Wells Fargo Advisors has made five financial advisor appointments, all of whom have joined the Private Client Group (the standalone WFA branches).

Lou Walsh, with 17 years’ financial industry experience, has joined the Jacksonville, FL branch from UBS.  He reports to complex manager Joe Bruno.

Eric Zakarin joined in Westfield, NJ from Morgan Stanley.  He has 26 years’ experience in the finance sector and $261 million in assets under management, and reports to complex manager Bill Drake.

Courtenay Hathcock, Frederick Rossetter and William Black joined the firm’s New York-Penn Center branch. Combined, they have 64 years of experience within the finance industry and $418 million in AuM.  They all report to branch manager Ted Geller. 

In other recent hires at the firm, earlier in the year Wells Fargo Advisors bolstered its private client group with the addition of nine advisors across seven states from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets.