Newton Investment Management, part of BNY Mellon Investment Management, named Andrew Parry as head of sustainable investment. He is based in London, reporting to Curt Custard, chief investment officer at Newton. He joined from Hermes Investment Management, where he was most recently head of sustainable investing, developing the firm’s impact investing capabilities, and aligning funds to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Previously, he was head of equities and impact investing at Hermes, and before that he was CEO of Hermes Sourcecap Limited. His investment experience spans 30 years.

KBL European Private Bankers appointed industry veteran Colin Price as group chief operating officer and member of its authorised management committee. A former partner at PwC and McKinsey, Price set up his own boutique consultancy in 2014 and earlier served as chief executive of Heidrick Consulting, a division of Heidrick & Struggles. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and as an Associate Fellow at Saïd Oxford, the business school of Oxford University.

Weatherbys named Steven Robinson as chief operating officer to manage growth. Robinson joined after seven years at Bibby Financial Services. Before that he spent five years at Lloyds Banking Group and a year at TTT Moneycorp Group.

EFG International hired Deutsche veteran and Portuguese-born Bernardo Meyrelles as the new country head for Portugal. Meyrelles is in charge of driving the private banking franchise in Portugal, and reports to Lena Lascari, CEO of EFG Bank (Luxembourg). Pedro Rego, who launched the bank’s business activities in the country, is staying in the senior management team and reports to Meyrelles. Meyrelles joined from Deutsche Bank, where he spent seven years as chief country officer for Portugal.

Germany-based asset management group DWS appointed Peter McGloughlin as head of UK & Ireland Insurance. Based in London, McGloughlin has extensive insurance and pension solutions expertise. McGloughlin was most recently managing director at Eatonville Capital Partners, a boutique consultancy in private credit, and formerly executive director, UK insurance and pensions solutions. 

Finantix, a global provider of technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, appointed Jérôme Vasamillet as part of its Swiss expansion plans. Vasamillet worked in a number of start-ups and accelerators, including Fusion, where he was entrepreneur-in-residence supporting new fintech firms. He also brought direct banking and wealth management experience, having previously been a senior investment counsellor at Deutsche Bank and EFG Asset Management. 

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority appointed Sheree Howard as executive director of risk and compliance oversight. Howard is interim director of R&CO having joined the FCA as a senior advisor in December 2017. Prior to joining the FCA, Howard spent more than 25 years in financial services in the insurance and banking sectors. 

Epoch Investment Partners, an investment firm with offices in London, New York and Chicago, said its chief executive, William Priest, will step down after 1 April 2020. Under the change, Priest became Epoch's executive chairman.

Offshore law firm Collas Grill promoted senior associate Jennifer Colegate to counsel in its Cayman office. She joined the firm's dispute resolution team in July 2017, specialising in cross-border insolvency and restructuring.  

Nordea, the Scandinavian bank hit like some peers by money laundering lapses, announced that its group chief financial officer and group finance and treasury head Cristopher Rees had left the firm. The executive joined Nordea in 2015 in wholesale banking where his roles included chief operating officer, head of markets and deputy head of wholesale banking. He was appointed to his most recent post in 2018.

Cardiff-based investment platform Wealthify appointed Dan Giddings as head of business development. Giddings joined after spending nine years at BNY Mellon Investment Management, most recently as partnerships development director. 

Accountancy firm Menzies LLP added to its private client team and hired Sehjal Gupta as a tax director. Gupta has 15 years’ experience of advising high net worth individuals, including non-doms, on a range of tax advisory, compliance and planning matters. Based at Menzies’ London office, she joined the firm from tax consultancy RSM UK.

The head of wealth management and senior executive officer for UBS' Dubai branch, Cedric Lizin, resigned from the post after being in the role for two years. Lizin had previously been at Credit Suisse and Barclays. UBS appointed Lizin in September 2017; before this, he had worked for a decade at Barclays Wealth and was chief operating officer for Barclays Wealth Management in Singapore.

The Professional Finance Society, the body representing the IFA sector, appointed board member and next-generation planning specialist Adam Owen as president for 2019/2020. Owen replaced outgoing president John White and is curriculum and training director at financial advisory community NextGen Planners. 

Fiona Southhall joined Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management as a senior specialist in sales for private markets, where she is in charge of promoting the product range for international investors, including private equity, real estate, and infrastructure debt. Based in Paris, she reports to deputy CEO and business development lead Gad Amar.

Neil Craddock, a familiar face in the wealth management industry and most recently a director at UK-based Investment & Wealth Management Consultants, died in September. He had been a director at IAWMC for more than seven years, working alongside business partner and founder Steve Dyson. Neil Craddock worked in the financial services sector for more than three decades and his time involved wrestling with many of the most challenging issues in the industry. Previous positions included those of chief operating officer and wealth management practice head at Citisoft, and before that, as a consultant at Schroders, the UK investment house.

Lombard International Assurance appointed Luca Bertacchi to the newly-created role of director, head of Switzerland and international markets. Since joining the firm in 2011 as country manager for the Italian market, Bertacchi was also regional director for Central & Southern Europe in January (2016). When he was promoted to that role, he became responsible for business development activities in Benelux, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Turkey.

Global financial advisor The Fry Group added Peter Webb as international tax manager in Singapore. Webb moved from the group’s UK Exeter office. He provides advice to private clients in Singapore, Dubai, and other parts of the Middle East.

Anglo-Swiss wealth management firm Artorius made three new hires in the UK. In Yorkshire, the firm appointed Danielle Hurst as a senior client partner; in London, Artorius named Christopher Winn as an SCP serving US resident non-domiciled clients and appointed Clare Wakeling as client manager.

Credit Suisse hired Deutsche Bank researcher Kinner Lakhani as head of strategy and development. Lakhani works with the different banking divisions and corporate functions to drive incremental growth and look for ways to expand its global footprint. He is based in Zurich and reports to CEO Tidjane Thiam. With more than two decades in the banking sector, he moved from rival Deutsche Bank. He joined Deutsche from Citigroup in 2015, where he was co-head of the European bank's research team.
 

State Street Global Advisors hired former BlackRock ESG specialist Carlo Funk to lead its ESG investment strategy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Funk works alongside the investment research and management teams to design ESG solutions for advisors, consultants and institutional clients. Before joining State Street, he led the design and distribution of passive ESG investments at BlackRock and was a sustainable investing sales specialist for the group across EMEA. Earlier in his career, he worked at JP Morgan Private Bank in New York and Frankfurt.

Credit Suisse appointed James Mulford as head of UK advisory and sales. Mulford joined from UBS, where he was most recently head of global mandates and investment content for the wealth manager’s UK and Jersey business. He reports to Credit Suisse UK CEO Christian Berchem.

River and Mercantile, the investment solutions and asset management business, hired David Hanratty as its global head of distribution. Hanratty took the role from James Barham, the group chief executive, who carried it out as part of his previous responsibilities when he was deputy group CEO. Hanratty is responsible for the distribution teams across the business, which encompass River and Mercantile Asset Management (UK, Global and Emerging Market Equities), River and Mercantile Solutions (Advisory and Fiduciary Management), River and Mercantile Derivatives (LDI and Structured Equity) and the River and Mercantile Macro Division. He is based in London and reports to Barham.

TOBAM, the Paris-based asset manager, appointed Philippe Bigeard as head of business development for France, a new role for the firm. Prior to this, Bigeard was at CACEIS for the past two years, where he served as group head of product marketing and was responsible for launching a new marketing function. Before that, he was business development director for seven years, overseeing the new businesses, and the client satisfaction and sales strategy for 100 French institutional clients and 60 non-resident asset managers.

Bank J Safra Sarasin elected Jürg Haller as its new chairman. He took over from Ilan Hayim. Hayim, who informed the bank that he wanted to step down, served the group since 2013. Haller, a Swiss national, has extensive experience in the banking sector both in Switzerland and globally. He began his professional career at Raiffeisenbank Basen-Wettingen in 1973, and worked for JP Morgan in New York and Zurich from 1981 to 1984. He was employed by UBS filling various senior leadership positions from 1984 (originally Swiss Bank Corporation) until July 2001. Since February 2018, he served as executive vice chairman of global wealth management.

HSBC Global Asset Management, part of HSBC, appointed one of its senior figures, Joanna Munro, to take up the post of global chief investment officer, and replaced Chris Cheetham, who retired from the role. Munro reports to Nicolas Moreau, global CEO. Her predecessor, Cheetham, had worked in the investment sector for more than four decades. Munro was global head of stewardship and fiduciary governance and chair of HSBC Global Asset Management UK. She joined HSBC Global Asset Management as global CIO of HSBC Investments in October 2005. Munro has served as head of product and, more recently, chief executive of the business’ Asia-Pacific operations.

A former senior private banking figure at DBS and Citi, Peter Triggs, was named as a consultant for The Fry Group, the global advisory group. Triggs’ role takes in advocacy, mentoring, presentations and other business development activities. A tax, trust and wealth planning veteran with more than 30 years’ experience in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Triggs’ previous role was managing director, head of regional wealth planning, DBS Private Bank in Singapore. He now heads a consulting business, Triggs Wealth Advisory Pte Ltd. Previously, Triggs was an MD at Citibank Private Bank in London, Jersey, Geneva, Zurich and Singapore and headed a series of private banking and trust-related businesses in Europe and Asia. He started his career as a tax principal for Deloitte in its London office.

Vistra, the trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, appointed Jervis Smith as country managing director of Vistra Luxembourg. Smith leads the firm’s Luxembourg office and reports to Vincent Bremmer, regional managing director, Europe, Vistra. With more than 35 years of experience in the banking and finance industry, Smith has had senior management roles at Citi, Financial and General Bank PLC and National Westminster Bank.

Muzinich & Co, the investment firm focusing on private and public corporate debt, appointed Peter Andersson as head of Nordics. He is based in London. Andersson spent the last 10 years at Legg Mason, most recently as managing director, head of Nordics and New Markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

Maven Capital Partners, a UK private equity house, made a senior appointment in the South of England, Luke Matthews. He is an investment director, bringing with him two decades’ experience in investment and corporate finance, helping potential high-growth businesses access finance. Prior to joining Maven, Matthews had a number of investment roles at Nova Capital Management and Connection Capital as well as a five-year spell in corporate finance at KPMG.

Investec Wealth & Investment (IW&I) appointed Hannah Dampney as senior investment manager at its Bournemouth office. Dampney provides investment management services to private clients, charities, trusts and intermediaries and reports to Bournemouth office head Scott Jones. Prior to joining IW&I, Dampney had a series of investment manager roles during her eight years at Brewin Dolphin. Before Brewin, she was a stockbroker at Charles Stanley.
 

IQ-EQ, the investor services group formerly known as SGG, named Ad de Beer as group general counsel and a member of its executive leadership team. De Beer has worked with top-tier financial, fiscal and legal professional intermediaries and regulators across Europe and Asia. His career spans more than 30 years.

Sun Life Asia, part of the global Sun Life group, which provides wealth management among its offerings, named Léo Grépin as its new president. He took the helm from Claude Accum, who has retired. Grépin is responsible for Sun Life's “fastest growing business pillar” encompassing life, health and wealth management businesses in seven Asian markets – the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and India – as well as the International high net worth business.

European asset manager Amundi appointed Grégoire Blanc as head of capital markets and liquidity at Amundi’s exchange-traded funds, indexing and smart beta business. Blanc has over a decade of experience in the ETF industry, having previously built and led the capital markets team at Lyxor and worked as a senior ETF trading and execution product manager at Vanguard. Blanc attended EDHEC Business School in the Master in Management and MSc in Capital Markets programmes.

Brooks Macdonald added six senior specialists to its investment teams in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hampshire, London and Taunton. Liam Pryce-Jones joined as a senior investment director and head of Hampshire. Pryce-Jones has more than 20 years’ experience, most recently as a senior investment manager with Raymond James. Paul Heath and Nick Dunn joined the recently upgraded Edinburgh office as a portfolio director and investment director, respectively.

Martin Gierach joined the Cardiff team as a portfolio director, after a nine-year stint with Brewin Dolphin as an assistant director. Josh Herson joined the London-based team as a portfolio manager, moving from Saunderson House where he had a similar role. Anthony Clark joined the Taunton office as an investment director having previously worked as an investment manager with Quilter Cheviot and most recently with Casterbridge Wealth Investments.

The Financial Conduct Authority appointed Kate Collyer as its chief economist. Collyer moved inside the organisation from her post as chief economist for energy and market frameworks and as joint-director of analysis at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). In the new post, she also advises the FCA’s executive committee and board. She was previously deputy chief economic adviser at the Competition and Markets Authority, and before that director of economics, market and mergers at the CMA.

Independent asset manager London & Capital appointed Simon Reed as executive director in its private investment office based in London, where he reports to private office head Iain Tait. He joined from Enhance Investment Consultancy where he was a director. His prior career includes private finance roles at Cazenove Capital Management and Santander, and he spent seven years as a solicitor in private practice and industry, specialising in company, commercial and real estate law.

Stonehage Fleming, the family office, named a new group chief executive, Chris Merry. Merry, who is based in London, took the helm from Giuseppe Ciucci who has been the group CEO since 1997. He is based in London. Ciucci remains in a full-time executive capacity as managing partner, concentrating on serving existing clients as well as building new client relationships. He also became deputy chairman of the board. Previously, Merry was the CEO of Ipes, a European provider of fund administration and outsourcing services. He served as CEO of RSM Tenon, the UK accounting firm later acquired by Baker Tilly, and at Matrix Group, a privately-held boutique financial services firm. 

Schroders made several top-level changes. Charles Prideaux, with 30 years of management experience, was appointed to the newly-created role of global head of investment. Along with the ESG team and the Data Insights Unit, Prideaux is responsible for managing, overseeing and developing Schroders’ investment platform. After 38 years with the firm, John Troiano, global head of distribution, retired. Lieven Debruyne, who led business strategy in Asia-Pacific over the past 14 years, became global head of distribution. Debruyne continues as CEO of Asia Pacific until a successor is appointed. At that point he relocates to London.

In addition to her existing role as global head of multi-asset investments, Johanna Kyrklund was appointed as group chief investment officer. Carolina Minio-Paluello joined from Lombard Odier Investment Managers as global head of Product, Solutions & Quant, where she was most recently global head of solutions.

KBL European Private Bankers, the pan-European private banking group, appointed Bill Street as group chief investment officer. Most recently, Street was CIO for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at State Street Global Advisors. He has 25 years of experience working in London, Berlin and New York. At State Street Global Advisors, where he served for over a decade, Street was responsible for more than €500 billion ($550.7 billion) in assets, managed across multiple asset-class strategies and investment centres. Previously, he served as head of fixed income at UniCredit. He earlier served at Bankgesellschaft Berlin, Commerzbank, Banque Indosuez and JP Morgan.

In his new role, Street will work alongside current group CIO Stefan Van Geyt, who assumes the position of group head of investment products and services. Prior to joining KBL epb in 2013, Van Geyt served as director of investments, Belgium, at BNP Paribas Fortis, where he oversaw all investment-related activity for the Brussels-based private banking unit.

Brooks Macdonald appointed three industry sales specialists. Gary Stirrup joined as national sales manager, responsible for UK sales with a focus on developing and growing IFA relationships. He has more than 20 years’ experience in investment management, starting his career at Friends Provident in 1992, and has since led sales teams at Old Mutual and, most recently, at Fidelity Funds Network.

Thomas Ball and Philip Penrose joined as business development managers in the firm’s East Anglia and Manchester offices respectively. Ball joined from Prospect Wealth Management where he was most recently head of business development, while Philip joined from MitonOptimal UK where he was head of UK sales.

Credit Suisse made three senior hires in Singapore, Zurich and London, adding to its team working in the field of impact investment and sustainable finance. Dr James Gifford joined as head of impact advisory - a newly-created role. Gifford is responsible for advising Credit Suisse’s private wealth clients globally and for helping to drive the bank’s impact thought leadership and impact industry development initiatives. He joined from UBS where he was previously head of impact investing in its wealth management division. Based in Singapore, Dr Gifford reports to Marisa Drew, CEO of the IAF Department, with a regional reporting line to Bernard Fung, of wealth planning services, Asia-Pacific.

Guillaume Bonnel - based in Zurich - joined the bank as head of sustainable and impact products. Bonnel is responsible for managing the sustainable and impact product-offering suite and for driving associated product education and advisory services. He was previously at Lombard Odier where he had been head of impact investing since October 2016. He worked at Lombard Odier for six years. Prior to this, Bonnel was a sustainable and responsible investment advisor at a number of financial institutions, including BNP Paribas. He has a dual reporting line to Marisa Drew in IAF and to Steven Bates, head of investment product management, within IS&P Product & Services.

A new president of the CFA Institute, the global association of investment management professionals, started in her role.  Margaret Franklin is also chief executive. Diane Nordin, CFA, became chair of the board of governors, and Daniel Gamba, CFA, now serves as vice chair of the board of governors. A prominent figure in the investment management industry for 28 years, Franklin most recently was president of BNY Mellon Wealth Management in Canada and head of international wealth management in North America. She has worked at institutions such as Marret Private Wealth, State Street Global Advisors and Barclays Global Investors.

Nordin, meanwhile, took over from Heather Brilliant, who continues on the board. Diamond Hill Capital Management recently named Brilliant as its new CEO. Nordin has more than 35 years of experience in the investment industry. She is vice chair of Fannie Mae, where she serves as chair of the compensation committee and a member of the audit and executive committees. 

J O Hambro Capital Management, the UK-based investment house, appointed a former State Street Global Advisors senior figure to be chief executive of its US business. Nick Good is based in JOHCM’s Boston office. Good was most recently executive vice president, chief growth and strategy officer at State Street Corporation, based in Boston. Previously, he was co-head of State Street Global Advisors' global exchange traded funds business, with primary responsibility for North America and Latin America. Before this, Good worked at BlackRock (initially Barclays Global Investors), including five years as head of its iShares ETF business in Asia-Pacific.

US-based investments house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, aka KKR, appointed Jan Baumgart as director and head of real estate for Germany. Baumgart is responsible for property and platform transactions in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, focusing on real estate assets with attractive growth prospects. With 14 years of experence in private equity and real estate, Baumgart joined from PATRIZIA Alternative Investments.

Two members of Ogier's team in Guernsey were promoted to senior associate – Charlotte Brown in the corporate team, and Michael Rogers in the dispute resolution team. Brown first joined Ogier as a bursary student; she returned to Ogier in 2014 as a trainee solicitor and was admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales in June 2016.  Rogers is a dual qualified lawyer, admitted in the UK and South Africa. He advises fund managers, leading financial institutions, insolvency practitioners and ultra-high net worth individuals in a diverse range of complex, high value disputes which are often multi-jurisdictional in nature. Rogers recently obtained his STEP Advanced Certificate in Trust Disputes with distinction.

Tribe Impact Capital, launched in 2016 as the UK’s first impact wealth manager, appointed ex JP Morgan executive, Neil Hill, as partner to help build the firm’s impact investment offerings. Hill spent eight years at the US private bank as a relationship manager, and prior to that three years as an RM at HSBC Private Bank. He gained public sector experience working at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and served as an infantry officer in the British Army.

International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson appointed Edward Stone as a partner in the firm's London-based private wealth team. Stone previously worked offshore as a partner at Collas Crill, and as head of trusts and private client for Conyers Dill and Pearman in London. He trained and qualified onshore at Withers in London.

Alpha Financial Market Consulting hired former GAM senior figure Roman Aschwanden and senior investment industry figure Zoë Sheehan. Their appointments came shortly after the firm opened a new office in Zurich, which is led by Nicolas Cherbuin. The new hires brought the staff total to 20.

Aschwanden has been active in asset management and investment banking for upwards of 25 years. At Alpha FMC, he will develop consulting services on regulatory issues and oversee the projects of the group’s bespoke consulting services for pension funds. He has been chief executive of GAM Investment Management (Switzerland), and chief operating officer for continental Europe in Zurich.

Gresham House, an alternative asset management house, appointed Richard Staveley as managing director in its strategic public equity team. With over two decades of fund management experience, Staveley previously worked at Majedie Asset Management, where he spent six years running small companies’ investments within the group’s flagship UK equity offering. Prior to this, he was a founding partner of River and Mercantile Asset Management, responsible for UK small company and income funds.

Lombard International Assurance appointed Stephanie Wells as director of partner and client services. Wells worked for Lombard International Assurance for over 25 years. She started her career in the client services team, rising to lead that team, before moving into sales and business development.

Close Brothers Asset Management appointed Paul Denman as private client director. Paul Denman joined CBAM from Arbuthnot Latham, where he was a director in the private banking side of the business for 14 years. Before this, Paul spent seven years as a private banker at SG Hambros. He has more than thirty years of experience in the industry, having started his career at Coutts & Co in 1985.
 

North America
Raymond James brought over Evan J Mayer to the firm's broker/dealer in Boca Raton, Florida. Mayer previously worked at SunTrust Investment Services, where he managed approximately $184 million in client assets. Operating as The Mayer Group of Raymond James, he was joined by Anny D Paulino, senior vice president and office manager for The Mayer Group.

Raymond James acquired advisors Greg Vandergrift and Zach Vandergrift who are based at the firm’s advisor broker/dealer offices in Orlando and Tampa, Florida. Joining the two advisors at Raymond James were practice business coordinator Kristin Lane and registered client service associate Joshua Godsil. Together, the team operates as Vandergrift Financial Group of Raymond James.

LPL Financial said advisor Brian Gernant of Gernant Asset Management joined its broker-dealer and corporate registered investment advisor platforms. Gernant, who reported having managed approximately $125 million of client brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets, has brought more than 36 years of financial services experience to LPL. Previously, he was at Wells Fargo Financial Network.

LPL Financial brought over Carter Johns, Michael Chu and John Gillis to its registered investment advisor and broker-dealer platforms. The advisors - JCG, LLC in Chesapeake, Virginia - reported having served more than $150 million of client brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets. They join LPL from Ameriprise Financial. Gillis, Chu and Johns formed JCG in 2012.

LPL Financial welcomed Mark Sudol, Gary Sudol and Jeffery Lavin of The Sudol Group to its broker-dealer and corporate registered investment advisor platforms. The firm’s advisors reported having served about $300 million of client brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets. They joined from Ameriprise Financial Services. Mark Sudol founded the Las Vegas-based firm in 2003, adding a second location in Gardenia, California, in 2010 when Lavin joined the firm. Along with Gary Sudol, Mark’s brother, the advisors work together to serve clients throughout greater Las Vegas and Southern California. Courtney Sudol and Sarah Ahlheim provide office support.

Baird, the US wealth and financial services group, brought over The Dahl Pennise Group to join its Chicago office. Eric Dahl and Tim Pennise serve as vice president, financial advisor. They were joined by client specialist Kate Johnson. 

Dahl has brought nearly 20 years of experience to Baird, most recently serving as a vice president and financial advisor at UBS. Prior to that, Dahl spent 10 years at Bernstein Global Wealth Management where he was a vice president and financial advisor in the firm's Chicago office. Pennise joined Baird with over 15 years of experience in the finance industry, most recently serving as a vice president and financial advisor at UBS. 

Separately, Baird added David Burchfield, SVP, financial advisor, to its Denver wealth management office. Burchfield has more than 20 years of experience, and joined from Charles Schwab where he was a senior investment consultant.

Baird also appointed Brad Pease, managing director, financial advisor of The Pease Group to join its Portland, Oregon wealth management market. Pease's two colleagues Paula Stiefel and Jenifer Thomas, who are both senior client specialists, also joined. 

Bringing almost 40 years of experience, Pease's eponymous firm was previously part of Benjamin Edwards, where Pease was the managing director. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Oregon-Eugene. Prior to his time at Benjamin Edwards, he held senior positions with Wells Fargo, Piper Jaffray, Dain Bosworth and more.

Wells Fargo appointed Charles Scharf, former chief executive and president of Bank of New York Mellon, as its new CEO and president. Scharf took over from C Allen Parker, who was interim CEO and president from March after Timothy Sloan stood down in the wake of scandals that had hit the bank and its subsequent clean-up efforts. Before joining Visa, Scharf was managing director of One Equity Partners, the private investment arm of JP Morgan Chase & Co. He also served as chief executive officer of Retail Financial Services at JP Morgan Chase and chief executive officer of the retail division of Bank One Corp. Scharf was CFO of Bank One Corp, CFO of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank division at Citigroup, and CFO of Salomon Smith Barney.

Wells Fargo Asset Management appointed Yeng Felipe Butler as head of its liquidity client group. Butler, based in Boston, Massachusetts, reports to Nico Marais, chief executive of WFAM. Butler manages WFAM’s short-duration and cash management business, which has about $156 billion in assets under management and includes capabilities such as money market mutual funds and customized liquidity accounts. Butler joins WFAM from State Street Global Advisors, where she most recently served as global head of cash business, overseeing a global team of 30 short-term fixed income investment sales professionals. 

Texas-based Royal Harbor Partners, a wealth management firm in the Houston market, was launched in September. The team is led by partners Glenn Royal, Michele Jones, and Natalie Picha. Royal, CFP®, portfolio manager, is a former institutional trader and private client wealth advisor who has constructed investment portfolios for clients and worked with equity and fixed-income securities since 1984. He previously served as the Mayor of Seabrook, Texas. Michele Jones, wealth management advisor, served in leadership roles in the financial service industry, including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Natalie Picha, wealth management advisor, previously worked at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley, and is a member of the Seabrook City Council.

EisnerAmper, the professional services firm which has branched into areas including family offices and private client work, appointed Brian Friedman as a director of business development. Friedman has more than 20 years of experience in tax, accounting, audit, IT controls, SOX 404, business process automation, artificial intelligence, bots, software implementation, finance, and relationship management. He also has experience in software solutions and services for the accounting market. Prior to joining the firm, Friedman spent 15 years as a director of professional software sales at a global, publicly-traded firm. 

Americana Partners, a registered investment advisor with $6 billion of client money, appointed Michael Mithoff as head of private equity. In this role, Mithoff advises families in connection with portfolio allocation and management, specifically with respect to alternative investment strategies. He be based in Houston and reports to Jason Fertitta, president of Americana partners. Prior to this, Mithoff had served as a managing director in a similar role at HighTower Texas (formerly Salient Private Client), since November 2013. Mithoff also founded and managed a private equity advisory firm Teton Strategic Investments, and he serves as president of Wasatch Strategic Investments, which he founded in 2018. 

CIBC appointed Julie Barron and Cass Culp to join its US private wealth management team in Boston and Chicago, respectively. Barron joined as a managing director and market manager and Culp joined as vice president and business development officer. Barron brings 30 years of banking and wealth management experience. Prior to joining CIBC Private Wealth, Barron was a regional managing director and team leader at Wilmington Trust, where she was responsible for meeting the financial needs of high net worth individuals, families and closely held business owners.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Eunice Kim as regional president in Denver, Colorado. She reports to Jim Barnyak, regional president, Seattle. Kim oversees the wealth management business in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, including investments, advisory, financial planning and banking. Kim has worked as a senior wealth strategist at Northern Trust. Prior to Northern Trust, she was a senior vice president at UBS and spent 18 years at JP Morgan Private Bank in New York and Denver, where she was a senior relationship manager and fixed income portfolio manager.

ACA Compliance Group, which provides governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions, appointed Carlo di Florio as its global chief services officer. Prior to this, di Florio was chief risk and strategy officer at US regulatory body FINRA, where he was also co-chair of the FINRA360 Project Management Office. He was there for six years. Before this, he served as director of the Security and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations. Earlier, di Florio was a partner in PwC’s Financial Services Risk & Regulatory Practice.

JTC, the provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services to institutional and private clients, named Marina Cristiani as head of its New York Office. Cristiani is part of the JTC private office team and sits within the firm’s private wealth services division. She has almost two decades' experience of working with ultra-high net worth individuals and international wealthy families, with a particular focus on Latin America and expertise in establishing bespoke estate planning solutions. She is a trust and estates practitioner and an active member of STEP.

Boston Private appointed John Longley as president of its Western region. Longley provides leadership and oversight for all West Coast activities and is based in the firm’s San Francisco office. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, previously Longley was a managing director, head of private wealth at BlackRock iShares. He spent 17 years at Citigroup, and ended up as chief executive Citi Private Bank North America. Most recently, he was the CEO and co-founder of Dobot, a fintech company that developed personal finance applications and was acquired in 2018.

Cresset, the US wealth management house, appointed three senior figures for its Chicago and Minneapolis offices. Tyrone Stephens joined as a partner and wealth advisor in the Chicago office. Prior to this, Stephens was an investment specialist at JP Morgan’s Private Bank in New York and Chicago. Prior to that, Stephens provided policy analysis for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Also at Chicago is Michael Pinckney - a partner and wealth advisor. Before this, he served as a wealth manager with the Bank of New York Mellon.

In Minneapolis, Marcia Urban was made a partner and MD, wealth strategist, for the Midwest region. Most recently,she served as director of legacy and wealth planning at Abbot Downing. Urban is a member of the Twin Cities Estate Planning Council and serves on the Board of Trustees for Hamline University in St Paul.

Bank of New York Mellon appointed Thomas P Gibbons, as interim chief executive. Gibbons, a 30-year veteran of the firm, succeeded Charles W Scharf who, as reported elsewhere, has left the firm to become the new CEO of Wells Fargo. Joseph Echevarria, a member of BNY Mellon's board of directors since February 2015 and lead independent director, was appointed as non-executive chairman of the board. Gibbons served for nine years as BNY Mellon's chief financial officer and most recently as vice chairman and CEO of clearing, markets and client management.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management appointed Scott M Lillis as regional president in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lillis reports to Andy Paterson, regional president, Central Region.

Kestra Private Wealth Services, a registered investment advisor subsidiary of Kestra Financial, added advisors from Mundi Financial, Middletown, New York. Led by CEO and founder Bill Krivicich, the team offer wealth management and financial planning to retirees on a discretionary, customized basis. Krivicich is a CFA® charterholder and has over 20 years of experience in the industry. In his previous role as chief investment officer, he oversaw nearly $1 billion in assets.

RBC Wealth Management (US) appointed Kristen Kimmell to head its advisor recruiting and field marketing business to boost addressing this imbalance. Under Kimmell's watch, the firm said it has already increased the number of female advisors by 23 per cent over the last two years, and doubled the number of women in branch director roles. Kimmell held senior positions in technology, credit strategy and business development at RBC for close to 25 years. She also serves as the co-executive sponsor of RBC Wealth Management’s Women’s Association of Financial Advisors (WAFA), where her focus has been on elevating the role of women in the broader wealth industry.

Asia-Pacific
Credit Suisse established a new team in Beijing to provide data-driven insight into global and domestic Chinese clients. The group is called the China Quantitative Insight team; it joined Credit Suisse from CLSA’s China Reality Research group. The team is led by managing director David Murphy. Previously, Murphy led CLSA’s CRR group, which he co-founded in July 2005 to provide grassroots economic insights on China, and has been living in Beijing since 1995. Murphy is supported by Haixu Qiu, deputy head of CQi and one of the co-founders of CRR.

Bonhams, the international auction house, made a senior figure in the luxury goods sector its chairman for Greater China. Bobbie Hu took on the role from 1 October reporting to Edward Wilkinson, Bonhams’ executive director, Asia. Hu worked in the luxury and auction industry for nearly 30 years. Prior to Bonhams, she worked for 18 years at BVLGARI, in roles such as managing director, Taiwan and becoming chairman and Greater China high-end products director.

T Rowe Price set up its Tokyo-based multi-asset team. The move involved Richard Coghlan, global solutions portfolio manager, transferring from from the firm’s headquarters in Baltimore, US to Tokyo. The firm also hired Hajime Takigawa as a solution strategist. Coghlan is a global solutions portfolio manager in the multi-asset division of T Rowe Price and co-portfolio manager of the Real Assets Strategy. He has 22 years of investment experience spanning the US, the Philippines, South Korea and Hong Kong. In his expanded Tokyo-based role, Coghlan works with the firm’s Asia Pacific-based team to develop appropriate income solutions for local markets in the region. Hajime Takigawa has over 15 years of portfolio management experience in Japan with global investment firms. He joined from Russell Investments where he was most recently a senior portfolio manager and team leader of Russell Implementation Services and client portfolio management teams.

HSBC Private Banking expanded the role of two senior Asia figures. Cynthia Lee was named regional head of private wealth solutions, Asia-Pacific. Separately, Steven Weekes was named head of private wealth solutions (PWS), Southeast Asia. Weekes is based in Singapore, and reports to Lee. Lee continues to report to Alan Beattie, global head of PWS.

Lee joined HSBC as head of PWS, North Asia, in January 2019 from JP Morgan where she was most recently head of wealth advisory for Asia. Lee has more than 20 years of wealth advisory experience, focusing on private clients and families.

Weekes joined HSBC after 23 years at Citi Private Bank. Most recently, he was head of international fiduciary services based in Zurich, Switzerland, leading a global team of professionals with responsibility for international trust companies in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Singapore and Switzerland. Weekes took over from Michelle Lau, who was appointed to a new role in HSBC Private Banking as MD, Ultra High Net Worth and Family Office Strategic Services, South East Asia.

HSBC appointed Philip Lee, a former senior figure at Deutsche Bank, to the newly-created role of vice chairman for Southeast Asia at the Global Banking franchise. At Deutsche Bank, Lee was vice chairman of Southeast Asia and chief country officer of the lender in Singapore from 2013 to 2018. Prior to that, Lee spent 18 years with JP Morgan as chief executive of Southeast Asia investment banking and senior country officer for its Singapore franchise. He is also chairman of the Singapore Health Promotion Board and, separately, council member and investment committee chairman of the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore. Based in Singapore, Lee reports functionally to Greg Guyett, group head of Global Banking, and at a country level to Tony Cripps, CEO, HSBC Singapore. He works with Stephen Williams, head of global banking for Southeast Asia.

HSBC Private Banking hired three senior figures to join its investment services and product solutions group leadership team in Asia-Pacific. It appointed Lina Lim as regional head of discretionary, Asia, HSBC Private Banking. It also appointed Rocky Cheung as head of investment counselling, Mainland China and Taiwan Markets, and Simon Hwang as investment counselling team head for the Mainland China Market.

Lina Lim was previously at JP Morgan Wealth Management, where she worked for over a decade in a number of roles, most recently spearheading the institutional wealth management’s discretionary business in Asia for family offices, endowments and foundations. Prior to her time at JP Morgan, she was senior portfolio manager with Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management. Lim, who is based in Hong Kong, reports to Abdel Ben Tkhayet and Jackie Mau, co-heads of ISPS, Asia Pacific, HSBC Private Banking.

Rocky Cheung joined from DBS Private Bank, where he was head of investment product and advisory. Cheung has over 24 years of financial industry and private banking experience, with a focus on private clients. Prior to his time at DBS, he focused on a derivatives trading system design for the Hong Kong Futures Exchange. Based in Hong Kong, he also reports to Jackie Mau and Abdel Ben Tkhayet.

Simon Hwang joined HSBC Private Banking from Citi Private Bank, where he led the mainland China and Taiwan investment counselling team. He has over 19 years of investment advisory experience having worked at global banks, corporations and hedge funds. Prior to his time at Citi, Hwang worked at China Everbright Holdings and Ludgate Hill Investment Management and co-founded the investment firm, Pangu Capital. He reports to Rocky Cheung, head of investment counselling, Mainland China and Taiwan Markets, HSBC Private Banking.

Credit Suisse appointed Erica Poon Werkun as head of equity research for Asia Pacific in charge of equity advisory and client investment ideas for the region. The 25-year veteran spent 17 years in equity research and seven years in investment banking. Most recently she was managing director and head of research for UBS Securities in China. Before that she led UBS on consumer and internet research. She has also covered consumer and technology for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and Taiwan.  She is based in Hong Kong.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Terence Chow as head of the business in Asia, filling the slot left by Peter Corry, who retired after 22 years at the firm. Corry was most recently head, RBC Wealth Management - Asia. Chow, who is based in Hong Kong, joined RBC 15 years ago and has had a number of senior roles with the organisation, primarily focused on strategy, execution, planning and operations for the wealth management business and RBC Capital Markets in Toronto and New York. 

As part of the change, Mike Reed, CEO, RBC Singapore Branch, leads RBC Wealth Management’s Singapore office and Southeast Asia private banking team, reporting to Chow.

Franklin Templeton named Dora Seow as country head for Singapore following the pending departure of Adam Quaife, regional head for Southeast Asia, who relocated to Australia. Seow assumed the new position of country head for Singapore while continuing to oversee the firm’s business in Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei. Seow joined Franklin Templeton in 2001 and has held various leadership positions. Avi Satwalekar remained as the country head for Malaysia and chairman of Franklin Templeton’s joint venture in Vietnam (Vietcombank Fund Management). Both new appointees report to Mark Browning, managing director for Asia Pacific.

Global financial advisor The Fry Group added Peter Webb as international tax manager in Singapore. Webb transferred from the group’s UK Exeter office to take up the Singapore post, where he provides UK tax advice to private clients in Singapore, Dubai, and other parts of the Middle East. Webb has worked for more than 30 years in accounting.

Bank J Safra Sarasin has elected Jürg Haller as its new chairman, taking over from Ilan Hayim. Hayim, who informed the bank that he wanted to step down, had served the group since 2013. Haller, a Swiss national, has extensive experience in the banking sector both in Switzerland and globally. He began his professional career at Raiffeisenbank Basen-Wettingen in 1973, and worked for JP Morgan in New York and Zurich from 1981 to 1984. He was employed by UBS filling various senior leadership positions from 1984 (originally Swiss Bank Corporation) until July 2001. Since February 2018, he served as executive vice chairman of global wealth management.

Aberdeen Standard Investments appointed Min Chow Sai as head of investment research – real estate, Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, he leads ASI’s real estate research across the region and provides investment insight and analysis for its global and regional portfolios. Min Chow Sai reports to Andrew Allen, London-based global head of investment research, real estate. Prior to joining ASI, he worked at Nomura Securities in Singapore for more than a decade, most recently as executive director responsible for Singapore and regional listed real estate investment research.

HSBC Global Asset Management, part of HSBC, appointed one of its senior figures, Joanna Munro, as global chief investment officer, replacing Chris Cheetham who retired from the role. Based in London, Munro assumed the role at the end of September, reporting to Nicolas Moreau, global CEO. Her predecessor, Cheetham, had worked in the investment sector for more than four decades. Munro is global head of stewardship and fiduciary governance and chair of HSBC Global Asset Management UK. She joined HSBC Global Asset Management as global CIO of HSBC Investments in October 2005. Munro has served as head of product and, more recently, chief executive of the business’ Asia-Pacific operations.

A former senior private banking figure at DBS and Citi, Peter Triggs, was named as a consultant for The Fry Group, the global advisory group. Triggs’ role encompasses advocacy, mentoring, presentations and other business development activities. A tax, trust and wealth planning veteran with more than 30 years’ experience in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Triggs’ previous role was managing director, head of regional wealth planning, DBS Private Bank in Singapore. He now heads a consulting business, Triggs Wealth Advisory Pte Ltd.

Sun Life Asia, part of the global Sun Life group, which provides wealth management among its offerings, named Léo Grépin as its new president. He took over the helm after Claude Accum retired. Grépin is responsible for Sun Life's “fastest growing business pillar” encompassing life, health and wealth management businesses in seven Asian markets – the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and India – as well as the International high net worth business. He was appointed president for the ASEAN region in April, responsible for Sun Life's businesses in the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia, and regional distribution and marketing. Grépin was previously senior vice president, individual insurance and wealth for Sun Life Canada. 

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen appointed James Webb as a finance and corporate partner in its Hong Kong office. Webb, who specialises in Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) law, advises on a wide range of debt transactions, including acquisition finance, leveraged finance, project finance, real estate finance, fund finance, margin lending, structured finance, bond issuances, general lending, distressed debt, security enforcements, work-outs and debt restructurings. Prior to this, he was at Walkers in Hong Kong where he was a partner in the Hong Kong office. Webb is an offshore expert having previously lived and worked in both the Cayman Islands and BVI for nearly five years.

M&G created a new Asia-Pacific equity team. The team is led by investors Dave Perrett and Carl Vine. The other new hires are analyst Valentina Luo in London, head of Asian equity dealing, Greg Moore, portfolio manager, Vikas Pershad and analyst Eleanor Kim in Singapore; and senior analyst Nick Cunningham in Hong Kong. All seven previously worked at investment boutique Port Meadow Capital Management.

Schroders made a number of top-line appointments in Asia and Europe. Charles Prideaux, who has 30 years of management experience, including portfolio and investment platform management, was appointed to the newly-created role of global head of investment. After 38 years with the firm, John Troiano, global head of distribution, was due to retire at the end of 2019. Lieven Debruyne, who had led business strategy in Asia-Pacific over the past 14 years, became global head of distribution. Debruyne continued as CEO of Asia Pacific until a successor was appointed. He moved to London form Hong Kong.

Asia-based management consultancy firm Prophet, which works with banks as part of its portfolio of clients, opened a Singapore in office, adding to its presence in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Previously based in Prophet's Hong Kong office, Jacqueline Alexis Thng returned to her home country to lead the Singapore office, with more than 20 years' industry experience. 

Deutsche Bank Wealth Management appointed Jeffrey Yen Chieh Peng as its head of China onshore wealth. He is based in Shanghai and oversees the onshore China wealth management business by managing and strengthening resources, the platform and operations. Jeffrey Yen Chieh Peng reports to Kanas Chan (organisation manager), head of North Asia Wealth Management, Feng Gao, chairman of Deutsche Bank (China), China chief country officer of Deutsche Bank and Rose Zhu (matrix manager), president of Deutsche Bank (China) Co. Prior to this, he was MD and head of strategic alliance and independent asset management excellence centre for Greater China, North Asia, at Bank of Singapore. Previously, he was with UBS for 11 years, lastly as executive director and head of wealth management investment products and services in China.