Gottesman will be responsible for the overall performance and client outreach, including in the markets of Montgomery County, DC, and Northern Virginia.

He will oversee investment management, trust and estate planning services, credit and lending, and philanthropy. Additionally, he will be in charge of hiring new talent in the market.

In his former role at JP Morgan, Gottesman was managing director and market manager in Washington, DC. Before that, he served as chief investment officer at Mizuho Alternative Investments and was also a member of the management and investment committees.

Earlier still, he was named chief operating officer at Blaylock and Company, a minority-owned investment bank in the US, where he directed front- and back-office functions.

Throughout his 30-year career, he has also held senior roles in management and trading at Commerzbank, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Drexel Burnham Lambert, having started out at Goldman Sachs.