Marsh will oversee all sales activities and distribution
in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. He will report to Steven
Dunlap, division vice president for the region.
According to the company, Marsh has over 30 years of
sales experience, including more than 15 years in the retirement
industry. Most recently, he served as regional vice president at
Nationwide Financial, where he was responsible for wholesaling qualified
retirement plans to independent, wirehouse, and financial institution
channels.
Hall is charged with overseeing investment advice and
implementation to pension plan sponsors and institutional investors in
the western United States. Hall’s appointment is effective March 1.
In addition, the company promoted several current
associates to new and expanded roles, effective immediately: Matthew
Stroud to the newly created position of Head of Strategy and Portfolio
Construction, North America; Weston Tompkins, East Division Investment
Leader; Marko Komarynsky, Head of Manager Research, U.S.; Diya Luke, New
York Office Investment Leader, and Hillary Bolton, Atlanta Office
Investment Leader.
According to the company, Hall joins Towers Watson
after 13 years at Russell Investments Americas, where he was most
recently Director of Investment Strategy. Prior to joining Russell, Hall
held consulting positions with Northern Trust Retirement Consulting and
Buck Consultants.
In his new role, Stroud, who has 19 years of capital
markets and investment advisory experience, will help clients develop
strategies and portfolios based on their objectives, consistent with the
company’s views on capital markets and investment opportunities.
Stroud, Towers Watson’s New York office Investment Leader for the past
five years, is a member of the company’s Global Investment Committee.
Tompkins, who was Southeast Investment Leader since
joining Towers Watson in 2006, will assume the East responsibilities
held by Christopher DeMeo, who is now head of investment for North
America. Prior to joining Towers Watson, Tompkins spent 10 years at
Hewitt Investment Group, seven years of which were spent as Chair of the
company’s U.S. manager research group. Before that, he held analytical
positions at New England Pension Consultants and the Principal/EGT. .
Most recently, Komarynsky, who has more than two decades
of experience, was Towers Watson’s director of U.S. fixed-income manager
research. He joined the company in 2005 as a fixed income specialist,
after holding fixed income analyst and portfolio manager positions at
EVEREN Securities, Bank of America and Harris Trust and Savings Bank.
Komarynsky was also a manager of research at Morgan Stanley Graystone
Research.
Luke joined Towers Watson in 2004 as a senior analyst, a
post she also held at Mercer. Bolton also joined the company in 2004, as
a consultant. She had client-facing roles at Vanguard, Towers Perrin
and Mercer.