.

Offhsore law firm Carey Olsen added several associates to its dispute resolution and litigation team and its trusts and private wealth team in Guernsey. Sarah Kett, who trained at Clarke Willmott in Manchester before joining Carey Olsen, advises local and international clients on a range of matters, including corporate and company law disputes, trust disputes, employment law, intellectual property and commercial litigation.

Kett, appointed as an associate, was joined in litigation by associate Acsah Nel. Nel specialises in a range of contentious and non-contentious aspects of corporate and company law, including contractual disputes. Prior to joining Carey Olsen, she practised with Norton Rose Fulbright in South Africa.

Shumona Neswar, previously in the private client team at Knights in the UK, joined Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth team. She advises trustees and high net worth individuals on a range of trust and private wealth matters, with a particular focus on wills, trusts and estate planning.

JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, appointed Marcel Imery as business development director for the US and wider Americas markets. 

Based in JTC’s New York office, Imery provides structuring services to JTC’s private and corporate clients, with a particular remit to help drive growth across the US and Latin American markets. 

London law firm Laurus recruited Victoria Teymourian-Yates as an associate in its family team. Having spent almost a decade as a family lawyer, Teymourian-Yates has experience of dealing with complex issues such as pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. She has particular expertise in advising on cases which involve domestic abuse and private children matters. 

Danske Bank appointed Magnus Agustsson as its new chief risk officer, replacing Carsten Egeriis who took over as CEO in April. Agustsson, is slated to take up the post no later than December  2021. In the interim, risk responsibility at the Danish bank is managed by George Anagnostopoulos.

Danske's former chief executive, Chris Vogelzang, who took over in 2019 from a predecessor who was forced out amid the money laundering scandal, was also forced to step down this year after being named as a suspect in a probe by Dutch authorities dating back to Vogelzang's time at the Dutch state bank ABN AMRO.

AssetCo, the UK wealth and asset management firm, appointed Gary Collins as distribution head. Collins was previously in the same role at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, running the Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Latin American distribution strategy and team. He joined Columbia Threadneedle in 2006 as head of UK retail/wholesale, having previously worked at Merrill Lynch Investment Management.

Finitiv, a private credit marketplace, appointed a former senior figure at groups such as Royal Bank of Scotland (now NatWest) and GE Capital to lead its European business plans. Andrew Holgate is managing director and head of Europe, based in the UK. Holgate develops Finitive's relations with non-bank lenders seeking financing, such as specialist finance companies, online lenders, marketplace lenders and private credit funds. He worked in traditional and alternative finance for more than 20 years, and founded Equitivo, a European fintech consultancy and advisory business.

A UK-based body focused on promoting market-friendly regulations – an increasingly urgent need post-Brexit – named a former senior European parliamentarian as its chair. The International Regulatory Strategy Group named Dr Kay Swinburne, vice chair of financial services for KPMG UK and former vice chair of the European Parliament’s Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, to the post. Former City minister Mark Hoban was the previous incumbent.

HSBC Asset Management appointed a new climate technology, or climatech, team to expand direct investment into alternatives. The team is led by UK-based Christophe Defert as head of climate technology venture investments. Defert has 16 years’ experience of investment banking, private equity, corporate M&A, energy contracts and venture capital. Before joining HSBC Asset Management, he spent 10 years at UK energy provider Centrica where he most recently built and led Centrica Innovations’ venture effort globally.

Michael D’Aurizio joined in the US as investment director in climate technology. He has over a decade's experience in power, utilities, and clean energy, including business strategy and venture capital. D’Aurizio has also worked at Centrica, leading US activities.

The team reports to Remi Bourrette, head of venture and growth investments, who joined the group last year from HSBC Global Banking and Markets.

Preqin, which provides data, tools and insights on alternative assets such as private equity and the hedge fund sector, appointed Tom Hunt as its new chief technology officer. Hunt was formerly a technology leader at Kantar and GlobalWebIndex, both market research and data analytics companies.

Danish online trading specialist Saxo Bank appointed Simon O’Malley as chief financial officer for its Saxo Markets UK subsidiary and as a new board member. Based in London, O'Malley reports to UK CEO Charles White-Thomson. He joined from HSBC Global Banking & Markets, most recently as programme director for business transformation. Before that, he was global risk COO for Barclays.

HSBC appointed Laura Geiger-Pancera as ultra-high net worth family office director, leading the private bank’s single family office division in Switzerland. Based in Zurich, Geiger-Pancera reports to Tom Cerboni, head of UNHW at HSBC Switzerland. Previously, she spent two decades with UBS in wealth management. Working in Europe and Asia, she served on UHNW global and regional executive committees and led various strategic client and product initiatives. Most recently, Geiger-Pancera led the Global UHNW Client Strategy Office at UBS.

Credit Suisse named Gabriele D’Agosta as head of private banking in Italy and executive of the Credit Suisse (Italy) SpA organisation. A number of relationship managers also joined the firm’s wealth management arm in the country.

D’Agosta, who succeeded Giorgio Vio, brought more than 20 years of experience in wealth management and corporate advisory. His primary focus has been on Italian entrepreneurs and wealth management clients, most recently with UBS. Prior to that, he worked for Rothschild and Morgan Stanley. He holds a business administration degree from Bocconi University in Milan. Based in Milan, he reports to Robert Cielen, head of international wealth management for Europe. 

Gabriele Edoardo Ravano, Andrea Di Carlo and Edoardo Longhini joined Credit Suisse Italy’s wealth management team as senior RMs in Milan, while Matteo Carraro and Roberto Bettati joined as senior RMs in Padua. Ginevra Calegari d’Oria joined as a tied agent and Stefano Mussati joined the team as an investment expert based in Milan.

Gregor Hirt was named global chief investment officer for Allianz Global Investors multi-asset business, based in Frankfurt. Hirt works with AllianzGI’s Multi Asset experts in Europe, Asia and the US, and reports to Deborah Zurkow, global head of investments.

Hirt has 25 years of experience of working in the wealth and asset management industries. Prior to this, he was global head of discretionary portfolio management at the international private banking arm of Deutsche Bank. Before that, he was group chief strategist and head of multi-asset solutions for Vontobel Asset Management. He has also worked at UBS, Schroders and Credit Suisse.

London-based fund manager Alderwood Capital added two senior hires. Rick Potter was appointed as partner and Jeremy Bassil as partner and senior advisor at the asset management business founded by Jon Little last year. Potter and Bassil worked alongside Little at his previous venture Northill Capital. The three worked together for over two decades at both Northill and BNY Mellon. 

IQ-EQ, the investor services group, made three senior appointments to its group technology team. William Harris joined as chief digital officer, Shezad Khan joined
as head of data and analytics and Vikas Sharma joined as head of engineering.  All three appointments were to newly-created roles.

Prior to IQ-EQ, Harris was director and head of intelligent automation and AI for the EMEA region with ISG, global technology research and advisory firm. He is also currently researching applied AI in operational management as part of a doctorate in business administration. Khan was previously global head of advanced analytics for HSBC.

Sharma is a software engineering and product management specialist with extensive experience in tech innovation, software development, product delivery and managing large and complex technology programmes on a global scale. 

HSBC Asset Management appointed Jasvir Virk as business development director for its UK institutional team. Jasvir, who is based in London, reports to Maria Ryan, head of institutional sales UK, Middle East, North Africa and Nordics. 

Prior to this, Virk was at BlackRock, holding the slot of senior director and member of the UK institutional business. Before that, she was head of client relations for Europe at PineBridge Investments. She has also at worked Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Madrid-based Quadriga Asset Managers appointed Christian Thum and Jarkko Matilainen to join its team and board. Thum, a German national, joined as senior portfolio manager equity long/short opportunities based in Madrid and brings more than 25 years of investment and senior leadership experience across London, Frankfurt, and Zurich, including Solomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

Matilainen, a Finnish national, joined as a board member for its Luxembourg SICAV from Helsinki. He has more than 25 years of investment and senior leadership experience in risk management, hedge funds, and ESG. Prior to co-founding NorthPeak Governance in 2018, he was a portfolio manager and head of hedge funds at Varma Mutual Pension Insurance, one of the largest hedge fund investors in Europe, where he had overall responsibility for the team, portfolio and investments. 
 

iCapital Network, the New York-based fintech platform for alternative investments such as private equity, is boosting its international footprint, named its first Asian leadership hire, appointing Edwin Chan as head of client solutions, Asia. Additionally, the firm named Manuel Faccio as head of client solutions, Europe. Chan is based in Hong Kong, where iCapital opened a new office. Faccio is based in iCapital’s Zurich office.

Chan has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, with the most recent decade focused on private markets' origination and distribution of private funds in the Asia-Pacific region. He established Probitas Partners’ Asian business, where he developed relationships with fund sponsors and institutional investors, including fund advisors, wealth managers and family office investors investing across private equity, private debt, and real assets strategies globally. 

Faccio manages the entire enterprise sales cycle for the EMEA region and promotes business development activities with a primary focus on wealth management organisations, banks, and asset managers in Europe. Faccio reports to Marco Bizzozero, managing director, head of international. Prior to this, Faccio spent a decade-long career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank in London. 

Online investment platform Wealthify made two senior appointments to accelerate growth. Fintech founder and ex Barclays Akshaya Bhargava joined as a non-executive director, and former Virgin Money CIO, Michelle McGrade, joined the firm’s investment committee.

Bank J Safra Sarasin appointed two senior private bankers, Asaf Raveh and Yael Rabinowitz, to work with ultra-high net worth clients. The bankers co-head a new team comprising senior client advisors based in Geneva and Tel Aviv. Raveh has more than 20 years of experience covering both UHNW individuals and institutional clients. After having gained expertise in fixed income, currencies and commodities, he transitioned to wealth management. Prior to joining Bank J Safra Sarasin, Raveh worked for 12 years at Deutsche Bank in various roles, his last being co-head wealth management of Emerging Europe.

Rabinowitz has a combined experience of wealth management and investment banking gathered over the past 18 years. Throughout her career, she has covered institutional clients and UHNW individuals. Prior to joining Bank J Safra Sarasin, Rabinowitz worked for 10 years at Deutsche Bank in various roles - leading the European cross-border team, and most recently serving as head of the Israeli market.

Partners Capital, the global outsourced investment office, reported that Suzanne Streeter and Alex Band had taken over from Colin Pan as the firm’s global co-chief investment officers. Streeter and Band, who are partners at the firm, were previously the asset class heads of private equity and public equities, respectively. Partners Group said that it would soon announce their successor.

Tier1 Financial Solutions, which provides client relationship management, anti-money laundering and fraud prevention solutions, appointed James C Mitchell as managing director (International). 

Based in London, Mitchell has more than 18 years' experience in the financial and capital markets space. Before joining Tier1, he was sales director for capital markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa at FIS, where he oversaw its EMEA post-trade and regulatory compliance sales team. 

Switzerland’s SOLUFONDS appointed Violaine Augustin-Moreau as head of the Romandie area, boosting its presence in the French-speaking side of the country. Augustin-Moreau sits on the firm’s executive board and leads its Shared Services department, which includes legal and compliance, IT, tax, finance and controlling, and internal services. Augustin-Moreau leads a team of 15 people at the Signy office.

Bank Syz Ltd, the private banking arm of Syz Group, poached Bordier & Cie's Antoine Denis to lead its advisory offering, reporting to head of private banking Nicolas Syz. Denis, who co-heads the bank’s investment division alongside head of discretionary portfolio management Luc Filip, joined the bank’s investment strategy and investment committees. Denis joined from Geneva rival Bordier & Cie, where he spent six years as head of advisory. Before that he worked at Lyxor AM in London and Pictet & Cie in Paris, respectively in hedge funds and mutual funds.

Stonehage Fleming appointed Hélie de Cornois as director and head of estate planning in a newly-created role. Based in Luxembourg, de Cornois reports to partner and head of family office in Switzerland, Jacqui Cheshire. Prior to joining the group in 2021, he was head of estate planning and international patrimonial services at Banque Degroof Petercam in Luxembourg, where he was also responsible for developing private banking in Southern Europe, Canada and the UK.

Deutsche Bank appointed former Goldman Sachs figure Guilherme Faria Gradel as a senior relationship manager for the Brazil team in Switzerland. Based in Geneva, Faria Gradel reports into Agnes Arlandis, head of the Latin American business in Switzerland. He also works with Rui Forcada and the Brazil team to increase its visibility with ultra-high net worth Brazilian clients.

At Goldman Sachs, Faria Gradel worked in its wealth business, working as an RM responsible for Brazilian clients. Prior to that he worked at RAIZEN TRADING LLP in Geneva for five years as a Biofuel trader. He is a Brazilian national and holds a master's degree in corporate finance.

Private equity house YFM Equity Partners, a UK firm with offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, promoted David Wrench to equity partner. Wrench has more than 12 years’ experience in corporate finance.

NeedingAdvice.co.uk, a wealth management house based in Huddersfield, added Romany Youell to its team, one of the youngest female qualified advisors in the UK. She is 19. Youell provides advice on pensions and investments to the firm’s new and existing clients. She gained her Diploma for Financial Advisors qualification, and became a fully qualified mortgage broker at 18 years of age, highlighting avenues that reach beyond the university route.

Capital Group appointed Tri Huynh as managing director, financial intermediaries. Based in London, he reports to Chris Miles, head of financial intermediaries, UK. Huynh previously worked at Artemis Investment Management, where he was head of strategic partnerships. He worked in intermediary sales for more than 15 years.

Ashburton Investments (International) named Sebastian Volpe, who is based in Jersey, as chief operating officer. Volpe worked for the firm for more than six years,
most recently as operational change manager. Previously, he was a middle office manager in the Jersey office. Before joining Ashburton Investments, Volpe worked as treasury manager and portfolio manager at Kleinwort Benson.

BNP Paribas appointed Sandro Pierri as chief executive of its asset management arm, taking over from Frederic Janbon, who was a special advisor until the end of 2021 before leaving the group. Based in Paris, Pierri reports to Renaud Dumora, future deputy chief operating officer of BNP Paribas. Pierri has more than 30 years’ experience in the asset management industry. 
 

Mirabaud hired Stuart Bates as CEO to lead its UK wealth management arm as the group works towards strengthening its UK wealth proposition. Bates moved from JAR Capital, where he spent three years as chief operating officer. He has also worked in senior operations roles at Credit Suisse and Julius Baer in a long private banking career.

C Hoare & Co appointed Emily Corbett as a senior relationship manager to lead the bank’s growth in the Southwest. Corbett is responsible for building the bank’s presence and developing business opportunities across the Southwest region, initially focusing on Bristol and Bath. She reports to banking team leader Peter Gale. Most recently, Corbett was an individual banking manager for Handelsbanken in Bath managing a portfolio of HNW individuals. Before that she worked in various roles at Barclays Bank, including premier banking manager and branch manager.

BDB Pitmans appointed two legal directors in its private client practice. Lorna du Sautoy joined the real estate team, and tax specialist Sophie St John joined the private wealth team.

Du Sautoy was previously at Macfarlanes, where she has practised as a senior solicitor in private client property for nearly eight years. St John rejoined from RSM Legal, where she was a partner leading the firm’s private client legal services team. 

UBS announced a new C-suite role and launched a new “sustainability and impact “organisation. The new operation, which reports to UBS Asset Management president Suni Harford, brings together thematic experts and leaders from across the business to track progress on sustainability and reaching net zero. 

UBS named Michael Baldinger as chief sustainability officer in a newly-created C-suite role to focus on these efforts. Before joining UBS’ asset management division in 2016 as head of sustainable and impact investing, Baldinger was chief executive of European impact specialist RobecoSAM. His new responsibilities will be setting and driving strategy and providing oversight for all SI-related projects and activities, UBS said. The announced changes take effect from 1 June 2021.

In a second leadership change, Phyllis Costanza was named head of social impact. She continued to lead the firm’s philanthropy services.

London law firm Howard Kennedy appointed Reshmi Manekporia as a partner in its private client team. Previously, Manekporia worked for more than a decade at international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, and before that she spent seven years at Clifford Chance.

London-based Victory Hill Capital Advisors appointed Gregory Scopelitis as a principal in investments. Scopelitis, who is responsible for originating and executing new investments for Victory Hill Capital Advisors, worked in project financing for more than 15 years. Prior to this, he worked at the International Finance Corporation and was a director in the structured finance team at Mizuho Bank in London. He has also worked at the World Bank in Washington DC with the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg; Proparco the principal investment arm of the Agence Francaise du Development; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London; and in the structured credit department of Societe Generale in London.  

London and Zurich-based boutique wealth firm Bellecapital made three hires in London. Chris Hocking and Dan Bellamy joined from Deutsche Bank. A third addition, Rudy Vandaele-Kennedy, joned from UBP/ACPI Investment Managers, where he was managing director in their London office. 

Quilter International appointed Nicholas Kourteff as chief executive in Singapore to expand advice and distribution for HNWs and family offices in the region. He took over from Ian Kloss, who relocated to the UK. He works alongside his Hong Kong counterpart Mark Christal to strengthen Quilter’s pan-Asian high net worth team. Kourteff was previously CEO in Singapore for high net worth insurance provider Transamerica Life Bermuda. Over the past 25 years, he has also worked at Credit Suisse, UBS AG, AXA Wealth Management Asia, Winterthur Life, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.

EFG International appointed Harald Reczek as a member of its executive committee. 

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Olivier de Larouzière as chief investment officer for global fixed income. He is based in Paris and reports to Rob Gambi, BNPP AM’s global head of investments. De Larouzière manages BNPP AM’s global fixed income platform and retains his existing responsibilities as head of BNPP AM’s Global Multi Strategy Product team.

With 25 years’ experience of fixed income investment, De Larouzière joined BNPP AM in January 2019 to manage the GMS team, having previously been co-CIO of fixed income at Ostrum Asset Management.  

Vontobel appointed Christel Rendu de Lint as deputy head of investments, joining from fellow Swiss private banking house Union Bancaire Privée, where she was fixed income head.

Credit Suisse's shareolders overwhelmingly voted (96.4 per cent) to approve former Lloyds Banking Group CEO, António Horta-Osório, as its new chairman. He took over from Urs Rohner who stepped down after completing the statutory term of 12 years.

Asia-Pacific

Ravi Menon, director general of the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 2011, was re-appointed to the post for a stint taking him to 31 May 2023.

MAS appointed Lawrence Wong, Minister for Finance, and Deborah Ong to join its board of directors for a term of three years from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2024. MAS also announced the re-appointments of existing board members.

Ong recently retired as a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore. She is a board member and chair of the audit and risk committees of SkillsFuture Singapore, Workforce Singapore, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University, and the Council for Estate Agencies. She is also a board member of SATS Ltd.

Lim Hng Kiang, who has served on the MAS board for 23 years and as its deputy chairman since 2006, stepped down but remained as a member of the board. Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Health, who has served as a member of the MAS board since 29 August 2016, stepped down.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and coordinating minister for social policies, was re-appointed as chairman of the MAS board for a further term of three years, from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2024.  

Raffles Family Office appointed former Leonteq figure, Julien Grunebaum, as an investment solutions advisor. At Leonteq, which specialises in structured products, Grunebaum served family offices and asset managers on distributing cross-asset investment solutions.

Kamet Capital Partners, a multi-family office based in Singapore, made two hires: Sze King Chong as portfolio manager, and Xunwen Oh as client advisor. Chong previously worked at Commonwealth Avenue Asset Management, a hedge fund company, and as a senior portfolio manager at Julius Baer’s discretionary investment management. Before that, he was chief investment officer at HSBC Insurance. Oh joined the MFO from JP Morgan Private Bank, where she performed client advisor and global investment specialist roles.

Dutch multinational ING appointed James Poon as country manager for Hong Kong and China, beginning in July. Poon was also named as chief executive of ING’s Hong Kong branch. He is a regional veteran at the bank and currently heads diversified corporates and corporate finance for both Hong Kong and China. With more than 30 years’ experience in corporate and investment banking, 28 of them spent at ING, Poon took over from another senior figure in the region, Aart Jan den Hartog, who left ING to return to Europe.

Poon reports to Remko Witteveen, head of wholesale banking for ING in Asia Pacific, where he has overall performance responsibility for the wholesale banking business in Hong Kong and mainland China. Poon was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's People's PCC in Changsha City between 2017 and 2019, and spent more than 15 years as an adjunct professor for a joint MBA in finance programme at Tsinghua University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His predecessor at the Dutch global bank, Aart Jan den Hartog, joined ING 16 years ago and served in various leadership roles in Asia, including head of real estate finance for APAC. He was appointed head of Greater China and Mongolia in 2015.

GAM Investments, the Zurich-listed house, set up a new office in Singapore, led by Terence Bong, who is responsible for business development and client relationships in Singapore and the South East Asia region. Bong, based in Singapore, reports to Rossen Djounov, head of Asia-Pacific.

Prior to this role, Bong was head of wholesale for Southeast Asia at Templeton Asset Management, where he was responsible for distribution to private banks, independent financial advisors, insurance companies and consumer banks across Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.

Aviva Singlife, the group formed from the S$3.2 billion ($2.41 billion) merge of Aviva and Singapore Life, has appointed former DBS senior figure Pearlyn Phau as the new group chief executive. Subject to regulatory approval, Phau’s CEO appointment will be effective on 18 August. Also subject to regulatory approval, she will take on additional roles as executive director and CEO of the group’s two Singapore licensed insurers, Singlife and Aviva Singapore.

When Phau takes up her role, Nishit Majmudar will step down from his executive and board roles to become a senior advisor to the board. Walter de Oude, who has acted as group CEO prior to Phau’s appointment, will continue on the board as deputy chairman, Aviva Singlife Holdings. Phau has undertaken various senior leadership roles within DBS Group, both in Singapore and Hong Kong. She is the group head of consumer products, marketing and ecosystem partnerships. Prior to this, she was the deputy group head of consumer banking and wealth management. Phau has also spent four years in Hong Kong as the head of consumer banking and wealth management, DBS Bank Hong Kong.  

Credit Suisse appointed Alois Müller as head of private and alternative markets for the Asia-Pacific region, a new role at the bank. Müller, who moved to Hong Kong, reports regionally to François Monnet, head of private banking North Asia and Benjamin Cavalli, head of private banking South Asia, and functionally to Fabian Shey, head of investment solutions and products, private and alternative markets. This new appointment added to his role as head of global private equity, which he retained and continued to lead with Fabian Shey.

A Credit Suisse senior banker was recruited by Swiss rival UBS to run its telecommunications, media and technology advisory team in Sydney, partnering with Brendan Mulheron. Tim McKessar had been at Credit Suisse since 2007 and most recently led its local TMT team.

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Citigroup said that Lee Lung Nien was heading its private banking business in South Asia, adding to his existing role as chairman of Citi Private Bank for South Asia. Global market managers in South Asia report to the 30-year Citi veteran, known as “Lung” in the industry. He has direct responsibility for the Singapore and Malaysia markets. Lee Lung Nien remains based in Singapore, reporting to Steven Lo, Asia-Pacific regional head of Citi Private Bank and Amol Gupte, ASEAN head and Citi country officer for Singapore.

Lee Lung Nien has worked in a variety of senior leadership roles across multiple businesses, functional areas, and geographies, including being the CEO of Citi Malaysia from 2014 to 2020. Prior to Malaysia, he served as the co-head of corporate sales and structuring for markets and securities services, chief operating officer for Singapore and AML business head of Asia-Pacific. He is a qualified chartered banker and a fellow of the Asia Institute of Chartered Bankers.  

JP Morgan Private Bank appointed Elaine Zhang as China market leader for Singapore. Zhang, who is based in Singapore, reports to James Wey, head of Singapore and Southeast Asia at the private bank. Zhang is a managing director responsible for leading, growing and developing the firm’s China market in Singapore.

With more than 20 years in the private banking industry, she has extensive expertise in servicing ultra-high net worth Chinese clients and leading successful teams of China market relationship managers. Most recently Zhang was market leader for Greater China in Singapore at Credit Suisse, where she served for more than a decade, cultivating the firm’s Greater China client base in Singapore.

iCapital Network named its first Asian leadership hire. It appointed Edwin Chan as head of client solutions, Asia. Additionally, the firm has named Manuel Faccio as head of client solutions, Europe.

Chan is based in Hong Kong, where iCapital opened a new office. Faccio is based in iCapital’s Zurich office.

Chan has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, with the most recent decade focused on private markets origination and distribution of private funds in the Asia-Pacific region. He established Probitas Partners’ Asian business, where he developed relationships with fund sponsors and institutional investors, including fund advisors, wealth managers and family office investors investing across private equity, private debt, and real assets strategies globally. Previously, he served as a regional business development director for AIG Global Investments’ investment products in Asia. Chan began his career in the corporate and investment banking sector with HSBC and Citibank.

Faccio manages the entire enterprise sales cycle for the EMEA region and promotes business development activities with a primary focus on wealth management organisations, banks, and asset managers in Europe. Faccio reports to Marco Bizzozero, managing director, head of international. Prior to this, Faccio spent a decade-long career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank in London. He moved to asset management where he held several senior positions in London and Zurich, most recently as head of coverage for Switzerland and Southern Europe and CEO of Switzerland for DWS Asset Management.

Savills Investment Management appointed Greg Lapham as head of investment, Australia. Lapham, who manages a newly-appointed four-strong investment team in Sydney, has more than 30 years’ experience across real estate investment, financial reporting, corporate finance, consulting and transaction advisory. He joined Savills IM from BlackRock, where he was a managing director and chief investment officer of the AsiaPac real estate business. Lapham is supported by investment director Guy Sainsbury, who recently joined Savills IM from Lendlease, where he worked in various senior development, capital raising and origination roles.

Credit Suisse made several senior private banking appointments in North Asia, including that of Keng Cheong Lock, who took up the post of market group head, private banking for Greater China Singapore. Keng Cheong Lock leads the Singapore-based team that covers the Greater China market. A banker with almost 20 years of wealth management experience, Keng Cheong Lock joined the Swiss bank in 2007.

Other senior hires included:

Ray Chun joined the bank’s China market in January as an expert relationship manager based in Hong Kong. He has more than 15 years of experience in the banking industry covering corporate wealth management, cross-border cash management solutions and trade finance. Chun was previously at Citibank where he led the global digital segment.

Terence Seah has joined the Greater China Singapore market as a team leader based in Singapore, bringing more than 15 years’ banking and wealth management experience. Before joining Credit Suisse, Seah was with UOB Private Bank.

Harry Chen joined the Greater China Singapore market as an RM based in Singapore. He has 13 years’ industry experience, and was previously a relationship manager for Julius Baer.

Maggie Ma was appointed to join the Greater China Singapore market as an expert RM, based in Singapore. She has more than 15 years’ experience in the sector, and was branch president of China Minsheng Bank in Shanghai for nine years. Before joining Credit Suisse, she was with UBS Singapore and ABN AMRO.

In addition, Credit Suisse added to its investment consulting team:

Thomas So, who has joined the bank as an investment consultant based in Hong Kong, has more than 20 years of experience in foreign exchange advisory sales, derivatives and treasury sales to institutional and private banking clients. In his most recent role, So was a senior investment advisor at BNP Paribas Wealth Management.

Wilson Chan re-joined Credit Suisse as a team leader, investment consulting business initiatives, North Asia and expert investment consultant, Greater China based in Hong Kong. Chan was formerly at Wealth Management where he was an investment consultant. Prior to that, Chan spent 12 years at Credit Suisse as investment consulting cluster head.

Thomas Ang, who is the head of family office services for Asia-Pacific, relocated to Hong Kong with an expanded remit. Adding to his work in Southeast Asia, Ang focuses on accelerating the development of the wealth planning services platform in Hong Kong. He continues to report to Bernard Fung, head of wealth planning services Asia-Pacific.

Working with Ang is Jennie Lau, appointed as a family office specialist based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining the bank, Lau was senior legal counsel at Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, where she advised the group primarily on investments, treasury transactions and family office operational governance.

State Street appointed Neil Macdonald as head of its asset managers segment in the Asia-Pacific region, a new role for the firm. In this new role for State Street, Macdonald heads up its engagement strategy for asset manager clients in Asia-Pacific, including strategic direction, solutions structuring; he will be responsible for the overall growth of the segment. Based in Hong Kong, Macdonald reports globally to Donna Milrod, head of the global asset managers' segment and the global clients' arm, and regionally to Mostapha Tahiri, chief executive officer for Asia-Pacific.

DBS appointed a new group head of investment products and advisory, Calvin Ong. The position fits inside DBS’ consumer banking and wealth management division. Prior to this, Ong was deputy corporate treasurer. He joined DBS in 2007 as an analyst and has worked in various roles, such as structured product advisory.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia reportedly announced that its subsidiary PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia Agroniaga (BRI Agro) had appointed Kaspar Situmorang as its new chief executive. Previously the division head of digital bank development and operations at Bank BRI, Situmorang also led its Digital Centers of Excellence division from 2017 to late 2020.

Mercer – part of US-listed Marsh McLennan – appointed Fred Wen, who is based in Shanghai, as wealth business leader for China. Wen reports to Catherine Li, chief executive, Greater China, Mercer. He joined the regional team led by Janet Li, Asia wealth business leader at Mercer. With close to 15 years of experience in financial services, investments and consulting, Wen joined Mercer from Ping An Life Insurance Company of China where he was executive director and senior portfolio manager. Prior to this, he was senior investment consultant, investment services, at Willis Towers Watson, where he was responsible for the firm’s investment-related business in China.

Quilter International appointed Nicholas Kourteff as chief executive in Singapore to expand advice and distribution for HNWs and family offices in the region. He took over from Ian Kloss, who recently relocated to the UK, and works alongside his Hong Kong counterpart, Mark Christal, to strengthen Quilter’s pan-Asian high net worth team. Kourteff was previously CEO in Singapore for high net worth insurance provider Transamerica Life Bermuda.
 

North America
BNY Wealth Management appointed Camille Alexander as head of sales, investor solutions, a newly-created role. Alexander reports to Jamie Lewin, head of product strategy and performance management, and Helen Nugent, wealth management national director of sales and marketing.

Alexander most recently served as regional president of the Washington area and was succeeded by Karen Wawrzaszek. Alexander is responsible for achieving new business growth for BNY Mellon Investor Solutions and will partner with Christine Gill, wealth management head of strategy and institutional distribution, to identify new business opportunities across the BNY Mellon enterprise with asset management, asset servicing, Pershing and others. Alexander joined BNY Mellon Wealth Management in 2013 as a senior client strategist and was promoted to lead the DC market as regional president in 2020. 

The firm named Bryce Walker as senior client strategist. Walker is based in Tampa, Florida, and reports to the market president, Sean Maguire. Prior to this role, Walker worked at PNC, where he was vice president of asset management and capital advisory. Before that, he was a business development officer for asset management and an associate financial analyst at PNC.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management added three staff to its Denver office. It appointed Marie Dawson as senior fiduciary specialist, Steve Starzec as client strategist and Matt McConaty as associate client strategist. They all report to Eunice Kim, Colorado market president.

Dawson manages client relationships, exercises fiduciary discretion, pursues new business opportunities and enhances and expands the firm’s relationship with the trust and estate planning community. Starzec advises high net worth individuals, families, and organizations by providing wealth advisory and planning services, including solutions that bridge business and personal goals, private banking, investment management, financial planning, and trust administration.

McConaty is responsible for business development as well as providing financial counsel to high net worth individuals and organizations in the Denver metro community.

Dawson has more than 25 years of experience, including two years at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, having most recently served in the Las Vegas office as senior wealth manager - fiduciary specialist. Starzec has more than 30 years experience. Prior to this, he served in various leadership roles including the Boulder regional manager at MidFirst Private Wealth Management and the Western Rockies market leader at Bank of the West Wealth Management. McConaty, with 13 years of financial services' experience, joined from Heartland Financial USA, Inc, where he served as a portfolio manager. Matt also worked at W G Nielsen investment bank and UBS Wealth Management.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Chad Van Den Top as senior client strategist. He will advise ultra-high net worth families, business owners, private equity and hedge fund principals, and their family offices with their comprehensive wealth structuring advice, including management of concentrated stock positions, estate planning strategies and family governance. Van Den Top also works closely with foundations and endowments. Based in Boston, he reports to Vicary Graham, regional president of the New England region. Prior to this, Van Den Top worked at Northern Trust where he was a wealth strategist in San Francisco, focused on providing wealth structuring advice to the firm's ultra-high net worth Silicon Valley clients and prospects. Prior to this, he was a trust and estate specialist with Merrill Lynch’s trust company.

Wealth advisor Tom Chaney rebranded his two offices, one in Las Cruces, New Mexico and one in El Paso, Texas, to Carson Wealth. He has been in the industry for more than 30 years, and manages more than $50 million in assets. Chaney maintains an active majority ownership in his practice and shares in the responsibility for all strategic business decisions and operations in the Las Cruces and El Paso offices.

Former JP Morgan figures and brother-and-sister business partners Christian Habitz and Sarah Damsgaard launched The Invictus Collective, working with Dynasty Financial Partners. They oversee more than $1 billion of assets under advisement. The Invictus Collective is an independent registered investment advisor with offices in Milwaukee, Chicago and Miami. 

Habitz, who co-founded The Invictus Collective with his sister, Sarah Damsgaard, has more than 25 years of diverse financial markets and investing experience. Prior to his Invictus business, Habitz was a managing director for five years with JP Morgan. His experience also includes working with Credit Suisse’s private banking group and Morgan Stanley’s private client group.

With more than 15 years of investment experience, Damsgaard was previously an executive director with JP Morgan and worked with the private banking group at Credit Suisse. Prior to Credit Suisse, she was a principal and shareholder at Reinhart Partners, where she was the head of the firm’s institutional business. Damsgaard began her career in finance at MFS Investment Management, educating financial advisors on offshore investments.

JTC, the global provider of fund, corporate and private client services, has appointed Marcel Imery as business development director for the US and wider Americas markets. Based in JTC’s New York office, Imery provides structuring services to JTC’s private and corporate clients, with a particular remit to help drive growth across the US and Latin American markets. A lawyer recognized in industry publications such as Best Lawyer, Chambers and the Legal 500, Imery has also founded, financed and scaled start-ups in Venezuela and Chile, awarded by Wayra and Startup Chile, two of Latam’s most prominent incubators. He has worked in international tax, corporate and transactional law and advised high net worth individuals for more than 30 years. 

Baird, the US financial services group, appointed Melanie Schmieding as a director of Baird Family Wealth in its private wealth management group. Schmieding joined from Wells Fargo’s private wealth business formerly known as Abbot Downing. At Wells Fargo she managed the firm’s largest and most complex individual relationships, leading a team of specialists that served both internal and external clients.

Wealth management firm Glenmede set up an office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led by Mark Busher. Busher, regional director, reports with his team to Adam Douberly, director of expansion markets for private wealth at Glenmede. Busher brings more than two decades of wealth management experience to Glenmede following a 20-year career at PNC. He most recently was managing director at Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth. `

Glenmede appointed David D Legeay as managing director and senior portfolio manager. He is based in Glenmede’s Cleveland office, and will report to Lawrence Hatch, regional director of Ohio. Legeay provides tailored investment advice to individuals, families, endowments and foundations.

The firm also, appointed Linda Manfredonia as regional director of its Wilmington office and president and chief executive of The Glenmede Trust Company of Delaware. She reports to Susan Mucciarone, executive director of private wealth. Manfredonia took over from Geoff Rogers, who retired following 22 years as the head of the Wilmington regional office. Manfredonia has had a 30-year career at PNC, where she held leadership positions, including chief fiduciary officer, chief risk officer and chief administrative officer for the bank’s asset management group, and, prior to that, regional managing director for the Greater Philadelphia area.

With almost 30 years in the industry, Legeay joined Glenmede from Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth, where he most recently served as managing director of the Ohio market. Prior to joining Hawthorn, Legeay worked at KeyBank National Association. 

Gold Family Wealth, a Westport, Connecticut-based firm, added Daniel Armas as managing partner and wealth advisor. Armas expanded the firm’s geographical footprint by opening an office in Red Bank, New Jersey. He has 18 years’ industry experience. 

Advisor Group recruited Azoze Johnson & Associates to join its network in the US. The Spokane, Washington-based firm, which includes three financial professionals, oversees $168 million in total client assets. Azose Johnson & Associates joined via its subsidiary and network member firm Royal Alliance Associates. Partners Maynard M Azose and Amanda K Johnson, along with financial professional Nick R Fuller, support clients throughout the Spokane region and beyond with financial, retirement and estate planning, investment management, educational funding and social security analysis. The firm was founded by 30-year industry veteran Jill A Ruser, who partnered with Azose as part of her succession strategy before retiring in 2020. Azose now leads the firm along with Johnson, who joined the firm in 2018 and serves as its head of operations.

Schwab Charitable™, one of the big US providers of donor-advised funds and other philanthropic services, appointed Sam Kang, replacing Kim Laughton, who had previously announced plans to retire from the organization. Kang joined Schwab Charitable in 2018 and leads the service, operations and technology teams. Prior to joining the organization, he spent more than 20 years at TD Ameritrade where he served in a variety of leadership roles in strategy, technology and operations. He holds the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® designation, is an executive sponsor for the Charles Schwab Community Ambassadors Team in Westlake, Texas, and is part of the executive leadership team for the American Heart Association in Tarrant County, Texas. Laughton retired after nearly a decade as president.

Nasdaq-listed private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane pushed into the European market, and named Ralph Aerni as head of European sales. Aerni has nearly 20 years of investment, business development and management experience – including as co-owner and chief investment officer of SCM Strategic Capital Management, which was sold to Mercer Private Markets in 2015. At Mercer, Aerni served as global co-CIO, chairman of the investment committee and business development in Europe. Most recently, he was the head of business development at a European investment management firm. 

Sanctuary Wealth welcomed Greenwich-based Harbor Asset Private Wealth to its network. Advising on approximately $280 million in client assets, the firm is led by Marti Marache, who has been with Morgan Stanley for the last 13 years. Marache has worked in the sector for more than 33 years.

Harbor Asset Private Wealth is a family business; the team includes Martache’s husband Mark Marache, who was also a financial advisor for 18 years at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in New York City. He camce out of retirement to join the practice. The third member of the team is nephew Herbert Marache IV.

Manulife Investment Management named Christoph Schumacher as global head of real assets, private markets. He is relocating to Boston in the US. Schumacher is responsible for defining the firm’s private real assets strategy and managing the operations and development, launch, and growth of investment solutions for clients across the globe. In his most recent position, he served as global head of real estate and managing director at Credit Suisse Asset Management.

Argent Financial Group, a fiduciary wealth management firm operating in the southern parts of the US, appointed Travis Gist to join its mineral management division. He is based in Fort Worth, working as a mineral manager, where he reports to David Luke, president of Argent Mineral Management.

Gist, who has more than 11 years of experience in the sector, was previously at Wells Fargo Bank in Fort Worth, where he had served as assistant vice president/oil and gas advisory specialist since 2014. In that position, he managed more than 150 accounts containing oil and gas assets across the country for high net worth private bank clients. He also served as the bank’s subject matter expert, managing the oil and gas assets held in estates, trusts and agency accounts.

Unified managed household platform business LifeYield appointed former Merrill Lynch head John Thiel to join its fiduciary board. Thiel already holds several executive engagements, sitting on the boards of Franklin Templeton, FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the V Foundation, Decker Communications, and his alma mater, Florida State University.

Tiedemann Advisors appointed Whitney Fogle Lewis as its new chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel. Lewis oversees all aspects of the firm’s regulatory and compliance functions. The post was previously held by Kevin Moran, who is chief operating officer and general counsel. Lewis reports to Moran.
During her seven-year prior career at Carlson Capital, Lewis served as the deputy chief legal officer, providing strategic and legal guidance to business leaders and investment professionals as well as performing regulated compliance functions on behalf of the firm’s UK office. Prior to this, she practiced at Vinson & Elkins and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Alex Lyden-Horn as managing director, director of Delaware Trust Services and trust counsel at Evercore Trust Company. Lyden-Horn previously worked at Christiana Trust Company of Delaware, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corporation, where he served as president. Prior to joining Christiana Trust in 2015, he served as trust counsel to Commonwealth Trust Company for two years and, earlier, practiced as an attorney. Lyden-Horn is based at the Wilmington, Delaware offices of Evercore Trust Company. He earned a BA with distinction from Yale University, and both a JD and an LLM in taxation from the James E Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars, and the Delaware bar.

New York-based Drawbridge, a firm that provides cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, named Darrell Tucker as managing director, client services. Tucker brought more than 20 years of financial industry experience to his new job. Prior to Drawbridge, he was MD of sales and business development at Siepe, a cloud and data analytics provider. Prior to this, Tucker spent 10 years at Abacus Group, where he began as director, technical services before being elevated to MD, business development. Earlier in his career, he was the head of US project management for options-IT and technical director for BNP Paribas’s prime brokerage division in the Eastern Region.

Partners Capital, the global outsourced investment office, announced that Suzanne Streeter and Alex Band had taken over from Colin Pan as the firm’s global co-chief investment officers. Streeter and Band, who are partners at the firm, were previously the asset class heads of private equity and public equities, respectively. The duo joined chairman Stan Miranda, head of global macro and tactical asset allocation, Kamran Moghadam, and CEO Arjun Raghavan in the office of the CIO, which oversees the firm’s overall investment strategy and policies.

Streeter joined Partners Capital in 2015. Most recently, she served as head of private equity and real estate, leading the global research team responsible for manager selection and relationship management. Band joined Partners Capital in 2013. Most recently, he served as head of public equities where he covered long-only and long-short strategies and manager relationships. He has been responsible for several innovations in the public equities program, including a push into sector specialists across themes such as life sciences. 

Crestbridge, a global administration, management and corporate governance solutions business, appointed family office professional Karen Clark as a director. She is based in California. Clark has more than 30 years of experience advising families of wealth in all corners of the globe on matters of governance, succession, and family office operations. 

Raymond James brought in Richard Stern and Jeffrey Stern to Raymond James & Associates – the firm’s employee advisor channel – in Sarasota, Florida. The father-son duo operates as Stern Wealth Management of Raymond James. They joined from Robert W Baird & Co, where they previously managed about $220 million in assets for a variety of clients, including business owners, families and individuals, healthcare professionals and retirees.

Raymond James also appointed tech industry veteran Raj Bhaskar as vice president of technology strategy for the firm’s RIA and custody services arm, RCS. Bhaskar joined from E*TRADE, where he served as head of strategy for the product suite offered to independent financial advisors and the wealth management community. Prior to joining E*TRADE, he led application development teams at TD Ameritrade.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Martin Ferrara, James “Bubba” Helton, Jr, Justin Preissler and James McGee to Raymond James & Associates in Augusta, Georgia. The advisors joined from Wells Fargo Advisors, where they previously managed more than $468 million in client assets. Together, they operate as Cypress Wealth Group of Raymond James.

The firm brought in financial advisors Earl Silver, Ralph Liberatore, James Hack, and Anastasios Liosatos to its employee advisor channel. The advisors joined RJA’s Deer Park, Illinois, branch, which is managed by Chad Danforth, and is part of the Illinois Complex, managed by Brian Lampsa.

Advisor Group, the US network of wealth management firms, recruited Tor and Tyler Saile, a father-and-son hybrid wealth management practice with offices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Barrington, Illinois, that oversees $150 million in total client assets. Both financial professionals joined Advisor Group through its subsidiary and network member firm Triad Advisors for brokerage services. 

Tor Saile has more than 20 years' experience in the wealth management industry, joining the independent channel in 2010, while Tyler Saile joined the practice in 2017. They specialize in investment management, retirement planning, estate planning, education planning and insurance consulting. Both financial professionals will continue to do business as Ironwood Family Wealth Advisors.

Montana-based D A Davidson & Co opened a new wealth management office in Grand Junction, Colorado, welcoming a four-person team of professionals with extensive financial services experience. The Squier & Martinez Financial Management Group, advisors with D A Davidson & Co, previously worked with Wells Fargo Advisors.

The group includes:
Cheryl Squier, senior vice president, financial advisor, worked in the financial industry for 30 years, including the past 10 years with Wells Fargo. She holds a business degree from Western State College. Brooke Martinez, associate vice president, financial advisor, has been in the business for more than 20 years, and worked with Wells Fargo for the past seven years. Clay Squier, financial advisor, served as a financial professional with Wells Fargo for three years. 

Fiduciary Trust Company appointed two new officers: Michael Stephens as investment officer, and Sarah Grandfield, trust counsel - they are both vice presidents. Early in his career, Stephens co-founded a New York wealth management firm and later served in senior roles at institutions in the Boston area including Eaton Vance, Boston Financial Management, and Emerson Investment Management. He has also contributed to the launch of several businesses and served in an advisory capacity for a number of local start-ups.

Grandfield was previously at Verrill Dana where she was a partner in its private clients and fiduciary services group, advising high net worth individuals and families. She began her legal career as an associate at Choate, Hall & Stewart. 

Sensiba San Filippo, a San Francisco Bay area accounting and business consulting firm, appointed Tom Crotty, as practice leader, to expand its family office business. Crotty has more than 40 years' experience of serving family offices and family businesses. He has worked with multi-family offices, and businesses in the professional services, contracting, mortgage banking, distribution, and non-profit industries. Crotty received his MBA from UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, and his BSC in finance from Santa Clara University. 

UBS Wealth Management USA, part of UBS, brought in a seven-person team managing $2 billion in client assets to its business in Newport Beach, California. 
The team, led by financial advisors Thomas J Nieto and Frederick D Grand Jr, serve high net worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, and institutions. Other team members include John Hurford, CFA®, senior wealth strategy associate, Rebecca Zahabian, team administrator Laura Holland, senior client service associate David Q Kuang, CFP® and registered client service associate Victor Morales.

Lafayette Square, an impact-driven, minority-owned investment platform, appointed Ommeed Sathe as head of strategy. In this new role, Sathe leads various thematic impact-driven investment strategies within Lafayette Square.

Sathe was previously the head of the impact investment unit at Prudential, where he managed more than $1 billion across alternative asset classes and investment strategies. 

Informa Connect, the events business, appointed former ECHELON Partners managing director Mark Bruno as managing director of wealth management, a new role at the firm. Bruno builds out the firm’s wealth management media and event properties, which consists of WealthManagement.com, Inside ETFs and Inside WealthStack. Bruno brought more than 20 years of experience in the wealth management and asset management industries to Informa. Prior to ECHELON Partners, Bruno was MD and associate publisher at InvestmentNews.

Russell Investments appointed Kate El-Hillow as global chief investment officer and Kevin Klingert as president. Both serve on Russell Investments’ executive committee and report to chairman and CEO Michelle Seitz.

El-Hillow served in several leadership roles at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, specializing in portfolio management, trading, outsourced CIO and multi-asset investment solutions. She also spent eight years at JP Morgan Chase, where she worked in a dual capacity - in asset allocation as client portfolio manager and chief operating officer. As CIO based in New York, El-Hillow oversees all aspects of the firm’s investment division, including portfolio management, implementation and research. She replaced Pete Gunning, CIO since 2018, who will take on a new role as vice chairman and strategic relationships officer, reporting directly to Seitz and in charge of key client relationships and responsible investing practices.

Baird appointed Jim Galkowski as a director and financial advisor in a new branch in Rochester, Minnesota. He was joined by senior client specialist Jill Roux. Galkowski, who was previously at Wells Fargo, has three decades of industry experience and a client roster of around $482 million in assets under management. 

Argent Trust Company appointed Tom Stringfellow as chief investment strategist. Stringfellow came to Argent from Frost Bank, where he served as president and chief investment officer of Frost Investment Advisors and as executive vice president and chief investment officer of Frost Wealth Advisors. Stringfellow has worked in the wealth management sector for 31 years. In his new role, Stringfellow is based in the Argent Trust Company’s San Antonio office but serves as chief investment strategist for all of Argent Trust Company, including wholly-owned subsidiaries Heritage Trust Company in Oklahoma City and Ponca City, Oklahoma, and the AmeriTrust Companies in Tulsa. 

Argent Financial Group appointed Michael Faherty to join its New Orleans office as senior vice president of institutional services. Faherty, who served clients throughout South Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, reports to senior vice president and institutional services manager, Mark Milton. Faherty has more than 20 years of experience working with retirement plans, as well as investments for corporations and non-profits. He previously worked at Regions Bank, where he had been an institutional trust strategist/senior vice president since 2016 and an employee since 2003.

Rockefeller Capital Management added a team of advisors to its team in Newport Beach, California. The Oglevee and Devine Group previously worked at UBS.

The team includes:
-- Stefan Oglevee, managing director and private wealth advisor (father to “Max” Oglevee below); 
-- Janna Devine, senior vice president and private wealth advisor; 
-- Stefan "Max" Oglevee, VP and private wealth advisor; 
-- Justin Medeiros, associate VP and client service associate; and
-- Robb Lindell, associate and client service associate.