Question: Todd G. Sears worked as head of diversity for the company that is a wealth management division of what bank?
Context: National Penn Bancshares, Inc. (referred to as National Penn or NatPenn) is an American financial services corporation, with assets (as of April 14, 2015) of approximately $9.6 billion.  National Penn operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in three states with more than 130 branches, as well as online and mobile services.  It also operates a trust company (National Penn Investors Trust Company) and a wealth management division (National Penn Wealth Management). Bell Bank is among the 25 largest independently owned banks in the United States and is the largest privately owned bank in the Upper Midwest with assets of more than $4 billion.  Through its wealth management division, the company manages more than $5 billion in assets.  Bell Bank, which employs 1,000 people, is headquartered in Fargo, N.D. It has 20 locations in North Dakota and Minnesota and does business in all 50 states.  State Bankshares is Bell Bank's parent company. Rory Tapner (born 30 September 1959) is a UK businessman who, in September 2010 was appointed CEO of Coutts, the Wealth Management division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group.  In February 2015 he stepped down as CEO when he was replaced in the role by Alison Rose, the then head of Natwest's Commercial Bank.  Prior to this, he was Chairman and CEO Asia Pacific at UBS AG from May 2004 until June 2009 and a member of the UBS Group Executive Board from 2006 until June 2009 when he stepped down and returned to the UK. First Tennessee banking services are available to individual consumers as well as businesses of all sizes.  Combined, the bank’s customer base represents the largest deposit share in four of Tennessee’s five major metropolitan areas.  First Tennessee has one of the highest customer retention rates of any bank in the country.  First Tennessee offers customers a wide range of wealth management services through its affiliate, FTB Advisors, Inc.  FTB Advisors was launched as the primary name for First Tennessee’s Wealth Management division in 2013, but the company has been supporting affluent customers for much of its history.  The company’s services include guidance focused on investments, retirement, insurance, trusts, financial planning, and estate planning.  FTN Financial provides fixed income sales, trading, and strategies for institutional customers in the U.S. and abroad.  FTN Financial also provides investment services and balance sheet management solutions.  With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion, FTN transacts business with approximately one-half of all domestic depository institutions with portfolios larger than $100 million Evercore Wealth Management, LLC is the wealth management division of Evercore, a global independent investment advisory based in New York City.  The firm is a registered investment advisor, delivering customized investment management, financial planning, trust and custody services to high net worth individuals, families and related institutions across the United States. Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is a wealth management division of Bank of America.  The firm is headquartered in New York City, and occupies the entire 34 stories of 250 Vesey Street, part of the Brookfield Place complex, in Manhattan.  Merrill Lynch employs over 15,000 financial advisors and manages $2.2 trillion in client assets. Fritz Kaiser (born in 1955 in Mauren, Liechtenstein) is a wealth management entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist from the Principality of Liechtenstein.  He is married to Birgit and has four children.  He is co-founder and executive chairman of Kaiser Partner, a wealth management firm that provides family office and wealth management services to private wealth owners and their advisors.  Kaiser is an advocate for responsible wealth management and is well known for his innovation in this field.  Specifically, in 2011, he won the Spear’s Magazine "Wealth Management Innovator of the Year" award for the successful instigation and development of the ‘Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility’ (LDF), a vehicle which promotes tax compliance by assisting UK taxpayers in the declaration of previously untaxed assets.  He also co-founded the Mentor Foundation, a leading international NGO voice of drug abuse prevention. Todd G. Sears is an American businessman and an advocate for LGBT equality.  He founded Out Leadership, a strategic advisory firm that works to extend equality for LGBT people worldwide, and served as head of diversity at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. As of June 30, 2017, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) is an approximately $7 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.  Busey Bank, First Busey Corporation’s wholly owned bank subsidiary, is also headquartered in Champaign, Illinois and has twenty-eight banking centers serving Illinois, thirteen banking centers in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, five banking centers serving southwest Florida and a banking center in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Trevett Capital Partners, a wealth management division of Busey Bank, provides asset management, investment and fiduciary services to high net worth clients in southwest Florida.  The wealth management professionals of Trevett Capital Partners can be reached through trevettcapitalpartners.com. First County Bank is a bank that conducts business primarily in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.  The Bank has more than 220 employees, assets in excess of $1.5 billion and is a 2016 Women’s Choice Award winner.  First County Bank is a full-service bank.  It provides wealth management services through First County Advisors, the Wealth Management Division of First County Bank.
Answer: Bank of America