Following departure of group chief executive to join Standard Life Aberdeen
Richard Hughes will become chief executive of Channel Islands-based Brooks Macdonald International.
He was appointed as deputy chief executive of Brooks Macdonald International in April 2019, after joining the firm in 2013 as head of business development.
Hughes will be based in Jersey, where he serves on the committee of the newly formed Channel Islands Wealth Management Association as well as chairman of Cancer Research UK Jersey
Shepherd will succeed Caroline Connellan who is going to leave the group, after four years in the top job, to become chief executive of Personal Wealth at Standard Life Aberdeen – soon to become Abrdn.