Wealth manager and Financial Planner Tilney Smith & Williamson is expanding its adviser business development team with two senior hires, increasing the department to five over the past six months.

Crawford Armstrong and Mark Johnson have joined from Quilter Cheviot to focus on business development in Scotland and the South of England respectively.    

The team provides investment management services to financial advisers.   

Other recent hirings include Rob Bickerstaffe, Gavin Hill and Jonathan Buttress to focus on business development in the North West, Midlands and East Anglia regions respectively. 

The team will promote the firm’s Managed Portfolio Service (MPS), Sustainable MPS strategies, AIM and discretionary investment management solutions. 

Mr Armstrong joins Tilney Smith & Williamson after spending 12 years at Quilter Cheviot where he was regional development director in Scotland. Previously he worked for Scottish Life, National Mutual, @SIPP and Clerical Medical/ Scottish Widows during his 30 year career supporting financial planners in Scotland.  

Mr Johnson has 18 years experience in business development and joins Tilney Smith & Williamson’s Southampton office from Quilter Cheviot where he spent over four and a half years, based in Salisbury. Prior to that he worked for MetLife for eight years as business development manager and subsequently deputy regional business director where he was responsible for promoting guaranteed solutions for high-net-worth clients through financial adviser practices and banking channels. He also previously worked for Winterthur Life as a senior relationship manager.

Craig Wright, managing director at Tilney Smith & Williamson, said: “The series of experienced new hires we have made in our business development team this year demonstrates our commitment to becoming the number one investment management partner of choice for financial advisers."