Irvine, Calif. based-Steadfast Companies announced that financial services industry veterans Greg Brakovich and Jamie Shepherdson, co-principals of Crossroads Capital Group, have joined the company to provide advisory services and to facilitate the strategic expansion of the sales and the distribution effort for the company's privately placed and publicly registered investment products. Additionally, Brakovich and Shepherdson will serve on Steadfast Capital Markets Group's Board of Managers.
Brakovich has specialized in building and managing wholesale distribution organizations, including three of today's market leaders: Fidelity Advisors, AXA Distributors and MetLife Investors. He most recently was the CEO of KBS Capital Markets Group.
Shepherdson has comprehensive experience within the wholesale distribution of life and annuity insurance products, mutual fund, real estate and oil and gas assets, and has held roles as president of Retirement Services of AXA Equitable, chairman of AXA Life Europe, president and CEO of John Hancock Funds, co-CEO of MetLife Investors and vice chairman of McGuiness Companies.
Crossroads Capital provides investment and advisory services for public, non-traded REITs and other alternative investments. Steadfast Capital Markets Group is the securities and financial services division of Steadfast Companies, a group of affiliated real estate investment and operating companies that acquire, develop and manage real estate in the U.S. and Mexico and owns and/or operates over $1.5 billion in assets.