Essential Edge appoints Alex David to advisory board
NEW MEXICO, UNITED STATES — Essential Edge Compliance Outsourcing Services (Essential Edge), a provider of third-party compliance solutions, has appointed Alex David, a seasoned wealth management executive, to its Advisory Board.
David’s extensive experience
David, currently a Division Director at Raymond James Financial Services, brings over thirty years of experience to the Board.
He has held leadership positions at prominent financial services firms, honing his expertise in areas such as business development, compliance, investment product strategy, and marketing. David has worked for companies such as Stifel Financial Corp and Wells Fargo Advisors.
“Alex’s experience, accumulated over the course of his successful career, combined with his expertise in business development, compliance, investment product strategy and marketing, bring even further depth to our Board of industry leaders,” said Sander Ressler, Co-Owner and Managing Director.
“The firm’s mandate – to provide top-tier, outsourced regulatory and compliance support to wealth management enterprises – is more important than ever in our evolving and highly regulated industry,” said Alex David.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Essential Edge specializes in compliance and regulatory affairs, delivering outsourced branch inspections to broker-dealers and independent financial advisor practices nationwide.
The firm’s services are designed to accelerate the identification and resolution of compliance issues in branch office sales and operations.
Other board members of Essential Edge
David will join the Essential Edge advisory board which comprises of other members:
- Larry Roth, Managing Partner of RLR Strategic Partners, a consultancy and M&A advisory firm;
- Joseph Kuo, Founder and CEO of Haven Tower, a leading strategic communications agency for the wealth management industry;
- Jeff Nash, Co-Founder and CEO of Bridgemark Strategies, a third-party recruiting firm for broker-dealers, RIAs and aggregators;
- Sid Yenemandra, Founder and CEO of Surge Ventures, a RegTech venture studio that co-creates data governance, privacy and compliance management start-ups for regulated industries, including financial services and wealth management; and
- Miriam Lefkowitz, Principal of Miriam Lefkowitz, LLC and Coda Advisory Group LLC., who provides expert consulting and testimony on securities compliance issues in various legal settings, such as court cases, arbitrations, administrative law forums and settled actions.
