The latest moves and appointments across the North American wealth management sector.

CIBC
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, aka CIBC, has added two former Wells Fargo bankers to its wealth management and commercial banking teams in Denver, Colorado.

Kate Rooney and Vanessa Ringdahl have joined CIBC: Rooney is a member of CIBC’s commercial banking team as a managing director and relationship manager. Ringdahl joins its private wealth Management team as managing director and senior private banker.

Rooney has more than 12 years of financial industry experience. Prior to this, she spent 10 years in a variety of commercial banking roles at Wells Fargo Bank, most recently serving as relationship manager and vice president managing a portfolio of middle market clients.

Ringdahl brings more than 14 years of financial industry experience to the firm.  Previously, Ringdahl spent over a decade at Wells Fargo Bank. Most recently, she served as a vice president, advising ultra-high net worth individuals and families about wealth preservation, transition, lending, planning, trust and fiduciary services and investments.

Katten Muchin Rosenman
Katten Muchin Rosenman, the law firm, has appointed Cynthia Brittain as a partner in its trusts and estates practices in the Los Angeles–Century City office.

Prior to joining Katten, Brittain served as the director of inbound wealth advisory and a senior fiduciary officer for Northern Trust, where she was responsible for designing estate plans and advising on the use of multi-jurisdictions for effective tax planning. She also previously was employed as an attorney in London and Hong Kong, and has extensive experience counseling clients on tax mitigation and cross-border wealth transfer strategies as well as succession plans for family-owned companies.

She is a regular speaker on multi-generational and international estate planning and cross-border fiduciary issues. In addition, she serves as a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and co-chair of the tax committee of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association.

LPL
LPL Financial Holdings  has appointed Allison H Mnookin to its board of directors.

Mnookin joins LPL’s board with two decades of experience as a technology executive for high-growth business software companies. She most recently served as chief executive of QuickBase Inc., a provider of online application software which was formerly a division of Intuit, Inc. Prior to leading QuickBase, she held several positions at Intuit, including general manager in Intuit’s small business division where she was responsible for leading a portfolio of Intuit’s business products, including QuickBooks.

Prior to joining Intuit, she held several sales and marketing positions with Oracle Corporation. Mnookin is also a senior lecturer of business administration in the technology and operations management unit at the Harvard Business School and serves as a director of QuickBase.

US Global Investors
US Global Investors, the registered investment advisory firm, has announced that its president, general counsel and chief compliance officer, Susan McGee, has resigned.

McGee will leave the company on May 31, 2018. She has been asked to join a fund board at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, effective June 1, where she will use her legal and operational expertise with mutual funds and publicly traded companies. She will continue to practice law and spend more time with her family, a statement from US Global Investors said.

CEO Frank Holmes said: “Susan has made many contributions to U.S. Global Investors during her time here. On behalf of the entire company, I would like to extend my sincerest gratitude for her work over the years and wish her the very best in her new journey!”

Fiduciary Trust Company
Fiduciary Trust Company  has appointed John P Morey in the newly-created position of vice president, head of client service and business development. He will report to president and chief executive Austin V Shapard and will be a member of the firm’s senior management team.

Morey joins from GMO, an institutional asset management firm, where he was a partner and served as head of client relations, North America, for the past 15 years. Prior to GMO, Morey was a senior manager at Putnam, and previously spent a decade as a managing director at BankBoston in its private client and business banking groups.

Morey earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Saint Anselm College and a graduate certificate in Organizational Leadership from Boston College. He is currently a trustee of Thayer Academy and a board member of Save Our Sports Foundation.

Hilliard Lyons
US wealth manager Hilliard Lyons has hired Looking Glass Wealth Advisors to its Asheville, North Carolina office. The team were previously associated with Oppenheimer & Co.

They manage around $390 million in client assets.

The group is aligned into two teams, each with three wealth advisors and one client service associate. The teams – the Blue Ridge Group and the Ridgeline Group - will be based in Hilliard Lyons’ branch office at 79 Woodfin Place in Asheville.

Here are the members of the Blue Ridge Group of Looking Glass Wealth Advisors:
- Alan Brookshire, a senior vice president and wealth advisor, has worked with Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Oppenheimer & Co. 
- James Chandley is a senior vice president and wealth advisor with over 32 years’ experience, also with Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Oppenheimer & Co
- Julie Willard is a wealth advisor with 18 years’ experience in wealth management. She began her career at First Union and worked at UBS and Oppenheimer & Co.
- Phyllis Jamison supports the Blue Ridge Group as a client service associate. A Registered Financial Associate, she worked at Merrill Lynch and A.G. Edwards.

Here are the members of the Ridgeline Group of Looking Glass Wealth Advisors:
- Kale Olson, a senior vice president and wealth advisor, has 17 years of experience, primarily at UBS and, most recently, at Oppenheimer & Co. 
- John Grear, a senior vice president and wealth advisor, has 37 years of experience in financial services at firms including JC Bradford & Co, UBS, and Oppenheimer & Co.
- Linda Saylor is a wealth advisor. She has 22 years of industry experience, most recently at Oppenheimer & Co.
- Denise Godley supports the Ridgeline Group as a client service associate. She has 16 years’ industry experience.

Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank, which has a private banking operation, has appointed Jane Ullman as managing director at its Portland, Oregon office. 

Ullman will be responsible for supporting Oregon's innovation economy and will lead SVB's local banking team. 

She has more than 20 years of experience as a finance and operations executive for organizations including Rulespace, Shiftwise and The Clymb.

NYLIM
New York Life Investment Management has appointed Jean-Pierre "JP" Gerard as head of business intelligence and data analytics. He will report to Kirk Lehneis, chief operating officer of NYLIM.

Most recently, Gerard served as head of analytics for North America at Mastercard. In that role, he was responsible for managing the delivery of multi-million dollar analytics projects for top banks worldwide.  He also led Mastercard's campaign analytics team in the design and measurement of over 200 multichannel marketing programs.

Previously, Gerard was a senior managing consultant at Mastercard Advisors and a senior analyst at Nielsen Financial Services. He built his business intelligence background at Citigroup, where he worked in the global decision management department for Citi Cards, and at JP Morgan, where he served as vice president of business intelligence for global marketing in the treasury services division.