Diversified Trust

Diversified Trust, a comprehensive wealth management firm with approximately $4 billion in client assets and offices in Atlanta, Greensboro, Memphis, and Nashville, has expanded its team with the addition of three senior professionals:

• Jeff Buck, CFA, as Senior Vice President, will serve as a member of the firm’s Investment Strategies Group and will oversee hedge fund of funds, private real estate, and other alternative strategies;
• Jim Gilliland, as Senior Vice President, will provide oversight of taxable fixed income strategies and will also co-manage the firm’s municipal bond strategies; and
• Louis Jehl, as Senior Vice President, will be responsible for client servicing and business development

Gilliland and Jehl will be based in the company’s Memphis office and Buck will be based in Atlanta. Diversified Trust Company began in Memphis in 1994, expanded to Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 2002, and Greensboro, North Carolina in 2010.

“Jeff, Jim, and Louis are proven professionals with impressive skills in distinct areas of wealth management that are important to our clients,” said Larry H. Bryan, CEO and Director of Diversified Trust. “We are delighted to welcome them to Diversified Trust during this time of growth for our firm.”

Jeff Buck
Buck has approximately 20 years of investment management experience with particular emphasis in the hedge fund area. Most recently, he was a partner with Alpha Capital Management after previously serving as a portfolio manager focusing on hedge funds for Wilmington Trust and as Chief Investment Officer of Homrich Berg. Buck earned a B.A. in Economics from Syracuse University and has also earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Jim Gilliland
Gilliland most recently worked with Morgan Keegan in Memphis as a Senior Vice President in the Municipal Finance area. He previously worked in New York as Director of Municipal Finance Underwriting for CIFG and as the Director of the Municipal Finance Rating Department for Fitch Ratings. Gilliland graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a Master of Public Policy from Columbia University. He serves as a member of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare’s Quality Committee and the Financial Planning Association of Greater Memphis and is a fellow of The Leadership Academy of Memphis.

Louis Jehl
Jehl has a diverse professional background which includes public accounting at Arthur Andersen in the 1980’s, finance and management roles in the public and private sectors, and service as CFO of a single family office. He is a cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee University. He currently serves on the Board and as Treasurer of The Memphis Symphony Orchestra and is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Diversified Trust’s services are 100% fee based and not driven by commission. Diversified Trust clients include individuals, multi-generational families, family offices, foundations, endowments, and retirement plans. The firm’s comprehensive wealth management includes Investment Management, Trusts and Estates, Family Office Services, and Institutional Advisory Services.