Move meant to bolster Fugent’s efforts to be fin industry's main marketing-tool provider. Family Wealth Report's Jamie Waller has taken additional responsibilities with Fugent, a Rye, N.Y.- and Columbus, Ohio-based provider of online presentation and collaboration products to financial-service companies. He will stay on as CEO of this publication.

Fugent is an advertiser with Family Wealth Report.

Starting today Waller is Fugent's COO, a new position at the five-year-old firm. He will manage what Fugent describes as the “rapid and continued growth” of its core offerings: Presenter,  Meetings and MoQvo, a web-publishing tool now in pre-launch.

Put simply, Fugent helps firms hold online meetings and make slick presentations. MoQVo is meant to help firms manage and present information, including multi-media newsfeeds and periodicals. 

“We are delighted to have been able to attract a person of Jamie's caliber to lead our organization,” says Fugent's founder and CEO John Detwiler.

As a senior partner of Security APL, Waller was an Internet pioneer in the 1980s and early 1990s. APL's free stock-quote tickers made its website one of the early public Internet's most visited. APL was also the first firm to execute secure stock trades over the World Wide Web. CheckFree acquired APL, an administration-system provider to the separately managed account industry, about 10 years ago.

Waller also helped guide Citigroup's first efforts to market multi-manager separate accounts in the first years of this decade.

“This is perfect timing all around,” says Waller. “MoQVo's rollout gives Fugent a truly comprehensive marketing and [customer-realtionship management] suite, putting everything from [asset-management] wholesaling through end-client-facing virtual-[family-office capabilities] at the forefront of the Internet's emerging second generation.” –FWR

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