Eton Advisors, a Chapel Hill, N.C.-based registered funding advisor with almost $2 billion in shopper property, has employed Brian Hughes as president. Most not too long ago, Hughes was founder and president of Hughes Development Methods, a consultancy to wealth administration companies.
Within the new function, Hughes might be liable for Eton’s shopper technique, progress and growing thought management content material for shoppers.
“Brian’s appointment heralds a brand new chapter of progress and innovation for Eton,” stated Teresa Eriksson, founding accomplice of Eton Advisors.
Hughes has 30 years expertise within the trade. Earlier than launching Hughes Development Methods, he was head of strategic relationships at Threshold Group, a privately held multi-family workplace that’s now a part of AlTi Tiedemann World. Previous to that, he served as head of enterprise growth for Pitcairn, one other multi-family workplace.
“Becoming a member of Eton Advisors is a homecoming of kinds for me,” Hughes stated in a press release. “Having labored with almost 75 companies as a advisor and led progress for 2 privately owned multi-family workplaces, I used to be blown away by their skill to leverage sensible know-how, a proprietary answer Eton Advisors created, to ship a complete household workplace expertise. Eton was additionally an early adopter of a goals-based funding method, because the founders started serving their shopper base over 20 years in the past.”
Eton was co-founded in 2009 by Robert Mallernee, Jack Parham and Eriksson, who labored collectively at U.S. Belief and UBS, serving as senior executives within the respective multi-family workplace teams. The RIA joined Focus Monetary Companions in 2017.
