Charyl Galpin has been appointed as head of BMO Nesbitt Burns, the full-service investment firm of BMO Financial Group.

Charyl Galpin has been appointed as head of BMO Nesbitt Burns, the full-service investment arm of BMO Financial Group.

Galpin will oversee the investing and wealth advisory business in Canada, which consists of some 1,300 investment advisors at 60 branches.

She has served as co-head of BMO Nesbitt Burns since 2011, having joined BMO in 1979, moving in 1986 to Burns Fry. The firm told Family Wealth Report that she previously worked alongside Richard Mills, who will be leaving in January). In 2000, she was named as senior vice president and managing director, and head of national operations of the private client group, and then in 2006 became chief operating officer of BMO Nesbitt Burns.

The origins of BMO Nesbitt Burns' predecessor firms date back to 1912. In 1987, BMO Bank of Montreal acquired Nesbitt Thomson, and, in 1994, also acquired Burns Fry, a dealer of Canadian equities and debt securities. Nesbitt Thomson and Burns Fry then merged to become BMO Nesbitt Burns.