Chris is a Senior Compliance Officer and brings over 20 years of direct regulatory compliance experience within the financial services industry, beginning his career with the market surveillance department at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. From there, Chris has had the opportunity to implement and oversee both broker-dealer and investment advisory compliance programs spanning both the retail and institutional marketplace for both public and private companies including. Chris served as Chief Compliance Officer for RAIT Financial Trust’s broker-dealer and investment advisory entities before a stint that took him and his family to Dallas Texas, serving as VP of Compliance for Hudson Advisors and the Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm. He is a past holder of FINRA licenses, including the Series 4, 7, 24, 53, 55, 66 and 87.
Chris attended West Chester University, graduating with a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Finance, and thereafter, attended Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Master’s in Applied Economics. Chris also served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1996 through 2002. Chris resides in his hometown of Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania with his wife and 9 kids.
Paul was previously Director of Technology for a multi-million dollar wealth management firm where he managed the information technology infrastructure and support for multiple offices across the United States. Prior to that, he served as network administrator of a multi-billion dollar registered investment advisor that managed long-short equity funds of hedge funds.
Jamie is Chief Financial Officer at tru Independence, where she supports the organization’s mission of empowering investment professionals with the tools and support they need to create successful independent investment advisory and wealth management firms — while maintaining 100% ownership stake of their new entity. Jamie has considerable years of finance and accounting experience and enjoys sharing her strategic insights, financial management wisdom, and leadership skills with tru Independence and its independent financial advising clients.
She started her career as an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she primarily worked within the investment management sector. She then worked as a financial advisor and CFO for a boutique independent advisor firm before transitioning into the niche market of providing middle and back-office services to independent financial advising firms. In this role, she harnesses her expertise to provide value and guidance to a larger audience of financial advisors, executives, and business owners.
Doug manages and administers tru’s client’s payroll, HR and outsourced HR. Doug spent more than 20 years in the mortgage industry, where he managed annual loan originations of over $1bn. He is bringing his decades of expertise to build a mortgage platform for tru clients.
Doug is a builder and his passion is building new solutions and long-lasting relationships for advisor clients. Doug believes his contributions at tru have helped to shape the company culture of enthusiasm and support for advisors, their growth, and their independence.
Doug is mortgage and insurance (life and health) licensed. He graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR with a BA in History.
Doug is the quintessential family man. He lives with his wife and sons near his mother and siblings and enjoys spending time with all of them. He and his wife can often be found cheering at their sons’ sports teams. Doug is also an avid golfer and occasionally competitive, Masters Level, basketball player.
Mark is an investment industry veteran. Over the past three decades he has provided stock, mutual fund and ETF analysis, as well as overall portfolio analysis, and information on economic and market dynamics to advisory firms nationwide. He is a long-standing member and past board member of the CFA Institute & CFA Society of Portland, and SIFMA Research Director and a CFA Research Challenge Judge. He was formerly a Director of Private Client Research at multibillion dollar advisory firm which handled over $28 billion of assets under management.
No one keeps the Crossover team more upbeat than Copper and Chloe.
No one keeps the Crossover team more upbeat than Copper and Chloe.