The latest moves and appointments in wealth management in the UK, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and other select locations.

IW Capital      
IW Capital, a UK-based private equity and venture capital house has appointed Chloe Buckley as its new head client services.

Buckley (pictured) previously worked at JLT Wealth Management on the management side of the business as a client support manager. She led a team in London for three years before the company was bought out by Mercer. After the company merged into Mercer Private Wealth, Buckley was promoted to head of client experience where she progressed to leading client support teams across the country.

In her new role, Buckley will bring her knowledge and background experience working in admin, management, and on the operational side of the business, to help boost the team’s current skill set. Buckley intends to develop a training programme to mentor workers in upgrading their skills and helping their team's efficiency, enabling IW Capital to scale up.

FE fundinfo
FE fundinfo, a global provider of investment fund data and technology, has appointed Liam Healy as its chief executive officer, effective 4 September 2023.

Healy has more than 15 years of executive leadership experience, focused on delivering customer value through go-to-market strategy (GTM), product delivery and mergers and acquisitions.

Healy’s track record of leading Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses, alongside broad international experience across Europe, Asia, and the US, will support and accelerate FE fundinfo’s current and future growth aspirations, the firm said in a statement.

Healy previously served in the executive leadership team at Diligent, a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company, where he was managing director and senior vice president for the firm’s international business.

In six-and-a-half years, Healy led Diligent’s accelerated international revenue growth profitably, through an organic and inorganic GTM strategy which targeted a range of early-stage to publicly traded enterprises, delivering new-offering innovations and global expansion throughout EMEA and APAC.

Mediolanum International Funds Ltd
The European asset management platform of Mediolanum Banking Group, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), has appointed Mariagrazia Briganti as its new head of marketing and communications. Based in Dublin, Briganti will report directly to Luca Matassino, MIFL’s chief business officer.

Briganti is taking on a pivotal role in MIFL’s Irish operations, where she will oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive integrated marketing and communications strategy to support the company’s core business objectives and enhance its communications across key markets, the firm said in a statement.

Briganti has over 20 years’ communications and marketing experience in the funds industry. Prior to joining MIFL, she was the head of marketing EMEA South for T Rowe Price for five years, where she was responsible for end-to-end marketing communications aimed at financial advisors and wholesale market players, with a strong focus on innovation and digital communications. Before this, Briganti worked at Morningstar for over 15 years, where she held a number of key communications positions before becoming the senior marketing manager for EMEA South.

Briganti will be moving to Dublin from Milan, where she also studied and earned her degree in politics economics from Bocconi University.