Consultancy firm Mercer welcomes an ex-BlackRock executive as its new head of investment sales for Asia.

Mercer Asia appoints Robert Ronneberger as head of investment sales for the region, according to a statement, based in Hong Kong. 

In the newly created role, Ronneberger will focus on further growing the firm’s investment services business with a focus on accelerating outsourced CIO prospecting activity across institutional segments such as pensions, financial institutions and non-profit organizations. He will also further develop alternative investment activity in the region.

Ronneberger joins Mercer from BlackRock and prior to that, he also worked at Allianz Global Investors and Merrill Lynch.