Lerner Group promotes three to partner

Lerner Group promotes three to partner
Michael Schneider, Megan Kowalski and David Sokolovsky will lead initiatives in the family office space.
SEP 22, 2022

The Lerner Group at Hightower Advisors, a Deerfield, Illinois, wealth management firm, has promoted Michael Schneider, Megan Kowalski and David Sokolovsky to partner and managing director.

They will lead initiatives in the firm’s family office space business, the firm said in a statement.

Schneider and Sokolovsky, who are based in the firm’s Deerfield office, have been with Lerner for eight years and three years, respectively. Kowalski, who works in the firm’s Boca Raton, Florida, office, has been with the firm for nine years.

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