People Moves
BNY Mellon Continues Adding To Wealth Management Ranks

BNY Mellon has appointed Helen Nugent to a newly-created
role as a managing director of sales to lead business development
efforts in
BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s Southeast region, as the firm
continues to build
out this part of its business.
Nugent oversees a team of five sales directors across a
six-state region.
“Her appointment is part of BNY Mellon’s previously-announced
plan to increase its sales force by 50 per cent over the next
18
months,” the firm said in a statement.
Based in Atlanta, GA, Nugent reports to regional president Chris Hohlstein.
Nugent joins BNY
Mellon from Northern Trust, where she held a
number of leadership roles over a period of 18 years. Most
recently, as senior
vice president she drove a pilot program serving not-for-profits,
endowments
and foundations in an initiative that became a model for the
company’s other US regions.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management oversees more than $175 billion
in private client assets, as at June 30, 2013.