The moves, appointments and other personnel changes in the world's wealth management industry.

Natixis Investment Managers appointed Sophie Del Campo as head of distribution for Southern Europe and Latin America. She is responsible for overseeing Iberia, Italy, LATAM and US Offshore. She is based in Madrid and reports to Joseph Pinto, head of distribution for Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Del Campo has 20 years’ experience in the asset management and financial industry. She started her career at Deloitte Consulting Group and then worked at ING Direct to develop a mutual funds broker-on-line in Spain. In 2001 she joined Amundi in Spain where she led the wholesale distribution until 2006; she became head of distribution for the Iberian market. From 2008 to 2011, she was head of Spain and Portugal at Pioneer Investments. Del Campo was most recently head of Iberia, US Offshore and LATAM at Natixis Investment Managers. 

UK-based Armadillo Group, which provides compliance-focused solutions for wealth managers, hired Mike Park as its managing director, working alongside founder and chief executive Emmanuel Cohen. Park served in notable management and consultant roles at PWC and KPMG, before going on to work as a chief financial officer and chief operating officer in financial services and technology. Prior to his present post, he worked at compliance firm TCC Group, where he was CEO for several years.

IQ-EQ France appointed Sophie Hubert as its new chief commercial officer to further its “ambitious” growth strategy for the year. With more than 20 years in the financial services industry, Hubert is experienced in relationship management and business growth. Prior to joining IQ-EQ France, she worked in senior management for key players in the private equity sector. 

IQ-EQ appointed Rebecca Brown as new head of legal, UK, Ireland and Crown Dependencies. Brown qualified as a UK solicitor in 2012 and has a wide range of in-house and private practice experience, including seven years’ experience in the investor services sector. Over the course of her career, she worked in the UK, Ireland and Jersey, and internationally in Luxembourg, the Netherlands, India and Australia. Previously, Brown was head of legal projects at Link Group, where she led special projects in the technology function and across the wider business.

The firm also appointed FrĂ©dĂ©rik Benoit as its new global head of transformation. Based in Luxembourg, he works with Joanna Macleod, IQ-EQ’s group chief operating officer. Benoit has 32 years of operations and technology securities services experience, spanning senior leadership roles in Luxembourg, Ireland and Malaysia. 

Howard Kennedy, the London law firm, welcomed Monika Byrska as a partner, joining the contentious trusts and estates team. Previously, she worked at Thomson Snell & Passmore where she was a partner instrumental in helping the contentious trusts and probate team develop and expand. Prior to that, she spent nine years as a solicitor at the specialist litigation firm Anthony Gold.

Renaissance Capital, owned by Russia’s ONEXIM Group, appointed Viktor Dragoev as director, head of forex execution services, London. He reports to Anthony Simone, president, and Dmitry Gavrilets, head of FX trading. Dragoev has 15 years’ experience to the role. He moved to Renaissance Capital from Britannia Global Markets, where he was a senior eFX trader responsible for liquidity management of EMEA and US-based clients, coverage of voice execution business, liaising with liquidity providers and consumers, as well as API automation development.

BMO Private Equity Trust’s chairman, Mark Tennant, was due to retire as chairman at the company’s annual meeting for shareholders, expected on 26 May this year. Richard Gray, who joined the board in 2017, is to take on the post. Tennant was a board member from 2009 and made chairman in May 2020. Gray is a career investment banker. He worked previously with Lazard, Charterhouse and UBS and was vice chairman of Panmure Gordon. 

Manulife Investment Management appointed Nicole Kudlek as managing director for its EMEA distribution team, involved in sales and relationship management in Germany. She joined from Credit Suisse Asset Management in Frankfurt. 

Manulife Investment Management also named Marc Feliciano as global head of real estate, private markets. Feliciano reports to Christoph Schumacher, global head of real assets. He joined from DWS where he was the chief investment officer of real estate, Americas, and the head of portfolio and asset management for the Real Estate Americas business. 

Crestbridge appointed Ellie Sharples as director, senior compliance officer. Prior to joining Crestbridge, she spent four years as a senior manager at the regulator.

Amundi named Vincent Mortier as chief investment officer to replace Pascal Blanqué who was appointed chair of the group’s new research division of Amundi Institute. Mortier, deputy CIO since 2015, in the region, joined Amundi from Société Générale CIB where he began his career.

Following Mortier's promotion, Matteo Germano was appointed deputy chief investment officer of Amundi. He had been global head of multi-asset at Amundi as well as chief investment officer for Italy since 2017.

Citi Private Bank appointed the following people to its UK team: Helen Gammons, formerly from HSBC Private Bank; Sehr Askari, formerly of Standard Chartered Private Bank; Nadia Kribi, previously at Kleinwort Hambros, and Neil Hutchison, who previously worked at Barclays Wealth Management. 

Man Global Private Markets, part of UK-listed Man Group, appointed Matthew Moniot and Jonathan Imundo as co-heads of credit risk sharing. They joined from alternative credit manager Elanus Capital Management, and report to Eric Burl, head of Man GPM.

Cambridge Associates made four senior hires across Europe to meet client demand for private markets and sustainable investments. The firm named Stefan Lummert, Nick Rees, Devon Zimmerling and Sarah Acheson as investment managing directors.

Lummert is based in Munich where he reports into Alex Koriath, head of the European pension practice and regional head of Germany. 

Nick Rees joined the firm in London where he helps  European private clients navigate the intricacies of private wealth. Reporting to Chris Ivey, head of European private client practice, Rees has 23 years of experience in the institutional investing and family office sector from previous positions at firms such as Blu Family Office and Absolute Return Partners.

Devon Zimmerling and Sarah Acheson also joined the firm’s European private client practice. Zimmerling re-joined the firm after working in venture capital, while Acheson transferred from the firm’s real assets team. 

abrdn, the firm formerly known as Aberdeen Standard Investments, made two senior hires for its core infrastructure business. Will Cunneen joined in December as an investment director based in London. Prior to joining abrdn, Cunneen worked for Macquarie Group in the UK and Australia, most recently as a senior vice president in the Infrastructure M&A advisory team in the UK. Before that, he worked for PwC in Australia. 

Priya Nair joined in January as business development and strategy director based in London, where her primary task is leading business development, investor relations and strategy across the core infrastructure business. Previously, she worked at a senior level at Deutsche Bank, Citi and most recently Royal Bank of Canada. 

Raymond James appointed Benjamin Smith as a new chartered financial planner in the Exeter branch. 
 

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HSBC Asset Management appointed John Dewey in the newly-created role of head of alternative solutions, HSBC alternatives. London-based initially, Dewey reports to Joanna Munro, chief executive officer, HSBC alternatives. 

Julius Baer reshuffled its intermediaries business leadership in Switzerland. 

Alexandre Berger assumed the role of head intermediaries for Western Switzerland, while Claudio Beretta, previously head of intermediaries in the French- and Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, and Monaco, moved to Julius Baer’s Madrid office. Berger’s expanded remit was in addition to his responsibility for running the intermediaries business in the Americas region – a role he has undertaken since he joined Julius Baer in January 2020.

Barclays appointed former senior Goldman Sachs figure Robert Berry to the boards of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC as a non-executive director. Berry spent the majority of his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was latterly co-deputy chief risk officer for the group, with responsibility for market risk, operational risk and corporate insurance, until his retirement in 2018. Separately, Tim Breedon retired as a member and chair of the risk committee of Barclays PLC, and as a member of the Barclays Bank PLC board. Breedon remained on the board of Barclays PLC as a NED alongside his role as chair of Barclays Bank Ireland PLC to which he was appointed in 2020.

Banque J Safra Sarasin (Luxembourg) appointed BelĂ©n RĂ­os to lead its institutional and wholesale distribution business in Spain. With more than 20 years of experience, she came after 15 years at  Amundi Iberia where she was head of institutional sales among other roles. Prior to that, she worked for Cortefiel Group (Tendam) as head of investor relations, and in the private bank of Morgan Stanley SV SA in Spain.

Investment consultancy Redington appointed Adam Jones to join its board as an executive director. Jones is chief technology officer at Redington and managing director of the firm’s software business, Ada Fintech, having led the firm’s technology strategy since 2017. Jones joined Redington in 2017 as CTO to develop the firm’s technology platform. 

Natixis Investment Managers appointed Darren Pilbeam as head of UK sales and Martin Herbon as head of global financial institutions. Pilbeam leads the combined UK wholesale and retail and UK institutional team which has clients across 16 of Natixis Investment Managers’ affiliates. He joined the business in 2012, and in his new role reports to Andrew Benton, head of Northern Europe and MENA. Martin Herbon, CFA, was appointed head of global financial institutions. Based in London, he reports to Joseph Pinto, head of distribution for Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Rothschild & Co appointed a senior figure in the financial services space, Naina Lal Kidwai, as a senior advisor. She joined the board of Rothschild & Co India as a non-executive member. Based in the firm’s Mumbai office, she works with Rothschild & Co’s global advisory teams in India and around the world to enhance the firm’s presence and expand its advisory and execution services in South Asia. She previously served as chairman of HSBC India and executive director on the board of HSBC Asia-Pacific and as vice chairman and head of investment banking at JM Morgan Stanley.

Boutique fund manager Amati appointed Mikhail Zverev as fund manager to develop a new global equities strategy. Zverev, whose career in global equities spans more than 20 years, joined from Aviva Investors. He previously worked alongside Amati founder and chief executive officer Dr Paul Jourdan at First State Investments (FSI) between 2002 and 2007.

abrdn appointed Sarah Deaves as head of financial planning for its personal wealth business. Deaves, who reports directly to Caroline Connellan, chief executive officer of personal wealth, is responsible for supporting the firm's policy of helping clients to have financially secure futures in a way that works for them. She works with Paul Titterton, who recently joined the business as head of digital solutions, to explore how digitalisation can enhance the firm’s financial planning offering.

Prior to this, Deaves joined from Schroders personal wealth, where she was managing director, client relationships and wealth advice. Previously she was UK wealth director at Lloyds Banking Group and a former CEO of Coutts & Co.

Tilney Smith & Williamson appointed experienced wealth management professional Richard Stanwell as investment director. Stanwell joined from EFG Private Bank where he was senior director from 2018 working with a range of clients including trusts, foundations, HNW/UHNW individuals and family offices. Prior to that he served in senior roles at Kleinwort Benson, where he was head of UK teams, and at Barclays Wealth.

Europe-based wealth and asset management software firm Objectway appointed Karl im Brahm as chief executive officer for the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. He has more than 28 years of experience in the banking sector. Prior to joining Objectway, he was responsible for all activities of the Avaloq Group in the German market.

GAM Investments appointed former Pacific Asset Management figure Vladimir Kobelev as a senior investment analyst on the GAM Systematic Alternative Risk Premia team. He is based in London and reports to Paolo Scripelliti, co-head of alternative risk premia. At Pacific Asset Management, Kobelev was co-manager of alternative risk premia for four years. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank, latterly as a director for interest rates and foreign exchange derivatives trading.

Algebris Investments appointed Sebastiano Pirro as chief investment officer at the group level.

Pirro, who leads the investment team, focuses on the evolution of the firm’s investment process across the range of liquid strategies developed by the firm. Pirro kept his responsibilities as portfolio manager of Algebris Financial Credit and Algebris IG Financial Credit. He continues to report to Davide Serra, founder and chief executive. Pirro joined Algebris in 2012. Davide Serra stepped down as group CIO to focus more closely on his CEO responsibilities.

Edinburgh-based privately owned investment management firm Aubrey Capital Management appointed Ramsay Wilson as investment manager in its private client team. He, took over from John James, who retired at the end of November. Wilson, who reports to investment manager Chris Sutton, looks after a wide range of client portfolios. Prior to Aubrey, Wilson worked at UBS where he looked after a wide range of private client portfolios, covering Scotland and the UK regions. 

The Financial Conduct Authority appointed Direct Line Group chief executive, Penny James, as chair of its Practitioner Panel. James replaced Paul Feeney, CEO of wealth management firm Quilter.

Australia-based Ignition Advice, a provider of advice technology, appointed Eric Welsby as its new chief commercial officer for Europe. Welsby has more than 23 years of industry experience, and has served in a number of leadership roles within retail financial services technology firms. 

Newton Investment Management appointed Mitesh Sheth, David Cumming and Georgina Cooper to join its investment team. Sheth reports to Euan Munro, Newton’s chief executive officer. Cumming was most recently CIO of equities at Aviva Investors. Prior to this, he was head of equities at Standard Life Investments. He has been an active UK equity manager for more than 35 years. Cooper, who joined from abrdn where she was a UK equities portfolio manager, reports to Louise Kernohan.

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Asia-Pacific
 

Capital Group, the global investment house with more than $2.7 trillion in assets under management, appointed David Cheng as fixed income investment director.

Based in Singapore, Cheng’s responsibilities include representing Capital Group’s fixed income team, deepening client engagement on bonds and growing the firm’s fixed income business across Asia. Cheng has more than two decades of industry experience, most recently as an investment director at Schroders in Singapore. Prior to that, he spent six years at UBS serving as the head of APAC ex-Japan investment specialists in Hong Kong and a portfolio manager in Chicago.

Union Bancaire Privée appointed Wee Ping Nah as chief executive for its Asian asset management business. He took over from Ted Holland, who returned to the US, his home country, for personal reasons. Wee Ping Nah reports functionally to Nicolas Faller, co-CEO for asset management and head of institutional clients, and regionally to Michael Blake, regional Asia head and CEO for Asian wealth management.

Wee Ping Nah has more than 25 years’ experience working for major financial institutions across Asia, including Goldman Sachs, Credit Agricole Asset Management, and Fortis. 

Standard Chartered Bank appointed a group of senior managers across its Asia business.

It named Xie Wen as global head, business banking and Mohamed Keraine as global head, digital, for its consumer, private and business banking. Xie Wen and Mohamed Keraine report to Judy Hsu, chief executive, CPBB. 

Xie Wen is the bank’s co-head, client coverage for commercial, corporate and institutional. She spent the last 25 years with the bank, building her career in retail and wholesale banking, with roles in country, region and group levels. Xie Wen was country chief risk officer for Singapore and China before going on to head commercial banking in China in 2015. Xie Wen is still based in China.

Mohamed Keraine joined from ING where he began his career with ING Direct France in 2006. He went on to assume several positions at ING’s head office in Amsterdam, including product manager, innovation programme manager and head of business development for retail markets in Europe, Australia and Asia from 2011 to 2017. In 2018, he was appointed head of retail development Asia, where he brought his knowledge of digital banking from launching the first digital bank in the Philippines and leading strategic initiatives in Southeast Asia and China.

The bank’s China business also appointed Richard Li as head of consumer, private and business banking (CPBB), China. Li worked in the banking sector for nearly 30 years. Prior to this appointment, he worked in financial organisations at various levels as executive vice president, chief client officer, and head of retail banking and wealth management.

The bank also named Jessie Li as head of CPBB, Singapore. Based in Singapore, she reports to Samir Subberwal, head of CPBB, Asia, and Patrick Lee, cluster CEO, Singapore and ASEAN markets. She also joins the bank’s Singapore country management team. Li started her career as a management associate with Citibank, before joining Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong in 1993 until 2000. Following that, she held senior positions in HSBC, AIG and AIA, and was also the deputy chief executive and head of retail banking and wealth management with Hang Seng Bank (China) Limited. Jessie re-joined the Bank in 2019 as head of CPBB, China, and deputy chief executive, Standard Chartered Bank China.

Deutsche Bank's private banking arm appointed DWS strategist Stefanie Holtze-Jen as its new chief investment officer, Asia-Pacific. At DWS Holtze-Jen was global chief currency strategist, portfolio manager, coordinating a team to guide the portfolio managers on strategy in foreign-exchange exposure covering the macro view, positioning and technical analysis. Prior to DWS, she worked in different leadership roles at Commerzbank and Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong, Singapore and London. She reports to Christian Nolting, global chief investment officer, and Rajesh Mahadevan, head capital markets and CIO and investment solutions, APAC, at Deutsche Bank IPB.

BlackRock appointed Hiroyuki Shimizu as head of institutional for Asia-Pacific. He is based in Hong Kong. Shimizu supports the chief executive, representative director, and head of Japan Hiroyuki Arita to serve the firm’s Japan client business. Shimizu was most recently global co-head of private credit and equity distribution, head of Japan and Korea, as well as president and representative director of Japan at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Prior to that, he was CEO of KKR Capital Markets Japan, leading its fundraising and financing efforts. 

Value Partners, the Hong Kong-listed investment group, named former State Street manager Ellen Tsang as managing director, head of marketing and communications. She is based in Hong Kong and reports to group president June Wong. Tsang. who was formerly head of marketing for Asia ex-Japan at State Street Global Advisors, has more than 20 years of marketing experience. She worked at abrdn (formerly known as Aberdeen Standard), Amundi and Pictet.

HSBC Singapore named former JP Morgan senior figure, Tancy Tan as its chief operating officer. At JP Morgan, Tan was global head for its Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Automation, Asset and Wealth Management, where she led the introduction of AI and analytics into the business operations. Tan reports to Kee Joo Wong on an entity level and to David Grimme, COO, HSBC Asia-Pacific, on a functional basis.

Manulife Investment Management made a number of promotions and changes to its fixed-income investment teams. In Asia, it made the following promotions: Murray Collis, deputy CIO, fixed income, Asia (ex-Japan) was promoted to CIO, fixed income, Asia (ex-Japan). He assumed oversight of the Asia ex-Japan franchise from Endre Pedersen, deputy CIO, global fixed income, and CIO, global emerging-market fixed income, while continuing to report to him in this capacity.  Alvin Ong, portfolio manager, Singapore fixed income, who was promoted to the role of head of fixed income, Singapore, continues to report to Murray Collis.

HSBC Bank (Singapore) named Penny Goh as independent chairman of its board. She succeeded Mervyn Fong as board chair. Fong had served as interim board chair since August last year. She is continueing to serve as chair of the risk committee and member of the audit committee until his retirement from the board in April. Goh was first appointed as an independent non-executive director of HSBC Bank (Singapore) in August 2019.

Schroders Capital, the private assets division of UK-listed wealth and asset manager Schroders, appointed Andrew Haskins as head of strategy and investor advisory, Schroders Capital real estate Asia-Pacific, a newly-created role. He is based in Hong Kong and reports to Andrew Moore, head of Schroders Capital’s real estate division in Asia-Pacific.

Vincent Tang joined Julius Baer as a team leader for the Southeast Asia group. Based in Singapore, he reports to Chin Lit Yee, group head of Southeast Asia. Tang, who has more than 20 years of wealth management experience, joined from UOB Private Bank, where he worked for nearly three years, most recently as market head for Malaysia. Previously, he served in various senior leadership roles at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong and Singapore, including market leader for Hong Kong, head of real assets lending in Asia-Pacific and team leader in Singapore. Prior to that, Tang was with UBS as a senior client advisor for the ultra-high net worth team.

Union Bancaire PrivĂ©e appointed Anthony Kao as managing director, head of advisory solutions for Asia – a newly-created team. Kao, based in Hong Kong, reports regionally to Edouard Hoepffner, head of investment services Asia, and globally to Philippe Henry, global head of advisory. Prior to this, Kao spent more than 10 years at Citigroup where he was most recently the North Asia team lead for the Global Investment Lab, a team covering multi-asset class portfolios for ultra and mega wealth clients and family offices. 

abrdn, the firm formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, appointed Vivian Tang as head of institutional clients, Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Tang reports to Rene Buehlmann, Asia-Pacific CEO of the business.

Tang has more than 20 years’ experience in the asset management sector. Before taking up this role, she worked at First Sentier Investors, where she was head of distribution, North Asia responsible for leading the strategic planning and business development in North Asia and managing the institutional and wholesale client business in the region. Prior to joining FSI, Tang served in senior roles with responsibility for the distribution and coverage of clients in Greater China and as an Asian Equities investment specialist.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking named Bertrand Guiot as head of real assets and investment banking, Southeast Asia, and head of infrastructure funds coverage, Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, Guiot reports locally to Sanjeev Kumar, senior country manager, Singapore, and head of southeast and South Asia, to Raghu Narain, head of investment banking, Asia-Pacific, and to Emmanuel Gillet-Lagarde, head of real assets and global trade, Asia-Pacific.

Guiot has worked in various roles at Natixis CIB for close to a decade. Prior to his new role, he was senior country manager for Natixis Canada Branch for two and a half years. 

Rothschild & Co appointed a senior figure in the financial services space, Naina Lal Kidwai, as a senior advisor. She joined the board of Rothschild & Co India as a non-executive member. Kidwai assists in advising Rothschild & Co on its strategic ambitions, with a focus on helping drive growth in the region. Kidwai previously served as chairman of HSBC India and executive director on the board of HSBC Asia-Pacific, as vice chairman and head of investment banking at JM Morgan Stanley, and president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

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North America

Albany, New York-based Cherry Bekaert Wealth Management, the accounting and advisory firm, appointed Jeff Peller as new chief executive officer. Peller has more than 25 years’ experience in coaching clients and advisors in a CPA-based wealth management firm as a strategic advisor and growth partner. He is a certified public accountant, certified financial planner, and personal financial specialist.

US-based tru Independence, the financial advisory partnership platform, appointed industry veteran Amit Dogra as president. Dogra has held executive leadership posts at Sanctuary Wealth, Third Seven Advisors, HighTower, BNY Mellon and Brinker Capital, among others. 

Cantor Fitzgerald appointed former UBS executive William Ferri as its global head of asset management to lead the expansion of its platform. Ferri had a 25-year career at UBS, where he served as head of Americas for UBS Asset Management and was group managing director. He was a founder of the UBS O'Connor and Hedge Fund Solutions businesses. 

Baird, the US wealth, investment bank and private equity firm, added Charles Patrick O’Connor as a senior vice president and financial advisor to its Yakima, Washington, wealth management team. Separately, it added the Helms Shadid Group to its wealth management office in Durango, Colorado.

In the case of O’Connor, he joined from Morgan Stanley, bringing more than 20 years of industry experience and a client roster that includes $450 million in assets under management. As far as the Helms Shadid Group is concerned, the team includes Thomas Helms, who serves as a director and financial advisor and Scott Shadid who serves as a senior vice president and financial advisor. They are supported by Brett Cadwell, client specialist. The team manages more than $400 million in assets under management. 

Helms has 14 years of industry experience. Shadid has eight years of industry experience.

Raymond James welcomed Jennifer Main to Raymond James & Associates, its employee advisor channel in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Main, along with client service associates Auda Childs and Sean Coen, operate as Main Wealth Management of Raymond James. They joined from Edward Jones, where the team previously managed $220 million in assets for a variety of clients including business owners, families and individuals, healthcare professionals and retirees.

Raymond James appointed Todd Ferguson as chief information security officer. Ferguson, who served in the US Marine Corps, spent more than 20 years at Raymond James in roles ranging from network engineer to his most recent role as senior vice president of information security. In 2018, he was named deputy CISO for RJF and “CISO of record” for Raymond James Bank, Raymond James Trust, Carillon Tower Advisers and Raymond James Insurance Group.

The firm welcomed financial advisors Dan Smith IV, Todd Bryant, Eric Carlson and David Pieronowski to its independent advisor channel. Operating as Signature Wealth Partners in Orlando, Florida, the advisors were joined by client services specialists Cathy Stockton, Diane Stallard and Elizabeth Hall. 

Anothip “Thip” Zimmerman joined Raymond James & Associates (RJA). Previously, he worked at Wells Fargo Clearing Services, where she managed $174 million in client assets. 

Raymond James Financial Institutions Division welcomed financial advisors Thomas Montz, Amanda Montz and Nathan Novotny to SmartBank Investment Services, a subsidiary of SmartFinancial, and a current FID-affiliated branch.

The advisor trio was previously affiliated with BBVA Compass Investment Solutions where they collectively managed more than $350 million in client assets. Together, they lead their six-person wealth management team through a new SmartBank branch in Mobile, Alabama.

Argent Financial Group named Russell Allsup as Louisiana vice president. He joined the Shreveport Argent Trust office. Allsup, who reports to Louisiana market president Gary Moore, works with Argent Financial Group executive vice president Dut LeBlanc in Argent Family Wealth Services,

Before joining Argent, Allsup was with KPMG for 12 years, serving most recently as managing director of corporate tax services. His previous positions with KPMG included senior manager and manager of corporate tax services. 

Argent also appointed T J McGee as vice president and trust officer for Argent Trust Company. McGee is based in New Orleans, reporting to Jill Knight Nalty, market president for New Orleans. Before joining Argent, McGee served as vice president and institutional trust relationship consultant at Regions Bank in Baton Rouge. 

Manulife Investment Management named Marc Feliciano as global head of real estate, private markets. Feliciano reports to Christoph Schumacher, global head of real assets. Previously, he was the chief investment officer of real estate, Americas, DWS and the head of portfolio and asset management for the Real Estate Americas business. He was also head of the Americas debt investments group. Feliciano has nearly 30 years of experience spanning public and private real estate investment management.

The US Department of the Treasury said the Office of Financial Research’s director, Dino Falaschetti, had left. James Martin became the acting director.

Capitol Securities Management, a firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region, appointed Jason T Ferree from Wells Fargo Advisors. Ferree, who has 23 years of experience in the sector, began his financial services career with First Union in 1999. First Union and Wachovia merged and a few years later was bought by Wells Fargo. 

Rockefeller Capital Management brought the Greenwood Village-based Hablutzel Group into its embrace, building out its presence in Colorado. Led by managing director Brent Hablutzel, the team includes Zachary Bond-Stefo, vice president and private wealth advisor, Lori C Caddey, associate vice president, senior client associate, and Shayna Yallaly, registered client associate. The four-member team, which joined from Merrill Lynch, reports to Michael Armondo, MD at Rockefeller Capital Management.

Dynasty Financial Partners appointed Sean Lindenbaum as director of network development, for the Southeast division of the US. Lindenbaum is based on Florida’s east coast and reports to John Sullivan, head of network development. Lindenbaum was previously managing director of sales at TD Ameritrade Institutional from 2005 to 2021, where he was responsible for leading the Southeast and Mid Atlantic sales team. He has more than 20 years of experience in delivering business solutions designed to increase revenue and sales growth. 

Manulife Investment Management made a number of promotions and changes to its fixed-income investment teams: 

Daniel S Janis III, head of global multi-sector fixed income, retired; Christopher M Chapman, portfolio manager, was promoted and named co-head of the team in order to help ensure a smooth transition for clients over the next 13 months. He reports to John F Addeo, CIO of global fixed income, Manulife Investment Management. Chapman became the head of the team when Janis retired.

Bradley L Lutz, portfolio manager, preferred income, joined the team as a portfolio manager, and reports to Chapman. Sherri Tilley joined Manulife Investment Management as a client portfolio manager.

Connor Minnaar, securitized analyst on the securitized assets research team, was promoted to portfolio manager on the core and core-plus fixed-income team.

Caryn E Rothman was promoted to senior portfolio manager and head of the global credit team. Rothman was listed as a portfolio manager across all of the team’s funds. 

Carson Group appointed Nimesh Patel to fill the newly-created role of chief technology officer. 

Patel has more than 20 years of professional experience. Prior to this new role, Patel was CEO of Prefix Health Technologies, a tech startup that modernized access and delivery of social benefits to vulnerable populations. Previously, he served as COO and CTO at Cresset, a startup in Capital Markets, where he helped incubate and grow the firm to reach $5 billion in assets under management in under two years.

Prominent fund manager and market commentator Ruchir Sharma joined Rockefeller Capital Management. As managing director and chairman, Rockefeller International, Sharma serves as an advisor to the firm, a resource for its global family office advisors and clients, and a global brand ambassador. Sharma also plans to form an investment company, Breakout Capital, in which Rockefeller Capital Management will be a partner. At Rockefeller Capital Management, he reports directly to Greg Fleming, CEO.

For the past 25 years, Sharma worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, most recently as head of emerging markets and chief global strategist. 

IQ-EQ, the investor services group, named Matt Okolita as global head of outsourced business services. Okolita works with Mark Fordyce, regional CEO of the Americas. Okolita previously led Greyline Partners, a regulatory, compliance and governance consultancy which was acquired by IQ-EQ in November last year. He will report to Mark Fordyce, regional CEO, Americas.

CI Financial appointed Sarah M Ward to join its board of directors. She is a lawyer with more than 35 years’ experience of working in corporate finance. Ward recently retired from global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she was a New York-based partner in the firm’s banking group and co-chair of its legal opinion oversight committee. 

Participant Capital Advisors, a real estate investment firm working with wealth managers, appointed property market veteran Bernard Wasserman as president. Prior to joining Participant, Wasserman was managing director, capital development at Virtus Real Estate Capital, where he was responsible for brokerage, family office and registered investment advisor relationships in the US, Latin America and Europe. Previously, he was director of investment product origination at Citigroup Global Markets and senior vice president, structured fund products at HSBC Securities (USA), among other roles.    

DPL Financial Partners, a turnkey insurance platform for registered investment advisors, appointed Tiburon Strategic Advisors and Tiburon CEO Summits founder and managing partner Chip Roame to join its board of directors. Roame also serves as a member of the board of directors at Edelman Financial Engines, Facet Wealth, Allspring Global Investors, Lefteris Acquisition Corporation, and was formerly vice chairman of Envestnet. 

BNY Mellon Wealth Management added two figures to its Seattle office: Patrick Burke as senior private banker and Ben Kalman as senior wealth manager. Burke reports to Gary Lutz, regional director, West Region private banking and Kalman reports to Bo Lee, wealth management, team leader.

Key Private Bank appointed Jamie Reed as national head of sales. Reed, who is based in Columbus and reports to Joe Skarda, president of Key Wealth Management, brings nearly 30 years of wealth management experience to Key. Prior to joining Key, Reed served as the wealth management business regional director for Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia at JP Morgan.

Halbert Hargrove, a wealth management firm based in Long Beach, California, promoted the firm’s president and chief operating officer, J C Abusaid, to chief executive. The firm also promoted Cecilia Williams to COO and Kelli Kiemle as managing director of growth and client experience, while simultaneously reaching $3 billion in assets under management. Abusaid, who has been with the firm for 25 years, worked with Williams and Kiemle, who have each been with the firm for 15 years. 

Starboard Advisors, a Maine-based firm that is part of Kelleher Financial Advisors, named family offices figure Michael Ouellette as its president. Bart Weisenfluh, founder of Starboard Advisors, became its chief executive. Ouellette has been a family office executive for the past 24 years representing over $4 billion of family assets. He started his career with a four-generation family office based in Portland, Maine, serving as executive vice president and treasurer for Dexter Enterprises from 1997 to 2014. His most recent position from 2014 to 2021 was chief executive of Ten Mountain Capital, a family office located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Aaron Wealth Advisors, a firm based in Chicago, appointed Alexander Fedynsky as a managing director. And the firm, led by former Goldman Sachs private wealth advisor Gary Hirschberg, opened a new West Coast office based in Newport Beach, California. Fedynsky, became region head for the West Coast office. Prior to joining Aaron, he was a vice president at Goldman Sachs, Ayco Personal Financial Management in California, for over 16 years.

Vestmark, which provides portfolio management tools and trading software, named former Vanguard and Charles Schwab figure Agnes Hong as chief investment officer and head of advisory services for Vestmark Advisory Solutions (VAS), Vestmark’s registered investment advisor. She reports to Vestmark chief executive Mike Blundin. With more than 20 years of experience in asset management and technology, Hong is a CFA® Charterholder, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and holds the CFA UK Level 4 Certificate in ESG Investing. Hong previously worked at Vanguard, where she served as senior portfolio manager and a member of the senior leadership team at Equity Investment Group.