Northern Trust Asset Management, a $1.2 trillion asset manager, announced on Wednesday the appointment of Lyenda Simpson Delp as head of the company’s global institutional client group, effective December 3.
Delp will oversee NTAM’s institutional business, which services asset allocators around the world, representing $900 billion in assets under management across pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, nonprofits, family offices, corporations and investment consultants.
According to a news release, Delp will lead the strategic direction of the asset manager’s institutional business across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Delp will report to Daniel Gamba, president of Northern Trust Asset Management.
“Lyenda is a proven leader with a career focused on delivering exceptional client outcomes, combining expertise in investments in public and private markets, technology solutions, and distribution,” Gamba said in a statement.
Delp is joining NTAM from BlackRock, where she has been head of the financial institutional group for the Americas. She has been at BlackRock for 15 years in several senior client relationship roles. Preivously, Delp was a client portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs.
Delp earned a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
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