PEOPLE MOVES: Hargreaves Lansdown, RBC WM, Titan Wealth

Investment firm makes c-suite change, as wealth manager names COO in Asia

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Hargreaves Lansdown

The investment firm has appointed Ruchir Rodrigues as chief client and commercial officer.

He was previously at Barclays, where he was divisional business head – connected commerce and European consumer business.

RBC Wealth Management

Kamran Azim has been appointed as chief operating officer of wealth management Asia at the wealth manager.

He is based in Singapore.

Azim was vice president and head of global credit and cash management, based in Toronto, Canada.

Titan Wealth Holdings

The DFM and wealth manager has named as Tom Macpherson as head of portfolio management and Rosanna Holt as head of commercial operations.

Macpherson joins from LGT UK Wealth Management, where he held several roles in its MPS team, including as head of the MPS and Volare funds.

Holt has held senior intermediary roles at JP Morgan Asset Management, Quilter Cheviot and Brooks Macdonald.

PortfolioMetrix

The investment manager has hired Sarb Thind to bolster its business development team.

He joins from Invesco, where he was the lead UK sales manager for its MPS offering.

Financial Ombudsman Service

Jenny Simmonds has been named as chief finance and risk officer at the Ombudsman.

She will take up her role in January.

Simmonds is currently strategy, commercial and data director at Virgin Media O2 business and wholesale UK.

White Oak Group

The investment firm has appointed Ben Hayward as head of distribution for Europe (ex-DACH) and the Americas.

Before joining White Oak, Hayward worked for UTI International, where he was responsible for developing the business across the UK and Nordic markets.

Brown Advisory

The investment management firm has strengthened its Global Sustainable Fixed Income team with two analyst hires in London.

Yacine El-Mohri joins from BNP Paribas, where he was a financials credit trading desk analyst.

Eriko Miyazaki-Ross joins from Global Evolution, where she was an emerging markets corporate credit portfolio manager and UK branch manager.