Executive appointment
Marco De Freitas
Vanguard → Hightower Advisors
What changed
Named President of Hightower Advisors, reporting to CEO Larry Restieri, to oversee operations, technology, enterprise AI strategy and the investment platform; officially expected to join mid-Q4, presumably in November, arriving from Vanguard after eight years at McKinsey and 10 at TD Ameritrade.
- Reported / discovered
- Sep 26, 2026
- Effective
- Not reported
- New role
- President of Hightower Advisors
- Previous role
- Not reported
- Market
- Not reported
- Reported book
- Not disclosed
- Reported team size
- Not disclosed
- Named people
- 1
Reported book AUM is not a confirmed transfer. Team size may include support staff. A missing effective date means it was not established from the available evidence.
Sources & evidence
RIABiz ↗Sep 26, 2026 · Reporting
This record is supported by reporting. It has not been independently corroborated by a linked registration observation.
Record history
1 observations consolidated into one event.
Oct 3, 2026Source evidence reconciled
Oct 2, 2026Source evidence reconciled