The Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon Wealth Management has appointed Vincent Hayes to head the Global Family Office, the company recently announced in a news release.

Hayes, an industry veteran with two decades of financial services experience, joins BNY Mellon from the Family Office Exchange (FOX), where he served as managing director. Before he was at FOX, he served in the commodities and futures industry with experiences at R.J. O'Brien & Associates, the country's largest commodities firm, as well as at AGN Futures, where he launched the firm's high-net-worth client business.

Hayes will join the wealth management leadership and will report to Catherine Keating, the CEO of BNY Mellon Wealth Management.

Headquartered in New York City, BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a division of BNY Mellon Securities Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.