Retirement Advisors of America

Ron has been in the investment industry for over 25 years, and has worked with retiring crewmember families since 1989. He is the co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Retirement Advisors of America, A PHH Investments Company. Ron is a national speaker on Leadership and Entrepreneurship and is very involved with the charitable organization Equip. He is a graduate of Dallas Baptist University with a Bachelors degree in Business.

Bart has been in the investment industry for over 25 years.  Bart served as Vice President, Director of Sales for American Beacon Advisors and the American Beacon Funds until 2006.  His responsibilities included new business development and client services.  Bart joined American Beacon Advisors from Henry S. Miller’s Real Estate Securities Corporation in August 1988. He started his career with the accounting firm of Touche Ross & Co. in Dallas after receiving a BBA in Accounting and Finance from Baylor University.

Bill has been in the securities and investment management business since January 1977, when he started working for the Wall Street firm of Blyth Eastman & Dillon. In 1979, he began working with American Airlines pilots helping them manage their retirement fund assets. In 1986, he joined Balanced Financial Asset Management Corporation as its President, and left in 1988 to start LAMP Advisors, Inc., a firm that worked with retiring commercial airline pilots in managing their retirement assets. In 1994, LAMP Advisors, Inc. merged with Pritchard, Herr and Associates to form Pritchard, Hubble and Herr, Inc. Bill is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a MBA degree in Finance. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the parent organization for financial analysts.

Kent received a Finance Degree from Rider College, Trenton, New Jersey in 1971 and attained the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1982. He is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), and is past president and currently active member of the AIMR member society, the Financial Analysts Society of Tampa Bay. Kent is also a graduate of Florida Trust School.

Ken began his career in banking in 1982 and then accepted a position in 1986 with an institutional financial services firm where he became National Sales Manager, managing institutions and sales representatives across the country. He was a Financial Consultant with RAA in the mid-nineties and has been with Retirement Advisors of America, A PHH Investments Company since 2000. Ken received his B.S. from Howard Payne University in the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom, an undergraduate honors program and has been working with pilots and their families since 1995.

Mark has been in the financial services industry since 1984. He was with Fidelity from 1991 to 2000, serving as a Team Manager from 1993 to 2000.  He served as a Certified Financial Planner™ for the Dallas office of First Tennessee Bank from 2000 to 2002, and has been with Retirement Advisors since 2003.  Mark obtained his BS in Finance from Northern Illinois University, and his MBA in Financial and Estate Planning from the University of Dallas.  Mark has been a Certified Financial Planner™ since 1997.