Mark Carrozza Email & Phone Number

Partner, Regional Director for AlphaMax Distributors.AlphaMax Distributors is the premier distribution solution for specialty asset managers.Managing financial advisor relationships in Utah and Idaho.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

The Beehive State & The Gem State

The Beehive State & The Gem State

I was fortunate to work with the best financial advisors in Utah and Idaho. It has been a wild ride over the last several years in our industry, but I wouldn't trade working with my friends for anything else.We are the exclusive sales force for 4 boutique, specialty, investment managers. I'm an independent wholesaler and I'm fortunate to work with advisors in every channel.

Utah, Idaho, Wyoming & The Western Slope Of Colorado

For 6 1/2 years I had the pleasure of associating with 2 of the finest divisional managers and external wholesalers in the business. With the tireless dedication of my internal wholesaler partners we were able to help our friends bring comfort and confidence to their clients. The uncertainty and anxiety of running out of money in retirements is real. Our solutions brought certainty and confidence to their clients and their families. Guaranteed income for life, a personal pension strategy, was our daily message and it was well received. My partners and I were fortunate to grow our territory from $15.9 million to $69.8 million in variable annuity sales. I'll always be thankful for my time at Transamerica

The Beautiful Rocky Mountain West

I had the pleasure of working with a phenomenal national sales managers and divisional sales manager while at MassMutual. Their vision and execution on building a new division was extraordinary. It was a tremendous learning experience for me. I was named the Western Division Captain which allowed me to be the coach/mentor for 4 Regional Sales Directors and participated on the Field Advisory Board. This experience was instrumental in making me the wholesaler I am today. It was a very difficult time for the financial industry from 2007 to 2009, but we helped make a tremendous difference in the lives of the people we worked with. Providing variable annuity solutions from a AAA rated insurance company with a history spanning back to 1851 was what retirees needed during this difficult time. As a result of our hard work, my internal wholesaler and I successfully increased our territory sales from $16.4 million to $76.4 million.

Utah - Idaho - Montana - Wyoming

After the Bear Market of 2000 to 2002 there was a lot of cash on the sideline and people were anxious to put it back to work in the market. However, they were still feeling the sting of the last few years. This was the time when investors flocked to Variable Annuities for upside potential and downside protection, death benefits and tax deferral. I, however, didn't cover Variable Annuities. I covered Fixed Annuities that offered guaranteed interest rates. None the less, with head strong determination, hard work and thousands and thousands of miles on my car my internal wholesaler and I increased territory sales from $7.5 million to $41.8 million and helped our friends provide great solutions for yield hungry clients.

Denver, Colorado, United States

I worked with the absolute, no doubt, greatest external wholesaler I have ever known while I was an internal wholesaler at Jackson National. Together we increased the Indiana/Kentucky territory $58.5 million to $175 million in Variable Annuity sales. I was very fortunate to be a Leaders Council representative and work with tremendously talented people.

Denver, Colorado, United States

The NPH team manager. My role was to manage a team of internal wholesalers who worked specifically with the National Planning Holdings broker dealers. The group of broker dealers consisted of National Planning Corporation, SII Investments, INVeST Financial Corporation, and Investment Centers of America. Our role was to be a conduit between the external wholesaler and the advisors with these broker dealers. We worked very hard and were instrumental in the sales growth with these broker dealers. The growth for each broker dealer is as follows:NPC: 58.9%, SII: 35.2%, Invest: 716.3% & ICA: 37.8%

The Constitution State And The Sunshine State

The Grand Prix Fund..."A Quantitative Investment Strategy with a Focus on the New Market Realities". This was the start of my wholesaling career. The Grand Prix Fund was a boutique fund focused on Momentum. I covered LPL, Nathan & Lewis, SII & Wedbush Morgan on a national level. "The bursting of the dot-com bubble followed a period of soaring stock prices and exuberant speculation on new Internet companies. Companies with little or no profits had market values that often equaled or exceeded that of established "old-economy" corporate giants. The Nasdaq composite index, which soared in value thanks to the listings of hundreds of tech start-ups, plunged 50 percent in nine months."Source: Global Financial Data, msnbc.com research

Fresno, California In The Heart Of The Beautiful San Joaquin Valley

TD Waterhouse, discount brokerage firm in the late 90'. “Irrational exuberance, is a phrase used by the then-Federal Reserve Board chairman, Alan Greenspan, in a speech given at the American Enterprise Institute during the Dot-com bubble of the 1990s. The phrase was interpreted as a warning that the market might be somewhat overvalued."I was that guy at the front desk opening accounts for the frenzied mob of first time investors who wanted in on the next IPO.

Eureka! The Golden State

I'm so very fortunate to have terrific friends and one of my dearest friends is Keith Holt. Keith is unbelievably kind and patient and who better to teach me about the financial industry. Keith was a Registered Investment Advisor before most knew what that was. He is still the only RIA I know who created a fee schedule for qualified accounts that's based entirely on the performance of the portfolio. As Keith says "We only make money when the portfolios we manage for our clients are making money." While I worked with Keith, my role covered the operations of the business which consisted of daily reconciliations, compiling data for statements, completing applications, accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Frenso, Ca,

It all started back in the late 1800s, after the Civil War...Colonel William Pemberton Dunavant and General Nathan Bedford Forrest were early pioneers of the first short-line railroads built in Mississippi. These later became part of the Frisco Railroad, used extensively for transporting cotton, freight and other agricultural product. The road of life is a crooked one and some how a boy, born and raised in New York, ended up shipping cotton from the San Joaquin Valley of California to exotic destinations around the world. I coordinated every aspect of the shipment process from warehouse, to shipping container, to truck, to port, to ship, to port, to mill and all documentation involved. We typically shipped around 500,000 bales of cotton a year.

The City Of Brotherly Love

This was my 1st job after graduating with a degree in International Business from George Washington University. I was solely responsible for shipping all DuPont products to Antwerp, Belgium and Yokohama, Japan. I truly enjoyed this job and the good friends I made. Also, the food was amazing in Philadelphia, especially the cheesesteaks and the soft pretzels.

Bachelor’S Degree, I Majored In International Business.

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Kappa, Lambda Chapter.I minored in Psychology.

Introspection

Quiet introspection can be extremely valuable.