HighTower Adds Managing Director and COO

HighTower Advisors, a Chicago-based but multioffice RIA firm, announced Wednesday, March 31, that it added Barnaby Levin as a managing director and partner, and Michael LaMena to the newly created position of chief operations officer.

Levin will be based at HighTower’s San Francisco office where, according to Co-Chairman (and former Schwab co-CEO) Dave Pottruck, the firm hopes to “deepen our West Coast footprint.” Previously, Levin was a director of wealth management at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, and is currently serving on the board of Stanford University’s Institute of Economic Policy Research.