Kingswood expands sales team with triple hire

Paul Bolt, Michael Fajardo and Clare Houghton join as business development managers.

Wealth and investment manager Kingswood has expanded its sales team with the hire of Paul Bolt, Michael Fajardo and Clare Houghton as business development managers.

Bolt joins Kingswood after nearly a decade with Quilter Cheviot in a marketing and business development role and most recently as professional connections director. In 2001 in founded his own brokerage, specialising in residential and private equity debt. Kingswood names new CIO, wealth and investment heads Fajardo has nearly 20 years of financial services experience, including time at RBS, Barclays Wealth and Scottish Widows, and has extensive experience dealing with high-net-worth clients individuals. He joins from 7IM, where he was private client business development manager for si...