BNY Mellon has appointed Esteban Colon II to the new role of wealth director with BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s New York and Northern New Jersey team. He reports to Managing Director Katia Friend and serves domestic and international clients.
Colon joins BNY Mellon Wealth Management from PNC Private Bank, where he was a senior relationship manager in the firm’s Ridgewood, N.J., office. Earlier in his 16-year financial services career, he was employed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a global international financial advisor in New York and, before that, as business financer officer and head of financial planning and analysis for Latin America.
Colon earned a B.A. in biology with a minor in finance from Baruch College. Fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese, Colon is active with the Newark, N.J., and New York chapters of After-School All-Stars. He resides in Westwood, N.J.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a leading wealth manager, and was named in 2016 by Family Wealth Report as the top U.S. Private Bank. It has $191.2 billion in total private client assets, as of March 31, 2016.