Ann Marie Vibert will provide the teams with “management with strategic direction” and will be responsible for “driving and ensuring the continuing success” of the company’s private client wealth management (offshore) and British Isles banking teams.
Vibert joins RBC from Standard Chartered Private Bank in Jersey, where she has been executive director and deputy to the head of private banking since 2011. She has also held the positions of head of client infrastructure and head of client services at the bank.
She replaces Tim Houghton in the role, who took a position as head of business development, British Isles and Caribbean, at the company in January.
Houghton will now be responsibile for leading a consolidated business development function across the Channel Islands, UK and Caribbean, representing RBC’s full range of products and solutions.
In her new role, Vibert will report to Chris Blampied, head of banking, British Isles and Caribbean.
Blampied said: “[Vibert] is the ideal candidate to lead our private client wealth management team as we continue to build out our offering to high net worth individuals, particularly from high-growth emerging markets.”
RBC Wealth Management directly serves high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia with banking, investment and trust solutions. It has more than c$426bn ($400bn, €294bn, £233bn) of assets under management and employs approximately 4,400 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers.
