The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in the North American wealth management sector.

Pinnacle Associates
Pinnacle Associates has appointed Amy Pastorino (pictured below) as financial planning director.

Amy Pastorino

Pastorino joined the firm in 2024 as senior financial planner. Prior to this, she served at Morgan Stanley as advanced planning and development director and financial planning director for the firm’s Midtown market in NYC. 

Earlier in her career, Pastorino was a wealth management advisor at TIAA, where she led business development and relationship management for a financial planning practice. She has also held positions at Element Financial Group, Ernst & Young, The Ayco Company, and the Goldman Sachs Family Office.

Pritzker Alternative Strategies
Pritzker Alternative Strategies, an investment firm, has appointed Joseph Kusnan as senior advisor. Kusnan brings more than 25 years of family office investing, advisory and consulting experience with family offices.

Kusnan advises and consults for several family offices, institutional investors and investment managers. Most recently, he led private investments for the Pegula family, owners of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. Before that, he served as CIO of a single-family office as partner at Highbridge Capital Management, where he led event-driven portfolios; and co-founded an investment partnership backed by Highbridge.