David Harrison Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Led traditional investment product lines, evaluated new business opportunities, enhanced product governance, and spearheaded strategic initiatives to drive long-term growth and optimize product utilization across multiple independent and bank affiliated BDs. Skilled in strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.• Investment Product Leadership: Managed multiple traditional investment product lines, including mutual funds, 529s, ETFs, UITs, retirement plans, and structured products, totaling approximately $50B in assets. • Enhanced Product Governance: Drove strategic decision-making by improving product governance. Serve as Deputy Chair of the enterprise product review committee and chair various product committees, where I revised charters, strengthened due diligence processes, and established a centralized document repository.• Strategic Project Leadership: Provide project leadership on initiatives focused on alignment of product lines across multiple broker-dealers to drive product utilization and growth. This included establishing a product launch protocol, aligning product availability and structure, and increasing website engagement.• Strategic Relationships: Established and reinforced relationships with internal stakeholders and external industry partners to align resources with business goals. Leveraged partner resources, including industry intelligence and practice management, to support financial professionals' growth. • Strategic Business Development: Worked closely with the executive team to develop and execute long-term strategies and explore new business opportunities. This involved evaluating potential broker-dealer acquisitions, including strategic rationale, due diligence, business comparisons, and risk analysis.

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

At VFA, a subsidiary of AIG, I led multiple financial product lines and catalyzed multibillion-dollar growth for investment advisory, mutual funds, brokerage, insurance, and annuity business lines totaling $20B of assets under management (AUM) by developing and overseeing the product portfolio. I innovated product strategic vision, distribution and sales strategy, implementation, and marketing campaigns in collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance product portfolio competitiveness and expand sales year-over-year. I ensured the successful completion of all due diligence activities to meet regulatory/compliance mandates. • Built investment advisory program from the ground up to over $4B in AUM through private label strategic partnership with Envestnet.• Directed product team in new product and change processes to successfully complete concurrent product activities across multiple product lines. • Led product team in analyzing and implementing regulatory fiduciary rule changes from DOL and SEC to meet all deadlines; refined available insurance products from 150 to 40 and available mutual fund companies from 100+ to 30. • Developed strong relationships with strategic product manufacturers, partners, and vendors to increase product/service quality and maintain alignment with client demand. • Grew brokerage platform to over $6B in AUM with robust enhancements in operations, efficiencies, and issue resolution and served as the point of contact for National Financial Services (NFS) custodian/clearing broker-dealer.

Houston, Texas, United States

Steered strategic direction/positioning and originated marketing strategies for products/services within financial planning, investment advisory, mutual funds, brokerage, insurance, and non-proprietary annuity business lines to drive year-over-year growth for broker-dealer business. Oversaw due diligence, evaluated regulatory matters, and managed development projects to drive on-time launch of new investment advisory products that met compliance standards. Strengthened relationships with product manufacturers for all business lines. • Designed and successfully launched new investment advisory account program from ground up for senior sales representatives and increased product suite offerings.• Optimized product portfolio to directly address client needs and maximize profitability in a competitive environment by developing product/strategy matrix that identified gaps and resulted in streamlined portfolio.• Established vendor sponsorships program with a standardized structure including vendor review, contract management, and business support, which raised service levels provided to financial advisors and clients.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Oversaw brokerage business line with products, tools, and related marketing materials; implemented promotional strategies to expand client base and drive revenue growth.• Partnered with LPL Financial Services to establish and lead group of representatives offering full range of financial products.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Championed creation and successful launch of new broker-dealer that offered financial products and services including brokerage, retail mutual funds, financial planning, and insurance.• Led strategic initiative that centralized field office functions to home office, which expanded customer and sales focus while lowering operating costs.• Transformed business unit responsible for processing customer applications; cleared 4K item backlog by securing additional resources and reengineered workflows to process 21K+ applications and meet two-day standard.