Barclays Wealth makes senior appointments

Barclays Wealth, the global wealth management division of Barclays PLC has announced some senior appointments:

Ms. Michelle Le Herissier was appointed Director, Head of Barclays Wealth Trustees (Singapore) Limited, on 15 March 2011. She joined from Cititrust in Singapore. In this new position, she will play a key role in Barclays Wealth’s trust company offering, which is an important component in the delivery of a full wealth advisory service to Asian clients. She has a total of 17 years of experience in trust administration, across various financial institutions.

Ms. Joanna Ho was appointed Director, Head of Wealth Advisory, North Asia, on 14 March 2011, responsible for overseeing the provision of trust structuring and wealth advisory services to ultra high and high net worth clients in North Asia. She joined from HSBC Private Bank, where she was responsible for wealth structuring solutions for high net worth individuals in Greater China. She has 17 years of wealth advisory experience.

Mr Edward Buckland has been named as managing director, Head of Fiduciary, within the Wealth Advisory division. Whilst he will be based in Jersey, his role will cover global Wealth Advisory operations which stretch from the US through to Asia.

Mr Buckland, who is a senior legal advisor and trust specialist, will have responsibility for fiduciary risk management, fiduciary quality and client related matters, and will sit on the Wealth Advisory Management Committee. He will also take the lead on a number of Barclays Wealth’s key client relationships.

Rob Withecombe, Head of Wealth Advisory at Barclays Wealth, said Mr Buckland is an accomplished lawyer and trust specialist who is very well connected in the legal and private client world.

‘We have worked hard over the last year to significantly increase the quality of our Wealth Advisory team both through external hiring and the development of our people. Edward is a great example of our ambition. He brings a wealth of expertise and experience in the fiduciary and wealth intermediary space and is an extremely welcome addition to our Wealth Advisory team,’ he said.

Mr Buckland joins Barclays Wealth from Bedell Group where he has been a director and group partner since 2002. Within this role, Mr Buckland was responsible for business development and the strategic direction of the trust company. This included establishing businesses in Geneva and Dublin. Prior to this Mr Buckland worked at Julius Baer Trust Company, Coutts and Allen & Overy.