Focus Hires Director of Adviser Services

As part of the Focus Connections team, Taylor will assist breakaway advisers as they transition to independent RIAs. Taylor will also be responsible for transitioning breakaways joining Focus partner firms, and affiliates, as sub-acquisitions. 

Taylor will report to Rich Gill, managing director and head of Focus Connections. He will also work closely with Mark Dupont, director of adviser services.

Taylor was previously a director of client implementation at Fidelity Investments. Before that, he was an investor services adviser at Merrill Lynch and Torrie & Co. (now Charles Stanley), and began his career as a private client stockbroker in the UK.

Taylor earned an MA in Accountancy and Finance with first-class honors from Heriot-Watt University in the UK.