Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

\nMorrison joined Securities America in 2012. As the chief compliance officer, Morrison serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team and leads the firm’s advisory compliance; licensing; communication review; branch office exam; workflow; policies and procedures; surveillance; and client regulatory and inquiry groups. Her responsibilities include providing strategic direction to the Compliance Department and overseeing the development, implementation, communication and review of all compliance policies, procedures and technology designed to meet the requirements of federal and state regulatory authorities. \n\n\nAs the former managing director of regulatory affairs and chief compliance officer of investment affairs at Morgan Keegan in Memphis, Tenn., Morrison was in charge of ensuring regulatory management and managed various compliance areas, including privacy, business continuity planning, advertising and marketing, anti-money laundering, advisory compliance and equity capital markets compliance. Morrison began her career in compliance in 1998 and joined Morgan Keegan in 2007.\n\n\nMorrison came to Morgan Keegan through the purchase of AmSouth Investment Services (AIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of AmSouth Bancorporation, based in Birmingham, Ala. At AIS, she also served as a senior manager in the Compliance Department responsible for overseeing various areas. Before AIS, Morrison served as the chief compliance officer for NBC Securities Inc. for four years, reporting to both the president and parent company’s board of directors. \n\n\nMorrison graduated from Samford University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance and holds the Series 7, 14, 24, 53, 63, 65, 79 and 99, IB and OS registrations. In addition, she is a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the National Society of Compliance Professionals and the Securities and Insurance Licensing Association.\n

Nannette is a strong believer in the personal freedom that financial certainty brings. When financial concerns are managed and minimized, she says, people have a greater tendency to enjoy life fully. She's made it her mission, then, to help clients meet their financial goals so they can get back to the things that make them happy and fulfilled. Through her private wealth advisory practice, Nannette offers a broad range of financial products and services, with a strategic focus on retirement planning strategies, saving for education, estate planning strategies and charitable giving. She's earned recognition for her 37-year-long financial advisor career, having recently received the prestigious Hall of Fame Award and has been in the Chairman's Advisory Council for several years. Since 1995 she has hosted the local public television show It's About Money, which seeks to educate viewers on money matters. She also sits on several boards, among them the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and The Friendly Home, a Rochester, N.Y.-based nursing care and rehabilitation center. Professional associations she belongs to include the Investment Management Consultants Association and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. A graduate of Cornell University, Nannette enjoys live theater, films and visual art. During her free time she travels and cooks. She is also an author, having published several children's books.

Darla Sipolt has a total of 23 years of experience in the financial services business.  She has rich and varied background in sales, management and human resources in both retail and institutional brokerage. \nDarla’s current role is Western Region Director of Sales for TD Ameritrade Institutional responsible for overseeing the sales efforts of six sales vice presidents covering eleven western states. \nDarla has been with TD Ameritrade for 10 years and started as the Regional Sales Vice President for TD Ameritrade Retail in 2003, responsible for 25 retail branches in the Southwest and progressed to Managing Director for Retail Sales Strategy and Support.  In 2006, Darla accepted a position as an Institutional Regional Sales Vice President, where she worked directly with advisors in seven states in the Western Region. 

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Colleen Schon's consistent purpose is to be an invaluable strategic financial planning partner to her clients as they reach toward achieving their unique, long-term goals. As a wealth management specialist and retirement plan consultant who has completed the certificate course from Investment Management Consultants Association, she takes great care to ensure that each client's attitude and risk tolerance levels and other preferences are met as his or her customized plan evolves and reaches maturity.\n\nA financial advisor with Raymond James & Associates since 2005, Colleen has extensive experience in the financial services industry, beginning with Merrill Lynch and Co. in 1986. Colleen specialized in insurance and estate planning, working with numerous investment advisors and their clients. In 1993, Colleen partnered with a female investment advisor and a year later they decided to move their practice to PaineWebber. After her partner retired in 2004, Colleen and her team of financial advisors and sales associates moved to Raymond James in 2005. She has long been fascinated by numbers and finance, and enjoys the independent thinking that her current position encourages. Since 2005, she has served on the firm's Women's Advisory Council, which supports and mentors women financial advisors.\n\nHeavily involved in community activities, Colleen has been a soccer player, served as a coach, and volunteers as a recruiter and fundraiser for the annual golf outing of The Alexander Foundation based in Grand Blanc, Michigan. In 2003, she and her husband, David, founded the organization, whose purpose is to provide financial assistance to parents and relatives of children born with Cloverleaf Syndrome and other craniofacial related conditions. She is also involved in church and other charitable work.\n\n

Eileen R. Heisman, ACFRE, is the President and CEO of National Philanthropic Trust. She is a nationally recognized expert on charitable and planned giving. Ms. Heisman has been interviewed about philanthropy and donor-advised funds on CNBC, PBS and CNN International, and by nearly every national newspaper and major trade publication, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CBS MarketWatch, Financial Advisor and Investment News. She was among the first fundraising professionals to earn the distinguished ACFRE certification. In 2011, she was named by NonProfit Times as one of their Power and Influence Top 50, an annual listing of the 50 most influential executives in the philanthropic sector. Ms. Heisman is currently a member of the faculty at Leadership Philadelphia, as well as an adjunct faculty member the University of Michigan's School of Social Work graduate program, and at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice. She is also a regular lecturer for the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Ms. Heisman serves on the Advisory Board at New York University's George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, the Community Foundation of Singapore and the University of Michigan's School of Social Work. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at the Arden Theater Company. Ms. Heisman has a bachelor's degree with honors in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and a master's degree in social work with a major in social program evaluation from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the third Wharton Fellows Class at the University of Pennsylvania and completed the Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.