Northern Trust has made a series of senior hires across its Sydney and Melbourne offices.

Tania Tuxford and David McWilliams, have been hired as business development managers in Northern Trust’s Sydney and Melbourne offices respectively to drive growth across its asset servicing business.

They report to Angelo Calvitto, head of sales for Corporate and Institutional Services in Asia-Pacific, the firm detailed in a media announcement.

Based in Sydney, Tuxford, was most recently a senior relationship manager with ANZ Wealth. She has also worked at Citi and RBC Investor Services, in Australia.

Trading Expanded

McWilliams, who will be based in Melbourne, joins from J.P. Morgan Investor Services where he was a senior relationship and sales manager. He has worked at ANZ Custodian Services, Bank of New York in London, Mercury Asset Management Ltd and State Street.

A senior equity program trader, Simon McDonough, has been hired to lead the expansion of Northern Trust’s trading desk capabilities in Sydney. He reports to Robert Arnott, manager for Northern Trust’s institutional brokerage business in Asia.

June Hiring Push

McDonough has more than 20 years of industry experience trading Asia-Pacific equity markets on both the buy and sell side working for firms such as Deutsche Asset Management, ABN Amro and JP Morgan.

These appointments follow Northern Trust’s recent announcement that it had named Sally Surgeon as head of its Sydney office in line with its expansion of capabilities and services offered from the city.