Securities America, an independent broker-dealer with more than 2,000 independent advisors and nearly $58 billion in client assets, has promoted seven people to senior vice president and first vice president positions.
Gregory J. Smith, senior vice president, sales supervision, is responsible for coordinating sales supervision functions.
Craig Zimmerman, senior vice president, operations, oversees the daily support and work flow for all operations functions, including account processing, maintenance, cashiering, fees, brokerage services and trading.
Leon Johnson, senior vice president, is responsible for information systems operations and tech support, chief information security officer, operations, security, quality assurance and technology support.
Randy Reed, senior vice president, enterprise development and architecture, leads the application development and business intelligence data quality teams.
Christina Heller, first vice president and senior counsel, is responsible for arbitration and litigation case management and coordinating responses to regulatory inquiries, investigations and examinations.
Tu Nguyen, first vice president, application development, is leading the implementation and deployment of New Business Solutions, Securities America’s paperless system for processing business and opening new accounts.
Robert Plyler, first vice president, business intelligence and data quality, is responsible for the development of application and reporting systems that ensure data integrity.