BNY Mellon Wealth Management's New York Tri-State Sales Force Keeps Growing

Eliane Chavagnon

5 February 2015

BNY Mellon Wealth Management has added to its business development team in Manhattan, while announcing that its New York Tri-State sales force team has grown by 140 per cent over the past two years.

The growth reflects BNY Mellon's two-year strategic wealth management hiring drive that kicked off in the summer of 2013.

Brett Dearing has been appointed as a senior wealth director while Ryan Brown joins as wealth director - both report to managing director Katia Friend.

Before Dearing joined BNY Mellon he was a managing principal and founder of Viceroy, where he focused on investment solutions for high net worth clients, sales/engagement strategies for institutions and created channel distribution strategies to access retail clients and registered investment advisors.

Earlier, he worked at Cole Real Estate Investments as a senior vice president and head of distribution for Cole Real Estate Investments in Phoenix.

Brown was previously director of the sales and marketing group at the RIA Bennett Lawrence Management, where he was responsible for the firm’s national business development and client retention effort. Before that, Brown was a relationship manager at The Roosevelt Investment Group.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management has $190 billion in private client assets, as of end-December, 2014. Last week, the firm hired Colleen Murphy as a senior wealth director in Naples, reporting to Lisa Simington, regional president for the west coast of Florida.