J.P. Morgan has hired seven private bankers for its private wealth management team based in London. Richard Cockburn, James Drace-Francis, Stefano Ferraiolo and Aaron Georghiades have been named executive directors and Bambos Charalambous, Francesca Hall and Cliadhna Law are vice presidents.
Charalambous has held numerous positions at J.P. Morgan, most recently as a private banker in the Los Angeles office.
Previously, Cockburn was a senior private banker at Société Générale Private Bank. Before that, he was an investment consultant at Ksenia Consulting and a senior client advisor at UBS Wealth Management.
Drace-Francis joins J.P. Morgan from UBS AG in London, where he was a senior client advisor in the private wealth management division. Prior to this, he served as an investment banker at Dresdner Kleinwort, Fox-Pitt Kelton / Swiss Re and Fenchurch Advisory Partners.
Ferraiolo previously served as a director in the international private banking team at Credit Suisse UK and held the same position at Barclays Wealth prior to that.
Georghiades joins the London private wealth management team from J.P. Morgan’s private bank in New York. Georghiades served as an attorney at firms Cozen O’Connor and Smith Dehn LLP, prior to this.
Hall joins J.P. Morgan from Coutts & Co., where she was a senior private banker. Before that Hall was an associate in the investment banking energy and power group at Merrill Lynch.
Law joins the private bank from the securities lending and relationship management team at J.P. Morgan treasury and securities services. Prior to this, she held a similar role at Deutsche Bank AG in London and also served as a vice president at HSBC Investment.
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