John Blood, a financial industry veteran of the fee-based advisory sector, has been named senior vice president for advisory services and solutions at Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. His post is new.
Ladenburg Thalmann is a publicly traded, diversified financial services company based in Miami.
Blood will provide leadership and positioning for Ladenburg’s advisory and RIA services to its fee-based advisory teams (those teams that are both part of the firm and those that are part of the firm’s independent advisory and brokerage subsidiary firms). The subsidiaries include Securities America, Triad Advisors, Investacorp, KMS Financial Services and the Securities Service Network.
“John’s hiring emphasizes our embrace of the intensifying convergence of fee-based and brokerage solutions for advisors seeking to provide a truly comprehensive level of support to their clients,” said Richard Lampen, president and CEO of Ladenburg Thalmann.
Blood will provide guidance and analysis on the RIA space, leadership for enterprise-wide advisory platforms, and strategy for advisory products and services in order to accelerate the growth of the fee-based advisory client service of Ladenburg Thalmann, the firm said in a statement.
Previously, he served as CEO and chief investment officer of JJCC Financial Inc., a strategic consultancy firm offering investment research, portfolio theory, executive management and sales. He also was the CEO and chief investment officer of Disciplined Wealth Strategies Inc., a firm he founded to provide outsourced asset management services for financial advisors and institutions.