The firm regards the Lone Star State as being an important wealth management growth area.

CIBC US Private Wealth Management has promoted Brent Currier to head of growth strategies in Texas, as well as adding Jennifer Normile in Dallas and relocating Michael Cklamovski from its Chicago office to the San Francisco location. 

Normile joins as a managing director and private banking market manager, and Cklamovski will serve as the west coast private banking market manager within CIBC Private Wealth Management. 

“We are pleased to announce that Brent will be taking on this key leadership role where he will focus on strategically growing and deepening client relationships across Texas,” Jack Markwalter, Chief Executive Officer, CIBC Private Wealth Management, US, said. “Also, incorporating private banking capabilities in our major markets has been part of our firm’s overall strategy,” he added. 

Currier, who joined the firm as a business development officer in October 2017, will continue his business development activities. Prior to joining the firm, Currier was a financial advisor with AB Bernstein. Previously, he held executive sales and marketing positions with Procter & Gamble, Polaroid and other publicly and privately-owned businesses. Currier holds the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation.

Normile joins with 18 years of financial industry experience. She will work with high net worth individuals and families on a wide range of banking matters, including complex credit and cash solutions. Prior to this, she was a private banker at BNY Wealth Management and a senior wealth advisor at Comerica Wealth Management. She is a certified financial planner.

Cklamovski joined the firm last year. Before this, he was a vice president and client advisor at US Trust, Bank of America. He began his career practising law at Fidelity National Financial. He received a bachelor of arts degree with dual majors in political science and communication from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the Northern Illinois University College of Law.  

With growing sectors linked to technology, as well as benefiting from its traditional agricultural and energy sectors, and buoyed by the shale-oil developments of recent years (fracking), Texas has become something of a hotspot for US wealth management.