Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM), a global investment management firm with $1.1 trillion in assets under management, announced that Sunitha C. Thomas, CFA, will join NTAM as co-head of the newly formed Wealth Client Group.
In this newly created role, Thomas will provide dedicated leadership to serving Northern Trust Wealth Management clients and strengthening NTAM’s presence in the intermediary wealth management industry. Thomas will report to Northern Trust Asset Management president Daniel Gamba.
Sunitha joined Northern Trust more than 20 years ago, spending 15 years in wealth management as a regional senior investment officer in the Central Region and as national portfolio adviser, and five years in NTAM as a fundamental equity researcher. Prior to that, she spent six years in investment management roles at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Sch