BNY Mellon has hired Colleen Murphy as a senior wealth director in Naples, reporting to Lisa Simington, regional president for the Florida West Coast.

BNY Mellon has hired Colleen Murphy as a senior wealth director in Naples, reporting to Lisa Simington, regional president for the west coast of Florida.

Over the past two years, BNY Mellon has rapidly added staff in Florida, which it remarked is one of the nation’s highest-growth wealth markets.

Throughout western Florida, Simington expects to add several more wealth directors this year, along with portfolio managers and support staff, the firm added.

Before joining BNY Mellon, Murphy was a development and capital campaign consultant to non-profits and family businesses. Before that, she was president and chief executive of the Community Foundation of Collier County in Naples. Earlier in her 35-year career, she was managing director at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust in Naples, and Florida district president at Key Private Bank.

As of September 30, 2014, BNY Mellon had $28.3 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.6 trillion in assets under management.