Mark Serocold has joined Ares Management Corporation as a partner and head of EMEA for Ares Wealth Management Solutions (AWMS).
Based in London, Serocold’s newly created role will oversee product development, distribution and strategic partnerships across the EMEA region for AWMS. In addition to Serocold, Ares recently hired three team members across sales, client services and product development to support AWMS’s efforts in EMEA.
Serocold has nearly 20 years of private wealth distribution experience across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Ares, Serocold spent the last four years as a managing director at Blackstone in London, where he helped build and oversee the firm’s private wealth solutions group in EMEA. Before joining Blackstone, Serocold was at Neuberger Berman supporting intermediary sales in both Hong Kong and London.
“High-net-worth-individuals in Europe, the Middle East and Asia invested over $38 trillion of assets in 2021, and by 2024, ar