PEOPLE MOVES: Quintet PB, Vam Funds, Fairstone

Private bank names CEO, as investment manager hires ex-Quilter International global sales director

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Quintet Private Bank

The Luxembourg-headquartered group has hired Chris Allen as group chief executive, effective from 1 July 2022.

Allen was previously head of global private banking at HSBC.

He will replace Jakob Stott, who has decided to step down and will leave the firm following a brief transition.

Vam Funds

The investment manager has hired Brendan Dolan as sales director, according to the firm’s Linkedin page.

Dolan was previously at Quilter International, where he was global sales director.

Fairstone

The UK financial planning group has hired Peter Donaldson and Tean Hatt as group divisional directors.

Donaldson has spent the last 17 years at HSBC in retail and commercial financial planning positions and leading roles in wealth strategic transformation. He takes up the role of group divisional director of north and Scotland.

Hatt has over 25 years’ industry experience in financial services, which includes 15 years at Hargreaves Lansdown. He will be group divisional director for Midlands and east.

Carrick Wealth

The South African advice firm has hired appointed Twape Mtila as regional manager of its Malawi office.

He was recently business development officer at Old Mutual Investment Group Malawi.

IQ-EQ

The financial services provider has named Briony Sun as Chinese family office executive, based in Jersey.

She will support Chinese-speaking private clients living in or planning to relocate to the UK, particularly London, and those looking to establish a Jersey trust.

Navigation Wealth Management

The Yorkshire-based financial advice firm has appointed Paul Scott as client relationship manager.

Scott was mostly recently part of the premier relationship team at Barclays Bank.

First Sentier Investors (FSI)

The global investment manager has named Ray Cullivan as head of FSI Ireland.

Cullivan replaces Adrian Hilderly, who is retiring later this month.

He joins from Gam, where he was most recently head of Gam in Ireland.

Endowus

The Singapore digital wealth manager has appointed Sean Wong as its head of investments, and Min Axthelm as its director of research.

Wong joins from Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Asia.

Axthelm joins from Morgan Stanley in New York, where she was lead analyst with its wealth management global investment office, overseeing the due diligence process from inception to completion for US equity strategies and mutual funds.

J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM)

The active asset manager has named Nikolaos Dimakis as a senior data scientist.

He joins from Federated Hermes, where he was a quantitative analyst.