A round-up of moves in wealth management across the world.

UK moves
HSBC Private Banking expanded its UK domestic high net worth teams with four new appointments. Paul Fairfoull was appointed desk head, HNW south; Christoher Pullen was appointed investment counsellor covering UK high net worth clients, Mark Sheerin was named investment counsellor based in its Manchester team  and Jonathan Reed joined the UK high net worth team. Fairfoull reports to Peter Barriscale, business head for HSBC Private Banking’s domestic high net worth teams. He joined from Credit Suisse, where he led a team of 12 private bankers. Prior to joining HSBC Private Banking, Pullen spent six years at Barclays Private Bank in London and Hong Kong. Sheerin was formerly a relationship manager at Seven Investment Management. Reed has re-joined HSBC after a period spent with Cerno Capital Partners.

LGT Vestra appointed Adam Brownlee as senior wealth manager, a newly-created role. Brownlee is responsible for developing relationships and managing assets for UK and UK international high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients. He has over 18 years’ experience in wealth management. He was most recently a director at HSBC Private Bank.

Fidelity International appointed Chris Forgan as co-portfolio manager, as it expands its multi-asset team. He will join in September and report to James Bateman, chief investment officer of multi-asset. Forgan works with the income team led by portfolio manager Eugene Philalithis. Forgan gained over 13 years of experience managing multi-asset funds while previously working at Henderson Global Investors.
Brown Shipley appointed Paul Ryder-Morris as client director, based in its London office. Ryder-Morris is responsible for developing and managing new client responsible at Brown Shipley. He was previously a private banker at HSBC Private Bank and Barclays Wealth.

Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth appointed two senior associates and one associate to its national will, trust & estate disputes team. Senior associate Nazia Nawaz joined the Leeds office, associate Kelly Wharin joined the Sheffield team and Stephen Ireland came aboard the Chichester office as a senior associate. Nawaz handles complex disputes between executors and trustees, contested wills and proprietary estoppel cases as well as disputes involving financial abuse and maladministration.

Wharin started her legal career at HLW Keeble Hawson in 2005. She previously worked in insolvency disputes and commercial litigation. She is currently working towards becoming a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). Ireland has experience in contentious wills, probate matters as well as wider background knowledge in employment, residential and civil disputes. He is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS).

Weatherbys Private Bank appointed Oliver Barnett as associate director and new team head. Barnett reports to new head of private banking Quentin Marshall. Previously, he was head of lending at Signia Wealth.

Weatherbys also appointed Quentin Marshall as head of private banking. His appointment came after the retirement of Adrian Crichton, who has been at the bank for 11 years. Marshall joined Weatherbys Private Bank as deputy head in June 2015. Prior to this, he had a tenure at Coutts as head of advisory within the investments team, and was at UBS for 16 years, where he helped create the UBS family office group, the firm said in a statement.

Tilney appointed Jim Clay as business development director covering the North East and Yorkshire. Clay operates out of Tilney’ Newcastle and Leeds offices. He works with a number of financial planning and advice firms. Prior to Tilney, Clay worked at Heartwood, where he was client director for intermediaries. He has also held positions at BNY Mellon’s Pershing, CoFunds and SEI Investments.

Withers appointed banking and finance special counsel Xanthe Lok to its London office. Lok joined Withers from Gowling WLG, where she was a senior member of the banking team.
Janus Henderson Investors appointed Dean Cheeseman as fund manager of its multi-asset team in London. Cheeseman reports to Paul O’Connor, head of multi-asset. He came from Mercer, where he was lead portfolio manager responsible for managing over $5.8 billion of active institutional strategies.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management UK & Europe appointed Miguel Guterres as investment director. He is based in London. Guterres works with investment director Paul Derrien, to manage a portfolio of clients comprised of companies, trust and high net worth individuals. He joined the firm from Investec Wealth, where he worked as an investment director for 14 years. Prior to Investec, Guterres was a director at Panmure Gordon.

Lombard Odier Investment Managers appointed Charles St-Arnaud as senior investment strategist, a newly-created role. He is based in London. St-Arnaud reports to Salman Ahmed, chief investment strategist. He joined from Nomura, where he was most recently a G10 FX strategist and economist. He spent seven years at Nomura, based in London and New York.

Waverton Investment Management named Donald Norman as a private client director and portfolio manager. Norman manages a range of portfolios from private clients to charities. Prior to this, he was a member of the management team at James Capel Investment Management for 20 years. Then, Norman was a founding partner of Cheviot Investment Management. Following the subsequent merger with
Quilter, he was appointed head of private clients.

Quilter Cheviot hired Lee Morris to its Jersey team, taking the role of investment director. His arrival is part of a drive by the company to develop its offering in international markets. In his new role, Morris reports to Tim Childe, head of the Jersey office and head of international, and focuses on the fixed interest markets as well as on international activities. Morris has over 15 years’ experience within investment banking and portfolio management. He joined from Smith and Williamson International where he was a director of investment management. He also worked at Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management as a senior investment manager.

BlueBay Asset Management appointed Zhenbo Hou in a research position within its emerging markets division, leading the development of the firm’s “sovereign outlook for China”. Hou joined from Bank of China where he was senior officer for macroeconomic research. He has also been a research officer at the Overseas Development Institute, the firm said in a statement. He is based in London and reports to Graham Stock, emerging markets senior sovereign strategist.

Smith & Williamson has promoted a number of employees to partner positions across a variety of sectors. Ashley Higgs was made accounting and business services partner in Birmingham and Lindsay Manson became accounting and business services partner in London. Also, Matthew Watts was made business tax partner in London, Andrew Cunnington was made financial services partner in London, Nuala Devine was made investment management partner in Belfast, and Caroline Dyson was made investment management partner in London. 

The firm also made Lisa Henderson investment management partner in Guildford; Graeme Little, investment management partner in Belfast; Louise Thronhill, investment management partner in Bristol; Julia Rosenbloom, private client tax partner in Birmingham; Lee Webster, private client tax partner in Salisbury; Krista Woodman, private client tax partner in Cheltenham; and Adam Stephens, recovery and restructuring partner in London. It also appointed Rory MacEwen as director of the private client investment team. MacEwen joined from GAM in London where he was most recently head of private clients and charities. 

UK-headquartered legal services provider Hogan Lovells appointed Steve Murphy as director to head up a new consulting business for its financial services clients, either based or operating in the UK. The practice, called Hogan Lovells Financial Services Regulatory Consulting, offers legal and consulting services to clients, specifically in regulatory strategy and compliance. Murphy joined from accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a director in the firm’s regulatory consulting practice from 2008 until this year.

Cameron Hume recruited Russ Oxley as a senior industry specialist, in an effort to grow its investment management offering. Oxley’s role will be to develop strategic investment ideas. He works with the firm on a consultancy contract agreed with his company, Avrox Investment Solutions. Oxley was previously head of fixed income absolute return at Old Mutual Global Investors.

Cazenove Capital appointed Matthew Taylor as a senior portfolio director of its UK private wealth team. Taylor is responsible for the firm’s UK ultra-high net worth clients. The new senior portfolio director previously worked at the firm for 13 years, and will re-join after 11 years with Stonehage Fleming, where he was a partner at the company.

John Derrick, UK managing director, private banking and overseas services, left the bank after being at the UK lender for more than five years. Barclays has a senior leadership team of nine people at the private banking and overseas services team, led by Karen Frank, who set that group up in December last year after her appointment in October of the same year. From May 2008 to June 2011 Derrick was a senior private banker at Lombard Odier, according to his Linkedin profile.

Brewin Dolphin appointed a new member to its Dundee office and saw two depart from its combined Oxford/Birmingham office. This happened after the former head of the Oxford office, Christopher Meecham, left the firm, as it merged the two UK operations. Blair Moffatt joined the firm's Dundee operation from HSBC as assistant director. Jeremy Harben and Hans Price, investment manager and divisional director, respectively, left the Oxford/Birmingham branch. Both joined the company in 2006 from Barclays Wealth.

French financial watchdog Autorité des Marchés Financiers appointed Robert Ophèle as by decree of the French President. Ophèle replaced Gérard Rameix, whose term expired. Previously, he was appointed second deputy governor of the Banque de France in 2012, and was appointed by the Governor to represent him as chairman of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR). He became a member of the college of the  French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and a member of the supervisory board of the Caisse des Dépôts. In January 2014, became a member of the supervisory board for the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism.

WHIreland expanded its corporate & institutional broking division with a number of hires over the past two month. Jessica Cave joined WHIreland as an assistant director based in London. She qualified as an accountant with EY in 2012, where she remained in valuations and business modelling until 2014. She then spent three years with Stifel Nicolaus (previously Oriel) in corporate finance. Alex Bond was appointed executive, corporate finance, and joined from Deloitte’s graduate scheme where he specialised in private equity audit.  Bond, based in London, is a chartered accountant with experience in valuing private companies.

James Sinclair-Ford was also appointed executive, corporate finance. Sinclair-Ford, based in London, joined the firm from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he advised on both private and public fund raises. Aimee McCusker was hired as executive, investor relations based in . She joined the firm from Atlantic Equities LLP, where she assisted the management of European roadshows and investor meetings for over 100 mid- to large-cap US companies.

Asset manager Schroders appointed Alan Cauberghs as head of private assets. Cauberghs is responsible for bringing together the firm's investment solutions in real estate, infrastructure financing, private debt and private equity. He is based in London and reports to Peter Harrison, group chief executive. In his previous role as senior investment director for fixed income at Schroders, Cauberghs played a big role in the collaboration between the distribution, product management and investment teams. He also focused on the growth of the fixed income business through promoting the firm’s fixed income capabilities globally.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond and UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Sir David Ramsden the new deputy governor of markets and banking at the Bank of England. He was appointed for a renewable term of five years. Ramsden replaced Charlotte Hogg, who announced in March that she was resigning her position. As the bank’s deputy governor for markets and banking, Ramsden has specific responsibility for managing the balance sheet of the Bank. He is responsible for the execution of financial stability and monetary policy decisions via balance sheet operations, the management of the government’s foreign exchange reserves, the gold custody services, the operation of the Real Time Gross Settlement System, the effective risk management of these operations and the gathering of market intelligence relevant to policy decisions. He is also be a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Financial Policy Committee, the Prudential Regulation Committee and the Court of the Bank of England.

Pictet Asset Management appointed Doc Horn as head of total return equities. Horn is based in London and he reports to Philippe de Weck, chief investment officer, equities. At Pictet Asset Management, he oversees seven equity long-short teams based in Geneva, London, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. Horn spent eleven years at UBS O'Connor, hedge fund manager, managing equity long-short portfolios and heading investment teams.

The Financial Conduct Authority appointed appointed Maggie Craig as head of department for Scotland. This is a new role created to boost the watchdog’s presence in Scotland. Craig joined the FCA in 2014 and is head of insurance and pensions policy. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the Scottish financial services industry.

Neptune Investment Management appointed Daniel Lee, former Head of UK wholesale at Edmond de Rothschild and head of discretionary sales at Cazenove Capital Management, as head of UK sales. Lee reports to founder and chief executive, Robin Geffen, and works closely with special advisor Michael McLintock. 

Jupiter Asset Management appointed Lee Manzi to manage multi-asset funds, replacing Miles Geldard who became a senior advisor. Manzi, who was co-manager of Jupiter’s convertible and multi-asset funds, became manager of the range of portfolios in September 2017. Geldard, co-manager and head of strategy, multi-asset, transitioned to a senior advisor role at Jupiter to stay in the department before starting his new role in early 2018.

Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) appointed Julian Mund, who is commercial services director and acting chief executive as permanent CEO from 1 August 2017. Mund joined the PLSA in September 2013 as commercial services director and helped the grow the organisation’s commercial income by 29 per cent. Prior to joining the PLSA, Mund worked at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) for 16 years, most recently acting as director of markets and product development.

Sun Life Investment Management appointed Le Minh Man as director, head of investments, Sun Life Vietnam. He reports to Sancho Chan, chief investment officer, Sun Life Asia and reporting to Hoang Bich Van, chief financial officer, Sun Life Vietnam. Most recently, he was a senior portfolio manager at AIA Vietnam Life Insurance Company.  

Osmond Plummer, a professor at the EU Business School in Switzerland and judge at this publication’s annual Swiss wealth management awards, was appointed senior lecturer in finance at the London Institute of Banking and Finance. The LBIF is the degree-awarding arm of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Plummer, who has also written about Swiss private client wealth management for this news service, has a background in the industry, having worked in Guernsey, Hong Kong, Dubai and Switzerland.

J O Hambro Capital Management appointmented of Helme Harrison and Bryan Horne as sales managers. Both Harrison and Horne report to Gavin White, head of UK intermediary sales. Harrison joined JOHCM in June and is working with White on coverage of London-based discretionary wealth managers. She joined from BNY Mellon, where she served as a UK intermediary investment director. Horne joined JOHCM last week and covers intermediary relationships in Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland. He joined from Investec, where he worked as a sales manager.

Old Mutual Wealth appointed Chris Tingle as investment specialist. Tingle joined the company from Premier Asset Management where he was a regional sales manager responsible for both multi-asset solutions and single fund sales.  He has 20 years’ experience in the financial industry and has previously worked at Axa, Met Life and Standard Life. As investment specialist, he helps advisors establish and improve their investment propositions.

Hawksford appointed Wendy Inns as associate director in Jersey. Inns reports to the global head of private client. She has 30 years’ financial services experience, including 20 years in management across wealth planning and trust administration. She rejoined the firm from Minerva Trust, where she worked for two years as an associate director.

UK-based Tacit Investment Management, which has offices in Birmingham and London, appointed wealth manager Leigh Stephens as head of strategic relations. Stephens is responsible for strengthening relationships within its growing advisor business. He has 30 years’ experience in wealth management, with senior roles at Saunderson House, Close Brothers and Deutsche Bank.

Berwin Leighton Paisner appointed Damian Bloom as practice group leader for private client work in its tax team, taking over from Jonathan Kropman who remained at the firm. Bloom joined BLP in 2005 from Macfarlanes and was made a partner in 2007. He has more than 20 years’ experience advising on tax, trust and estate planning both in the UK and globally. His focus is on wealth management for ultra- and high net worth individuals.

Walker Crips appointed Edward Harvey as investment director. He joined in June 2017 and is working in the London office. Harvey has over 17 years of investment management experience. He has held senior investment positions with a number of firms including; HSBC Investment Management, Société Générale Investment Management and Tilney.

Tilney hired Ashley Kissick, continuing its UK recruitment drive. Kissick will join the team at Tilney’s Cardiff office as a financial planner. Kissick joined from Santander where he was a financial planning manager.  

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Switzerland moves
Bellevue Group appointed Thomas Pixner as chief executive of Bank am Bellevue and a member of the executive board of Bellevue Group. Pixner was set to become CEO of Bank am Bellevue by 1 February 2018. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry. He was previously a member of the executive committee wealth management & trust, and head of investments Switzerland at Rothschild Bank AG Zurich.

Veit de Maddalena was being proposed for election to the board of directors at the annual general meeting in March 2018. De Maddalena was previously head of wealth management and trust division at Rothschild & Co. Thomas Blum was appointed senior client advisor. He has more than 15 years of experience in working with an international clientele, primarily at Rothschild Bank AG, Zurich and, before that, at VP Bank in Vaduz.

Baker McKenzie appointed Christoph Kurth as a partner in its compliance and investigations unit in Zurich, extending its expertise in this area. Kurth worked for leading law firms in Switzerland and the US as a litigator before moving to a major Swiss bank as head of the litigation and investigation team in the Asia Pacific region.

Lombard Odier Investment Managers’ global chief investment officer Jan Straatman retired at the end of the year. Straatman’s responsibilities were transitioned to the CIOs leading Lombard Odier IM’s investment boutiques. Following his retirement, Straatman was set to remain as an advisor to Lombard Odier IM and on the funds board. He joined Lombard Odier IM in 2012 as global CIO, responsible for strengthening and streamlining Lombard Odier IM’s range of investment strategies and developing Lombard Odier IM’s multi-boutique structure.

Europe, other
Massimo Tosato, Rolf Banz and Richard Heelis joined the Board of Pictet Asset Management Holding, which is the Swiss holding company controlling all asset management entities in the Pictet Group) as non-executive directors. Tosato has a three-decade long record as an investment banking and asset management entrepreneur and senior manager. His career includes 21 years at Schroders, where he served most recently as chief executive of Schroder Investment Management and executive vice chairman of Schroders plc, the listed holding entity. Banz was a senior executive at Pictet Asset Management for 15 years and more recently a director of several Pictet Asset Management operating entities and investment adviser for alternative strategies. Richard Heelis retired from his position as head of equities at Pictet Asset Management in March 2017 after 17 years at the firm. The trio joined Renaud de Planta, chairman of the Board; Laurent Ramsey, chief executive, both partners of the Pictet Group; and Daniel Wanner, CFO of the Pictet Group.

BNP Paribas Asset Management appointed Sandro Pierri as global head of client group, its worldwide sales and marketing organisation. Pierri reported to Frédéric Janbon, BNPP AM’s chief executive. He is based in London.

International
Prestige Capital Management, a Malta business authorised under European alternative investment rules, appointed Dario Inclimona as junior portfolio manager, working alongside Jonathan Scott, who joined PCM as chief operations officer in November 2016. Inclimona has a career in financial services spanning eight years, having worked for Momentum Pensions, Deloitte, PwC and Credito Valtellinese.  He has experience in portfolio analysis, investment audit, financial accounting and reporting, financial management, taxation, financial statements and assurance reporting. He will also become an approved person in Malta subject to final regulatory approval by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).
Fiduciary, funds and corporate services provider JTC appointed Gillian Ralston Jordan as private client director, based in Guernsey. Previously, she was a director and head of fiduciary services at Duncan Lawrie Private Banking in the Isle of Man. Based in Guernsey, Ralston assumed responsibility for the management and oversight of a portfolio of high and ultra-high net worth clients and the associated administration team. Prior to her Duncan Lawrie role, Ralston occupied a number of senior roles in the finance industry, including spells in Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Scotland.

Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager, appointed Christian Staub as head of the firm’s institutional client business in continental Europe. Staub succeeda Peter Nielsen, who was promoted to the newly-created role of global head of the firm’s alternative specialists. 

BNP Paribas appointed Nathalie Hartmann as head of compliance and a member of the executive committee. Hartmann replaced Eric Martin, who retired after 42 years with the group. She joined the firm in 1985, and has held several positions in human resources. Over the last three years, she has made a significant contribution to the compliance and KYC (Know Your Customer) requirements.

HSBC Private Banking appointed Annerien Hurter as desk head of UK international, covering UK resident non-domiciled clients. Hurter reports to UK market head Charles Boulton. Previously, Hurter spent seven years at JP Morgan, where she was an executive director and senior private banker.

Also, HSBC Private Banking appointed Nikolai Baev to join its London-based specialist desk for clients based in Central and Eastern Europe. Baev joined from Societe Generale, private banking Hambros London team. Elsewhere, the bank expanded its teams providing UK private banking services to clients in the Middle East and North Africa. HSBC has appointed Monica Thomas, Amit Ganatra and Sherif Atef as relationship managers.

Jersey Finance appointed Dr Gunther Thumann as chairman of the company’s board. He succeeds Robert Christensen, who resigned from the post when he was elected jurat in January. Thumann joined Jersey Finance after retiring from Brevan Howard in January. After joining Salomon Brothers in London as managing director, in the late 1990’s, he founded a consultancy firm specialising in central banks. In 2007, Thumann was appointed partner, chief executive and chairman of the board of Brevan Howard.

Jeroen Rijpkema, chief executive of ABN AMRO Private Banking International for over seven years, stepped down amid a number of changes by the Netherlands-headquartered lender. The executive was to leave at the end of the year and handed his responsibilities to Pieter van Mierlo, whose appointment as CEO for private banking was announced earlier this year.

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North America
BNY Mellon Wealth Management bolstered its operation in Nevada with two hires in the region.

Jeremy Hume was appointed wealth director and vice president of the Southern Nevada region, and Douglas Gold was appointed wealth director in the firm’s Las Vegas, Nevada office. Hume reports to regional president Bob Martin, and will be responsible for business development strategy in Southern Nevada, concentrating in the Henderson region. Gold also reports to Martin, and is responsible for business development.

Raymond James hired a former Merrill Lynch advisor who previously managed around $377 million and her team to its newly-opened Tucson, Arizona office. Gail Giclas, senior vice president of investments; Gail's son and branch intern, Eli Giclas; Neva Thomason, senior client service associate; and summer intern Haley Culpepper together operate as Giclas Wealth Management of Raymond James. Also joining Raymond James from Merrill Lynch was Stephen Neff, senior vice president of investments. He was joined by Kim Ohler, senior registered client service associate. The duo operate as Neff Wealth Management of Raymond James.

Hirtle Callaghan, a prominent firm in the field of the “outsourced chief investment officer” model, brought in Erica Evans to the newly-minted role of head of client engagement. Evans, who most recently served as the head of sales strategy and institutional partnerships at Hartford Funds, has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to Hartford Funds, Evans was head of sales and marketing at HIMCO, Hartford’s asset management unit. She previously worked at ING Investment Management as SVP, head of institutional business and served as head of client investment management services at GE Asset Management.

Axletree Solutions appointed Elaine Dorkhom as new director of compliance solutions. Dorkhom is responsible for business development and delivery of solutions to new and incumbent clients. She has over 12 years of investigative analysis, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance experience.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Sean Kellenberger as head of US marketing strategy. Kellengberger is responsible for increasing the firm’s brand awareness in the US as well as its digital market strategy. He has 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector. He joined from Ameriprise Financial, where he was most recently vice president of interactive marketing.

BMO Wealth Management (US) appointed Wallace Harris as head of BMO Harris Financial Advisors), leading a team offering financial planning services and investment solutions for clients. Harris joined BMO nearly a decade ago and has more than 25 years of experience in financial services. He reports to Darrel Hackett, president, BMO Wealth Management (US) and Alex Dousmanis-Curtis, group head, US Retail and Business Banking, BMO Harris Bank. Previously, Harris was the Head of Customer Experience Execution, BMO Harris Bank.

StatPro Group, the AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, appointed Will Entwistle as North American sales director and group executive board member. Entwistle joined StatPro with over 20 years of experience in leading software and data solution sales teams in North America. He had various roles at IBM, NorthStar, IDC, SS&C.

Wilmington Trust announced two senior appointments: It promoted Matthew Panarese to president of the Mid-Atlantic Region and elevated Sharon L Klein to president of the firm’s Tri-State Region, which includes Greater New York, Connecticut, Long Island, and Northern New Jersey markets.

Panarese oversees wealth management services including regional sales, fiduciary, and client management teams in Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Additionally, he was appointed head of the firm’s Business Owners National Practice Group. Panarese joined Wilmington Trust in 2008.

Klein joined Wilmington Trust as managing director of Family Office Services and Wealth Strategies for the New York Metropolitan market in 2013. Klein has more than two decades of experience in the wealth management industry. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, she was managing director and head of Wealth Advisory Services for Lazard Wealth Management. Before that, Klein headed the Estate Advisement department at Fiduciary Trust Company International.

Russell Reynolds Associates, the global executive search and leadership advisory firm, appointed Mary-Caroline Tillman as its co-leader of the financial services practice.

Based in New York, Tillman works with chairpersons, chief executive officers and senior leadership teams within the financial services industry. She has led CEO search and succession projects across different countries and regions - including Australia, Asia, Europe, the UK and the US. Tillman specializes in board and CEO succession, C-suite assessments, team buildouts and talent development. Tillman previously led the global financial services and investment banking practices at a leading executive search firm. Earlier in her career, she spent 13 years at JP Morgan, where she was a MD and chief operating officer of the European investment banking division.

Financial services firm Envoy Group appointed Tony Tony as senior advisor to the company. Tong experience in international finance and venture development. He is co-founder and director of Pacific Financial Services, a risk management consultancy firm with offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China.

LPL Financial, an investment advisory firm and independent broker, hired the Strong Gaddy Lee Wealth Management team, which serves approximately $351 million in client brokerage and advisory assets. Charlie Strong, Shane Gaddy, Kelly Lee and Kyle Bochat and three professional staff members from Strong Gaddy Lee, which is based in Gainesville, Georgia, joined LPL’s broker/dealer platform and Integrated Financial Group, an independent advisory firm LPL’s hybrid registered investment advisor (RIA) platform.

TruClarity, TruClarity, a business providing advisor clients with a transition service spanning technology, compliance, research and marketing, added two senior figures to serve as company presidents. Shad Besikof is president of the Western Division and Daniel P. Cronin is president of the Eastern Division. The new additions add office locations in Newport Beach, CA and Boston, MA.

Besikof has more than 22 years of experience in the financial services industry, starting his career as an investment advisor, then holding senior leadership positions as senior sales VP, and senior regional director for Charles Schwab Advisor Services, Fidelity Custody & Clearing Solutions, Neuberger Berman and most recently, BNY Mellon-Pershing Advisor Solutions. Cronin has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, serving as VP, RVP, and SVP of sales at Fidelity Custody & Clearing, Schwab Advisor Services, leading RBC Advisor Services’ new independent custody offering, and serving as SVP of BNY Mellon’s multi-boutique investment offering to high-end RIAs, and most recently, as one of the original SVP-distribution hires for iCapital Network, a fintech company.

New Jersey-based Peapack-Gladstone Bank, which is part of the Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, appointed Robert Konopka as senior managing director and private banker. Konopka is part of the private banking team focusing on the development and growth of the New York City market. He worked as vice president and private banker at TD Wealth and BNY Mellon Wealth Management in New York.
RBC Wealth Management named Charles Carson director of its Houston complex. Carson's new role sees him responsible for four branches – West Houston, Houston Center, Houston Galleria and Sugar Land - and around 43 financial advisors. He has 26 years of industry experience. He joined the wealth unit of Canada's largest lender from Wells Fargo Private Bank, where he most recently held the role of regional brokerage manager.

The Gemini Companies - aka Gemini - a firm which helps financial institutions bring pooled investment products to the marketplace, appointed Brian Hourihan, former senior counsel in the SEC's investment management division, as regulatory compliance officer for Northern Lights Compliance Services, a Gemini sister firm, and Northern Lights Distributors.

During his career, Hourihan has been responsible for providing legal and compliance advice around mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and other pooled investment solutions. Most recently, Hourihan spent nine years at OppenheimerFunds, where he served as senior vice president, deputy general counsel and senior managing counsel. His prior experience includes serving as VP and senior counsel at MFS Investment Management, and as assistant general counsel at Fidelity Investments.

Northern Trust named David Wicks as head of continental Europe. The role was newly created. Wicks has worked in a variety of roles at Northern Trust for 20 years; most recently he was regional executive for executive operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In his new role Wicks will leads the firm’s business in continental Europe, working alongside Clive Bellows, head of Northern Trust’s Global Fund Services business across EMEA. He reports to Teresa Parker, president, Northern Trust, EMEA. Steve David, country head, Luxembourg; and Wim van Ooijen, country head for Switzerland, Germany and (in the interim) the Netherlands, continue to report functionally to Bellows. Bo Thulin, head of the Nordic region report functionally to Wicks.

Northern Trust appointed Lisa Marcus as managing director and senior wealth strategist, having previously worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International for seven years as MD and business development officer. She is responsible for building and developing investment and trust relationships with individuals, families and foundations, with a particular focus on the ultra-high-net-worth market in Greater New York and Florida. She reports to Stephanie Goforth, senior vice president, East Region Sales and Marketing, Wealth Management. With more than 30 years of wealth management experience, Marcus has held senior positions with leading financial institutions, including managing director of Lehman Brothers, later known as Barclay’s Wealth, and 18 years at US Trust as a trusted advisor to wealthy entrepreneurs. Prior to that, she was a senior tax accountant at Arthur Young & Company.

Northern Trust named Stephen N Potter as vice chairman, a newly-created position. Potter has been president of Northern Trust Asset Management. Shundrawn A Thomas took over Potter’s old role; Thomas was head of the funds and managed accounts group.

RBC Wealth Management, part of Toronto-listed Royal Bank of Canada, appointed Galina Kolossovsky as senior vice president and financial advisor in its Rochester branch in the US. Kolossovsky has 23 years of banking, investing and financial planning experience with a focus on the relationship building aspect of working with clients, RBC confirmed to this news service. She previously worked at JP Morgan Securities.

Accountancy and professional services firm EY, aka Ernst & Young, brought over James C Bly, Jnr, the founder and chief executive of the Family Enterprise Business Services of Headwaters SC (HWSC), taking on the title of executive director.

International law firm Withers added the following partners to its worldwide team: Wei Zhang, Private Client & Tax, Hong Kong; Claire Christy, Employment, London; Claire Harris, Private Client & Tax, London; Ed Jarron, Private Client & Tax, London; Peter Lamb, Real Estate, London; Eleni Polycarpou, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, London; Constance Shields, Private Client & Tax, New Haven, Connecticut; Graham Webster, Corporate, London, and Wei Zhang, Private Client & Tax, Hong Kong.

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Guggenheim Investments, the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners, appointed former Deutsche senior executive Jerry W Miller has been as its president. Miller was formerly head of asset and wealth management, Americas at Deutsche Bank and before that was president and chief executive of Van Kampen Investments. Miller completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program for Senior and Executive management and received his BA from Swarthmore College. He is based in New York.

Vanguard, the US investments titan with $4.4 trillion of assets under management, named a new chief executive in the form of Tim Buckley, who took over from Bill McNabb at the start of 2018. Buckley had been chief investment officer. His appointment made him the fourth CEO since Vanguard was established in 1975. Although McNabb stepped down as CEO, he remained as chairman of the board of directors. Greg Davis, global head of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group, was appointed chief investment officer.

Since Buckley joined Vanguard in 1991, he has held senior leadership roles in two divisions including chief information officer and head of Vanguard’s information technology division, and head of Vanguard’s retail investor group. He has been a member of Vanguard’s senior leadership team since 2001 and is a long-tenured member of Vanguard’s global investment committee; which has oversight responsibilities for Vanguard’s in-house equity and fixed income management functions, as well as the 27 external investment advisory firms employed by Vanguard.

Northern Trust made a series of senior appointments across its institutional client service and business development teams around the globe. Shaun Flavin joined as head of North American institutional sales, responsible for asset servicing sales, including global custody and transition management to large institutional investors in North America. Based in Chicago, Flavin has more than 25 years of experience in fund operations, institutional sales and relationship management most recently in senior leadership roles at BNY Mellon. Andrea Perry joined as senior client relationship manager at Northern Trust Canada for the Atlantic region, serving both institutional investors and asset management firms. A 30-year veteran of the investment industry, Perry comes to Northern Trust from an investment management firm where she was responsible for developing and executing business development strategy and growth initiatives specifically in Atlantic Canada. (Northern Trust did not identify that firm by name.)
Boston Private, which provides wealth, private banking and trust services, appointed Claire Schissler as managing director and fiduciary manager on the West Coast. She is based in San Mateo, California. Schissler has over 16 years of experience in the trust services industry, including 10 years in a management capacity. Before joining her current employer, Schissler led City National Bank’s Northern California trust team based in San Francisco and, prior to that, managed a team of ten trust officers and administrators for Bank of the West in the San Jose/Silicon Valley and Sacramento markets.

Cumberland Trust, a Nashville-based independent corporate trustee, appointed three new members to its executive management team. Runcie Clements joined as executive vice president, general counsel. Michelle Diamond joined as executive VP, director of business development and regional markets, and Jennifer Karrels Menzie joined as executive VP, director of strategic planning and assistant general counsel.

Clements joined the firm in 2002. He is responsible for leading the legal group of attorneys, compliance officers and specialists. He also advises the fiduciary legal department, the fiduciary compliance department, the administration department and the special assets administration group.

Diamond joined Cumberland Trust in 2001, and is responsible for overseeing the development team and its new trust opportunities. She was trust officer at First Tennessee, where she provided account and administration support to families in the areas of personal trust, employee benefits and investment management. Menzie joined the firm in 2012. She is responsible for leading and managing the external and internal strategic initiatives for Cumberland Trust and oversees Cumberland’s long-range planning goals. Menzie was previously VP at Thompson & Associates, where she was working in the area of charitable estate planning.

Lincoln Financial Network, the retail wealth management affiliate of NYSE-listed Lincoln Financial Group, appointed John R Ekman as divisional vice president for Lincoln Financial Advisors for the Midwest market.  Reporting to John DiMonda, senior vice president and head of Lincoln Financial Advisors, Ekman focuses on recruitment efforts and building and developing teams and business practices. He also oversees advisor relationships and provides specialized support for advisors and planners. Ekman has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Lincoln, Ekman spent seven years at US Bancorp Investments, most recently as senior vice president and divisional manager of the Metro Midwest division. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds Series 3, 7, 8, 24, 63, and 65 registrations and Life and Health Insurance licenses.

Palo Alto, CA-headquartered Avidbank Holdings, the parent of Avidbank, appointed An Na Tran as senior vice president for private banking; she is based in its San Francisco production office. Tran brings with her over 17 years of banking experience, most recently as managing director of Preferred Banking at First Republic Bank. Over the years, she has worked with the Preferred Banking Offices, Preferred Banking Client Services, and Preferred Banking.

Robert W Baird & Co’s private wealth management division appointed Timothy Steffen to the newly-created role of director for advanced planning at the Milwaukee-based business. Steffen worked at Baird since 1999, and had served as director of financial planning since 2011. He previously was a tax and financial planning specialist in Arthur Anderson’s private client services group. In his new role, Steffen leads the education of Baird’s 875 financial advisors, as well as their clients, about wealth management planning strategies. Among other moves, Scott Grenier was promoted to manager of financial and estate planning. He manages all of Baird’s financial and estate planners. Grenier previously served as senior vice president. He joined Baird in 2010 as a senior estate planner and has more than 15 years of financial and estate planning experience.

Evercore Wealth Management appointed Debora Carswell as a managing director and financial advisor in the firm's Florida office. Carswell previously led the private wealth management practice of SunTrust Bank in Florida. Carswell joined SunTrust in 1985 and has worked with high net worth families throughout the Southeast.

PagnatoKarp, a Registered Investment Advisor with more than $3 billion of client assets, appointed Stephen Berardi as a family wealth advisor within its Fiduciary Family Office™. Berardi has over 20 years' experience working with ultra-high-net-worth individuals. He previously worked at Abbot Downing, the multi-family office unit of Wells Fargo, where his assets under advisement reached over $500 million. Berardi holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, and is a member of the CFA Institute and Washington Society of Investment Analysts.

Active Allocator Holdings, a digital investments platform that enables to clients to oversee portfolios of traditional and alternative investments, appointed a wealth management industry veteran to its board. The firm named Ken Shoji as an advisory board member. Shoji is a managing director and chief investment officer of View Capital Advisors.  Prior to joining View Capital, Shoji was the founder and managing partner of Stissing Lake Advisors, an investment advisory firm working with family offices and institutional investors.

Chicago-headquartered firm NOYES hired Jim Allen as senior vice president of its wealth management operation. Allen is based in NOYES’ Illinois offices in Chicago and Skokie. He joined from Citigroup Global Markets in Chicago, where he was responsible for providing wealth management advice to clients.

Chicago-headquartered firm NOYES hired Jim Allen as senior vice president of its wealth management operation. Allen will be based in NOYES’ Illinois offices in Chicago and Skokie. He joined from Citigroup Global Markets in Chicago, where he was responsible for providing wealth management advice to clients.

International investment manager Polen Capital appointed research analyst Jeff Mueller as co-portfolio manager of its Global Growth Strategy. Mueller manages the portfolio collaboratively with lead portfolio manager Julian Pick, who launched the Global Growth Strategy in 2014. Prior to joining Polen Capital in 2013, Mueller spent 10 years in the US Marines.

Investment research provider Morningstar appointed Jason Dubinsky as chief financial officer, effective July 24. Dubinsky reports to chief executive Kunal Kapoor. The new CFO has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector. He was most recently senior vice president and CFO at Walgreens Boots, where he was responsible for accounting and shared service functions for its US operations.

US-based First Republic Bank appointed two wealth managers from Merrill Lynch to join its offices in Century City, Los Angeles. Both also became managing directors. Danielle Ambrose and Diane Hirschhorn are responsible for serving clients in the region. Ambrose has 23 years’ experience and Hirschhorn has 20 years’ experience in the sector. Both Ambrose and Hirschhorn held the positions of senior vice president and wealth advisor at Merrill Lynch.

Mountain America Credit Union appointed Colby Young as a financial advisor at LPL Financial at Mountain America Credit Union. Young seves members in the Provo, Spanish Fork, Payson, Ephraim, and Richfield areas. These branches were previously served by Bill Loucks, who has retired. Young has been with Mountain America since 2008, and with its wealth management team since 2013.

Canadian investments house Jemekk Capital Management appointed Frank Mersch as a portfolio manager. Prior to this move, Mersch co-founded Front Street Capital and held roles including those of chairman, partner and chief investment officer. He also worked at Altamira from 1987-1998 and helped drive the assets under management of that firm, Jemekk said. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.

Wells Fargo Asset Management appointed Jonathan Hobbs as head of US portfolio solutions and Kevin Kneafsey as senior investment strategist with the firm’s multi-asset client solutions group. Both men are based in San Francisco, reporting to Nicolaas Marais, president of WFAM and head of the multi-asset client solutions business. Prior to joining WFAM, Hobbs led the client solutions office in San Francisco and was co-head of liability-driven investment in North America with BlackRock. Kneafsey previously served as a senior advisor for the Schroders multi-asset team, and before joining Schroders, he was the head of research for BlackRock’s multi-asset team.

EFG International, the Swiss private banking group, appointed Marcelo Coscarelli to the role of managing the Latin America region, taking the reins from Gerald Robert, who retired. Coscarelli was made head of Americas region and member of the executive committee on January 1. His prior experience includes serving as managing director for high net worth and affluent clients at Citibank Latin America. He was also chief operating officer of Itaú Private Bank International in Miami.

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Asia-Pacific
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, appointed Thijs Hupkes in the newly-created role of director, real estate client solutions, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. He is based in Singapore. Hupkes has nearly 10 years' experience in the real estate investment management industry. Most recently, he was with CBRE Global Investors, where he spent more than eight years in its Amsterdam and Singapore offices.

DBS appointed a new chief investment officer for its consumer banking and wealth management division, Hou Wey Fook. He took the helm from Lim Say Boon, who has spent seven years with the Singapore-headquartered bank and left DBS to return to Australia for family reasons. The new CIO has 30 years of fund management experience, and was most recently at Bank of Singapore where he held various senior management roles including CIO, head of discretionary portfolio management and funds. He started his career at Government of Singapore Investment Corp followed by OCBC Asset Management before joining ING Asia Private Bank, later renamed Bank of Singapore.

UBS appointed Yoshikazu Kato as vice chairman of UBS Wealth Management in Japan. Kato supports coverage and acquisition of new clients in his new role. In a career lasting for more than 35 years, Kato is extensive advisory experiences in banking and corporate finance in both domestic and global markets. He was HSBC Japan Corporate Banking head for eight years and was most recently corporate advisor. Before that, Kato spent his entire career in The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd where he held a number of senior positions in corporate banking, including General Manager of Marunouchi Commercial Banking office.

Former president and chief executive of the Philippine Stock Exchange, Hans Sicat, now heads the Manila branch of Dutch firm ING Bank. He replaces country manager Consuelo Garcia, due to retire in November.

Sun Life Investment Management appointed Le Minh Man as director, head of investments, Sun Life Vietnam. He reports to Sancho Chan, chief investment officer, Sun Life Asia and reporting to Hoang Bich Van, chief financial officer, Sun Life Vietnam. Man has over 11 years industry experience.  Most recently, he was a senior portfolio manager at AIA Vietnam Life Insurance Company.

UBS Wealth Management appointed Cat Ruest as head of innovation technologies, Greater China. Previously, Ruest spent more than 15 years building eight technology companies in software, cloud and mobile in Hong Kong, China, the US and the UK. She holds senior roles with the Women’s Foundation and InvestHK; Ruest also leads a Facebook community with over 12,000 members around start-ups. She was named a top 20 female entrepreneur to watch by ANZ Bank.

Bank of New York Mellon said former chief executive of financial card giant Visa, Charles W Scharf, was its new CEO. He takes up the role immediately. Gerald L Hassell, a life-long employee of the bank and its CEO/chairman since 2011, stepped down from the CEO role. Hassell remained chairman for a period until the end of this year. Scharf was to take up the chairmanship as of 1 January, 2018.

Scharf had been CEO and director of Visa from October 2012 through December 2016. Before joining Visa, Scharf served as managing director of One Equity Partners, JP Morgan's private investment arm, and previously served as the CEO of Retail Financial Services, one of JP Morgan’s lines of business. Earlier in his career, he was at Bank One Corp as chief financial officer and CEO of the retail division, and previously at Citigroup and its predecessor companies.

Standard Chartered Private Bank expanded its global South Asia private banking operation with a number of hires, all based in Singapore. Bharath Shetty was hired as managing director and team head in June, Gagan Mehorotra was appointed as executive director in May, Apurva Kothari and Deepak KV were both appointed managing directors in June, and lastly, Komal Syal was hired as a managing director in early July. All of the hires report to Vishal Jain, managing director and market head of global South Asia community.

UBS' wealth management business in Asia made several top-level changes, including making Amy Lo, the  head of WM for Greater China, the chairman for Greater China, reporting to Edmund Koh, who heads up the wealth management business in Asia-Pacific. Lo continues her role as country head for Hong Kong. Ravi Raju, based in Hong Kong, assumed responsibility for the global ultra-high net worth business across the APAC region; he continues to report to Edmund Koh and Joe Stadler, who is head of global UHNW.

DBS Private Bank appointed John Ng as head of portfolio counselling and product strategy. Ng joined the product advisory team, and is responsible for providing strategic portfolio advice and formulates model portfolios to cater for various market segments. He reports to Audra Seah, head of investment advisory and capital markets solutions. He also works with investment counsellors in the wealth management group. Prior to DBS, Ng worked at Bank of Singapore, where he spent eight years building and managing the research teams in cash equities, bonds, funds and private equity.

Swiss-Asia life insurance brokerage firm Charles Monat Associates appointed Berry Wong as its new chief executive in Hong Kong. He replaced Peter Tsih. With more than 22 years of service, Wong was previously the regional head of wealth planning services, Asia-Pacific for BNP Paribas. Prior to this, Wong was senior director, wealth planning services of HSBC Private Banking with primary focus on expanding and developing the fiduciary services for wealthy family in Asia, including Greater China, The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. In his role, Wong reports to Yves Guélat, Charles Monat’s group CEO.

Michael De Guzman was appointed country manager for the Philippines at Credit Suisse. This role sits alongside De Guzman’s existing position as head of Philippines coverage for investment banking and capital markets. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, De Guzman was the Philippines office head for Australia-listed Macquarie and head of Macquarie Capital Philippines for eight years.

Credit Suisse made a pair of senior appointments in its Asia-Pacific private banking business. Jacqueline Koo, a former regional head of discretionary portfolio management, Asia and Middle East, for ABN AMRO, is based in Hong Kong. At ABN AMRO, she worked there from September 2012 to May 2016. Prior to this, she worked at Julius Baer and LGT. Peter Chan joined Credit Suisse Private Banking Asia Pacific’s China team as an expert relationship manager and is based in Hong Kong and reports to market leader China Victor Chao. Chen joined from Julius Baer where he was a MD and senior advisor.  Chen has more than 25 years of financial services and business consulting experience. Prior to Julius Baer, he was senior vice president for investment at Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management. He is experienced in consulting, focusing on the China market in the areas of business strategy, capital markets and fund raising.

Principal Financial Group, the US-headquartered organisation, appointed Celestine Khoo as managing director and head of Asia ex-Japan for its asset management arm, Principal Global Investors. Khoo is based in Singapore. The role is a newly-formed one. Khoo heads PGI's Hong Kong and Beijing offices. Khoo continues as managing director and head of Southeast Asia, a position she’s held since 2015.
Charles Russell Speechlys, an international law firm, set up an office in Hong Kong, representing its first move into the Asia market. The law firm also appointed Richard Grasby, partner, and prominent litigator Jonathan Mok, partner. In addition, Charles Russell Speechlys partner Ashley King Christopher relocates to Hong Kong.

HSBC Private Banking appointed Patrick Ho as Asia investment strategist, based in Hong Kong. Before his current role, Ho was director of Greater China equity research at Credit Suisse Private Bank and head of thematic research, APAC and deputy head of equity for APAC at UBS Wealth Management.

Private equity house Orrick appointed Scott Peterman as a partner to its mergers and acquisitions practice in Hong Kong. Peterman acts for private fund sponsors and investors in the formation of alternative investment vehicles, including private equity funds, infrastructure and real estate funds, and hedge funds. In addition, he has advised on more than 150 account arrangements, representing sovereign wealth funds, universities, seeding and first-loss capital programs, family offices and individual investors. Peterman previously worked at Jones Day and is the sixth partner to have joined the M&A practice in 12 months, becoming the firm’s fifth partner in Hong Kong.

Carret Private Investments, an affiliate of Carret Asset Management, hired Samuel Chee as a senior wealth manager. He joined the firm as a partner and brought with him more than 20 years' experience in finance and wealth management. Most recently, he served as managing director of BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Hong Kong.

Standard Chartered’s private bank appointed Kirk Tan, head of credit structuring ASEAN and South Asia. Tan previously had worked at Barclays as a senior credit structurer. In the new position, Tan reports to Heinz Braegger, head of credit structuring, private banking. Both men work in Singapore at Standard Chartered.

Indosuez Wealth Management recruited Eugene Huang as senior banker in Singapore. Huang was the seventh senior banker recruited since 1 January 2017. He has 20 years of wealth management experience in Singapore, previously working with Nomura, Barclays and Merrill Lynch.

Mercer made several appointments in Singapore and Hong Kong to facilitate growth in Asia. Chong Chee Loong was named principal consultant in Singapore in April; Adrian Worth was appointed manager research consultant in Hong Kong in April; and Keith Zou became senior analyst in Hong Kong in January. Chong Chee Loong has more than 20 years' experience in the investment industry with expertise in advising and constructing hedge fund portfolios for institutional investors. He spent almost 13 years working for Singapore's central bank and regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Worth conducts research into hedge funds and multi-asset strategies in the Asia region. He spent 10 years in London, where he worked as an investment director at Cambridge Associates, and as a hedge fund performance analyst at Man Group. Zou was previously at Willis Towers Watson, where he focused on private markets manager research for four years.

Law firm Withers in Asia hired a 12-strong team experienced in representing clients such as family offices and entrepreneurs. The team is led by Mabel Lui, who joins as head of the Greater China commercial practice. Lui, who was previously Winston & Strawn’s head of corporate in Asia, has more than 40 years of experience on China-related matters, including advising the foreign investor in the first Sino-foreign joint venture in China in 1979. The team also consists of two partners, four associates, three paralegals and other support staff.

Julius Baer appointed a new chief executive for its wealth advisory business in India, taking over from a predecessor who has decided to leave to follow new opportunities. The new CEO of Julius Baer Wealth Advisors (India) Private Ltd is Ashish Gumashta. He reports to Rémy Bersier, head of emerging markets and member of the Zurich-listed bank’s executive board. Gumashta has more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions in the Indian private banking industry. He joined DSP Merrill Lynch in 1994, was managing director as of 2006 and held various leadership positions within DSP Merrill Lynch. Since the integration of Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business in India in September 2015, he has been a senior figure at Julius Baer in India. The appointment sees him take over from Atul Singh.

Standard Chartered appointed Lyndon Hsu to the role of global head for leveraged and structured solutions. He reports to Sumit Dayal, global head, corporate finance. Hsu replaced Sanjay Chowdhry who left the bank and has 29 years of experience in corporate financing in the Asia Pacific region. His prior experience most recently includes establishing and maintaining a prominent Asia-Pacific acquisition financing business while HSBC’s head of leveraged and acquisition finance for Asia-Pacific. He has also worked at Credit Suisse.