Niall O’Sullivan, a former executive at Neuberger Berman, has joined Mercer to assume a newly created role as the firm’s global solutions chief investment officer, effectively immediately.
O’Sullivan will be responsible for harnessing Mercer’s “well of intellectual capital and investment capabilities to manage the implementation and execution of clients’ global investment strategies,” Mercer said in a news release on March 13.
O’Sullivan was previously chief investment officer, multiasset strategies, EMEA, at Neuberger Berman, where he led the multiasset team’s investment activity in the region. Prior to that, he worked at Mercer for over a decade, rising to the role of chief investment officer of Mercer’s OCIO business for Europe, Middle East and Asia.
O’Sullivan will be based in Dublin and report to Hooman Kaveh, Mercer’s global chief investment officer.
Mercer also nabbed Michael Brand from Cambridge Associates in February to assume a newly created position as global head of real assets. He is responsible for leading the firm’s new global real assets team, which combines the firm’s real estate and infrastructure capabilities.
At Cambridge Associates, Brand was managing director and a senior member of the real assets investment group.
Brand, who is based in Boston, also reports to Kaveh.
The two new hires follow the appointment of David Boatwright, a former executive with State Street Global Advisors, to a new role as global investments head of technology strategy in May 2023. Boatwright was hired to align “Mercer’s digital and technology capabilities with the needs of sophisticated institutional investors,” Mercer said in the news release.
Boatwright is based in Boston and reports to Rob Hussey, Mercer’s chief information officer, and Carol Ann McMahon, Mercer’s global chief operating officer for Investments.
