Northern Trust Appoints Managing Director

Darius A. Gill was promoted from investment officer to managing director of the foundation and institutional advisers group in Northern Trust’s central region.

Gill will oversee the growth of the business, which currently serves more than 160 clients with assets under management of approximately $5 billion. The region includes Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin. He will be based at Northern Trust’s headquarters in Chicago. 

In his most recent role, Gill managed a team of portfolio managers within the Central Region. Gill joined Northern Trust in 2007 as senior portfolio manager and has more than 20 years of investment experience working with both institutional and wealth management clients. Previously, Gill served as chief investment officer at Cole Taylor Bank.

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Gill earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an MBA from the Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University. He is a member of the Investment Analysts Society of Chicago and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

 

New York Life Hires Seven Relationship Managers

New York Life Retirement Plan Services has expanded its industry practice service model, with the hiring of seven relationship managers.

Stephen Jackson, formerly with AllianceBernstein, and J. Todd Kimmell, previously at Mercer, both joined New York Life in August. Other new hires are Mark Regan, from Fidelity, Antoinette Martinez and Brian Clark, who both joined from Prudential in early 2012 and late 2011.  

Jackson, Regan and Clark are exclusively dedicated to clients in the company’s largest industry practice— manufacturing, materials, distribution and retail. Kimmell also serves plan sponsors in this industry, in addition to a book of Taft-Hartley clients. Martinez joins the technology and communications practice. These new hires round out a team of 25 relationship managers, headed by Joan Driscoll, New York Life Retirement Plan Services’ managing director of client strategy. The manufacturing, materials, distribution and retail practice is overseen by practice leader Scott Francolini, while Martinez reports to Michelle Morey, head of the technology and communications practice.

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