{"id":263361,"date":"2026-05-08T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:19:10","slug":"ubs-evolves-florida-footprint-with-new-segment-names-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263361\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Evolves Florida Footprint With New Segment; Names Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inset-img\" alt=\"UBS Evolves Florida Footprint With New Segment; Names Head \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Miami and water 0425 (1).jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">As well as saying it is evolving its regional structure into two distinct Florida markets, the Swiss bank said one of its veteran figures is stepping down.\t  \t  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familywealthreport.com\\\/section.php?keywords=UBS\" rel=\"nofollow\">UBS<\/a> has appointed former&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familywealthreport.com\\\/section.php?keywords=JP%20Morgan\" rel=\"nofollow\">JP Morgan<\/a> figure&#13;<br \/>\n  Rick Penafiel to be market executive for South Florida, a&#13;<br \/>\n  newly-formed market segment for the Swiss bank\u2019s operations in&#13;<br \/>\n  the US.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Once Penafiel concludes his notice period, he will lead a&#13;<br \/>\n  business that includes wealth centers Miami, Aventura, Fort&#13;<br \/>\n  Lauderdale, Boca Raton and Palm Beach.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  In his new role, he will report to Julie Fox, Southeast regional&#13;<br \/>\n  director, and will be based in Boca Raton.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Penafiel has worked for more than three decades\u00a0in wealth&#13;<br \/>\n  management. At JP Morgan Wealth Management, he was most recently&#13;<br \/>\n  managing director and regional director of the Northeast Region,&#13;<br \/>\n  which included the Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and New&#13;<br \/>\n  Jersey markets. Prior to that role, he led JP Morgan\u2019s Palm Beach&#13;<br \/>\n  and Miami wealth management markets. He also spent more than a&#13;<br \/>\n  decade at Bear Stearns &amp; Co. Penafiel began his career in&#13;<br \/>\n  financial services at PaineWebber.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  UBS is developing its Florida regional structure by creating two&#13;<br \/>\n  distinct markets: South Florida and Greater Florida.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The bank said that\u00a019-year UBS veteran Lane Strumlauf&#13;<br \/>\n  intends to step down from his role as Florida market executive&#13;<br \/>\n  later this year in order to explore new opportunities. UBS said&#13;<br \/>\n  it will soon say who will be a market executive to oversee the&#13;<br \/>\n  Greater Florida market, which includes Naples, Fort Myers,&#13;<br \/>\n  Sarasota, Tampa, Clearwater, St Petersburg,\u00a0Orlando,&#13;<br \/>\n  Gainesville and Jacksonville.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  During his tenure at UBS, Lane served in senior leadership roles,&#13;<br \/>\n  most recently as Florida market executive, where he oversaw the&#13;<br \/>\n  firm\u2019s wealth management and private wealth management businesses&#13;<br \/>\n  across 34 branch offices statewide. In 2024, he received UBS\u2019s Ed&#13;<br \/>\n  Connelly Award and the John Lester Award.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  In recent moves, UBS has announced the opening of new offices in&#13;<br \/>\n  Ponte Vedra, Fort Myers and Coral Gables, with an additional new&#13;<br \/>\n  Boca Raton office underway, expected to be completed by late&#13;<br \/>\n  2026. UBS has also announced office renovations and enhancements&#13;<br \/>\n  in Fort Lauderdale and Naples, with further investments planned&#13;<br \/>\n  later this year and into 2027.&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as saying it is evolving its regional structure into two distinct Florida markets, the Swiss bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11059,11060,11061,11062,11063,11064,11065,28,30,29,11066,11067,11068,11069,11099,11101,11100,11102,11070,11071,11072,11073,11074,11075,11076,11077,11078,11079,11080,11081,11082,11083,11084,11085,11086,11087,11088,11089,11090,11091,11092,11093,11094,11095,11096,11097,11098],"class_list":["post-263361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-family-office","tag-family-office-news","tag-family-risk","tag-family-risk-news","tag-family-wealth","tag-family-wealth-news","tag-family-wealth-report","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-high-net-worth","tag-high-net-worth-news","tag-hnw","tag-hnw-news","tag-ifa","tag-ifa-news","tag-independent-financial-advisor","tag-independent-financial-advisor-news","tag-mfo","tag-mfo-news","tag-multi-family-office","tag-multi-family-office-news","tag-private-bank","tag-private-bank-news","tag-private-banking","tag-private-banking-news","tag-private-wealth","tag-private-wealth-news","tag-private-wealth-reporting","tag-registered-investment-advisor","tag-registered-investment-advisor-news","tag-ria","tag-ria-news","tag-sfo","tag-sfo-news","tag-single-family-office","tag-single-family-office-news","tag-uhnw","tag-uhnw-news","tag-ultra-net-worth","tag-ultra-net-worth-news","tag-wealth-management","tag-wealth-management-news","tag-wealth-manager","tag-wealth-manager-news","tag-wealth-planning","tag-wealth-planning-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}