A roundup of moves in the global wealth management sector in the final month of 2019.

UK, Europe, international 

After 22 years of service, Key Group’s chief product officer Dean Mirfin stepped back from the business to pursue other opportunities.

The equity release firm said Mirfin, who also co-founded the group, had gradually cut his hours since the business was sold to Partners Group in 2017. He stays as a major shareholder and works on a consultancy basis for Key, including sitting on the board of the Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP).

Julie Alexander joined Kempen Capital Management in London as business development director London to boost services to UK pensions schemes. Alexander spent 12 years as a senior investment consultant for Willis Towers Watson, primarily advising on DC and DB schemes. Before that, she worked for Coal Pension Trustees Services and Barclays Capital.

International law firm Taylor Wessing created the new role of head of private wealth for the UK. Ronald Graham, who’s been with the firm since 2011, took up the post to support partner and international head of private wealth, Nick Warr. Graham’s area of expertise is advising ultra-wealthy corporate clients, particularly owners and investors of commercial property.

A familiar face in the UK’s wealth management industry, Michael Maslinski, retired from multi-family office Stonehage Fleming after more than two decades there. Maslinski has worked in the industry for 45 years. Starting in 1998 in a consultancy role, Maslinski became a partner at Stonehage Fleming after formally joining the business in 2011. He played a central role in the merger between Stonehage and Fleming Family & Partners in 2015 – one of the larger such family office combinations in recent years. Prior to starting his own consulting business Maslinski & Co Ltd in 1995, Maslinski was at Coutts for 22 years, most latterly as group head of marketing and business development.

John Campbell joined as chief of staff at Weatherbys, the private bank, reporting to head of private banking Quentin Marshall, and James Brooks and Barry Arbon joined as senior private bankers.  Most recently, Campbell spent four years at Australian bank Westpac, six years at Lloyds Banking Group and three years at ANZ Bank. He has also been in product management roles for several financial services firms. 

Brooks joined from Arbuthnot Latham, where he was in charge of transitioning clients from Duncan Lawrie, where he also spent time. Arbon joined after 10 years at Coutts and Co and five years at Barclays.

UK-listed wealth management firm Kingswood Holding appointed Lindsey McMurray and Howard Garland to join its board from Pollen Street Capital, an alternative asset investment management company. 

McMurray founded Pollen Street in 2013 and is the managing partner as well as chairman of the investment committee. She has been a private equity investor for more than 20 years with a focus on the financial services sector. Howard Garland is a partner of Pollen Street where he focuses on investing in financial services businesses and credit opportunities with current responsibility for BIK and Deko. He is also responsible for credit investments including Caledonian Finance and Sancus. Howard was previously responsible for Banca Sistema and Arrow Global.

UK wealth management group Tilney appointed Joe Kaitcer as a financial planner, based in London. Kaitcer reports to Leon Buckley, partner, financial planning, and is based in Tilney’s New Street Square office in the City.

Kleinwort Hambros named Andrew Dixon as head of UK and international wealth planning. Dixon, who joined Kleinwort Hambros in 2013 as a wealth planner, reports to Paul Kearney, head of private banking, and is responsible for building the wealth planning team’s capabilities across London, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. 

Separately, Sandra Kaspar joined from a Swiss-based family office as an international financial planner. STEP-qualified, she has over 15 years’ experience of working with HNW international families, having previously held positions in Geneva with HSBC Private Bank and Coutts. 

Mehareen Ali, a chartered financial planner, came from Sanlam. Ali has experience in pensions, in particular. She spent a number of years working for one of the UK’s major pension consultancy firms where she advised clients on complex retirement arrangements for owner-manager businesses and families.

Thomas Crowther was appointed as a senior para-planner from Close Brothers Asset Management. He arrives with significant experience in workplace pension consultancy, having worked in defined contribution and final salary occupational pension schemes with Aon and Capita. He is a CFP and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, as well as an Associate Member of the ~
Pensions Management Institute.

Luisa Rua-Estrada joined as a senior administrator from London & Capital. Rua-Estrada was in a similar role at London & Capital supporting both portfolio managers and wealth advisors. She will be working with the team of wealth planning assistants.

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Lombard International Assurance appointed Simon Gorbutt as director wealth structuring solutions. He was also recently appointed as chair of STEP Benelux. Gorbutt is a solicitor, qualified in England and Wales, and a Trust and Estate Practitioner. Based in Luxembourg, he leads an in-house team of industry experts providing wealth structuring services to Northern European and US expatriate clients. 

Invesco appointed Andy Dwiar as head of exchange traded funds capital markets for the UK, Benelux and Nordic region. He reports to Jim Goldie, head of ETF Capital Markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Dwiar joined from BMO Global Asset Management where he was responsible for ETF Capital Markets EMEA.

Responsible investment specialist EdenTree Investment Management named Adrian Judge to head wholesale and retail distribution to meet accelerated demand from allocators, advisors and investors for sustainable options.

Judge, who joined the sales team in 2011 and has spent 25 years in wealth management, is in charge of growing assets under management across wholesale and retail markets, including working with UK financial advisors, wealth managers, fund-of-funds, platforms, banks and ratings agencies.

Based in London, HSBC Private Banking appointed Gavin Rankin as regional head of investment services & product solutions for EMEA. A wealth management veteran of Citibank, UBS and Goldman Sachs, Rankin manages teams providing investment counselling, discretionary portfolio management, trading, and family governance services across the region. Most recently, Rankin was head of managed investments for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Citi Private Bank, where he led a team of product specialists and the distribution of discretionary and advisory portfolios, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and real estate across the region.

Rothschild & Co Wealth Management appointed Sophie Kilvert as a director in its wealth arm, based in London. Kilvert has more than 15 years’ experience working with high net worth individuals and their families, as well as corporate and charity clients. She joins from Seven Investment Management, where she was a private client manager, having joined in 2004. Before this, she worked for a firm of solicitors after graduating with an MA in politics, philosophy & economics from Oxford University in 2000.

Investec Wealth & Investment appointed Alex Barrell as divisional director at new offices planned for Bristol's Temple Quay in January 2020. Barrell previously headed the Bristol office for Brewin Dolphin and will lead a team of 22 that also covers clients in the Bath area. 

Sarah Cockburn joined Schroders as head of Schroder Real Estate Capital Partners, where she oversees the £4 billion indirect real estate business. Cockburn spent the last 12 years at Kames Capital and PGIM. Most recently, she was PGIM executive director and member of the global management committee.

Specialising in fund manager partnerships, boutique investment firm BennBridge hired six senior executives to join its newly minted emerging markets business at Skerryvore Asset Management. Stephen Deane, Nicholas Cowley, Ian Tabberer, Michael Cahoon and Ronan Kelleher joinedSkerryvore as portfolio managers, and Ben Lawson joins as head of dealing.

Dimensional Fund Advisors named Lisa Dallmer as its new chief operating officer. Dallmer has two decades of senior leadership experience in global financial operations. She served as COO of global technology and operations for BlackRock in New York, COO of European Markets for NYSE Euronext in Paris, and vice president of tech for startup Archipelago, which was acquired by the New York Stock Exchange.

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners re-elected Simon Morgan as its worldwide chair. Morgan is director and head of private clients for Vistra Jersey.

Andrew McCaffery was named global chief investment officer of asset management at London-based Fidelity International, succeeding Bart Grenier. Grenier moved back to the US from London to take up a senior role at mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments. 

London & Capital appointed Guy McGlashan as its new chief executive, filling the vacancy left by the sudden death of Daniel Freedman in October. McGlashan, who joined the firm in 2015 as a partner and chief operating officer, continues to work with Iain Tait (partner and head of the private investment office) and Paul Morilla-Giner (partner and chief investment officer).
Switzerland-based Schellenberg Wittmer appointed Christoph Vonlanthen to join its corporate and merger and acquisition group as a partner.

Vonlanthen spent the past 13 years at elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in London and New York. Vonlanthen, who splits his time between Geneva and Zurich, focuses on complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital markets. He graduated from the University of Fribourg and the University of Pennsylvania (LL M, Fulbright scholar). Vonlanthen is admitted as a lawyer in Switzerland and New York. It also appointed Caroline M Lopez Nagai, as new counsel in its private wealth group, and Dr Frank Bremer, counsel, in its competition and antitrust group.
New City Initiative, an international wealth and asset management think tank, appointed industry luminary Nick Mottram as chairman. He took over from Jamie Carter, chief executive of Oldfield Partners, who remained on the board. Sebastian Stewart, head of client services at Somerset Capital Management, joined Susannah de Jager as deputy chairperson.

Mottram is the chairman and global and Asian equities fund manager at Dalton Strategic Partnership, having joined the firm in March 2010. He has over 30 years of investment experience, with other senior roles including founding partner at Origin Asset Management, head of equities at Investec Asset Management and global head of research at Schroder Investment Management. In Stewart’s case, he joined Somerset Capital in 2012. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class degree in mathematics and business studies and is a CFA charter holder.
Law firm Payne Hicks Beach, made four promotions – two partners and two associates – in the firm’s dispute resolution, family and risk and compliance departments. 

Scott Goldstein and Jonathan Sewell were made partners in the dispute resolution and risk and compliance departments respectively. Nick Grant and Katie Parkes were  have been promoted to associate level.

Tritax, a property investment fund management house, was appointed Alasdair Evans as chief financial officer of Tritax Group, which acts as the fund manager to the listed Tritax Big Box REIT and Tritax EuroBox plc. Evans has more than 35 years of experience in finance, 20 years of which have been in senior finance roles in real estate. Most recently, Evans advised Altitude Real Estate and Get Living London (2017-2018). Previous roles include: chief financial officer of United House Developments (2014-2016); finance director of IPD (2010-2013); acting joint CEO (2007-2010) following corporate finance director and COO (2003-2007) of Hermes Real Estate. He started his career at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in London where he qualified and was a senior manager when he left in 1997.

Tilney appointed Jacqueline Morton as a financial planner to join its Edinburgh-based team. Morton previously worked at Investec Wealth & Investment. She had worked there from 2011, most recently as business development director. Prior to this, Morton was a business consultant in the Edinburgh area for Old Mutual.

William Thomson was named director of financial planning at Lockhart Capital Management to help provide more tailored advice to high net worth clients. He is based in the group’s Cobham office in Surrey. 

BNY Mellon’s Pershing, which works with wealth managers and other parts of the financial services sector, appointed two new business development directors, Helen Oxley and Andrew Duffin. The duo are based in London. 

Duffin, who was most recently head of sales and relationship management, UK and Ireland at Société Genérale Securities Services, brought 30 years’ experience in post-trade industry. Oxley joined from SEI Investments Company where she was director, head of solutions for the firms’ wealth platform - managing solution design across front and back office, digital and regulatory services. 

Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin’s Jersey office appointed Gary Le Quesne as a divisional director in its investment management business. Prior to this, Le Quesne was managing director at Aberdeen Private Wealth Management, where he was also an investment director responsible for the company’s portfolio management desk. He has also worked in investment management roles at Matheson Investments CI Limited (now Canaccord Genuity) and Mercury Asset Management, Brewin Dolphin said in a statement.  

Harneys Fiduciary, the provider of trust, corporate and fiduciary services, appointed Arjan Schaapman as a non-executive director. He also joined the Harneys group audit committee.

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Asia-Pacific
Asian e-commerce group Alibaba and its financial affiliate Ant Financial changed a number of senior executive roles as part of restructuring which is taking place under the newly-appointed Daniel Zhang as chairman of Alibaba.

Ant Financial appointed Simon Hu as its new CEO and replaced Eric Jing, who stayed at the firm. Hu joined Alibaba Group in 2005 and has served as president of Ant Financial since November 2018. Before that, he held positions in Alibaba's cloud computing and SME loan divisions. Hu reports to Jing.

Allianz Real Estate appointed Danny Phuan to the newly-created role of Asia-Pacific head of acquisitions. Phuan is based in the firm’s Singapore office and reports to Asia-Pacific CEO, Rushabh Desai.

HSBC Private Banking appointed four senior executives to join its family advisory services and philanthropy businesses in the Asia-Pacific region.

Aik-Ping Ng joined as co-head of Family Office Advisory and senior family governance advisor; Edith Ang as co-head of Family Office Advisory and senior family governance advisor; Dorothy Chan was appointed as head of Philanthropy Advisory and Charitable Services, and Christine Wong took up the role of head of Greater China Market, Private Wealth Solutions.

The chief transformation officer of Manulife Singapore, Kwek-Perroy Li Choo, left the firm after being in the role for more than three years. Before this, she was chief marketing officer, Singapore, at AXA. Prior to AXA, Kwek-Perroy worked with companies such as Deloitte and Great Eastern Life Insurance.

Senior Asia wealth management figure Calvin Hsu, who is based in Hong Kong, was appointed managing director at Liechtenstein-based LGT. Hsu works at the private bank and asset management business of LGT. Prior to joining LGT, Hsu was a partner, chief operating officer and managing director at Carret Private Capital, where he was also based in Hong Kong from 2017 to 2019; before this, he worked at Citi Wealth Advisors for five years. Other roles include working at the private banking and investment group of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

Christie’s appointed Michelle Chan from rival auction house Sotheby’s as head of its wine department, Asia-Pacific. Prior to this, Chan was head of auction sales at Sotheby’s wine department, working there for nine years.

Standard Chartered Private Bank appointed Cedric Lizin as regional head, ASEAN & South Asia, private banking. Lizin joined from UBS, where he was most recently head of wealth management and senior executive officer for Dubai. Lizin was a chief operating officer and had roles involving building out platforms in Asia as well as an onshore Japan business. Lizin is based in Singapore and reports to Didier von Daeniken, global head, private banking and wealth management.

Srinivas Siripurapu, regional head, ASEAN & South Asia, and global head, global South Asia Community, private banking, left the bank in October 2018 to spend time with his family in India. He had been at the bank for three years. Andrew Ho, managing director and market head, South & Southeast Asia, private banking, took on interim responsibilities for the private banking business in the region until Lizin joined.

VP Bank in Singapore added senior figures to its private banking team in the Asian city-state: Davin Wong and James Long. 

Wong, executive director and team head, has worked in the financial services industry in Singapore for two decades for the likes of United Overseas Bank, ANZ and, most recently, as team head at Julius Baer. He holds a degree in accounting and finance and a master of commerce, advanced finance from the University of New South Wales, Australia. In his new role, Wong reports to Karen Tan, head of private banking. 

Leong, meanwhile, has 30 years of wealth management experience, ranging from treasury to wealth planning. In his last role, he was a senior relationship manager at Julius Baer and prior to that for ING, Bank of Singapore and Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from Nanyang Business School. At VP Bank Leong is executive director and senior RM, reporting to Davin Wong.

Aberdeen Standard Investments appointed Garreth Innes as the head of Australian fixed income. Innes, who is based in Sydney, joined the Australian fixed income team in 2011 and has more than 10 years’ industry experience.

Koji Nagai, the chief executive of Nomura, the Japanese banking group, was made chairman of the board of directors, while group co-chief operating officer Kentaro Okuda took on the CEO slot, as well as that of president. Okuda has been at Nomura since 1987. Before his most recent position, he was CEO of Nomura Holding Americas.

M&G Investments appointed Matthew O’Sullivan as head of Asia-Pacific origination with the remit to build a credit and alternatives origination team, based in Singapore. O’Sullivan, who relocated from London, set up a team to originate and analyse investment opportunities. He reports to Alex Seddon, co-head of private credit, in London. Gareth Anderson, associate director, joined him. He has eight years’ experience of originating and investing in credit, with the last three spent working in Singapore.

North America
Cresset Capital, the US firm, appointed Jessica Malkin as executive vice president. Previously, she served as chief executive of Chicago Ideas, a platform and community for ideas and connections. Malkin supports strategic growth initiatives, such as improving clients’ experience of Cresset’s offerings, taking charge of learning events as well as expanding its national philanthropic, business, and civic engagement initiatives.

Canada-based Pascal Financial partnered with two prominent behavioral finance experts, helping advisors tap into the insights of this growing field and hence building business growth and retaining clients. The firm teamed up with Prasad Ramani and Alain Samson. Ramani serves as chief strategist - behavioral finance and Samson as chief scientific advisor - behavioral research.

With more than 20 years of experience in quantitative finance, Ramani is a recognized leader in behavioral finance strategy, applying research in behavioral science to use tech applications in financial services. He is a regular guest speaker at the London Business School. Samson is a prominent behavioral scientist with more than 13 years of experience working with companies on behavioral science theory, methodology and applications. He is the founder of the Behavioral Economics Group on LinkedIn with more than 41,000 members, editor of the Behavioral Economics Guide and a behavioral science columnist for Psychology Today. 

Argent Trust Company promoted Catherine McCulley from assistant trust administrator to vice president and trust officer in the firm’s Memphis office. A certified trust and financial advisor, McCulley joined Argent Trust Company in 2015. As vice president and trust officer, she took a larger client advisory role and drives business development efforts. Prior to joining Argent, she worked for three years as a private wealth management relationship associate for Regions Bank, and five years as financial services representative for SunTrust Bank.

Argent Trust Company promoted Cort Bethmann from vice-president and wealth advisor to senior vice president and wealth advisor in the firm’s Nashville office. Formerly with Franklin-based Independence Trust Company, which he joined in 2012, Bethmann joined Argent Trust Company in 2017 with the merger of Independence Trust Company with Argent.  A licensed attorney in Tennessee and Texas, Bethmann is involved in several area organizations, including the Estate Planning Counsel of Middle Tennessee, the Nashville Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Probate & Estate Planning Sections and the Williamson County Bar Association.

US-based Argent Trust Company appointed Kathy Christoffel as market president for Fort Worth, Texas, where she oversees the local wealth management team. A certified trust and financial advisor, Christoffel has 27 years of experience as a senior vice president and fiduciary officer at Wells Fargo. She received certification from Morton College in Cicero, Illinois. She also holds certificates from the Cannon Trust School in Administration I, II, III, Investments I and Sales & Presentation Skills.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Christopher “CJ” Stanford, CFP®, and Matthew Douglas, CFP®, to Raymond James & Associates (RJA) – the firm’s employee advisor broker/dealer – in Peachtree City, Georgia. Stanford and Douglas joined from Merrill Lynch, where they previously managed $270 million in client assets. They joined the Peachtree City office managed by Craig Norton and were accompanied by financial advisor trainee Tanner Low, who participated in Raymond James’ Advisor Mastery Program, and client service associates Alexis Lamb and Stephanie Moore. The team operates as DT & Associates of Raymond James.

Raymond James welcomed financial advisor Richard Austin, to Raymond James & Associates – in Montgomery, Alabama. Austin, first vice president of investments, joined RJA from UBS where he previously managed over $193 million in client assets. Joining Austin is client service associate Corrie Simpler. Working in the financial services arena for three decades, Austin began his career providing guidance on retirement plans and group health insurance at Principal. He has extensive experience of advising clients on wealth accumulation, retirement planning and general wealth transfers. 

Kainos Capital, a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, promoted Jeff Moredock to principal and elevated Julie Sanders to director. Moredock was one of the firm’s first vice presidents when he joined in 2017. Sanders has been a member of the team since 2017. Moredock leads the execution and management of investments and helps direct oversight of portfolio companies. Prior to joining Kainos, he was a VP at CenterOak Partners and an associate at Brazos Partners. He began his career as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank's M&A Group in New York. 

SagePoint Financial, an independent broker-dealer and registered investment advisor representing more than 1,400 independent financial advisors, hired John Ressler, a financial advisor based in Mason City, Iowa, with $115 million in total client assets. SagePoint is part of Advisor Group, a US network of independent wealth management firms, which also includes FSC Securities, Royal Alliance Associates and Woodbury Financial. Ressler has been a financial advisor for more than 30 years and offers clients across northern Iowa a range of fee-based advisory services, from retirement planning and education planning to investment management and insurance.

Accelmed Partners, a US-based private equity firm focused on investments in commercial stage healthtech companies, appointed Evan Norton as general partner. He is a long-standing figure at Abbott Laboratories. Norton spent a decade with Abbott leading its corporate venture arm, Abbott Ventures. During this time, Norton managed minority equity investments, structured transactions, and private company acquisitions on behalf of both Abbott's business units as well as developing entry strategies in white space markets. Previously, Norton was a principal on the medical device investment team at ONSET Ventures, a Sand Hill Road-based venture capital firm in California.

Adit Ventures appointed Michael Block, a market strategist and corporate advisor, as a special advisor to the New York-based venture capital firm. Block works with the investment and client teams to grow Adit's footprint in providing investment opportunities in market leading private companies to institutional and high net worth investors worldwide. He also chairs the firm's advisory board.

Raymond James appointed financial advisor Steven LeClair to join Raymond James & Associates - the firm’s employee advisor broker/dealer – in Upper Arlington, Ohio. LeClair joined RJA from UBS, where he previously managed more than $228 million in client assets. Joining LeClair are senior wealth management associate Lauren Matthiessen, and senior marketing associate Jodi McMillan. Together, they operate as LeClair Wealth Management of Raymond James. The advisor has 17 years in the industry, following a long career with UBS as branch manager and senior vice president. Outside the office, LeClair is actively involved in his community as a member of the Conway Family Business Center, the ESOP Association and the National Center for Employee Ownership, as well as serving formerly as a board member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the YMCA of Central Ohio.

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d1g1t Inc, the Canada-based digital wealth platform, appointed Dr Andrew Aziz as executive vice president, business development and Kian Rafia as managing director, head of US distribution. Aziz has more than 20 years of financial services experience. He joined from IHS Markit where he served as senior vice president, global head of financial risk analytics, leading the financial risk analytics business line. From 2011 to 2016, Aziz led the strategy, research, business development and SaaS functions for IBM’s Risk Analytics division. Rafia has over 22 years of experience in various roles within the wealth management industry. He joined from Morningstar, where he served as executive vice president, head of advisor solutions. Rafia previously served as senior vice president of wealth management at Independent Financial Group and worked at Cetera Financial Group where he was responsible for the advisory platform growth of assets distributed through its financial advisors and managing investment technologies.

Law firm Kobre & Kim hired Ulrich Payne, an offshore and onshore litigator, as a partner in its Cayman Islands office. Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Payne practiced at Ogier, where he advised on multi-million and multi-billion-dollar global disputes and worked on regulatory and internal investigations for international corporate clients. Before joining Ogier, Payne practiced at Kirkland & Ellis in London. He is admitted in the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and as a non-practicing lawyer in England and Wales.

Impact investment firm Vanderbilt Financial Group appointed Joseph Trifiletti as president. He has been chief operating officer for the past seven years. Trifiletti has been at Vanderbilt since 2006, starting as an intern and rising through the ranks. He has been involved in its rapid recruitment efforts since 2015, signing more than 100 new financial advisors and increasing its assets under management (AUM) by 150 per cent.

Evercore, the US-listed investment advisory house, named Chris Zander as its new chief executive, taking the helm from Jeff Maurer as CEO of Evercore Wealth Management LLC and a related firm, Evercore Trust Company NA. Maurer, who led Evercore Wealth Management since its inception in 2008, remained as chairman of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company. Maurer is based in the Palm Beach office of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company, and continues to work with the firms’ family, foundation and endowment clients. He started his career in 1970 at US Trust where he served as President, CEO and chairman. Zander joined Evercore Wealth Management in 2008 as a founding partner from US Trust, where he managed the national multi-family office. He was named president of Evercore Trust Company in 2017 and president of Evercore Wealth Management in 2019.

B Riley Wealth Management, subsidary of B Riley Financial, appointed Paul Dietrich as chief investment strategist. Dietrich joined from Fairfax Global Markets, where he previously served as chief executive and chief investment officer. Dietrich is focused on managing investments for private investors, retirement funds and private institutions throughout the US. He also serves as a frequent on-air commentator and regularly contributes market analysis to business and financial media including CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, Reuters and The Washington Post.

Prior to his tenure with Fairfax, Dietrich served as CEO and CIO of Foxhall Capital Management. He previously worked as an international corporate attorney with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (now Squire Patton Boggs) and Jones Day advising on privatization and economic development issues for the World Bank, as well as several governments in Asia and Eastern Europe. Prior to his legal career, Dietrich served as an elected State Representative from St. Louis County in the Missouri General Assembly for four years, from 1976 to 1980. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation.

Cetera Financial Group, the financial advisory firm, appointed Adam Antoniades as its chief executive. Antoniades worked for California-based Cetera for many years, most recently serving as its president since 2014. Antoniades was a founder of First Allied in 1994, now a Cetera broker-dealer, and served as its president and CEO for the better part of two decades. He was instrumental in helping the firm grow both organically and via acquisitions, including First Allied's sale to Wells Fargo in 2002. He serves the Financial Services Institute as chair of its board of directors. He was also on FSI's Political Action Committee and is a board member of Invest in Others. He kicked off his early career in financial services at Berkeley Administration, Inc, which is in Belgium, and at AJ Bekhor and Company, in the UK.

Conte Wealth Advisors, based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, opened an office at Market Street in York, bringing in two advisors into the organization. The joiners were Brian Lauer and Patrick Barry. The York office is the seventh CWA office with the rest spread across Florida and Pennsylvania. Lauer and Barry rounded out the CWA team of advisors to 17 in total with six of those advisors having joined in 2019.

Cleveland, Ohio-based Key Family Wealth, the multi-family office division of Key Private Bank, expanded its team with the addition of Doug Haack, Jennie Tyndall, and Brecken Diller to create a greater presence serving the most complex ultra-high net worth families in the West region. The team is based in Key Private Bank’s Seattle, Washington office and reports to Doug Banbury, managing director and head of Key Family Wealth Client Strategy and Investments.

Haack joined Key Family Wealth as a family wealth strategist. He serves as the primary point of contact for all new UHNW referrals (clients with liquid assets approaching $20 million and $50 million in overall net worth) in the West region. Haack has more than 20 years of experience serving UHNW individuals and families. Previously, he served as the chief client relationship officer at Cornerstone Advisors in Bellevue, Washington. Haack earned a master of business administration (MBA) degree at the City University of Seattle and a bachelor of science (BS) degree in marine engineering from the US Naval Academy.

Tyndall was appointed to the role of family wealth investment consultant. She is responsible for providing consultative and holistic investment expertise to UHNW clients and multigenerational families, integrating Key Private Bank’s investment philosophy and expanding the breadth of investment strategies available to clients. Previously, Tyndall served as director of portfolio management and communications for Threshold Group advising UHNW families in the development of investment strategies designed to achieve their investment goals and aspirations. She has more than 25 years of investment and portfolio management experience. Tyndall earned her BA in business administration from the University of Washington.

Diller, who has been named family office director, is a Certified Financial PlannerTM professional (CFP) and a member of the Washington State Bar Association with more than 15 years of experience in estate, tax and financial planning. Previously, he served as a private client manager at US Trust. Diller earned his master of laws (LLM) in taxation and juris doctor (JD) degrees from Seattle University School of Law. He also holds a bachelor of arts (BA) degree from the University of New Hampshire.