Kingswood Holdings Limited announced the promotions of Leigh Philpot to Head of Wealth, Rupert Thompson to Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer and David Winckler to Associate Director. Leigh joined Kingswood in September 2019 and now assumes the role of Head of Wealth encompassing responsibility for the firm's retail wealth planning and investment management businesses with a specific focus on proposition development and responsibility for wealth planners, investment managers, client support and para-planning. Leigh will also have overall responsibility for Kingswood's business development and sales messaging. In January 2020, Paul Surguy will join Leigh's team to lead the investment management business. Paul joins from Kleinwort Hambros where he ran the discretionary investment team for UK affluent clients and prior to that he was Head of Funds Research at Sanlam. Kingswood also announced that Rupert Thompson has been promoted to Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer for the group. Rupert has been integral in formalising Kingswood's core investment process and will continue to enhance the Group's investment offering. Kingswood is also delighted to promote David Winckler to Associate Director where he will continue to support Rupert in developing the firm's investment strategy.