Macquarie Private Wealth has taken on three advisers. Mark Brown has joined as a private client adviser in Brisbane. Prior to joining Macquarie, Brown spent four years with Henry Financial Group in Brisbane and 13 years with JB Were, spending time in Melbourne and Brisbane. He joined the industry in 1989. Private client adviser Andrew Tritton has joined the Melbourne team. Before joining Macquarie, Tritton spent six years with UBS in Melbourne. He also spent almost three years in London working with companies including Barclays Global Investors.
Joining the industry in 1993, he has a strong background in derivatives and equities. Craig Prosser has been recruited as a strategic financial planner to the Perth team. Previously, Prosser spent three years working for Westpac in regional Western Australia. He joined the industry five years ago and has a special interest in working with small business.
AMP-owned Hillross has promoted Gina Mavraidis to national clients and corporate development manager and hired Michael Gordon as NSW state manager. Mavraidis was previously NSW state manager. She won the 2006 Hillross staff award for growing and supporting practices.
Gordon will take Mavraidis' former job. He was formerly Financial Wisdom practice development manager, where he scooped the accolade of practice development manager of the year 2005/06. "Many of the financial planning practices within Hillross are developing into complex businesses often with offices in multiple locations and Hillross, as a good business partner, must change its model to keep pace with this change," Hillross head of distribution Ray Djani said. "Gina and Michael's appointments allow Hillross to pursue its growth ambitions while continuing to provide high-quality, targeted business support to practices in the group."
