People on the Move: Spotlight on HighTower Financial-Planning.com
The Chicago-based advisory firm that is looking to grow by attracting advisors from wirehouses, rounded out its recruiting team with regional directors for the Midwestern and Western regions.
Michael Papedis, who is based in Chicago, was hired as a director responsible for advisor recruiting and business development, and MeeSun Boice, who is based in San Francisco, will take on advisor recruiting for the western region, focusing on California. Both will report to Elliot S. Weissbluth, the company’s chief executive officer.
Papedis has a lengthy professional background in the custodian space. Papedis spent the last seven years at Fidelity Investments in Chicago, and was vice president of senior sales, responsible for new business development with the firm’s largest advisor opportunities in the Central region. Before that, he was a sales representative at TD Waterhouse.
In Boice, HighTower has hired a recruiter who is used to large recruiting initiatives. She was the northwest region talent leader for UBS in Los Angeles, where she managed a recruiting pipeline that helped boost UBS’s advisor headcount to 7,284 by the end of last year.
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