The latest senior moves in the North American wealth management space.

Vestwell
Vestwell, a technology engine powering workplace savings and investing programs, has hired Rob Molchon as its chief technology officer and promoted Ryan Anderson to chief product officer. 

Molchon, who has more than 25 years of experience as a technology leader, was previously the senior vice president of engineering at Integral Ad Science, where he created a global software development organization and was responsible for new product development, high-throughput data collection, big data processing, software quality and release engineering. Molchon is taking over duties for Vestwell’s previous CTO, John Skovron, who has been with the firm for nearly four years. Skovron is retiring in 2022, but will stay on to help with Molchon’s transition. 

Anderson, who joined Vestwell in 2019 as the firm’s senior vice president of product and design, is responsible for leading Vestwell’s product roadmap. Prior to Vestwell, he was the chief product officer at Advizr. Anderson was also the founder and managing partner of NYC-based product design studio Alchemy50 and, prior to that, he spent several years directing product design for FactSet. He has more than 20 years of experience in the sector.

Raymond James
Raymond James has welcomed financial advisor Adam English, to its employee advisor channel. English joins RJA’s branch location in Naples, Florida, led by Geoff Hunter.

Along with senior client service associate Anne Mitchell, the team operates as English Wealth Management of Raymond James. English was previously affiliated with Merrill Lynch where he managed about $130 million in client assets.

With more than 15 years of industry experience, English launched his career at Morgan Stanley. He later moved to Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in 2007 to join his father until his retirement in 2016, continuing the affiliation until this recent transition to Raymond James.