Brown Brothers Harriman, a privately-held financial institution has hired Mark Egert as director of compliance for its investment management and markets lines of businesses, based in the firm's New York office. Egert will also be the firm's chief compliance officer for FINRA. Egert will be replacing Beth Haddock, who is transitioning to a new position in the firm's Office of the General Counsel and will support the firm's globalization initiatives.

Egert joins BBH from Crowell & Moring's corporate, financial services and white collar and regulatory enforcement groups, where he was responsible for the firm's regulatory and compliance practice for financial institutions.  He was a former chief compliance officer for Cowen and Company in 2005 and previously served as legal and compliance director for RBC Capital Markets in 2003.

Egert began his career in private practice and in 1995 joined the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) as vice president and associate general counsel.  In 1997, he joined ABN AMRO Bank, where he was named executive director and chief legal officer in 2001.