Here are all the moves in wealth management senior roles from around the world.

UK, continental Europe, Africa and Middle East moves

The man who founded the business now known as LGT Vestra in the crisis-torn year of 2008, David Scott, decided to step down. He was also the chairman. Creating Vestra and, coming from UBS, Scott’s business was eventually acquired by Liechtenstein-based LGT Group in 2016. Ben Snee, who was a founding partner with Scott in 2008, became CEO in 2013 and continued in his role as head of the firm.

Chartered accountancy firm Haysmacintyre promoted Elena Ramkalawon to become a partner. Ramkalawon, who is in charge of the firm's outsourcing services team, joined in 2011. She was promoted to a director of outsourcing in 2018, working with clients in financial services, hospitality and membership organisations. 

Investor relations consultancy Edison Group promoted Charles Combe to become global sales director and primary sales contact for all corporate clients. Combe spent nine years at Edison, first as a director and later heading the firm’s sales efforts in Europe. He is a qualified accountant and holds an MBA from Cass Business School. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving on to Barclays Capital and Smith & Williamson.

Walker Crips appointed Jonathan Downes as an investment manager. It also named Scott Palmer as a wealth manager in its wealth management division. Downes joined after eight years at Tilney, latterly as investment management director. Before that, he held investment management positions at Brewin Dolphin and James Brearley and Sons, working with private individuals, trusts, charities, pensions and small companies.

Offshore law firm Corey Olsen brought litigation and insolvency specialist Tim Wright back in as a partner of its British Virgin Islands dispute resolution and litigation practice. Wright’s return as a partner coincided with the appointment of BVI litigator, Simon Hall, as counsel within the team. Wright, who joined from heading the BVI litigation practice of Bedell Cristin, previously worked for Carey Olsen in the jurisdiction between 2016 and 2019.

Barclays’ UK director and chairman Ian Cheshire stepped down and was succeeded by Crawford Gillies. Julia Wilson agreed to join the bank’s board as a non-executive director with effect from 1 April 2021. She will also join the audit committee. Wilson is group finance director of 3i Group, where her responsibilities include finance, investment valuations and treasury.

Mirabaud Group's managing partners appointed London-based Andrew Lake as a limited partner. Lake is a lawyer by training and received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 2004. He joined Mirabaud in 2013 after serving in roles at Merrill Lynch, F&C and Aviva Investors. Since 2014, Lake led Mirabaud Asset Management’s fixed income teams and managed the group's flagship Global Strategic Bond Fund.

Natixis Investment Managers appointed Renan Borne as chief information officer and digital transformation lead. Borne joined from AXA Investment Managers where he was chief IT architect, head of data and head of IT for the real assets business. Before joining AXA IM, he spent 15 years within the investment banking arm of Société Générale with various roles and responsibilities in France and Asia. Borne reports to Joseph Pinto, global chief operating officer at Natixis IM and Catherine Chedru-Refeuil, head of IT for asset and wealth management, CIB, Natixis.

LGT announced that HSH Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein had assumed the chairmanship of the foundation board, and Olivier de Perregaux would lead the private banking business as CEO. He has been chief financial officer of LGT since 2001. Prince Max took over the chairmanship from HSH Prince Philipp von und zu Liechtenstein, who had been in the post since 2001. 

The current group structure will be dissolved at the end of 2021 and the three new companies will then be directly held by the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation. Besides de Perregaux, the other members of the executive board are Heinrich Henckel (Switzerland), Henri W Leimer (Asia), Roland Schubert (Liechtenstein) as well as Michael Bürge (CFO), André Lagger (Financial Services) and Stephan Tanner (Front Solutions and Corporate Development).

LGT Capital Partners continues to be led by Roberto Paganoni, CEO of LGT Capital Partners since 2001. Another member of the banking dynasty, HSH Prince Hubertus von und zu Liechtenstein, a member of the board of directors of the LGT banks in Liechtenstein and Switzerland since 2017, is another member of the family to sit on LGT Group’s foundation board. In the future, he will become a member of the board of LGT Private Banking. Thomas Piske led the LGT private banking unit since 2009 as CEO.

Arbitrium Capital Partners, a distressed debt and special situations specialist, hired Blake Ammit as managing director and Ian Lundy as an independent member of its investment committee. Lundy has more than 20 years’ experience across the investment industry, most recently as chief investment officer of industry fund Tasplan. Prior roles include director of Hobart Airport, and trustee director of Utilities Trust of Australia, a $6 billion infrastructure fund. 

Ammit has specialised in funds management, equity and debt structuring, investment banking, M&A and turnaround management for over 25 years. He has experience across a diverse range of industries including agriculture, energy, utilities, infrastructure, property development, and waste management. Most recently he was shareholder and head of asset management at FC Capital Holdings, one of Australia’s largest alternative asset managers. Prior to this he was CEO of Handbury Asset Management.

Mirabaud Asset Management named Jérôme Paganini as head of sales for Switzerland. He joined with more than a decade of wholesale and institutional sales experience from SILEX Investment Partners. Previously, he worked in senior roles at Lombard Odier and Syz.

ABN AMRO’s shareholders voted to appoint Mariken Tannemaat as a new member of its supervisory board. They also appointed Mariken Tannemaat to the board for a four-year term, ABN AMRO said. The board consists of Tom de Swaan (chairman), Arjen Dorland (vice chairman), Laetitia Griffith, Michiel Lap, Jurgen Stegmann, Anna Storåkers, Mariken Tannemaat and Tjalling Tiemstra.

The Swiss subsidiary of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg appointed Hartmut Vollmer as head of wealth management for growth markets, a segment including China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Vollmer joined from Union Bancaire Privée where he has been leading the Eastern Europe team. He has been a member of its private banking management committee since 2011. Prior to UBP, Vollmer held management positions at ABN AMRO in Switzerland from 2000 to 2011.

Tobias Kamber took on the role of general counsel. Kamber has more than 16 years of experience in legal, risk and compliance roles in the private banking sector in Switzerland and Hong Kong. Prior to joining BIL Suisse, he was deputy general counsel for private banking at Julius Baer. He also headed the private banking legal team for Switzerland and the EMEA countries. Kamber started his career in the private banking sector in 2004 as legal counsel at Clariden Bank, prior to joining Julius Baer in 2007.

Reto Wangler, who worked at UBS for more than two decades in Switzerland and the US, took a sabbatical from his role as chief operating officer for global wealth management, starting from 1 February. Wangler intends to complete studies on themes affecting the industry and take a long-planned extended trip with his family. He will return to a new role at the bank in 2022.

Wiwi Gutmannsbauer and Kate Newcomb, who have both been regional COOs and operating heads, were named co-COOs for the wealth business. Newcomb led UBS’s partnership with Broadridge to modernise the bank’s technology and develop its wealth management platform. Gutmannsbauer has been extensively involved with moves in digitalisation and innovation. He has been regional COO, Asia-Pacific (January 2018 to the present day) and operating head of wealth management for Asia-Pacific. He has been at the Zurich-listed bank since 1998.

The Financial Conduct Authority appointed Sheldon Mills as the new executive director, Consumers and Competition, and Siobhán Sheridan as chief people officer. Mills was formerly interim executive director, strategy and competition where, amongst other things, he led the FCA’s response to ensure industry support for consumers during the pandemic. Prior to joining the FCA, he was senior director at the Competition and Markets Authority, where he had overall leadership responsibility for the delivery of merger control across the UK economy. Sheridan joined from the Ministry of Defence where she has been leading a human resources team of 200 people with responsibility for diversity and inclusion strategy at group level. Her previous experience includes roles at Capital One, DEFRA, DWP and the NSPCC. 

Aberdeen Standard Capital appointed ex-UBS employees Miranda Richards and Ben Turner as senior charities portfolio managers. Both report to Laurence Gagen, head of charities. Richards has more than 30 years’ investment experience and joined from UBS where she was a charity-focused client advisor and led the London team. Prior to a career break, Richards was a fund manager at Henderson and oversaw the management of a $1 billion Global Smaller Companies Fund. 

Turner also joined from UBS where he was senior client advisor for charity and not-for-profit clients, specialising in sustainable and impact investing. Prior to UBS, Turner had a similar role with Barclays Private Bank. He has been investing for charities for over 10 years.
 

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BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Daniel Klein as global head of client services. Klein is based in Paris, reporting to Sandro Pierri, head of the global client group. Working at BNP Paribas for more than 27 years, Klein spent the last 18 of those years at BNP Paribas Asset Management. In his most recent role as CEO of BNPP AM USA and head of sales in North America, which he held for five years, he oversaw BNPP AM’s asset management activities in New York and Boston, and headed sales in the region. Daniel previously had several roles in Asia and Europe within BNPP AM.

Robeco launched RobecoSAM Climate Global Credits and RobecoSAM Climate Global Bonds. These are actively managed strategies. It is run by Victor Verberk, Reinout Schapers and Peter Kwaak from Robeco’s Global Credit team. In the second strategy, RobecoSAM Climate Global Bonds, is managed by Jamie Stuttard, Regina Borromeo and Bob Stoutjesdijk from Robeco’s Global Fixed Income Macro team.

Anglo-Swiss wealth management firm Artorius appointed its chief executive Ian Marsh as executive chairman and appointed former UBS senior figure Paddy Lewis as its new CEO. Marsh held the CEO slot since 2016, following senior roles at Stonehage Fleming and Credit Suisse. Lewis is a partner at consulting firm Sionic and former UK head of investment platforms and solutions for UBS Wealth Management.

Zurich-based asset manager GAM Investments named Matt Williams in a newly-created role as head of equity investment specialists. He reports in London to head of discretionary investment Greg Clerkson.

The former director and product strategist at BlackRock leads GAM’s team of equity investment specialists and building investment strategies. Prior to BlackRock, his roles in equity research focused on capital goods at MF Global, HSBC, and Capital Group. Williams was also a visiting lecturer in applied corporate finance at London's City University Business School for six years. He began his career in 1997 as a trader at Deutsche Bank.

In a newly-created role, Robeco appointed Katie Weber as head of UK institutional sales, reporting to EMEA head Alexander Preininger. Based in London, she is responsible for driving the growth of Robeco’s institutional client footprint in the UK. She was previously at AllianceBernstein, where she joined in 2007, and was most recently a director in the institutional client group, working with UK and Irish clients.

Stefan Hirter joined RWC as head of business development at a new office opening in Zurich. He moved from Fidelity International, where he was head of sales for Switzerland and Liechtenstein with responsibility for a range of clients including banks, insurance companies, family offices and external asset managers. Before that he spent more than eight years at Credit Suisse.

Investec Wealth & Investment appointed Barbara-Ann King to the newly-created role of chief commercial officer. King brought 25 years of experience in wealth and asset management for private clients and family offices, including seven years with Citi in New York and eight years with Barclays Wealth in London.

The president of personal and corporate banking at UBS, Axel Lehmann, stepped down from the role; he also left his post as president for UBS Switzerland. Sabine Keller-Busse, group chief operating officer and president for the EMEA region, replaced him. Lehmann was group COO and a member of the board of directors from 2009 to 2015. Keller-Busse, who was named group COO in January 2018, joined the banking group in 2010, first as COO for UBS Switzerland then as group head of human resources. Prior to UBS, she led Credit Suisse’s private clients business for the Zurich region and advised financial services firms across Europe as a partner at McKinsey & Company. Iqbal Khan, co-president of Global Wealth Management, succeeded Keller-Busse as president for EMEA, in addition to his current responsibilities.  

International law firm Charles Russell Speechlys appointed new partners for four of its offices covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Sara Sheffield joined the Dubai office, Pierre Bydzovsky is joined the Geneva office and litigator Ray Ng joined as a registered foreign lawyer in the Hong Kong office. 

Vontobel reshuffled its senior leadership. Axel Schwarzer stepped down from his operational role after 10 years in that position, retaining ties to Vontobel as chairman of TwentyFour Asset Management, a subsidiary of Vontobel. Investment functions report directly to chief executive Zeno Staub. Marko Röder, longstanding head of global sales in asset management since July 2011, took over running the asset management client unit.

Northern Trust named Paul Rogers as head of fiduciary for its Global Family Office group for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Appointed in Guernsey, Rogers is in charge of day-to-day operations and delivering fiduciary services, reporting to head of GFO for EMEA, Belinda Aspinall. In a career spanning 34 years, Rogers spent the last 24 years in the fiduciary industry. He was previously deputy CEO and head of trust administration in Guernsey for Standard Chartered Trust, and  spent two decades at The Royal Bank of Canada Trust, also in Guernsey.

Stonehage Fleming appointed Bev Stewart as director in the Jersey Family Office Division, where she manages a number of international high net worth clients, reporting to the FO head in Jersey, Ana Ventura. Stewart joined from Absa Bank Limited in South Africa (formerly part of Barclays), where she joined in 2011 serving as a director in the investment banking global finance team. A trained accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in South Africa, Stewart later moved to the firm’s New York office, before returning to South Africa to join boutique advisory firm Bravura in 2008. She is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and STEP affiliate.

Credit Suisse Trust in Guernsey appointed Andy Veron. Veron has had an extensive career spanning more than 20 years with Credit Suisse before being appointed to this role.
 

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Asia-Pacific

RBC Wealth Management appointed former Credit Suisse figure Ida Lew as head of strategic initiatives for Greater China. Lew works with Beijing-based Belle Hu, associate director, business development, who joined the firm earlier last year. Lew is based in Hong Kong and reports to Ignatius K K (Iggy) Chong, head of private banking, Greater China and Michael Reed, head of wealth management, Southeast Asia.

At Credit Suisse Lew worked in strategic recruitment and market prospect management roles. Prior to that, she worked at UBS as business manager, covering China and Japan markets of both HNW and UHNW segments. She was a management consultant (strategy and operations) with Deloitte in the earlier part of her career.

LaSalle Investment Management, part of US-listed Jones Lang LaSalle, announced that Mark Gabbay, formerly chief executive and chief investment officer of its Asia-Pacific arm, had become global CEO. Gabbay, who joined LaSalle in 2010, succeeded Jeff Jacobson, who is to remain as chairman until at least June. Jacobson had been CEO for 14 years. Gabbay reports to Christian Ulbrich, president and CEO of JLL.

As part of the changes, the following moves were made in LaSalle’s Asia-Pacific region: Keith Fujii, Japan CEO, stepped into the Asia-Pacific CEO role previously held by Gabbay; and Claire Tang, head of Greater China, and Kunihiko (Nick) Okumura, head of Japan acquisitions, became co-CIOs of Asia-Pacific to fill the CIO role previously held by Gabbay.

Amundi, the France-based asset management group with €1.650 trillion of assets under management, named Xiaofeng Zhong as chairman of its Greater China business. Xiaofeng Zhong joined Amundi Hong Kong Limited in November 2011 as deputy chief executive, sales and marketing, and was appointed CEO, North Asia in September 2012. Prior to joining Amundi, he worked at Groupe Crédit Agricole from 1996 in various positions in France and Greater China, mainly within the investment banking arm. His most recent role, prior to joining Amundi, was managing director of CA-CIB Beijing branch. Xiaofeng Zhong has a PhD in political studies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, DEAs (postgraduate diploma) in political studies and international relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France and an MA (French language and literature) from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China. 

Credit Suisse appointed Alan Wang, formerly of UBS, in the newly-formed role of chief operating officer for China. Wang works with the bank’s businesses and corporate functions to ensure that Credit Suisse’s strategic plans are delivered smoothly. 

At UBS, Wang – who joined in 2020 – had been China “integration lead”. He has almost 20 years’ regulatory experience, having previously worked at People’s Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, where he was most recently Shanghai Bureau deputy director of foreign bank branches supervision.

A senior figure at EFG Bank in Singapore, Kimmis Pun, joined Shenning Investments as managing director family office. Pun was senior managing director and head, Greater China at EFG from April 2019 to December last year. Prior to EFG, Pun was head of private banking of VP Bank (May 2018 to April 2019), before that she was MD, Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore for almost two-and-half years. Previously, she worked at BNP Paribas from September 2014 to December 2015.

International law firm Charles Russell Speechlys appointed four new partners for four of its offices covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Two of the partners are joining its international dispute resolution team.

Sara Sheffield joined the Dubai office, Pierre Bydzovsky joined the Geneva office and litigator Ray Ng joined as a registered foreign lawyer in the Hong Kong office. 

Ray Ng has more than 30 years' experience of handling onshore and offshore disputes in a legal career spanning London, the Caribbean and Asia. Ng specialises in the resolution of complex high value multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes relating to shareholder rights, directors’ duties, corporate governance, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, trusts and commercial fraud. A native English speaker, he also speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Sun Life Financial, the Toronto-listed global group that provides wealth management among its offerings, said its president and chief executive, Dean Connor, is to retire in August 2021. Kevin Strain, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, is to be made president and a member of the Sun Life board of directors. He will assume the CEO role when Connor retires.

In a newly-created role based in Tokyo, Aberdeen Standard Investments appointed Sadayuki Takahashi as deputy head of Japan. The former Schroders executive works closely with Ken Yajima, chief executive and representative director for ASI in Japan. Takahashi spent 14 years in a variety of senior roles at Schroders Japan, most recently as COO of distribution and head of product development. Before that, he worked in client services and global custody roles in Tokyo at JP Morgan and the Bank of New York.
 

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Americas

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Luiz Sorge as the head of Latin America - a newly-created role. He is based in São Paulo, reporting to Sandro Pierri, global head of client group. Sorge is staying in his current role of CEO of BNPP AM Brazil alongside his new responsibilities for BNPP AM’s operations in Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru. At BNPP AM since 2001, he first became director of products for BNPP AM Brasil. In 2007 he became head of sales and product development for institutional and individual investors, external distributors and foreign investors. In July 2013 he was appointed CEO of BNPP AM Brasil.

UBS Private Wealth Management brought in a team of advisors together overseeing $1.7 billion in assets. The advisors are Scott Belveal and Adam Lambert. The duo, who joined the UBS Northeast private wealth market managed by Julie Fox, located in the Philadelphia office, report to branch manager Brendan Graham. They were joined by Max Hine, relationship manager, Kendal Glatthorn, team business manager, and Ray Farnesi, wealth strategy associate. 

LPL Financial, the broker-dealer and registered investment advisor custodian, appointed advisor Bryan Schneider to join its broker/dealer and corporate RIA platforms. Schneider reported having served approximately $425 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets. He joined the group of advisors at Professional Wealth Advisors, an LPL wealth management team based in Downers Grove, Illinois. Schnedier, formerly at JP Morgan Securities, brings more than 20 years of experience to the team. He launched his career supporting the back office of a trust company, working his way up to becoming a partner wealth advisor managing assets for about 400 households. 

Pacific Oak Capital Markets Group, which distributes alternative investments, appointed Jeff Namendorf as senior regional vice president; he is responsible for sales in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Namendorf began his career in financial services 30 years ago as an advisor. He transitioned to the wholesale side of the business and has sold mutual funds, annuities and alternatives. Most recently he was vice president regional director at Black Creek Capital Markets. He will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial intermediaries in the broker-dealer, regional independent and RIA channels.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Richard Sjostedt, Robert Rice, Brian Robertson, and registered branch professional Steven Diehl to Raymond James Financial Services, – its independent advisor channel. The group is based in Mansfield, Ohio. The advisors joined from Merrill Lynch, where they collectively managed $130 million in client assets. Now affiliated with Raymond James, the advisors operate as Platinum Family Wealth.

Raymond James brought in financial advisor Lauren Rudd and his team to Raymond James & Associates, its employee advisor channel. Rudd and colleagues are based in Sarasota, Florida. Rudd manages more than $230 million in client assets and joins RJA’s employee select advisor model from his own previously independent RIA firm, Rudd International, Inc, which cleared through Charles Schwab. Joining him at Raymond James are team members Patricia A Weeks, business operations specialist; Jose M Joia, associate vice president, investments; and Myree Simon, client service associate.

Raymond James appointed Marlene Debel to join its board. She is executive vice president and chief risk officer of MetLife. Debel has served in various leadership capacities at MetLife since 2011, when she first joined the organization as treasurer. In 2016, she was appointed chief financial officer for the company’s US business, and in 2018, she transitioned to running retirement and income solutions, the company's institutional retirement business. 

Ainge Advisory, an investment house concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, named Mark Broadbent as managing director of its legal and advisory services division. Broadbent has been an active advisor to angels, entrepreneurs, VC funds and growth-stage companies, particularly in the emerging Silicon Slopes tech corridor along Utah's Wasatch Front.

Angel Oak Capital Advisors, a US investment management firm specializing in value-driven structured credit investments, hired Jim Calla as senior vice president, institutional business development. Calla oversees the expansion of Angel Oak’s institutional sub-advisory role for bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) separately managed accounts. 

Calla has more than 30 years of experience in the financial sector. Most recently, he served as the national sales director at Meyer-Chatfield Group. Prior to that, he was the owner of World Currency USA, which facilitates foreign exchange transactions on behalf of community banks. 

West Wealth Management, including private wealth advisor Michael West and advisors Andrew West and Laura Cook, joined the independent channel of Ameriprise Financial. They were previously at Raymond James. The advisors oversee $150 million in assets under management. 

Dentons, the global law firm, appointed Edward V Marshall – a figure in US private banking and thought leadership in the sector – as global head of its family office and high net worth group. Marshall directs the firm’s strategy and implementation to build out a program of insights, advice and access to improve the firm's offering to its family office and HNW clients. Marshall joined as a principal and is based in New York.

Before this role, Marshall was an MD at Boston Private. Prior to that, he was a director in the global family office group at Citi Private Bank where he led business development and program management for the North American team. He was a member of the UHNW and family office practice at Credit Suisse and managed client relationships as a relationship manager. He joined Credit Suisse from Booz Allen Hamilton where he was a member of its organization and strategy practice. Marshall began his career in the public sector working for the federal government in the US and abroad. 

Marshall is member of the editorial board of the Family Wealth Report, and a core member and senior advisor to the UHNW Institute, a think tank. He is also a member of the board of directors for America's Warrior Partnership, a non-profit that acts as a force multiplier for veteran service organizations across the US. 

Alex Brown, part of Raymond James, announced that Mark J Pomerantz had joined its Los Angeles office. The office is run by regional executive Gary Cohen. Pomerantz, managing director and client advisor, has worked in the financial services industry for nearly 40 years at Morgan Stanley, where he managed more than $658 million in client assets. 

UBS Private Wealth Management appointed Jeff Lewis, Steve May, and John McColskey as managing director-ranked financial advisors in Atlanta, Georgia. All formerly worked for JP Morgan’s private banking arm. Other joiners were Jessie Searles and Mary Bennett, who serve as relationship managers, as well as portfolio associate John Lindsey. The team reports to Lane Strumlauf, Southeast private wealth management market head. 

Crestbridge, which provides administration, management and corporate governance solutions, intends to buy Ovation Fund Services, a business based in New Jersey. All Ovation employees became members of the global Crestbridge team. The New Jersey office is headed by Scot Hadley, Ovation’s founder, who has over 23 years’ experience in the sector. He established Ovation nearly four years ago. Prior to establishing Ovation, Hadley spent 18 years of his career at Paladin Realty Partners, an institutional real estate fund manager.

Impact Partners, a “strategic introductions” business working with ultra-high net worth clients, appointed family office figure Wendy Craft to join its advisory board. She is chief of staff at Fulcrum Equities, a single family office of Kent M Swig. Fulcrum is also a client of Impact Partners. Now in its fourth generation, Fulcrum has a strong focus in the real estate market, and co-invests with other families in a variety of businesses around the world. Prior to working with Swig and his family, Craft was general counsel to the Shepperd Family Office, an international investment entity located in Zurich, Switzerland.

Concurrent, a partnership of independent advisors affiliated with Raymond James Financial Services, worked with seven new advisor teams based in Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan and Mississippi to transition to its network. RJFS is part of the Florida-based Raymond James group. The new teams boost the network’s total assets under management by $1.1 billion. Concurrent picked up two teams in the state of Alaska. In Fairbanks, Head Retirement & Wealth Strategies comprising advisors, Roark “Alan” Head, nearly a 40-year financial services veteran, and Austin Head, along with service associate, Deborah Combs joined the Concurrent network. The team was previously with Wedbush Securities and manages nearly $300 million in assets under management.

Also in Fairbanks, Alaska and formerly with Wedbush Securities, Krista Stamper of Stamper Wealth and Retirement Group, joined Concurrent, bringing in nearly $253 million in assets under management.

Tracy Thacker, head of Thacker Wealth and Retirement and his team comprising Tammy Duncan, Penney Brooks, and Debra Thacker, also partnered with the Concurrent network. Located in Owensboro, Kentucky, Thacker and his team hold $259 million in assets under management and were formerly with Edward Jones. 

Hendrickson Wealth and Retirement, headed by Richard Hendrickson, welcomed Kayla Jo Teckenbrock and Jackie Rainey, formerly with Edward Jones to the network. This new team brings over $87 million in assets under management to this Benton, Kentucky-based practice. Hendrickson, who chose his path to independence by joining Concurrent in 2018, was also previously with Edward Jones.

Richard Crowne and Kelly Coghlan joined the Concurrent team located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Formerly with Wells Fargo Advisors, they bring nearly $147 million of assets under management. Formerly with Wells Fargo Advisors, Jason Huffman of Diberville, Mississippi joined Concurrent, adding $36 million in assets under management to the network. John Reeber, formerly with Wells Fargo Advisors, manages and advises on some $30 million in assets for clients in the Grosse Point, Michigan area and joined the Concurrent network.

The Bank of New York Mellon Wealth Management appointed Vincent Hayes as head of the global family office segment, taking over from Eileen Foley, who retired at the end of 2019. Hayes joined the wealth management leadership team at the firm and reports to Catherine Keating, chief executive. Prior to this, Hayes worked at Family Office Exchange where he served as managing director. In this role, Hayes’ responsibilities spanned member and program development as well as advice to family offices. Prior to FOX, Hayes served in the commodities and futures industry at R J O’Brien & Associates and AGN Futures, where he launched the firm’s high net worth client business.

EisnerAmper, the global business advisory firm based in the US, appointed Frank Attalla as a partner in its financial services group. Attalla has more than 30 years of experience in public accounting and 20 years focused in the financial services sector. He provides audits of and consulting services for private investment companies, public mutual funds and closed-end funds, hedge funds, ETFs, private equity funds, fund of funds, investment management companies, in addition to introducing broker-dealers. Prior to joining, Attalla was an audit partner with one of the “Big Four” accounting firms and led audits of both public and private companies in the investment management sector.

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Global investor services group IQ-EQ named Wendy Piergolam as head of client development for the US in a newly-created post based in New York. Piergolam operates primarily under IQ-EQ's subsidiary Blue River. Piergolam, who was formerly director of global solutions at PraxisIFM in New York, also worked in business development at Vistra where she focused on private equity and real estate investments, ultimately leading Vistra’s international desk.

Online financial services group Betterment named Sarah Kirshbaum Levy as its new chief executive, taking the helm from founder Jon Stein, who remained as board chairman. Levy, who most recently served as Viacom Media Networks' chief operating officer, has been an operating advisor at Betterment for the last several months. During her time at Viacom she was responsible for overseeing its global strategy, finance and operations for the $10 billion division that housed some of Viacom's major brands, including MTV, Comedy Central, and BET. Levy previously served as the COO at Nickelodeon for more than 10 years. Stein launched Betterment in 2010, seeking to extend wealth management services via automated portfolio management strategies that had previously only been available to the ultra-wealthy.

US fintech firm Zytara appointed former UBS and Goldman Sachs senior figures to join its advisory board. It named Andy Brown and Moritz Baier-Lentz as board members. Brown is the chief executive of Sand Hill East, which provides strategic management, investment and marketing services to emerging companies. Brown served as group chief technology officer of UBS. He has held senior posts at banks, including head of strategy for architecture and optimization at Bank of America, chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, and CTO of infrastructure at Credit Suisse. He is also a board member of a raft of businesses. Baier-Lentz is a partner of BITKRAFT Ventures, an early and mid-stage investment platform for gaming, esports, and interactive media. Prior to joining the fund, he was a vice president with the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs, where he built and co-led the firm's global gaming and esports practice. 

Cohen & Steers, the investment manager, appointed Greg Bottjer as executive vice president and head of global product strategy and development. He is based in New York. Bottjer has more than 27 years’ financial services experience. Most recently he was senior managing director and head of product management and development at Nuveen. 

Javelin Strategy & Research built a new digital wealth practice led by William Trout, formerly head of Celent’s wealth management, securities and investments practice. Trout, who has spoken at Family Wealth Report events and has been quoted on industry issues by this publication in the past, had been at Celent since June 2016, based in Houston, Texas. From May 2013 to April 2015, he was co-founder of the Bank Innovators Council. Prior to that, he was director of product and segment development, HNW and affluent segments, BBVA Compass.

Vanguard made a number of leadership changes.

Chris McIsaac, head of Vanguard's planning and development division, was named head of the firm’s international business. After 33 years of service, Jim Norris, head of Vanguard's international business, retired in December. McIsaac moved to Vanguard's European headquarters in London. 

For the past 12 years, Norris has led Vanguard's global expansion. Karin Risi, head of Vanguard's US Retail Investor Group, took responsibility for Vanguard Planning and Development. Matt Benchener, head of Retail Client Services and Operations, joined Vanguard's senior staff as head of its US Retail Investor Group.

Goldman Sachs named John Mallory and Meena Flynn as co-heads of global private wealth management. Mallory is head of Americas Private Wealth Management, while Flynn leads the global Markets Solutions Group. 

Other promotions at Goldmans were: 
-- Irfan Hussain, global chief information officer; 
-- Stephanie Smith, global head of operations; 
-- Zeeshan Razzaqui, global chief operating officer; 
-- Craig Singer, global chief financial officer; and 
-- Kerryann Benjamin, global human capital management business partner.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Dawn Guffey as senior director, wealth management. Guffey is responsible for managing portfolios as well as providing strategic planning and advice for ultra-high net worth families and their private foundations. Based in Naples, she reports to market president, Barry McKenzie. At BNY Mellon since 1984, Guffey served in roles such as chief investment officer in the cash investment strategies group, and most recently, as a corporate senior information risk officer and privacy steward for BNY Mellon Investment Management. Subsequent roles included executive vice president and senior portfolio manager for BNY Mellon Cash Investment Strategies, senior portfolio manager at Standish Mellon and portfolio manager and trader for Mellon Bank in the capital markets business.

Cresset Partners, a subsidiary of Cresset Capital, appointed Megan Kellerman as a managing director of business development. Kellerman most recently served as a principal of business development for the client group at GCM Grosvenor in Chicago, where she was responsible for sales and client relationships for pensions, endowments, foundations, family offices, and RIAs. Prior to that, Kellerman worked as a client relationship manager for William Blair.

Thrivent Advisor Network, the platform for independent advisors, appointed RIA industry veteran Gary Foster as senior business development officer. With more than 20 years of experience, Foster joined from LPL Financial.

Sun Life Financial, the Toronto-listed global group that provides wealth management among its offerings, said its president and chief executive, Dean Connor, is to retire in August. Kevin Strain, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, was made president and a member of the Sun Life board of directors. He will assume the CEO role when Connor retires.

Nancy Golding QC TEP, a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais in Calgary, Canada, was elected as worldwide chair of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, aka STEP. Golding took over from Simon Morgan TEP, who has served two terms in the role. Golding has practiced law in Calgary for more than 35 years. She is a tax partner in BLG’s Calgary office, as well as the national and regional leader of the private client group. She works exclusively in estate and tax planning, estates and fiduciary litigation and mediation of trust and estate disputes. She has also been a STEP member for more than 20 years.