Daybreak Nordberg, group head of strategic consumer administration for Morgan Stanley Personal Wealth Administration, is leaving the wirehouse to steer a brand new consumer engagement program with Citi Wealth, based on a memo from Andy Sieg, head of Citigroup Wealth Administration.
Within the memo to Citi Wealth workers, Sieg wrote that Nordberg would head the brand new “Built-in Shopper Engagement” program “specializing in the shared protection of Citi shoppers throughout Wealth and Banking.” This system will bolster ties between the agency’s wealth and banking companies, together with discovering alternatives to deliver the agency’s banking shoppers into the wealth fold. The brand new division will report back to Sieg.
“We now have a strong international model and consumer franchise no different agency can match,” Sieg wrote. “It is going to be crucial to accomplice throughout every of our 5 companies with a view to successfully leverage this agency’s extraordinary attain.”
As well as, Nordberg will lead a “new market planning operate” to find out the place the agency ought to add new advisor expertise. She’ll additionally head the agency’s Development Accelerator initiative to extend shoppers’ investible belongings with Citi.
Nordberg labored for Morgan Stanley for 25 years earlier than shifting to Citi. Most not too long ago, she was accountable for “managing cross-collaboration, advertising and marketing and execution alternatives” between the agency’s institutional, wealth and funding administration divisions, Sieg wrote.
Nordberg’s appointment comes amid a number of Citi Wealth-focused shakeups, together with the departure of David Bailin, the agency’s chief funding officer, in April. In accordance with Reuters, Sieg knowledgeable colleagues that Bailin would pursue new alternatives and that Steven Wieting, a chief funding strategist and economist, would function interim CIO.
In March of final yr, Sieg left Merrill Lynch to run Citigroup’s wealth administration division, reporting to CEO Jane Fraser, who made it clear that she sees the wealth enterprise as strategically essential for the agency.
Earlier this yr, Don Plaus, who retired as the pinnacle of Merrill Personal Wealth final yr, returned to the fray and joined Citi because the Head of Personal Financial institution in North America. He’d spent 32 years at Merrill. In response to his departure in 2023, Merrill tapped Lindsay Hans (who beforehand lead Merrill’s Northeast division) to take his place. Hans was promoted once more after Sieg left to co-lead Merrill Wealth with Eric Schimpf.
