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Andrew Druch - Chief Legal Officer, EVP
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- Chief Administrative Officer
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
- Executive Vice President and General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer for Wedbush Securities, Inc
Andrew Druch serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer for Wedbush Securities Inc. He is responsible for firm-wide oversight of legal, compliance, surveillance, and regulatory matters, as well as human resources, marketing, public relations, events and corporate governance. He is a member of the Wedbush Board of Directors and serves on the President's Executive Committee.
Andrew has over 30 years of broad-reaching legal experience in securities and banking. Throughout his career he has played a pivotal role in building and mentoring legal and compliance departments to better serve companies' business lines. He held the role of General Counsel for ING Bank, Rabobank, and most recently, DNB. Andrew began his legal career at the New York Stock Exchange, where he was held in high regard for his deep regulatory knowledge, drawing attention from firms, including Lehman Brothers and Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he played an integral role during both of the firms' periods of success.
Andrew received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany and his Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in CA, FL, and NY and holds his Series 7, 14, 24, and 63 licenses.
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- Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets
Ben Davey is a Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets at Wedbush Securities. He has previously served as the Head of Equity Syndicate/Equity Capital Markets at ThinkEquity Partners (ThinkPanmure), Vice President/ECM at JP Morgan Chase and VP/Deal Captain at Hambrecht & Quist. Ben joined Pacific Growth in October 2007 and has over 21 years in the industry while executing over 360 equity offerings. Ben holds a BS in Business and a BA in Economics from Saint Mary's College. He also earned his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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- Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking
- Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking for Wedbush Securities, Inc
- Executive Vice President, Head of Investment Banking
Burke Dempsey is Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking for Wedbush Securities, Inc. His personal specialty is investment banking for financial institutions and fintech companies. He is a member of Wedbush's President's Executive, Underwriting, and Fairness Opinion Committees. During his 37 years of covering financial services, tech, media and analytics companies he has executed over 275 publicly announced transactions worth approximately $72 billion and was honored as a Leader of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Dempsey has helped companies position for, and execute watershed mergers and IPOs.
Before joining Wedbush, Mr. Dempsey was Managing Director and co-head of Financial Institutions at Sterne Agee, Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., and a Managing Director at UBS heading their fintech efforts.
Mr. Dempsey holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Earth Science from Stanford University. He holds his Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
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- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President and Head of the Wealth Management Division for Wedbush Securities, Inc
- Executive Vice President, Head of Private Wealth Management
- Executive Vice President, Head of Wealth Management
Chris Mone is an Executive Vice President of Wedbush Securities. He serves as the head of the Wealth Management division, and is a member of the Presidents' Executive Committee and Management Committee of the firm. Wedbush Securities is one of the largest securities firms and investment banks with headquarters on the West Coast. Founded in 1955, and built on a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, Wedbush remains an independent, family and employee-owned, fully diversified, self-clearing financial services firm and true American success story. With over 25 years of experience in various leadership roles in the financial services industry, Chris joined the leadership team at Wedbush in 2019 to embark on a new chapter of growth.
Christopher Mone is Executive Vice President and Head of the Wealth Management Division for Wedbush Securities, Inc. Chris also serves on the President's Executive Committee. He joined Wedbush in 2019 and is responsible for overseeing Wealth Management.
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- Managing Director and Director of Private Placements
- Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking
Dan Bowen is a Managing Director and Director of Private Placements in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Wedbush PacGrow. Based in Minneapolis, Dan joins Wedbush after spending 11 years at Piper Jaffray's Equity Private Placements Group, where he was head of the firm's healthcare private placements. In addition, Dan previously worked in the Investment Banking Group at UBS and was a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State for 11 years, where he held a variety of international and domestic positions. Over the past 16 years, Dan has completed over 50 private equity transactions, representing over $1.9 billion in equity and debt placements. Dan is a graduate of Amherst College, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Russian Studies and has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Wedbush Securities, Inc
Daniel Billings is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Wedbush Securities, Inc. Dan is a member of the Wedbush Board of Directors and also serves on the President's Executive Committee. He joined Wedbush in 2015 as Senior Vice President and Controller and was appointed to Chief Financial Officer in 2017. During his tenure at Wedbush, he also served as Chief Financial Officer of Lime Brokerage from January 2016 to April 2018. With over two decades of experience within financial services, his extensive background has included roles within accounting, treasury, financial reporting and regulatory accounting.
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- Executive Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Executive Chairman of the Board
Donald Hultgren is Executive Chairman of the Board of Wedbush Securities Inc. Don also chairs the President's Executive Committee.
With over 41 years of experience in the financial industry, Don joins Wedbush after being President of Three Part Advisors, LLC, a Texas-based, capital markets advisory firm. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of SWS Group, the New York Stock Exchange-listed holding company of Southwest Securities. Don began his career in 1981 as an equity research analyst and was Director of Equity Research at Raymond James and Associates before moving on to SWS.
Don earned his bachelor's degrees in Accounting and Business/Management from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, and then went on to complete his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds his Series 7, 16, 24, and 63 licenses.
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- President
- President of Wedbush Securities, Inc
- Senior Vice President and Head of the Trading Division
Gary Wedbush is President of Wedbush Securities, overseeing day-to-day management, strategic direction, development, and growth of all Wedbush Securities client and corporate services. Gary is a member of the Wedbush Securities Board of Directors, the President's Executive Committee and Management Committee. Having been at Wedbush Securities for over 20 years, Gary served as Executive Vice President and Head of Capital Markets and Correspondent Services responsible for all Capital Markets Correspondent functions, including investment banking, equities, fixed income, and clearing and execution services.
Gary joined the Firm in February 1998 as Senior Vice President and Head of the Trading Division. Previously, he was a Principal and Director of Convertible Securities of the former Montgomery Securities (now Bank of America Merrill Lynch Securities) in San Francisco. He also served as an Institutional Trader and Trading Manager in the Convertible Securities Department at Lehman Brothers and S.G. Warburg in New York.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, Head of Capital Markets
Robert Fitzsimmons is an Executive Vice President for Wedbush Securities with oversight of futures, securities lending, and the fixed income groups. Bob also serves on the President's Executive Committee. Bob joined Wedbush in 2016 as its Managing Director and Head of Wedbush Futures, where he oversaw the business within the Futures Commission Merchant, with a focus on developing and defining the strategic direction for the Futures and Treasury Division.
Bob has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, with extensive experience in the fixed income, futures, equities and technology space. He also held CEO tenures with several other financial services organizations including ITG Derivatives and NQLX.
Bob graduated from Harvard University and earned his Master of Business Administration from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He holds his Series 7, 9, and 10 licenses.
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- Executive Vice President, Head of Advanced Clearing & Prime Services
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- Executive Vice President, Head of Technology and Operations