Twenty-three years on Wall Street, from the FINRA mail room to Principal Examiner, where he conducted high-stakes examinations of JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and UBS. He now leads firm strategy and every senior advisory engagement. Founded two compliance consultancies, Phoenix Compliance and Belite Capital, serving a billion-dollar fund and broker-dealers holding hundreds of millions in assets, and was founding Operations and Compliance Director of Rosecliff Ventures at $1.4 billion AUM. A regular featured expert on Fox 5, NewsNation and PIX 11. Economics and Business, University at Albany; MBA, Metropolitan College of New York, where he mentors students in Financial Services. Fluent in English and Spanish.

Leads capital raising, investor relations and brand development, giving founders white-glove advisory through their early rounds. A third-generation entrepreneur with more than a decade spent building relationships and developing talent. Previously Director of Outreach at Great Black Speakers Bureau, directing engagement across a roster of 300-plus public figures, and founder of The Keith Group, a talent consultancy producing showcase events across the Southeast. Graduate of North Carolina A&T State University; based in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Runs the firm’s operational cadence, SOP program, project pipeline and KPI reporting. She holds no compliance role. Founder and Managing Principal of MTNY LLC, a boutique operations and project-management practice; Belite Capital contracts MTNY, and she serves as Chief of Staff within that engagement. Twenty-plus years of operations leadership at UBS, Credit Suisse and Bessemer Trust. Scaled a New Jersey state recovery program from $2M to $57.6M, facilitating 5.3 million meal purchases from 450+ COVID-impacted restaurants, and was Chief of Staff to the CEO at SoftCard through its Google acquisition and wind-down. Business adjunct professor at Metropolitan College of New York since 2009.

Runs the firm day to day and shapes how it looks doing it, owning operations alongside marketing, client relationships and vendor management. With Belite since 2020. Owns the Get into the Black messaging, visual identity and digital presence across all four client segments. Founder and creative director of Gage Blanton, a New York-made luxury fashion label that presented its L’appel Du Vide SS25 collection during New York Fashion Week, with pieces featured in Esquire. Previously Studio Director at IMI Studios NYC and a research analyst at MD Global Partners.

A Series 24 General Securities Principal placed with Belite’s broker-dealer clients, where he supports supervisory, compliance and operational functions. Inside the firm he handles records administration and reporting. His FINRA registrations are maintained through a member firm of association, not through Belite. Custodian of the Payment Tracking Register, with responsibility for engagement-file integrity and reconciliation reporting. He reached principal level while simultaneously running an active company and an enterprise-technology role at a leading cancer center, having founded Envious Lashes and grown it from a single New York storefront into a multi-market brand across New York and Florida.

Keeps the principals moving: calendars, client correspondence and the coordination that holds engagements to schedule. Works across time zones with the partners in New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, and is the first point of contact for scheduling with the firm.