John Dowd Regional Managing Director for the Northeast Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group Dowd is charged with overseeing New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts for Wells Fargo's wealth management operation. He is responsible for overseeing financial planning, private banking, trust and investment management, brokerage services, charitable services and personal insurance in the region. Dowd previously was wealth management director for Wachovia Wealth Management in the Northeast. He joined Wachovia in 2008 from Bank of New York/Mellon where he led the tri-state region's wealth management group. Prior to that, he was head of the private bank and chief trust officer for the Bank of New York. Barry H. Garfield Audit Partner Holtz Rubenstein Reminick Garfield serves on this Melville-based firm's executive committee in addition to being audit partner in charge of services to banks.