Adam Antoniades, who has served as CEO of Cetera Monetary Group since December 2019, will retire from his function on the impartial dealer/vendor community on the finish of this yr, the corporate confirmed. Mike Durbin, CEO of Cetera’s guardian firm, will assume Antoniades’ place. Antoniades, 59, will proceed to serve on Cetera’s board of administrators.
WealthManagement.com was the primary to report that Antoniades was to depart the corporate. Sources stated on the time that former Constancy govt Durbin would take management of the agency after a recapitalization with personal fairness proprietor Genstar.
Sources confirmed the agency’s board wished a strategic chief and having a CEO of the holding firm, in addition to one overseeing the mixed dealer/sellers, didn’t make sense. On the time, Durbin and Antoniades each denied there have been any plans for Antoniades to depart.
“There are numerous chapters in each distinctive group,” Antoniades stated in an announcement. “I’m proud to have served as each a turnaround and enlargement CEO, guiding the corporate by essential phases of progress and transformation. Mike is a confirmed chief who will information the following chapter, driving the corporate ahead into even higher alternatives for accelerated progress and success.”
In October 2023, Cetera’s personal fairness proprietor Genstar reinvested contemporary capital into the dealer/vendor community from two of its latest funds, Fund XI and Fund X.
When then-CEO RJ Moore stepped down from his function in February 2019, the agency appointed Ben Brigeman, nonexecutive chairman of the board of administrators, as interim CEO. The board then looked for a brand new CEO for eight months earlier than lastly selling Antoniades, president on the time, to the place.
Antoniades served as president of Cetera from 2014 to 2019. Previous to that, he co-founded First Allied Securities in 1994, a dealer/vendor that was acquired by Cetera, and served as its president and CEO for the higher a part of 20 years.
“These 35 years have been extremely rewarding,” he stated in an announcement. “I would not change any of it. Nevertheless, now’s the fitting time to give attention to a special a part of my life, particularly my household and buddies.”
Underneath his management, the agency has grown to about 12,000 advisors, greater than $521 billion in property beneath administration and $224 billion in property beneath administration, as of June 2024.
