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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Withers, Artorius, Tilney Smith & Williamson, Others
Editorial Staff
16 March 2021
Withers Tilney Smith & Williamson
International law firm figure Gareth Thomas as head of investment management. In this new role, Thomas will report to Gerard Lane, chief investment officer.
Thomas has served in a number of senior investment roles at UBS Wealth Management, most recently as head of investment content UK and head of portfolio management UK. Prior to UBS, Thomas worked at HSBC Global Asset Management and Nelson Money Managers.
Established in 2015, Artorius advises clients across the UK from its offices in Manchester, London and Zurich. Artorius manages more than £1.25 billion ($1.73 billion) of family assets and is independently owned by management, employees, and a small group of high net worth individual shareholders.
Wealth manager , the London-based fund manager, has made two senior hires. Ryan Sinnott is joining as partner while Jonathan Crawford has been appointed partner, general counsel and chief compliance officer.
With more than 20 years’ experience, both in the UK and Australia, Sinnott has worked in the asset management and financial services space. He joins from Northill Capital where he worked with Alderwood founder and managing partner Jon Little and was director of strategy and development. Prior to his role at Northill, he was the director of strategy and development at BNY Mellon Asset Management.
Crawford is a lawyer and compliance professional with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services. Prior to this new role, Crawford had interim spells as head of corporate/M&A at RBS (now NatWest Group), head of executive governance at Santander UK and senior consultancy roles with Citibank, Natixis Global Asset Management and Invesco.
Founded by Jon Little, the former founder and managing partner of Northill Capital, Alderwood seeks to provide equity capital to specialist boutique active managers through investment in GP (General Partner) stakes. The new hires are based in the firm’s London office.
Oak Group
Chris Sharman, with more than 25 years’ experience in the fiduciary sector, has been appointed as a private wealth director at Oak Trust Guernsey, part of , the private client, corporate services and fund administration business.
Sharman’s central role is to help manage client relationships primarily in the commercial real estate sector. Based at Oak’s Guernsey headquarters, he will report to Paul Schreibke, OTGL’s managing director.
He is joining from Intertrust Guernsey where he had been a director for 17 years, including being on its management board for seven years and head of private wealth and corporate services departments for five of those years. Sharman originally joined BDO as an auditor after graduating from the University of Liverpool in 1987.