Rob Brown, founder and CEO of Encore Partners, is deeply committed to innovation, success and fun in the financial services industry. During his 21 year career Rob has always been a successful producer.

His extensive experience includes executive management with a full-service financial services firm where his responsibilities focused on helping advisors grow their practices through coaching, training, fee-based initiatives, technology enhancements and wealth management.

He has defined all of his roles with the belief that the producer is the ultimate determinate of success of any financial services organization. Find ways to make the producer more effective in building and maintaining client relationships and the client, firm and producer will all benefit.

Through his one-of-a-kind website and personal coaching engagements, Rob has worked with advisors from dozens of broker-dealers. His corporate relationships have included engagements with Scott & Stringfellow, Sterne Agee, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, H.D. Vest, John Hancock, MFS, Century Securities and Securities America.

Rob has been a speaker at Securities Industry and American Banker Association events. He was a regular financial columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and contributing author to Horsesmouth.com.  He has been quoted in On Wall Street and Information Week magazines.

Rob is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College with a degree in economics and business and the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.