Sanlam Private Wealth poaches Distribution Technology's McDonnell

Laura Dew
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Sanlam Private Wealth has hired Distribution Technology's Rob McDonnell as head of business development.

McDonnell (pictured) will be responsible for building relationships with key business introducers and manage the relationship with the wider Sanlam UK team.  He will also sit on the firm's executive committee.  He joins from Distribution Technology where he worked as sales and marketing director from October 2013. McDonnell previously worked at Cofunds for 13 years and Invesco Perpetual. Related reading: Sanlam buys 20% stake in Caerus network The firm was previously known as Sanlam Private Investment but rebranded in March 2015 to Sanlam Private Wealth in order to build its presen...

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