FIRST LIBERTIES FINANCIAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Associate of an Affiliate of FLF
Christopher Savage (Chris) joined First Liberties Financial (FLF) as an associate 6 years ago and has since been promoted to Chief Operating Officer for FLF.
Along with those responsibilities, Chris is an associate of an affiliate of FLF, Pelion Investment Advisors, Inc. where he assists the Chief Investment Officer with operations and trading.
Chris received both his MBA and BA from the The University of Kansas (KU).
Chris has the following FINRA securities licenses-Series 7, 24, and 99.
Job Titles:
- Head of Investment Banking
Ed began his career as a builder of businesses and turnaround executive by doubling the size of his hometown paper route in the 7th grade. 36 years of Wall Street leadership has further honed those skills. Ed's experience runs the spectrum from serial entrepreneur to CEO of an investor owned firm as well as multiple senior roles in the world's largest investment banks such as Deutsche Bank, DLJ, and Paine Webber; and financial solutions providers including ADP and GoldenSource. His global responsibilities have included successfully managing teams in the Americas, Europe, the Pacific Rim, and Asia. Having built, re-energized, and sold multiple businesses for himself and on behalf of investors and large corporations gives Ed a unique appreciation of the pressures CEO's face when seeking capital for growth, strategic acquisitions, or the sale of a firm built with sweat equity. He brings that rare insight to every investment banking transaction.
Mr. Bergman has over 35 years of diverse financial industry experience. Prior to founding Pelion Financial Group, and acquiring its broker dealer subsidiary First Liberties Financial, Hilary was the Chief Operating Officer at Pali Capital. Hilary introduced and created a number of revenue generating business lines for the firm as well as supervising the associates. Those departments included Capital Markets, Trading Technology, and Human Resources Departments.
Prior to working at Pali, Hilary was a senior executive at Fimat USA, the futures brokerage unit of Societe Generale. Prior to Fimat, Hilary was a member of the COMEX and NYMEX exchanges where he managed a 100-person floor brokerage operation. Hilary earned his B.A. from the University of Alabama. Hilary holds the FINRA Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 27, 53, 55, 63, 66, 79, 99 licenses and the Texas Insurance license.
Mark brings over 30 years' experience in business development, product development and relationship management in financial services. An entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for innovation, his prior experience includes Executive Director at JP Morgan, Director of Product Development at IHS Markit, and Director of Business Development FTEN (acquired by NASDAQ). As Co-founder of PCXTrade Technologies, he built an OMS, EMS and RMS and a comprehensive trading network integrated with major stock and option exchanges, ECNs and ATS, Investment banks, clearing firms and regulatory reporting agencies. As equity trade desk head he appeared on ABC's 20/20, ABC Evening News and CNBC's Market Wrap. Mark has provided strategy consulting, authored business plans and raised capital for companies ranging from startups to growth stage and hedge funds, and advised through successful exit. He has served as consultant to Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and numerous early stage firms across a broad range of industries. He brings seasoned expertise in innovative technology development, IP and patent rights, Medical Device technology, Therapeutics, FinTech, AdTech, Capital Markets, securities trading, regulation and compliance, branding, marketing and sales. Mark's interests include Life Sciences, disruptive businesses, AI, robotics, Distributed Ledger Technology/Blockchain, the Lean Startup, and Design Thinking. Mark holds a B.A. in Economics from Franklin & Marshall College. Mark enjoys adventure sports, tinkering and fixing things, grilling and inventing. He holds FINRA Series 63 and 82 licenses and Insurance licenses.
Ron brings over 30 years' experience of investment banking experience, some of which were spent in the structured credit and mortgage arenas, in both the US and Europe, providing advisory, capital raising and research services to developers, banks, private equity and hedge funds, and rating agencies. He advises corporations and real estate clients on capital structuring and investment analysis, and raises funds from all parts of the capital stack for a variety of clients. Prior to starting Mannvit Advisors, LLC, he headed Knight Capital's global ABS and MBS strategy in the US. Prior to Knight, he served as Managing Director for RBS in non-agency RMBS and ABS in the US and headed the award-winning team responsible for European, Asian and UK securitizations. Ron holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 24 and 79 licenses.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director - Investment Banking
First Liberties Financial, a SEC registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA/SIPC/MSRB, provides investment banking, institutional fixed income trading, capital raising, and wealth management solutions for a select client base of institutions, community and regional banks, mid-sized corporations, alternative asset managers, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Our clients work with us because of the depth of our experience, the independence of our advice, and our ability to partner with some of the largest financial institutions in the world.
Job Titles:
- Head of Wealth Management
Tom is a nationally recognized expert regarding the design and implementation of private placement variable annuities (PPVA) and private placement life insurance (PPLI) as part of a family's overall tax-efficient investment portfolio. Tom also coordinates with investment managers to help them build an insurance dedicated fund (IDF) and promote their IDF to investors. He is a frequent presenter on the topics of tax-efficient investing and hedge fund investing including at the Opal Family Office Conference and the PPLI/PPVA Forum.
Tom was previously a founding partner at Lenox Advisors where he oversaw a $1.2B growth in assets under management. Tom graduated with degrees in Economics, American History and Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania where he founded an a cappella group and competed on the varsity swimming team. He holds the FINRA Series 6, 22, 26, 52, 62 and 63 licenses.
Werner began his career as an attorney at Shearman & Sterling's New York, Paris, London and Frankfurt office, where he advised domestic and international clients on M&A, public and private initial and secondary securities offerings, structured finance, and leasing transactions and at Mayer, Brown & Platt in New York where he worked on public structured finance and leasing transactions, tax-advantaged offerings, registered placements and private placements. Werner has a Ph.D in Law, MBA, LL.M and a degree in computer science from the the London School of Economics, the University of Vienna and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.