David Ballard, who served as chief working officer at Cetera Monetary till the center of final 12 months, has been named senior vice chairman of enterprise companies for Ladenburg Thalmann, a newly created place geared toward enhancing the advisor service expertise throughout the agency’s 5 dealer/sellers and four,400 advisors.
Most not too long ago, Ballard was president and COO of Docupace Applied sciences. Previous to shifting to Cetera, he was COO of AIG Advisor Group, which was rebranded to Advisor Group when Lightyear Capital bought the agency in 2016.
Ballard will report back to Adam Malamed, government vice chairman and chief working officer at Ladenburg.
In his new function, Ballard will work with the management groups of the agency’s impartial dealer/vendor subsidiaries, together with Securities America, Triad Advisors, Investacorp, Securities Service Community and KMS Monetary Companies. He’ll give attention to enhancing efficiencies throughout the companies, together with the sharing of finest practices, information and experience.
Seattle-based KMS Monetary not too long ago promoted Erinn Ford, who got here onboard as president a 12 months in the past, to chief government. The agency stated the management change was half of a bigger progress initiative, and could be adopted by a collection of senior management modifications.
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