Team

Tampa

The Evercore Wealth Management Florida team delivers comprehensive and personalized wealth management, integrating strategic financial planning and investment management.

 
Titles listed represent Wealth Management services. Those with an asterisk (*) also provide Trust services. Please see complete bio for further details.

Julio Castro*

Partner, Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor

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Julio is a Partner and Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor at the Florida offices of Evercore Wealth Management and a Managing Director at Evercore Trust Company, N.A., providing families, foundations and endowments throughout the Southeast with comprehensive, goals-based wealth planning. He works closely with the firm’s investment portfolio managers and advises clients on strategic wealth planning, asset allocation, and fiduciary and family wealth matters, including governance, next-generation education, and philanthropy. He is a member of Evercore Trust Company’s Fiduciary Oversight Group.

Julio joined the firm in 2014 from GenSpring Family Offices in Florida, where he led new business development and client integration, and was a member of the national leadership committee. He previously practiced as an attorney, specializing in trust litigation and in estate and tax planning, and as an accountant, focused on individual and trust estate planning. He has 30 years of experience in wealth management.

Julio is an active member of several public and private charitable organizations; including the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay. Additionally, he serves on several Florida Bar committees including the Real Property Probate and Trust Law’s Principal and Income Committee.

Julio earned his B.A. in Accounting from the University of South Florida and his J.D. from University of Florida’s Levin College of Law.

Michael Cozene*

Partner, Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor

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Michael is a Partner and Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor at the Florida offices of Evercore Wealth Management and a Managing Director at Evercore Trust Company, N.A., providing families, foundations, and endowments throughout the Southeast with comprehensive, goals-based wealth planning. He is the manager of the firm’s Florida offices in Tampa and Palm Beach.

He works closely with the firm’s investment portfolio managers and advises clients on strategic wealth planning, asset allocation, and fiduciary and family wealth matters, including governance, next-generation education, and philanthropy. He is a member of the national Strategic Planning Committee, the Investment Policy Committee and the national Financial Planning Committee.

Michael joined Evercore in 2014 with Julio Castro and Arthur Noderer to establish the firm’s Southeast office. He previously served as a principal at GenSpring Family Offices in Florida, where he led business development and wealth planning and family office services for the firm’s ultra high net worth clients. Prior to joining GenSpring, he served as an advisor to ultra high net worth client families. He has 30 years of experience in wealth management.

Michael earned his B.S. from Florida State University, with a concentration in Finance and Accountancy.

Meredith Fisher*

Vice President, Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor

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Meredith is a Vice President and Wealth & Fiduciary Advisor at Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company, N.A., serving high net worth individuals, families, and trusts from the Tampa office. She provides support in fiduciary administration, wealth management and financial planning disciplines.
 
Prior to joining Evercore in 2020, Meredith utilized her broadly developed skills to help manage two successful family businesses, contributing in the areas of financial analysis, strategic planning, tax reporting, employee benefits programing, market research, business development and marketing.
 
Meredith received her B.S. in Entrepreneurship, with minors in Marketing and Advertising and her Certificate in Financial Planning from the University of Tampa. She was an NCAA scholarship athlete and academic scholar during her time at the University of Tampa.

Maxwell Grimard

Director, Portfolio Manager

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Max is a Director and Portfolio Manager at Evercore Wealth Management, managing investment assets for families, foundations and endowments.

Prior to joining Evercore in 2016, Max worked at Raymond James Financial in real estate banking and at CBRE in the multifamily investment capital markets platform. Earlier, he worked for the State of Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation as a bank examiner.

Max graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Finance. Max is a member of the Endowment Board for St. John’s Episcopal Church & Day School in Tampa, Florida. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and currently serves as President of CFA Society Tampa Bay.

Arthur Noderer

Partner, Portfolio Manager

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Arthur is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Evercore Wealth Management in Tampa, Florida. He is a member of the firm’s investment decision-making body, the Asset Allocation Committee, and the Investment Policy Committee. He has over 30 years of experience in managing investment strategies for high net worth families, endowments and foundations.

He joined Evercore from SunTrust Bank, where he worked for 18 years as an investment strategist. Prior to joining SunTrust, he worked for seven years as a registered representative with Paine Webber in the Florida region.

Arthur earned his B.S. from the University of South Florida, with a concentration in Finance. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.