DA Davidson & Co, the investment firm, has appointed Dustin Brumbaugh as senior vice president, director of individual investor group research.

Brumbaugh will oversee equity research at the firm for its individual investor group, which provides services to individual investors, businesses and nonprofit clients. He will be based in Seattle. The firm has around 235 financial consultants and Brumbaugh will work on creating new channels to deliver research to them and their clients.

He joined the firm from EK Riley Investments, a Seattle-based firm, where he was senior vice president, director of research. Before that he worked at Wells Fargo Investments, where he was a senior equity analyst in his latest role.

DA Davidson & Co is part of Davidson Companies, a holding company with subsidiaries offering brokerage, capital markets, money management, trust and wealth management services. Subsidiaries include Davidson Investment Advisors, an asset management firm; Davidson Trust Co, a trust and wealth management firm, and Davidson Fixed Income Management, a registered investment advisor providing fixed income services.