Here is a roundup of moves and appointments in the international wealth management sector during July.

HSBC Global Private Banking made three senior appointments for its European and Middle East business areas: Rob Embury was named head of collaboration, EMEA, Gemma Wild became head of collaboration for Middle East and North Africa, and Kevin Herbert was made head of GPB, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. 

Based in London, Embury, who reports to Chris Allen, head of global private banking, EMEA, has worked for HSBC for more than three and a half decades in senior management roles. 

Dubai-based Gemma Wild reports to Rob Embury and Farzad Billimoria, senior executive officer and head, private banking for United Arab Emirates. She has worked for HSBC since 2015 in the UK and MENA region for commercial banking, with her most recent role being commercial banking sector head for education and healthcare, MENA.

Herbert, based in the Channel Islands, has worked at HSBC since 1987. He has worked in a number of key role roles internationally, including co-head of private banking in North Asia, as well as appointments across the bank's CMB and wealth and personal banking businesses.

Kingswood Holdings, a London-listed wealth manager working on several acquisitions, said its chairman, Kenneth “Buzz” West, had retired. West, who was on the firm’s board for more than seven years, holding the chairmanship for five of them, is remaining as a consultant with the organisation for six months.

In addition, Patrick Goulding, group chief financial officer left the business. He led the firm for two years, initially as platform CEO and group CFO and latterly as group CFO. Kingswood appointed Jon Millam as the CFO.

Credit Suisse named a new chief risk officer, David Wildermuth. He filled the vacancy created when Lara Warner left in April in the wake of the heavy losses the Zurich-listed bank sustained from the Greensill Capital and Archegos meltdowns. Wildermuth, who previously worked at Goldman Sachs, is a banking veteran with 34 years’ experience under his belt. He is based in Zurich and reports to group chief executive Thomas Gottstein.

Tilney Smith & Williamson hired James Green as an investment manager and Justine Harper as executive account manager. They are based in London. Green and Harper joined from Sandaire, the multi-family office. Green started at Sandaire in 2015 and focused on investment research and managing multi-asset portfolios for UHNW family groups and charities. Harper worked for Sandaire for eight years as a senior operations manager. Prior to that she was an investment administration manager at Taylor Young Investment Management. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. 

Lazard Asset Management appointed Robert Wall as part of moves to expand its global alternatives investment platform. Wall joined the firm in October as managing director and head of sustainable private infrastructure. He has more than 20 years’ experience in growing private market investment portfolios, investing in infrastructure companies, and delivering engineering projects.

Raymond James opened a new branch in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The branch, which is headed by Paul Whitehead, is the third new Raymond James branch to open in 2021 in the UK. Born and raised in Gloucestershire, Whitehead has more than a decade of experience in the field. Starting his wealth management career at Brewin Dolphin in 2011, he was promoted through the ranks to become one of the youngest divisional directors in the business at the age of 30.

AHR Private Clients, which is based in Surrey in the UK, appointed Adam Edwards, Philip Lee, and Luke Turner as private client directors. Edwards joined AHR after more than 14 years at Credit Suisse in London. Lee is a former director in the high net worth team at UBS, with more than 20 years’ experience in the private banking space. Turner came from W1 Investment Group to manage a portfolio of HNW clients. 

Close Brothers Group appointed Patricia Halliday as an independent non-executive director. Halliday has more than 30 years' experience in risk management across the investment, corporate and retail banking sectors, both in the UK and internationally. Most recently, Halliday was chief risk officer of Santander UK, responsible for risk management and oversight across retail and commercial banking. 

Janus Henderson named James Lowry to the newly-created role of global chief operating officer. Lowry has more than 25 years of experience in the sector and joined the firm from State Street where he was COO of State Street Alpha, State Street’s front-to-back investment management platform division. Lowry is based in London and reports to Dick Weil, CEO of Janus Henderson.

Chris Shelley was named chief financial officer at Stanhope Capital Group. Shelley is based in London. Prior to joining Stanhope, Shelley spent 14 years in finance and private wealth management roles at Goldman Sachs. He was most recently the firm's chief financial officer of private wealth management for EMEA.

First Sentier Investors, owned by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, named Melanie Halsey as chief people and culture officer. Halsey, who is based in London, reports to Mark Steinberg, the chief executive. Halsey has more than 20 years’ experience in senior human resources roles, most recently as executive vice president, HR at Colt Technology Services, where she led a global team of 150 HR professionals across 15 countries. 

River and Mercantile, the investment group, appointed Mike Rogers, a former investment partner at AON, as senior advisor to the R&M Solutions business. Rogers has more than 30 years’ of industry experience in pensions and investment, spanning the asset-side and liability-side of pensions.

Kleinwort Hambros made a round of senior appointments in the UK and Channel Islands. Christophe Huchet was appointed group chief risk officer, to oversee how the risk function is put into action. He was chief executive of the Channel Islands bank for four years. Phil McIlwraith, who was appointed CEO of the CI Bank, has been CEO and group head of trust and fiduciary services in the Channel Islands for the past three years. He has 31 years’ experience with the Kleinwort Hambros group.

David Bromley, group chief risk officer, was appointed to take over from McIlwraith as CEO and group head of trust and fiduciary services in the Channel Islands. Huchet joined Societe Generale group (owner of Kleinwort Hambros) in 2003. He held various positions within the tax department, first in Paris dedicated to the investment bank division, then in Hong Kong in 2007 when he set-up the tax functions for the non-investment bank, before moving to Milan in 2011 and taking up the role of SG Group head of tax for Italy and then Italy and Switzerland in 2016.

Multrees Investor Services named Glenn Murphy as chief operating officer. Joining from Stonehage Fleming, the multi-family office, where he was the COO, Murphy replaced Jaco Cebula. He reports to Multrees’ chief executive, Chris Fisher.  Murphy has more than 25 years commercial experience. Before his tenure at Stonehage Fleming, he led operational functions for Schroders, Cazenove Capital, London & Capital and Rathbones. Murphy was also previously a non-executive director for a fund management company. He has extensive experience of working across investment operations, digitalisation, corporate and risk governance, and is an active member of the CISI and CFA UK.

Tilney, part of the Tilney Smith & Williamson brand set up a new dedicated investment management team at its Newcastle office in response to growth in the North East. Investment manager Matthew Burgess who heads the team, joinied managing partner David Smith at the Quayside House office. Burgess spent five years previously at Tilney’s Liverpool office. In a further move, Angus Wilson joined Tilney in the region as assistant investment manager. He joined from Brewin Dolphin.

LGT Vestra appointed Matthew Wiles to its investment research team to strengthen the sustainable fund selection process. Holding the title of sustainability funds analyst, Wiles joined from Aberdeen Standard Investments, where he had been senior investment analyst and manager of the MyFolio Sustainable fund range.

Whitman Asset Management, the fund management and private client investment firm, made two hires in its private client team. Riccardo Persona joined as an investment manager from Brewin Dolphin and Andrew Stevens joined from Quilter Cheviot. 

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry appointed Miriam Henke as its new secretary general. She reports directly to Camille Thommes, director general. Before joining ALFI, Henke was head of the company secretariat of Aberdeen Standard Investments Luxembourg.

Fidelity International hired Ashish Kochar as a fund manager. He is based in London. Kochar, who joined the global equity team, became portfolio manager of the Fidelity Funds – Global Focus (Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV), alongside co-portfolio manager Oliver Trimingham. Prior to this, Kochar worked at Columbia Threadneedle. He has more than 16 years’ investment experience of managing US, global and absolute return products. 

Zurich-listed GAM Investments promoted one of its senior figures, Martin Jufer, to become global head of wealth management, while former Universal Investment Luxembourg country boss, Sean O’Driscoll, became GAM’s Luxembourg CEO. Jufer joined GAM from Julius Baer in 2009 and has been responsible for the firm’s Private Labelling business since 2015. Jufer is based in Zurich.

Rathbones appointed internal colleagues Elizabeth Savage and Edward Smith as co-chief investment officers to replace Julian Chillingworth, who retired. The two also head  a new chief investment office at the firm. Following a 20-year career at Rathbones, most recently as chief investment officer across the business, and after 40 years in the investment industry, Chillingworth decided to retire, leaving in early 2022.

Savage, head of research, and Smith, the head of asset allocation research, leads a newly-created CIO office, reporting to managing director, Ivo Darnley. 

Investor services group IQ-EQ appointed Andy Mallet as head of operations in Jersey. Mallet joined IQ-EQ from senior operations roles at Jersey-based Apex Group and Link Group. Mallet helps steer IQ-EQ’s Jersey operations, including driving process efficiencies and tech enablement. Gruna was hired into the newly-created role in February to drive commercial growth alongside Caroline Aylward as commercial and marketing officer.

Former CEO of AllianceBernstein in the UK, Jamie Hammond, was named deputy CEO and head of distribution for EMEA at iM Global Partner. Hammond carries direct responsibility for European business development in the group and reports to IQ-EQ founder and CEO Philippe Couvrecelle.

Accuro, a provider of trust and private office services, made promotions in its Jersey office. Katie Douglas, Alex Zomparelli and Scott King were promoted to associate director and Pauline Dron to private office associate. Douglas joined Accuro in 2017 and manages a portfolio of ultra-high net worth families who typically have a connection to the UK. Zomparelli also joined the business in 2017 and has a focus on private clients resident in the Middle East and Africa. King, who has a varied portfolio of both private client and corporate structures, has developed a particular specialism in property transactions since joining Accuro in 2018. Dron had worked for Accuro since 2014 and is now part of the private office team.
 

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LGT Capital Partners named Mark Miller as its head of the UK business, who took over from Mark White. Miller joined LGT Capital Partners in June 2020 as head of UK business development from Federated Hermes – International where he was head of the global client group.  

Rothschild & Co named Mike Allen as a senior advisor to its wealth management business, based in Guernsey. 

James Hambro & Partners added portfolio manager Robert Seifert to its advisor services team. Seifert, who joined after a decade at Brooks Macdonald, previously worked in investment roles for Cheviot Asset Management and UBS Wealth Management. 

Berenberg appointed Ralf Walter to join its wealth and asset management equity team. He is based in Frankfurt. Walter previously worked at Allianz Global Investors, where he was most recently responsible for market-neutral equity strategies. He will report to Matthias Born, co-head of asset and wealth management and head of the equity platform.

International law firm Withers promoted seven lawyers to partner level from across its Asia, Europe and US west coast offices.

The new partner appointees included litigators, property lawyers, an investment fund advisor and a tax and estate planning lawyer:

-- Tom Hughes (London) advises on commercial property matters, with a particular focus on clients in the hotel and hospitality sector. He advises on the acquisition of properties, as well as assisting with management of the operations.

-- Jacopo Ligouri (Milan) heads the IP and technology team in Italy, advising on privacy, data protection and IP registration and defence matters. His clients include leading fashion, financial, food, entertainment, technology and life sciences companies.

-- Kimberley Pallen (San Francisco) is a litigator who advises across a wide range of commercial disputes, including employment litigation, trade secrets and fraud, as well as representing clients on fiduciary matters. Kim also focuses on contentious issues in the arts sector.

-- Yin Ho (San Francisco) is a commercial property lawyer, advising on all manner of acquisitions, financing and leasing matters, as well as tax and litigation.

-- Kevin Keen (San Diego) advises domestic and foreign clients on tax, estate and trust planning matters, including cross-border family wealth transfer planning, pre-immigration and expatriation planning and compliance. Kevin is qualified to practise in Texas and Florida, which are currently popular states for high net worth US families to relocate to.

-- Yoshiyuki Omori (Tokyo) works with international and Japanese domestic investment funds, advising on investment transactions and regulatory matters.

-- Ushan Premaratne (Singapore) is an arbitration and litigation lawyer, conducting commercial arbitrations for clients as well as advising on cross-border commercial disputes. His practice takes in sports and entertainment clients, technology and venture capital and financial institutions.

Brewin Dolphin appointed St John Gardner as investment director to join its '1762' team in St James’s, London. Gardner was previously at Sandaire.

Deutsche Bank’s International Private Bank in Switzerland named five former UBS figures, including Raoul Zehnder who manages ultra-high net worth and family office clients. It also brought in four senior managers. Zehnder has a particular focus on UK resident non-domiciled and Northern Europe, reporting to Marco Pagliara, head of IPB Europe, Middle East and Africa. The relationship managers joining the bank were Patrik Minuscoli and Michael von Mecklenburg, and senior investment manager Philipp Portenier, and Vincent Weisse as account manager.

Saxo Bank appointed Mette Ingeman Pedersen as group chief financial officer. She reports to CEO and founder Kim Fournais. She succeeded Lars Kufall Beck who departed for insurance and pensions group TopDanmark. Pedersen was most recently CFO in Nordea’s Nordic Personal Banking unit.

HSBC Asset Management unveiled a new sustainability office and responsible investing reshuffle. The office is led by Erin Leonard, as global head of sustainability. Leonard spent the last decade at HSBC and continues to be London based, reporting directly to CEO Nicolas Moreau. She was most recently interim global head of institutional business and also led the firm’s responsible investment initiative.

Crestbridge confirmed Dean Hodcroft’s appointment as chief executive. Hodcroft started in the Jersey office this month and succeeds outgoing boss Graeme McArthur, who remained to look after selected Crestbridge clients. As the former CFO and founder of real estate investment firm Cale Street Partners, Hodcroft brought European real estate consulting expertise to the firm. Before that, he spent 26 years at Ernst & Young.
 

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Van Lanschot Kempen named Lars Dijkstra as chief sustainability officer. The position, which was newly created to head up the firm’s sustainability agenda, is a direct report to the chairman of the management board. Dijkstra, chief investment officer at the group since 2005, was made head of core investment strategies at the beginning of the year. Erik van Houwelingen, chair of Kempen Capital Management’s management board, took over Dijkstra’s current duties.

Offshore law firm Harneys named Ross Munro as global managing partner, effective from the start of 2022. Peter Tarn stepped down after nine years as chairman and continued practising as a partner in the BVI.

YFM Equity Partners, the specialist private equity investors, appointed Ben Pitt to join its team as an investment associate. Pitt spent the last four years with EY as a corporate finance executive. 

Jupiter made appointments in its sustainable investing area. Maiken Anderberg joined the global sustainable equity team as an equity analyst. Having previously interned with Jupiter’s sustainable investing team in 2019, Maiken returned in a new permanent role.

Joining Jupiter in a newly-created role, Noelle Guo was appointed equity analyst, environmental solutions. She is supported fund manager Jon Wallace and reports to Rhys Petheram, head of the environmental solutions team.

Laura Conigliaro was appointed as analyst, environmental solutions. Having joined Jupiter in 2019 as a member of Jupiter’s governance and sustainability team, Conigliaro moved to the environmental solutions team, working with fixed income specialist Rhys Petheram with a particular focus on fixed income verification, and providing sustainability research to the desk’s environmental impact themes. 

In an internal move, Jenna Zegleman was appointed as investment director. Anisha Arora and James Kearns joined Jupiter’s governance and sustainability team. 

M&G appointed Fabiana Fedeli to the newly-created role of chief investment officer for equities, reporting to M&G’s chief investment officer, Jack Daniels. Fedeli joined from Robeco Asset Management, where she was global head of fundamental equities, leading an international team managing a range of active equity strategies. 

Credit Suisse appointed Joanne Hannaford as chief technology and operations officer. Based in Zurich, Hannaford joined from Goldman Sachs, where she has spent 24 years in senior roles in London and New York across the investment bank’s engineering business, including co-head of enterprise platforms and global head of resiliency. 

Wealth manager Tilney Smith & Williamson appointed Natasha Etherton as a financial planner in its Maidstone office. Etherton moved from LEBC where she spent six years, and helped set up the group's Maidstone office.

Carey Olsen, the offshore law firm, promoted Denis Olarou to become a partner in the Cayman Islands. A member of the firm's dispute resolution, litigation and insolvency practice, Olarou specialises in helping clients resolve complex high-value multi-jurisdictional disputes. His practice spans all aspects of insolvency litigation, fraud litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, as well as general contract and tort claims, including applications for urgent injunctive relief. Olarou joined Carey Olsen and was admitted as an attorney-at-law of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands in 2016. More recently, he was admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands Circuit, in 2020.

National financial advisor group Independent Wealth Planners hired Lucy Ewings as group finance director, and Tony Bullock as its head of compliance. Ewings is a chartered accountant who received her initial training at KPMG before holding finance director positions, most recently at Succession Wealth. She will lead IWP’s finance function providing financial support and insight as the group expands its network. Bullock worked in senior compliance roles at Chase de Vere and also at Succession Wealth. 

UK law firm Cripps Pemberton Greenish has appointed a new partner, Victoria Fairley, to join its London private wealth team. Fairley, with over 20 years’ experience advising on estate, tax and succession planning, joined from RadcliffesLeBrasseur where she headed up the tax and private client team.

Blacktower Financial Management Group appointed Gavin Pluck as group managing director. Pluck joined the firm in February 2021, to help expand its licensing footprint in regulated jurisdictions, including Switzerland and the UAE.
 

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Asia-Pacific
Janus Henderson named Tomoyasu Tanimoto as head of distribution in Japan. He is based in Tokyo and reports to Suzanne Cain, Janus Henderson’s global head of distribution. With more than 28 years’ experience in asset management, Tanimoto has had particular focus on fixed income and institutional asset raising.  He joined from Fidelity, where he has worked since 2006 and was promoted to head of corporate sales in 2008. 

Global real estate advisor, Knight Frank, promoted Emily Relf, director in its Asia-Pacific capital markets business, to the role of head of global capital strategies. Based in Singapore, Relf continues to report to Neil Brookes, who was recently appointed to lead global capital markets for Knight Frank, also based in Singapore. Relf has been in Singapore since 2015 after joining Knight Frank as a graduate in London in 2011. 

AMP Capital appointed three new figures to its Community Infrastructure Fund: Odette Linnett as investment director, Carolyn van Leuven as senior advisor and Mathew Pirotta as associate.

Indosuez Wealth Management appointed four senior figures in Singapore and Hong Kong. They were: Bernard Mueller, head of risk for Asia and for the Singapore branch; Kristin Chung, head of risk for Hong Kong SAR branch; Eric Chan, senior director, investment advisory for Hong Kong SAR branch; and Anthony Cheng, senior director, investment advisory for Hong Kong SAR Branch.

Credit Suisse appointed Stella Lau as market leader in its private banking China Singapore market, continuing a run of senior hires in the region. Lau re-joined the Greater China Singapore group as its second market leader. She is based in Singapore and reports to Keng Cheong Lock, market group head, private banking for Greater China Singapore. With close to 20 years of experience, Lau has focused on the China market. She was also part of Credit Suisse’s private banking team covering the Greater China market from 2010 to 2012. Lau began her wealth management career at Citibank in 1997. Prior to re-joining Credit Suisse, she was head of the China market at JP Morgan for four years. Lau was previously with UBS as a China desk head for five years where she led her team of UHNW relationship managers for the Singapore and Malaysia market.

Credit Suisse appointed Shirley Law as market leader for Singapore. She has been a team leader at the Swiss bank since 2013. As part of her role, Law reports to Dominique Boer, market group head in Singapore. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Law was a senior banker at UBS for eight years, covering Greater China and other Asian markets. Law manages three teams under three new team leaders: Kent Choi, Siang Jin Foo and Luke Hui.

Janice Hu was named as new CEO of China, as the bank continues a run of senior appointments in mainland China and the surrounding region. With more than 25 years of experience in the financial markets in China, Hu worked for 20 years at the Zurich-listed bank. She has had various senior roles across its China franchise, including vice chairwoman of Credit Suisse China and head of China investment banking. In her capacity as vice chairwoman of China, Hu was instrumental in Credit Suisse becoming a majority shareholder of its China securities joint venture in June 2020. Hu took over from Zhenyi Tang, who left the bank to pursue other opportunities in the financial services industry.

Three family members of IQ-EQ, the international investor services group left the organisation. Shanker Iyer, Sunil Iyer and Sanjay Iyer left in August to pursue other interests. Shanker was IQ-EQ’s chairman for Asia. His sons Sunil and Sanjay were managing director, Singapore, and managing director, Hong Kong, respectively. Shaker Iyer had been chairman of the firm since May 2018.

Michael Marquardt started at IQ-EQ on 1 September, taking the job of regional chief executive for Asia, is based in Singapore. Prior to his new role, he was partner, chief operating officer, at Zerobridge Partners, based in Hong Kong, according to his public profile. The firm also appointed Jerome Kong as associate director in Shanghai.

Credit Suisse named Nicole Dunn as team leader for its private bank in Australia; she runs a group of relationship managers in the country. Dunn reports to Michael Marr, head of private banking Australia. Dunn previously worked at National Australia Bank, where she was most recently director of investor sales. Prior to this, Dunn worked for FC Funds Management, BT Financial Group in Private Wealth Sales and ANZ in its Global Markets Division. 

The firm also named Joyce Low as market leader for Malaysia, a newly-created role. Low ontinues to report to Jin Yee Young, market group head for Singapore, Malaysia and South Asia Switzerland. She  joined the Swiss bank 25 years ago and progressed to becoming a senior client partner before becoming a team leader. 

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Lee Bray as Asia-Pacific head of data science, a new role created by the US firm. Bray is continuing as APAC head of equity trading and is based in Hong Kong. An employee of JP Morgan for more than 20 years, Bray has extensive experience in the technological evolution of trading techniques through quantitative approaches, including significant use of machine learning and large-scale data processing to create a systematic trading environment.

BNY Mellon Investment Management appointed Paul Liu as head of intermediary, Southeast Asia, a newly-created role. Liu is based in Singapore. Before this role, Liu was head of wholesale at Lombard Odier Investment Managers for Asia ex-Japan, covering private bank and family offices in China, Hong Kong and South East Asia. Prior to this he spent more than five years as head of retail sales for UOB Asset Management where he led a team focusing on the intermediary channels in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and China. Most recently he was a sales director at Guotai Junan International Asset Management Singapore, responsible for the firm’s overall distribution strategy in Asia-Pacific across both institutional and intermediary markets.

HSBC appointed former UBS senior manager Stefan Lecher as regional head of investments and wealth solutions for Asia-Pacific. Lecher is based in Hong Kong, reporting to Lavanya Chari, global head of IWS. Over a period of 17 years, Lecher worked in different roles in UBS's global wealth management and asset management business lines. Most recently, he was head chief investment officer for global investment management in Asia-Pacific. 

Value Partners Group appointed Winnie Lam as its managing director in the chief operating officer’s office. Lam is responsible for managing the firm’s overall operations and back-office functions. She reports directly to the group’s co-chairmen and co-chief investment officers Dato’ Seri Cheah Cheng Hye and Louis So. Lam has more than 30 years’ experience in the fund management and financial services industry across Asia. Most recently, she spent 14 years as head of operations, Asia at First Sentier Investors (formerly known as First State Investments), based in Hong Kong. 

DWS Group named Vanessa Wang as head of client coverage for Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Wang joined from Amundi and leads coverage teams of DWS in the Asia-Pacific region, providing investment solutions to institutional and wholesale clients and partners. She reports to Dirk Goergen, head of DWS’s client coverage division and member of the executive board of DWS Group, who is based in Frankfurt.

Zurich Malaysia – part of Switzerland’s Zurich insurance group of companies – named Junior Cho as the new country head. He took the helm from Stephen Clark, who recently retired. Cho, who reports to Zurich’s Asia-Pacific chief executive, Tulsi Naidu, continues as Zurich General Insurance Malaysia Berhad’s CEO. He initially joined Zurich as head of market management across General Insurance and General Takaful. Cho has 30 years of experience in the insurance and financial services sector. He has worked in several senior management roles in business strategy, sales, marketing, distribution, customer management, operations and technology, including overseeing regional operations.

Indosuez Wealth Management in Asia appointed Alfred Low as head of the north Asia market and strategic partnerships for the bank’s Singapore branch. The role was a new one for the firm. Low is based in Singapore. Prior to this, Low worked in senior management and advisory roles covering North Asia clients at HSBC Private Bank, Credit Suisse Private Bank, UBS Wealth Management and Citigroup Private Bank. Before banking, Low worked in a variety of capacities for the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore.

BlackRock Real Assets appointed Valerie Speth as a managing director for the firm’s Asia-Pacific Renewable Power team. Speth leads investment and portfolio management efforts in Southeast Asian economies for BlackRock’s flagship Global Renewable Power strategy and the Climate Finance Partnership programme in Asia. She is based in Singapore for this newly-created post, reporting to Keith Mangan, BlackRock’s head of APAC for the Renewable Power team. A qualified mechanical engineer, Speth has more than 15 years’ experience in renewable energy businesses in Europe and APAC, in the areas of strategy, merger and acquisition, and operations. Prior to joining BlackRock, she was regional director, Asia-Pacific, for juwi, a global expert in turnkey renewable power projects. Before relocating to APAC, she led corporate strategy and M&A at juwi in Germany. 

Nomura Singapore named Gan Chee Yen as a non-executive director. From 2011 to 2019, Gan was chief executive of Fullerton Financial Holdings, a unit of Singapore’s global investment company, Temasek, where he worked in a variety of positions from 2003 to 2011 - as senior managing director, co-chief investment officer, chief financial officer and head of China. Gan also sits on the board of Singapore-based companies, Heliconia Capital Management, Surbana Jurong, and Pacific International Lines.

Nomura appointed former Bank of Singapore senior figure Gareth Nicholson as chief investment officer and head of discretionary portfolio management, based in Singapore. In his most recent position, Nicholson was executive director, head of fixed income discretionary portfolio management at Bank of Singapore. Prior to that, he spent 12 years with Aberdeen Standard Investments as its senior portfolio manager. 

Gaw Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm in Asia, appointed Kok-Chye Ong as managing director and head of international data centre platform investments (ex-China). Ong is based in Singapore.

JP Morgan Private Bank appointed Koh Bee Eng as the head of JP Morgan Trust Company (Singapore) Pte. Koh is based in Singapore and reports to Martin Pollock, head of international trusts and estates. With more than 20 years of experience in the trust industry, Koh brings extensive experience to this role, including trust management and administration, business management, financial control and compliance. Prior to this, she was the trust centre resident manager and director of Credit Suisse Trust Limited in Singapore. She also spent some years with Standard Chartered Trust (Singapore) Limited and Rothschild Trust (Singapore) Limited as resident manager and board member of these companies. 

Citi Private Bank appointed former Credit Suisse figure Lillian Liao as new global market head for China, based in Singapore. Liao reports to North Asia head of private banking Rudolf Hitsch.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority approved the appointment of Donald Chen, one of its senior figures, as executive director (Corporate Services) with effect from 1 November. Chen took over from Linda So, who was due to leave the HKMA for personal reasons - also on 1 November.

Chen, who served as an administrative officer in the HKSAR from 1994 to 2019, has policy formulation and public administration experience. His last position in the Hong Kong SAR government was deputy head of the policy innovation and co-ordination office. Chen joined the HKMA in 2020 as senior advisor in the external department and has been involved in market outreach and mainland-related market development work.

Barclays hired a former UBS executive, Evonne Tan, as head of its private banking business in Singapore. Tan reports to James Penny, head of Asia ex-India, private bank. She focuses on building on the collaboration between the private bank and Barclays's corporate and investment bank in Singapore. Prior to this role, she was at UBS from 2014 as a senior client advisor with the UHNW SEA division. Prior to that, she was at Magenta Advisors for two years in Singapore. She founded and led that business, an asset management and investment advisory firm. Before this she worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.

HSBC Asset Management appointed Ray Chun as exchange traded funds business development director, based in Hong Kong. Chan reports to Jaqueline Pang, head of ETF sales, Asia-Pacific. In this newly created role, he is responsible for driving the growth of HSBC and Hang Seng ETF penetration from the distribution perspective, covering various segments ranging from insurance, asset managers, pension, private banks and intermediaries. Chan, who brings more than 20 years of experience in the asset management industry, specialises in ETF investment advisory, distribution for institutional and intermediary in Asia.

Citi Private Bank appointed Seamus Yin as global market manager for Mainland China South and West, based in Hong Kong. In this expanded role, Yin assumed overall responsibility for leading CPB’s coverage of clients from the Central, Western, and Southern parts of Mainland China, including the key provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. Yin has more than 10 years' experience of working with top entrepreneurs from China. He joined Citi Private Bank in 2014.

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen promoted litigation lawyer Henry Tucker of the firm's Hong Kong office to join the partnership. Tucker joined Carey Olsen Bermuda in 2017 before relocating to Hong Kong in 2019 to help spearhead the firm's offering of on-the-ground Bermuda legal advice to Asia clients. Prior to his move to Hong Kong, Tucker, who was called to the Bermuda Bar in 2011, regularly represented clients before the Commercial Court, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal for Bermuda.

Capital Group appointed Murray Brewer to the newly-created role of head of Australia Client Group. Based in Sydney, he reports to Guy Henriques, head of client group for Europe and Asia. Brewer brings more than 30 years of industry experience, most recently serving as director, country head of distribution, Australia and New Zealand for T Rowe Price. Prior to that, he was director and head of distribution at Schroders Australia. He began his career at Lloyds Bank, followed by Westpac and then AMP Asset Management where he was head of its multi-manager segment.

Hines, the international real estate firm, appointed Kian Fong Lim as managing director in Singapore. He will oversee new business initiatives in the city-state and Southeast Asia, and report to Ray Lawler, CEO of Asia-Pacific. Lim has more than 11 years of experience in the pan-Asian real estate private equity space. 

Standard Chartered appointed Anshu Sharma Raja as chief information officer for the consumer, private and business banking arm. Sharma is based in Singapore, and reports to group chief information officer Michael Gorriz. Paul Macpherson, who has served as CIO for the CPBB business since 2018, left to pursue opportunities outside the bank. Sharma joined the bank in September 2018. In her role as global head, retail banking products technology, she has led and modernised the bank’s digital platform for individual and business banking clients.

With effect from the start of August, HSBC appointed Jackie Mau as head of global private banking for mainland China. Based in Shanghai, Mau reports to Richard Li, executive vice president and head of wealth and personal banking, China on an entity basis and functionally to Siew Meng Tan, regional head of global private banking in Asia. With more than 20 years of extensive financial industry experience, Mau has served in various roles at HSBC in its global banking and markets businesses in Hong Kong, Southern China and Thailand.

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North America
Shareen Luze was named head of culture and field experience at RBC Wealth Management in a newly-created role to bolster diversity and inclusion and overall workplace wellbeing at the firm. Luze is a 15-year veteran of RBC and will serve on the firm’s executive committee and on its diversity leadership council as part of the new role. She will report directly to CEO Michael Armstrong. Luze joined RBC in 2006 as an associate general counsel, moving into human resources in 2008 to become US director. She took on additional responsibilities for workplace risk management in 2012, before being appointed head of HR in 2018. 

Dynamic Legacy Planning, the wealth management firm based in Greenfield, Indiana, is to work with Carson Partners as a platform. The five-person team is led by CEO and senior wealth advisor, Jason White. White, who has worked in financial planning for more than two decades, is also an estate planning attorney who does tax preparation. He began his financial services career with Edward Jones and Merrill Lynch before joining the Trust and Investment Management department at Greenfield Banking Company in 2009. 

Dynasty Financial Partners added two fintech executives to its leadership team. Frank Coates was named chief technology officer and Taylor Howard as chief digital officer. Both are based at the firm's headquarters in St Petersburg, Florida, and report to chief operating office Ed Swenson.

Serial entrepreneur Coates was previously executive managing director and co-group president at Envestnet Analytics. He also co-founded Wheelhouse Analytics, acquired by Envestnet in 2016. Prior to that, he founded another financial services data business, Coates Analytics, which was acquired by PFPC in December 2007. Howard most recently led the artificial intelligence, application engineering, digital workplace, and data analytics practices at Tampa-based software consultancy AgileThought.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Jeremy Gonsalves as national director of portfolio management. Gonsalves manages the implementation of the firm’s asset allocation and investment strategy. He is based in Boston and reports to Leo Grohowski, BNY Mellon Wealth Management chief investment officer. Gonsalves joined BNY Mellon in 1992 and most recently served as a managing director for portfolio management for the New England region where he led the investment implementation for multiple teams.

The firm also named Alicia Levine as its new head of equities, capital markets advisory and vice chair of its wealth management investment committee. Levine succeeded Sinead Colton Grant, who has been made global head of BNY Mellon Investor Solutions. She is based in New York and reports to Grohowski. In 2016 Levine joined the firm, and most recently served as the chief strategist and managing director of BNY Mellon Investment Management.

Three former senior executives from the business previously known as Abbot Downing joined Indiana-based Old National Bank to lead its wealth group’s investment management and high net worth division. Jim Steiner became the chief investment officer and president of a to-be-established RIA, reporting directly to Chady AlAhmar, CEO of the wealth group; Joe Colianni became president of Old National’s High Net Worth Advisory group, leading a team of HNW wealth advisors throughout Old National’s footprint, and Eric Holman serves as director of risk management, the same function he held with Abbot Downing, reporting to Steiner. 

The three managers worked at Abbot Downing for a decade. Steiner led that business since it was set up in 2011. Steiner integrated Lowry Hill Investment Advisors and Wells Fargo Family Wealth in 2011 to create Abbot Downing and served as president of Abbot Downing through 2020.

Credit Suisse named a new chief risk officer, David Wildermuth. He filled the vacancy created when Lara Warner left in April this year in the wake of the heavy losses the Zurich-listed bank sustained from the Greensill Capital and Archegos meltdowns. Wildermuth, who previously worked at Goldman Sachs, is a banking veteran with 34 years’ experience under his belt. In his new role, Wildermuth is based in Zurich and report to group chief executive Thomas Gottstein. 

Janus Henderson, the US/Australia-listed group, appointedm James Lowry to the newly-created role of global chief operating officer. Lowry has more than 25 years of experience in the sector and joins the firm from State Street where he was COO of State Street Alpha, State Street’s front-to-back investment management platform division. Lowry is based in London and reports to Dick Weil, CEO of Janus Henderson.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisors James Warren and Susan Hite to Raymond James & Associates (RJA) – the firm’s employee advisor channel – in Tampa, Florida. Warren and Hite joined from Wells Fargo Advisors, where they previously managed about $280 million in client assets. Together, they operate as Warren Hite Family Wealth Advisors of Raymond James.

A dozen advisors joined Raymond James Financial Services in South Florida, led by manager Stephen Sullivan. The advisors joined across several locations, including Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach Gardens.

Andres Galvez, Edwin Shedd, Maria Jose Pessoa, Lizzette Inchaustegui, Orlando Garcia, Javier Ferreira, Miguel Viyella, Rafael Sagarbarria and Oscar Gonzalez joined the Coral Gables branch, managed by Mike Origlia. Griselda Uzcategui joined in Fort Lauderdale, managed by Richard Caccamise, and Charles Fischer joined the Boca Raton office, managed by Dan Kraus.

Operating from RJA’s Palm Beach Gardens location, managed by Larry Gonnello, David Letourneau joined as a financial advisor. Another joiner was financial advisor trainee Benjamin Graybow.

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Eva Anthony as managing director and wealth and fiduciary advisor of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company. She is based in the New York office. Anthony was previously at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, where she worked as a senior fiduciary specialist, providing fiduciary and planning advice to high net worth clients. Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2015, she worked as a lead trust officer at Morgan Stanley Private Bank and, earlier, as senior trust officer and trust counsel at Fiduciary Trust Company International. Anthony began her career as a trusts and estate lawyer.

Chicago-based Mesirow Financial Holdings appointed Larry D Richman to join its board of directors. Richman, who is the firm’s first outside director, is the past chair, US region, CIBC Bank USA, a role in which he focused on developing client relationships, fostering community engagement, and mentoring team members. He previously served as senior executive vice president, group head, CIBC US region, and president and chief executive officer, CIBC Bank USA. He joined CIBC following its June 2017 acquisition of The PrivateBank, where he served as president and CEO. Richman joined The PrivateBank in November 2007.

Carson Group, the financial services group, hired Ana Trujillo Limón as director for coaching and advisor content. A communications professional with more than 15 years of media experience as a reporter and editor, she was most recently editor-in-chief, FPA Publications with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) in Denver. At the Financial Planning Association, Trujillo Limón served as the managing editor, planning, and developing content for all the organization's publications including the Journal of Financial Planning, FPA Next Generation Planner and the Practice Management Blog. Before joining FPA in 2014, she worked as an editor and reporter for a number of outlets including Active Interest Media, The Santa Fe New Mexican, and The Miami SunPost.

Arrowroot Family Office, based in Marina del Rey, California, appointed Frank Henry as the new director of financial services, where he leads Arrowroot's expansion into liability management, and residential and commercial mortgages. Henry worked in banking for 45 years. He recently concluded 22 years at Zions Bancorp affiliate California Bank & Trust where he was executive vice president of the real estate division.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based investment firm Baird added Stephen Hatcher as director and financial advisor in its Scottsdale wealth management team. He was joined by associate financial advisor John Hatcher and client assistant Christine Moore. Hatcher, who has spent 30 years in the industry, oins from Wells Fargo. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University and with an MBA in finance from the University of Phoenix.

Pritzker Private Capital, a direct investing firm, appointed Paula Brown Stafford to join its advisory board. Stafford, who is also chairman and chief executive of biotechnology company Novan, has more than 30 years of healthcare industry experience. 

The leader of Morgan Stanley’s wealth management business, Andy Saperstein, was named co-president of the US firm. He is in charge of all wealth management channels including Financial Advisors, E*TRADE and Morgan Stanley at Work. Ted Pick, who heads the firm’s institutional securities business, was also made a co-president. Pick is responsible for its international operations and co-head of firm strategy and execution. 

Saperstein also assumes responsibility for marketing across the firm, and globally. Dan Simkowitz, the head of investment management, who is also co-head of firm strategy and execution with Pick, continues to report to James Gorman, Morgan Stanley’s chairman and CEO.

Jonathan Pruzan, Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer, was appointed as chief operating officer, with responsibility for technology, operations and firm resilience, Morgan Stanley’s US Banks, and corporate services. Sharon Yeshaya, head of investor relations, who replaced Pruzan as CFO, reports to Pruzan and Gorman.

Shelley O’Connor, a Morgan Stanley executive who leads its US Banks' business, became a vice chairman of Morgan Stanley and head of external affairs. In this new role, she is responsible for community affairs, corporate affairs, global sustainable finance and the multi-cultural client strategy group. Mike Pizzi, who joined Morgan Stanley with the acquisition of E*TRADE and has worked to integrate that business into its wealth management franchise, became head of its US Banks' arm and will report to Pruzan.

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AmeriTrust appointed Myles Linhares as a financial planning analyst. Linhares is based in the Tulsa office and reports to Laurie Saint, assistant vice president of financial planning. Linhares brought eight years of finance experience to AmeriTrust, having worked as a portfolio paraplanner at Stonebridge Financial Group in Frisco, Texas, and a client service associate at Bannerman Wealth Management in Dallas. He also held various trader positions at Fidelity Investments. 

Advisor Group appointed financial services executive Amy M Hamilton as chief of staff and head of internal audit. She reports to president and chief executive Jamie Price. Most recently, Hamilton was chief audit executive for LPL Financial, where she reported to the chair of the audit committee of the board of directors and administratively to the CFO.

Deutsche Bank’s international private bank in the Americas appointed seven new bankers serving US and Latin American clients.

New York:
Chris Zias, managing director, private banker joined from Bank of America Private Bank; 
Jeremy Levine, director, private banker joined from Bank of America; 
Jay Yost, director, private banker joined from Citibank; and 
Lindsay McCracken, vice president, private banker, joined from Bank of America Private Bank. 

San Francisco:
Rahul Varshneya, director, private banker, came from Bank of America. 

Latin America:
Guilherme Faria Gradel, director, private banker joined the Brazil team from Goldman Sachs Wealth Management; and 
Chris Roca, director, private banker covering the Mexican UHNW market, came from Citi.  

BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors named Devin Bird as a partner. Bird joined the firm nine years ago as part of the founding team. He specialized in generational transitions, ownership and business strategy, and integrated governance. He came to Banyan with broad experience as a consultant. He was a senior advisor at Banyan’s predecessor company, a case team leader with Bain & Company, and a senior associate in KPMG’s audit practice.

Pritzker Private Capital, which focuses on family direct investing, appointed Jon Muckley, an operations and financial executive, as senior advisor. The Pritzker Operations Group is led by David Gau, partner and head of operations at PPC. Muckley joined from PLZ Aeroscience, where he served as chief financial officer. PLZ, a PPC family company since 2015, is North America’s largest independent specialty aerosol and liquid product manufacturer. He assisted Highline Warren as interim CFO before his official start date with PPC. 

Summit Trail Advisors brought in an 11-person financial planning team to its headquarters in New York City. The team, which is led by Alex Shapses, joined from Heritage Strategies.

CIBC expanded its US private wealth team with two senior hires in Denver and New York. Cesar Orozco joined as senior vice president and business development officer in Denver; and Cynthia Temple joined in New York as managing director and private banking advisor.

1792 Wealth Advisors, based in New Jersey, added three senior figures to its business. It brought in William Shinners, Michael Vaccaro and Lisa Kain to support business development, operations and advisor recruitment. 

Shinners started his career and spent more than 30 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and complex manager leading the fourth largest complex at the company. After retiring in 2017, Shinners wanted to rejoin the industry and started Montgomery Wealth Management in 2019. At 1792 he is director of business development.

With more than 20 years in the industry, Kain is central to advisor recruitment and helps with the transition and operational aspect. Vaccaro has been in financial services for more than 10 years with experience in risk and compliance, an area he leads at 1792. Both worked with Shinners at Morgan Stanley and Montgomery Wealth Management.

Stratos Wealth Holdings, a group of firms, appointed Robert J Samson as its new managing director, business development for the Midwest. He reports to Charles Shapiro and is based in Chicago. Samson joined Stratos after 26 years with Wells Fargo Advisors, where he most recently served as the regional president for the Midwest. 

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Justin Miller as partner and national director of wealth planning. Miller also serves as a senior wealth and fiduciary advisor at the San Francisco office of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company, NA. Before this role, Miller was at BNY Mellon Wealth Management as a national wealth strategist, advising clients on tax, trusts and estates, charitable planning and family governance. Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2011, he worked at Wells Fargo and, earlier, at Sidley Austin, where he began his career as a tax attorney. Miller is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Bailard, a US wealth and investment firm in San Francisco Bay Area, appointed Janet Walker, a figure with 22 years in the sector. Before this, Walker worked at Wells Fargo, most recently in the San Francisco office of Abbot Downing, Wells Fargo’s business catering to UHNW individuals (since re-named). In this role, she was managing director and senior portfolio manager. (In March Wells Fargo rebranded its Abbot Downing business to move under the Wells Fargo Private Bank brand.)     

Whitlock Wealth Management, the Virginia-based firm that is a part of Ameriprise Financial Services, appointed Stephanie Martin and Olivia Blackman. Martin, joined as client service specialist. Blackman, who joined the team as operations manager, has over 20 years of experience in the banking and client service industry as a relationship manager. 

Kickstand Wealth Advisors, based in Pittsford, New York, launched its wealth management practice with the support of TruClarity Wealth Advisors' RIA platform. Chad W Goodchild and Jacob W Schlicht leads the firm as managing partners with more than 30 years of combined industry experience. Goodchild and Schlicht work with Devyn A Squires, wealth planner and Christine D Fusare, director of client services. Before creating Kickstand, they managed a combined $441 million in client assets at Merrill Lynch.

NewEdge Wealth a registered investment adviser specializing in ultra-high net worth, family office and institutional clients, appointed Glen Mintz as managing director, portfolio manager. Mintz is also responsible for spearheading NewEdge Wealth’s expansion to Park City, Utah.

LPL Financial, the New York-listed group, announced that financial advisor Joseph F Myer had joined its broker-dealer, corporate registered investment advisor and custodial platforms. He is aligned with Gladstone Wealth Partners, an enterprise supporting LPL-affiliated advisors.

Raymond James welcomed eight financial advisors in Manhattan and Clay Center, Kansas, to Raymond James Financial Services. The financial advisors and team members joined from Waddell & Reed, where they previously managed about $300 million in client assets. Joining Raymond James and Beyond Wealth Advisors (BWA), an existing RJFS-aligned practice, are financial advisors Ross McDonald, Anthony Gorman, Ryan Hayden, Diane Freeby, Mathew Bishop, Devin Schwartz and Dillon Kohman, from the Manhattan office and Kurt Haberer from the Clay Center office.