He joins Charles Stanley from IN Partnership, where he was group investment director. Prior to that he was investment director at Thinc Group and founder of Highfield Financial Services.
Pittaccio has spent has spent over 20 years in the intermediary sector in total and has experience in transitioning advisory businesses from a traditional transactional model to a service-based fee model.
Pittaccio will be responsible for leading the firm’s distribution strategy to the intermediary market, developing the national sales team and assisting advisers in the development of their own client offering, thereby helping them to build value within their own business.
“We are fully committed to building and enhancing our services to Intermediaries.,” said Christopher Aldous,” head of distribution at Charles Stanley. “Mark’s experience and advisory perspective therefore represents an extremely valuable addition to our offering and provides a more consultative approach to intermediaries which will bring real value to their business.”