Jan 8 (Reuters) - Bank of New York Mellon Corp's wealth management business has hired Yolande Escher to a newlycreated role of wealth director to focus on sales and businessdevelopment in Europe.
Escher will join the wealth management business, headed byManaging Director Jeroen Kwist, as part of BNY's push to growits business development team by half by the first quarter.
Escher was a previously a director at Barclays wealth andinvestment management in London where she led a sales teamfocused on the "resident non-domiciled" market in the UnitedKingdom.
She has also worked at UBS, where her last role was that ofdirector and client advisor to high-net worth and ultra-high networth clients, mainly in Southwest Asia. (Reporting by Rohit T.K. in Bengaluru)