Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, announced that John Andrews will join as head of investor relations, effective September 1, reporting Stefan Krause, chief financial officer. He previously worked at Citigroup, where he held the same role.

During his more than 25-year career in finance, Andrews has been in investor relations for over 17 years and served as HR chief at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. He began his career at Morgan Stanley.

As part of the change, Joachim Mueller, who was head of investor relations, has assumed the role of CFO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Deutsche Bank.

Cetera Financial Group, the California-based family of broker-dealers that provide wealth management and advisory platforms, appointed Steve Dunlap as executive vice president and head of wealth management, reporting to chief executive Valerie Brown.

Dunlap will be responsible for the strategic development and expansion of Cetera’s wealth management services. He replaced Barnaby Grist.

Most recently, Dunlap served as president and chief executive of Lockwood Advisors, which operates as the retail distribution arm of BNY Mellon, and as president of managed investments at the company’s Pershing unit.

The World Gold Council, the market development organization for the gold industry, appointed Kevin Feldman as managing director of worldwide investment, based in New York.

Feldman joined from BlackRock, where he was head of iShares marketing. He will be responsible for growing the organization’s portfolio of commercial partnerships, and enhancing its market leadership in gold exchange-traded funds and other gold products.

Previously, Feldman held positions at Barclays Global Investors, Vanguard and Charles Schwab & Co.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed three new directors for the Mid-Atlantic region.

Michael Barron, Marisa Facciolo and Kevin Leigh were named senior directors for business development, reporting to Garrett Alton, managing director and regional sales manager.

Barron is based in Philadelphia, PA. He previously worked with ICC Capital Management, where he served as director and portfolio manager. Prior to that, he founded Revolution Capital, where he was a principal and portfolio manager.

Facciolo started in early May and divides her time between Philadelphia and Wilmington, DL. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, she was a wealth strategist at Northern Trust. Between 2007 and 2010, she served as senior private client advisor at Wilmington Trust.

Leigh joined the firm in May and is based in Philadelphia. She was previously an investment banker with Griffin Financial Group and served as managing director at Keystone Equities Group, from 2003 to 2009.

New York-based Signature Bank appointed a new private client banking team, based at its White Plains, NY, office in Westchester County. David Pilossoph and Marie Moreno were both named group director and senior vice president.

Pilossoph has spent 35 years at Citibank in the Westchester area, most recently as vice president and branch manager at its Main Street branch in White Plains - a role he held for 23 years.

Moreno was a vice president and branch manager at Citibank's Mamaroneck Avenue branch in White Plains, where she focused on business banking, primarily for professional services entities. Before being promoted to this branch manager role, she worked with Pilossoph for nearly two decades.

Diane Fracasse joined Pilossoph and Moreno as a senior client associate. Fracasse was assistant branch manager for Pilossoph at the White Plains branch, where she provided sales, service and operational support.

Pennsylvania-based investment management and advisory firm Drexel Morgan Capital Advisers, formerly known as McCabe Capital Managers, appointed Christine Walker as vice president and senior portfolio manager.

Walker joined from BNY Mellon Wealth Management in Philadelphia, where she was senior portfolio manager and vice president.

In her new role, Walker will be responsible for client portfolios and relationships, design and direct investment and asset management strategies, and developing new business for the firm. She will also serve as a member of the investment committee.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank appointed Scott Wiley as a senior private banking officer, working with high net worth individuals and families in San Francisco, CA.

Wiley has over 14 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry and joined US Bank from Wells Fargo, where he was a senior private banking vice president. Previously, he was as a private client advisor at Smith Barney, working within Citigroup’s HNW group.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank took on Andrea Kaempf as a personal trust managing director in Seattle, WA.

Kaempf has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, with an extensive background in complex trust administration, asset allocation, and managing private foundations.

Prior to joining the PCR, Kaempf held leadership roles with Bank of America’s philanthropic management practice and most recently worked at BoA’s US Trust division in Seattle and Bellevue, WA.

Beverly Hills, CA-headquartered Lourd Capital Management, an independent investment advisory and financial planning firm, appointed Cole McNown as vice president.

McNown joined LCM from JP Morgan Private Bank, where he focused on managing client relationships. Before that, he served in the private wealth division of UBS.  

Philadelphia, PA-based Janney Montgomery Scott recruited Neil McCauley as senior vice president of wealth management in Lancaster, PA.

McCauley oversees approximately $98 million in client assets and was joined by W Robert Poff and Cindy Bomberger to form The McCauley Group.

McCauley is formerly of Wells Fargo, where he spent the past four years. He worked at Wachovia from 2006 to 2009, having previously been at Legg Mason for 22 years.

HSBC Private Bank appointed William Murphy as a senior vice president and relationship manager in Miami, FL.

Murphy, with over 30 years' wealth advisory and banking experience, joined HSBC after 27 years at Northern Trust, where he most recently served as a senior wealth strategist.

Reporting to Victoria Garrigo, southeast regional manager for the private bank, Murphy will serve high net worth individuals in the Southeast region of the US.

T Rowe Price, the Baltimore-based global investment management firm, elected former US Senator Olympia Snowe as an independent director of the company.

Senator Snowe served in the US Senate from 1995-2013, and as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1979-1995. She is currently chairman and chief executive of communications company Olympia Snowe and a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Oppenheimer Asset Management, a unit of New York-listed Oppenheimer Holdings, appointed Tim Pynchon as managing director and portfolio manager for high-yield, tax-exempt funds. He will be based in Boston, MA.

Pynchon - latterly of Pioneer Investment Management - has worked in the asset management business since 1982. Throughout his career, he has focused on high-yield, tax-exempt fixed income products, working as a portfolio manager, underwriter, analyst and restructuring specialist.

Brown Advisory hired Vincent Burke as a senior advisor, tasked with using his experience as a lawyer and fiduciary to serve clients throughout the US and expand the firm's presence in Washington, DC.

Since 2007, Burke has served as managing director and counsel at Bank of Georgetown. He will continue in those roles in addition to his new position at Brown Advisory.   

Earlier in his career, Burke served as partner at Furey, Doolan & Abell in Chevy Chase, MD, and at Reasoner, Davis & Fox in Washington, DC.

Montecito Bank & Trust hired Suzi Schomer as a vice president and business development officer, reporting to Jeff Pittman, senior vice president and director of wealth management.

Schomer has around 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, focused on providing clients in California, Portland, OR, and Austin, TX, with investment and asset management services. During her career she has also developed and implemented wealth management strategies for trust, investment management and private banking clients. 

Ruston, LA-based Argent Financial Group and its newly-created subsidiary, Argent Trust, named Meredith Strutt Mighty as business development officer, responsible for client development and relationship management for individual and institutional clients.

Mighty joined from APG, a small family office services company which she co-founded in 2006. She started her career in 2002 as a research associate and client service representative at Legg Mason Capital Management.

Raymond James Financial Services, an independent broker/dealer subsidiary of Raymond James, recruited a new team in the shape of Illinois-based Dashboard Wealth Advisors.

The team joined from Morgan Stanley, where they managed over $240 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of $1.9 million.

DWA is led by managing director, Scott Schuster, who is also a financial advisor at Raymond James. He is joined by his business partner, Paul Casazza - also an advisor at Raymond James - as well as operations manager, Mary Phillips, and DWA’s chief financial officer, Heather Schuster.

The trio also worked together at Morgan Stanley, where they operated as the Schuster-Casazza Group.

Northern Trust promoted David Williams to the role of sales director for wealth management.

Williams, with more than 27 years’ experience in the financial services industry, has spent 15 years at Northern Trust. Before joining Northern Trust, he held a variety of wealth management and commercial banking positions at First Midwest Bank, Firstar Bank and Lake Shore Bank.

Williams succeeded Brett Rees, who now leads Northern Trust’s Mid-Atlantic region from the firm’s Washington, DC, office. In his new role, Williams will report to Jana Schreuder, president of wealth management at Northern Trust, joining Schreuder’s executive leadership team.

BMO Private Bank appointed Dan Barron as managing director in Rockford, IL, and Kathy Weber as managing director in Chicago, IL.

Weber, with more than 30 years' experience in financial services, has been managing BMO Private Bank's team of wealth management professionals in Rockford for over a decade (three years with BMO, seven years prior to that with AMCORE Bank). Weber led the private banking operations for all of AMCORE Bank.

In her new role, Weber will lead a team of wealth advisors, private bankers and portfolio managers.

Barron, with more than 30 years' financial services experience, including 17 years at BMO Financial Group, most recently held the role of regional president in the northern region of Wisconsin, where he led a team of over 150 employees and was responsible for retail, business banking and wealth management businesses. For the past 19 months, Barron has been a senior private banker in Chicago.

Philadelphia, PA-based Janney Montgomery Scott added industry veterans Alfred DeRenzis and Scott Ford to its new Westminster, MD, office as senior vice president of wealth management and first vice president of wealth management, respectively.

DeRenzis and Ford, who collectively oversee approximately $159 million in client assets, were joined by registered private client assistant, Karen Seipp, to form the DeRenzis Ford Group.

DeRenzis and Ford both joined Janney from Morgan Stanley, where they spent the past four years. The team previously worked at Citigroup (2006-2009), and spent 25 and eight years, respectively, at Legg Mason before that.

Lincoln Financial Network, the retail client business of Philadelphia, PA-headquartered Lincoln Financial Group, appointed Bill Fortner as managing director of Lincoln Financial Advisors, leading the Pacific regional planning group.

Fortner will manage regional planning offices in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington State, where he will focus on increasing market share, the firm said in a statement.

Based in San Ramon, CA, Fortner will report to head of Lincoln Financial Advisors, John DiMonda. Fortner joined from MetLife, where he served as a regional sales vice president covering Southern California and Hawaii from 2011 to 2013.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Eric Stein as senior director for business development, based in the firm’s Miami, FL, office and reporting to managing director Tim Goering.

Stein, with more than 29 years' experience serving high net worth clients, joined BNY Mellon from BB&T Bank in Miami, where he served as a wealth advisor. From 2005 to 2012 he was a HNW client advisor at SunTrust Bank in Coral Gables, FL.

Wells Fargo Advisors bolstered its private client group with the addition of nine advisors across seven states from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital Markets.

James Hunt joined the Chicago, IL, branch from Morgan Stanley and had $181 million in assets under management, on top of $425 million in assets held away from the firm. Hunt has 20 years of industry experience and reports to Chicago complex manager Kevin Ortmeyer.

Bruce McMillan was hired in San Francisco, CA, from Merrill Lynch. McMillan has 28 years of industry experience and had $105 million in AuM. He reports to San Francisco market manager Kevin Kitchin.

In Westport, CT, Anthony Bavedas - formerly of Morgan Stanley - has some 40 years of experience in the industry and had $109m in AuM.  He reports to Northern Connecticut market manager Chris Calabrese.

Meanwhile, the Lyon Dobbyn Wealth Management Group, comprised of financial advisors John Lyon and Jeannette Dobbyn, joined the Anaheim, CA, branch from Morgan Stanley. Wells Fargo said they will be moving to Brea in the coming months.

Lyon and Dobbyn have nearly 65 years of experience in the industry and had $360 million in AuM. Stacy Stryker, their client associate, also joined. The team reports to branch manager Alan Hall.

Brian Stahler stepped into the Wichita Falls, TX, branch from Morgan Stanley. Stahler has 17 years of industry experience and had $108 million in AuM. He reports to branch manager Ralph Grantom.

Additionally, financial advisors Peter Vrooman and Jonathan Sarver were appointed from RBC Capital Markets in Kansas City. Vrooman and Sarver have 31 years of industry experience and had $125 million in AuM. They took with them their registered client associate, Jessica Estes-Fleischmann, and report to branch manager Erik Gaucher.

Lastly, Philip Weber joined the Hyannis, MA, branch from Merrill Lynch. Weber has 23 years of experience in the industry and had AuM of $129m. He reports to branch manager Paul Stubbs.

Mark Gim, executive vice president and treasurer at Westerly, RI-based Washington Trust, was named executive vice president of wealth management and treasurer.

In his new role, Gim will establish and execute business strategy for Washington Trust Wealth Management, a division of The Washington Trust Company.

Gim, who joined Washington Trust in September 1993 from Citizens Bank, oversaw the retail banking division alongside his roles as executive vice president and treasurer.

US Wealth Management, a network of wealth managers, appointed Christian Widen from Pershing Advisor Solutions as managing director and head of corporate development.

Widen will be based in New York City and report directly to John Napolitano, chief executive of USWM. He will focus on adding fee and commission-based independent financial advisory practices with between $50 million and $100 million in assets under management.

GenSpring Family Offices, the New York-listed wealth management firm for ultra high net worth families, promoted Nikki Gokey to president of the Florida region.

Gokey will oversee the operations and delivery of wealth management services in Florida, which includes family offices in Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami and Sarasota. Gokey joined GenSpring in 2004 as a family wealth advisor in Orlando.

Raymond James & Associates, the broker/dealer subsidiary of New York-listed Raymond James Financial, took on Cynthia Woodsmall Jones as senior vice president of investments in Columbus, GA.

Jones focuses on asset management for high net worth individuals and families, and also advises on corporate retirement assets, specifically 401(k) plans.

Jones joined Raymond James from Morgan Stanley, where she managed over $435 million in client assets and had some $1 million in annual fees and commissions. She started her career in the financial services industry in 1981 at Robinson-Humphrey & Co.

Brenda Meadows joined Jones as a registered client associate. Meadows is also latterly of Morgan Stanley. Meadows has over 33 years of financial industry experience, including several years as an operations manager and complex risk officer.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management hired three financial advisors from UBS and Wells Fargo in Ridgewood, NJ, Pasadena, CA, and Seattle, WA.

In Ridgewood, Arthur Levine joined Morgan Stanley from Wells Fargo and reports to branch manager Peter Christou. Last year, Levine had a T-12 production of $2.4 million.

Meanwhile, T Samuel Coleman Sr and T Samuel Coleman Jr joined the firm from UBS in Pasadena, CA, and Seattle, WA, respectively.

Coleman Sr reports to Cynthia Newman, Pasadena complex manager, while Coleman Jr reports to Alex Burlingame, Seattle complex manager. The team has combined T-12 production of $1.3 million and prior assets of $161 million.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management named Christopher Facka as senior director for business development, based in West Palm Beach, FL, and reporting to managing director Tom Goering.

Facka filled a new role at the New York-listed firm, created as part of the expansion strategy announced last month by BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s chief executive Larry Hughes.

Facka joined from Wells Fargo, where he has worked for his entire career in financial services. Most recently, he was a branch manager and financial advisor in West Palm Beach overseeing a team of nearly 40.

Bank of Kansas City lured three veteran wealth managers from UMB Bank.

Bob Weber, Kevin Zimmermann and Justin Richter, who all specialize in working with clients with at least $1 million in investable assets, were named senior vice presidents at Bank of Kansas City’s The Private Bank.

Weber was at UMB for 15 years and was a managing director of portfolio management.

Zimmerman was at UMB for seven years and was a senior vice president for private banking and wealth management. He was at Bank of America for five years before that.

Richter was at UMB for nine years and was a portfolio manager.

Foster Dykema Cabot, the Boston-based private wealth manager, hired Douglas Phillips from Choate Investment Advisors as its chief investment officer.

Phillips will work with FDC’s team on investment strategy, asset allocation and security and manager selection.

He has been in the investment management industry for 25 years, working with high and ultra high net worth clients and their endowments and foundations. At Choate Investment Advisors he was a senior portfolio manager and member of the investment policy committee.

Janney Montgomery Scott  hired W G Simms Oliphant and Christopher Smith as senior vice presidents for wealth management in Columbia, SC.

Oliphant and Smith, who together oversee some $155 million in client assets, were joined by senior registered private client assistant Julie Boulware to form SC Asset Advisors.

The Columbia office, led by branch manager Larry Orr, is part of Janney’s Atlanta, GA, complex, which is led by complex manager Jeff Paulsen.

Oliphant and Smith are latterly of Little Rock, AR-headquartered Stephens, where Oliphant spent the past seven years. Oliphant worked at Legg Mason between 2001 and 2005, when the firm transferred its business to Citigroup, and spent seven years at Wachovia before that.

Meanwhile, the Philadelphia, PA-based firm also announced that Andy Kistler, southeast regional manager, is moving to the Charlotte, NC, office.

Avondale Partners, an independent investment banking and wealth management firm, is setting up an office in New York.

The Nashville, TX-headquartered firm hired John Cuddeback, from the New York office of BMO Capital Markets, and Dana Lambert, from Royce & Associates, New York, to lead the new office.

Lambert has worked both on the buy and sell side. Most recently he was an assistant portfolio manager at Royce & Associates, where he had worked since 2007.

Cuddeback was a director of institutional equity sales at BMO Capital Markets, covering accounts in New York and across the Midwest.

John Schmidt, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Heartland Financial USA, is leaving the Iowa-based firm this month to become CFO at another firm outside of the financial services industry.

Schmidt has served for 22 years as CFO of Heartland and was then given the additional role of president of the firm's Dubuque Bank and Trust subsidiary. He will continue to serve as a member of the Dubuque Bank and Trust and Heartland boards of directors after his departure.

The firm said it had been looking to recruit another CFO to support Schmidt in the areas of finance and treasury. The search for a successor CFO will continue among both internal and external candidates. 

In the meantime, senior vice president David Horstmann, an eight-year Heartland employee and member of the firm’s finance team, is now interim CFO, while Lynn Fuller took on COO responsibilities.

Richmond, VA-headquartered Genworth Financial, which in March 2013 sold its wealth management business for $412.5 million to New York-based Aquiline Capital Partners, announced an expense reduction plan to boost operating performance across its businesses to save between $80 million and $90 million in annual pre-tax expense savings.

The move will eliminate around 400 positions, including 150 open posts that will not be filled, while also cutting spending on related information technology and programs.

Stephen Fish joined UBS Financial Services from Kentucky-headquartered wealth manager Hilliard Lyons, according to FINRA records. At Hilliard Lyons Fish managed $475 million in client assets and last year had T-12 production of $3.4 million. He has worked in the financial advisory industry for around 20 years.

New York-headquartered W P Stewart & Co, the global asset management firm, named Michael Maquet as chief executive.

Maquet joined other members of the firm’s senior management team, which includes Mark Phelps, president and managing director within global investments, and James Tierney, managing director and chief investment officer.

Maquet was latterly president and CEO of Madison Square Investors, an equity asset management firm he joined in 2009.

International law firm Walkers ramped up its teams with a number of promotions as part of its continued expansion.

In the Cayman Islands office, Melissa Lim was promoted to partner in the investment funds group; in the Dublin office, Andrew Traynor was promoted to partner in the finance and corporate group; in the Singapore office, Laura Rogers was promoted to partner of the investment funds group; in the London office, Jasmine Amaria  was promoted to partner in the investment funds group; in the Hong Kong office Paul Aherne was promoted to counsel in the finance and corporate group, and Aaron McGarry was promoted to of counsel in the asset finance group in the Dublin office.

In other appointments in the Cayman Islands, Matthew Goucke was promoted to partner in the Dispute Resolution Group; Nick Dunne, Rupert Bell and Shelley White were promoted to senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution Group.

Meanwhile, in the British Virgin Islands Julie Engwirda was promoted to partner and Oliver Clifton was promoted to senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution Group.

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network hired J D Joyce - formerly of UBS Wealth Management Americas - as an independent advisor in Houston, TX.

Joyce spent 20 years at UBS, where he managed $306 million in client assets. Joyce started his career in the training program at the former PaineWebber brokerage, which eventually formed UBS WMA. 

New York-headquartered Innovest Systems, a financial technology firm specializing in trust accounting and wealth management solutions, hired John Shepherd from Wilmington Trust as a vice president of product management. 

In this role, he will be responsible for enhancing the firm's products and services to better help clients grow their businesses.

Shepherd has around 30 years of experience as a planner and manager in the financial services industry and at Wilmington Trust oversaw the conversion of the firm's "solutions architecture," which involved streamlining processes, strengthening workflows and eliminating data integrity issues.

Romano Wealth Management, an Evanston, IL-based firm, hired Scott Miller as a portfolio manager.

Miller has been in the financial management industry for 14 years and worked at the likes of Charles Schwab and H&R Block Advisors. At Charles Schwab he garnered client assets of around $60 million while maintaining a practice of around $300 million.

Raymond James appointed James Hall as a retirement team partner and financial advisor within the Green Financial Group, an independent firm in Houston, TX.

Hall joined Raymond James from USCA Securities, where he managed $100 million in assets. Before that, he spent time at UBS, Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber and Shearson Lehman Brothers. While at Morgan Stanley, he partnered with Jeff Green, founder of Green Financial Group.

The brokerage firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co hired Michael Wallace and Todd Belfiore from UBS to launch a new private client office in Tampa, FL.

Wallace and Belfiore have a combined 48 years of industry experience and join from UBS Financial Services, where they managed $179 million in client assets.

They both started as senior vice presidents/investments, with Wallace serving as branch manager of the new office.

Connecticut Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor, brought in the Filomeno Wealth Management team to its operation.

Joining the team were financial advisors Michael Tedone, Kathleen Christensen and Elizabeth DeBassio, as well as Kimberly Lockwood, who served as investment group administrator at Filomeno Wealth Management.

They brought with them $120 million in client assets, bringing Connecticut Wealth’s assets under management to $400 million.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank hired Kathy DePauw Graham from JP Morgan Private Bank as a senior portfolio manager in Chicago, IL.

Graham will help develop and implement investment portfolios for high net worth individuals and institutions, while also serving as the local investment practice leader.

Graham has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and joins US Bank from JP Morgan Private Bank, where she was an investment advisor. She also previously served as head of wealth management investment sales and servicing for Northern Trust Global Investments, and spent about 20 years at First National Bank of Chicago and successor institutions.

Philadelphia, PA-based Janney Montgomery Scott appointed Robert Benson and his partner Michael Slaymaker as first vice president of wealth management and vice president of wealth management, respectively, in Washington, DC.

Benson and Slaymaker collectively oversee about $142 million in client assets and were joined by registered private client assistant Elizabeth Miller to form The Old Dominion Group.

Benson spent the past four years at Morgan Stanley, having previously worked between 2006 and 2009 at Citigroup and for 21 years at Legg Mason prior to that. Slaymaker also joins from Morgan Stanley.

OppenheimerFunds promoted executive vice president and chief investment officer Art Steinmetz to president.

As president and CIO, Steinmetz, who joined the firm in 1986, will continue to report to chairman and chief executive Bill Glavin. Meanwhile, OppenheimerFunds' team of CIOs will continue reporting to Steinmetz, who the firm said will continue to co-manage his existing investment strategies and portfolios.  

Commonwealth Financial Network appointed managing principal and chief financial officer Rich Hunter as president and chief operating officer.

Hunter, who has overseen all financial activity at the firm for 25 years, will retain his other roles.

In other developments, Peter Wheeler, who has been at the firm for about 30 years, will retain oversight of the firm’s legal and compliance affairs, but with the additional title of vice chairman. He will also focus on long-term executive management responsibilities and strategic planning.

Commonwealth also promoted seven managers to the newly-created position of senior vice president, in addition to their existing roles.

They were: John Bohs, brokerage operations; Simon Heslop, asset management; Jim Hommeyer, strategic and tax planning; Carly Maher, sponsor relations and conferences; Gavin Morrissey, wealth management; E J Sutherland, information technology; and Paul Tolley, compliance.

HighTower Advisor Network, formed in September 2012, added its first advisor team in the shape of Atlanta, GA-based Shaffer Wealth Management.

HighTower Advisor Network differs from the HighTower Alliance in that it is designed specifically for breakaway brokers, offering them a customized set of services with which to serve their clients.

The HighTower Alliance is aimed at advisors who are either leaving a wirehouse or are already independent, but, as previously reported, both pathways allow advisors to keep all of their earnings.

Shaffer Wealth Management oversees $300 million in assets and is comprised of Roger Shaffer, managing director, Rhonda Lamb, executive director, and Perry Neuman, senior director.

The team joined from SunTrust Investment Services and specializes in serving wealthy families with concentrated stock positions. It also has expertise in cash flow solutions and liability management.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, the wealth arm of German banking giant Deutsche Bank, appointed Vinit Sahni to expand its services for ultra high net worth clients.

Sahni most recently served at Bank of America, where he was head of rates and foreign exchange sales for Europe and Asia, and global head of hedge fund and central bank sales for rates and foreign exchange. Before that, he was the co-head of fixed income sales for Goldman Sachs in Asia ex-Japan. Earlier in his career he worked in Deutsche Bank's global markets business.

In his new role, Sahni, joins the global client group's key client partners unit, which is responsible for specialist coverage of UHNW clients. He will be based in London and report to Dario Schiraldi.

Northern Trust appointed David Albright as global sales and marketing director for its family office group.

Albright has been at the Chicago-headquartered firm for 15 years and most recently led its business development efforts in the northeast of the US. In his new role he replaces Shannon Kennedy, who has left Northern Trust.