NEW ENGLAND
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. in Connecticut has hired Neal S. Wolin, until recently the head of Treasury Department's legal division, as general counsel and an executive vice president.
He succeeded Michael S. Wilder, who retired in December.
In announcing the hire, chairman and CEO Ramani Ayer noted that Mr. Wolin, 39, had been closely involved in international economic activities and issues facing financial markets.
Mr. Wolin became the Treasury's general counsel in 1999, having joined the department in 1995 as deputy general counsel. Before that he had been the deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council and the executive assistant to the National Security Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser for two years.
He had begun his U.S. government career in 1991 as a special assistant to the director of the Central
MIDDLE ATLANTICScudder Private Investment Counsel, which manages $16 billion of assets for wealthy individuals and families, endowments, foundations, and trusts, has hired Kristopher Carney as an investment consultant and Michael R. Weaver, Robert D. Fischler, and Grace Sanchez-Hagen as sales consultants.
They have also been named vice presidents of Scudder Private, a division of Zurich Scudder Investments Inc., the global investment management business of Zurich Financial Services Group.
Mr. Carney and Mr. Weaver will be based in New York. Mr. Carney will develop wealth management plans; Mr. Weaver will offer such services to potential customers.
Mr. Carney, 35, was a New York-based portfolio manager at Abernathy Group, a San Francisco hedge fund and portfolio management firm focused on technology and health care. Before that he had been a research coordinator there.
Mr. Weaver, 51, was a director in institutional equity sales at Credit Suisse First Boston. Before that he had been a trust and estates attorney and an associate at Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft in New York.
Mr. Fischler and Ms. Sanchez-Hagen will work out of Scudder's Los Angeles office. Mr. Fischler will sell to individuals, families, and tax-exempt institutions in Southern California; Ms. Sanchez-Hagen will focus on middle-market foundations and endowments.
Mr. Fischler, 50, came from seven years in Los Angeles with Sanford C. Bernstein Inc. and then Alliance Capital Management LP (which bought it in October) selling portfolio management services to wealthy individuals, foundations, and middle-market institutions in Southern California. Before that he had been a vice president and the director of financial services in the financial management and trust services group at the old BankAmerica Corp. for six years.
Ms. Sanchez-Hagen, 36, was the executive director of the development department at World Vision USA Inc. in Los Angeles for six years.
