Alejandro Merchan

, CTFA

Senior Vice President

Alejandro Merchan is the regional director of trust administration for the west coast and mid-west offices of CIBC Private Wealth, and he has more than 20 years of industry experience. In this role, he is responsible for managing a team of trust advisors and trust administrators, overseeing the centralized day-to-day trust administration process, partnering with relationship managers providing them with solutions for more complex trust relationships and fiduciary expertise. Additionally, Alejandro works closely with the east coast regional director and the national director of trust in implementing new fiduciary procedures and updating current ones on a regular basis. He also lends his expertise to the firm’s fiduciary committees.​

Prior to his current role, Alejandro worked as a senior trust advisor at CIBC Private Wealth. ​

Prior to joining the firm, Alejandro served as an advisor at Northern Trust, where he oversaw and worked on all aspects of relationship management and financial planning for high-net-worth clients.​

Alejandro attended business school at Universidad del Azuay in Ecuador, he holds the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA) certification and he is a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Council.