RBC Wealth Management has hired Karen Ashworth as director of its Seattle complex. Ashworth is currently the firm’s highest-ranking female complex director, the firm said.

Ashworth joins RBC Wealth Management from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, where she was most recently a non-producing branch manager in California.  At RBC she oversees six of the firm’s branches in the Seattle area.

RBC Wealth Management has more than $173 billion of assets under administration and more than 2,200 financial consultants operating in some 200 locations in 42 states.