Tim Smith, the Founder & CEO of Aurora Private Wealth. $3.4B in AUM

The Financial Dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQMUujNA5Q

Aurora Private Wealth Website:

https://www.aurorapw.com/

Bio:

Tim started his financial services career in 1985 with an independent financial planning firm in northern New Jersey. While the firm was fee-and-commission oriented in its business model, he moved primarily fee-based in 1988 to manage client portfolios. In 1995, he went on his own by starting an RIA firm, and in 1997 he started what is now APW Capital, Inc., as a broker-dealer to service the transactional needs of several colleagues who had joined.

When calls started coming in looking for a fee-friendly broker-dealer, Tim joined with a successful Florida entrepreneur to seize the opportunity and penetrate this market niche. Today, APW Capital is a national leader in providing broker-dealer services to advisors who market under their own unaffiliated RIA.

In addition to APW Capital, Tim founded Comprehensive Capital Management, Inc., an SEC-registered investment advisor, in 2002, as a compliment to the broker-dealer. The company allows investment advisory representatives to manage client portfolios for a fee, or to connect clients with other money managers. Most recently, he started Aurora Private Wealth, Inc., a new investment advisor driven by high technology solutions for investment advisors who want to grow their practices rapidly at minimal cost.

Tim has been an industry leader as well, serving three years on FINRA District Committee, including two as Chairman of his region and the final year as Chairman of the National Advisory Council, representing the industry’s interests in the regulatory policy and rulemaking process before FINRA and the SEC in Washington, DC.

He has also served as a panelist for the TD Ameritrade Advisory Panel.

Tim also provides leadership in private capacities, including as a former Councilman and Mayor of his municipality; founder and chairman of New Jersey’s Government Efficiency Movement; Board Member of his county’s Economic Development Corporation; Board Member of the Arts Council of the Morris Area; Trustee of Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ; Finance Chairman of the Morris County Republican Committee; and currently as Chairman of the Morris Republican Victory PAC and a Trustee of Skyline Theatre Company. Tim has been married to his wife, Tara, for over 25 years. They reside in Roxbury Township, NJ. His avocations are politics and theatrical performing.

He has a daughter who is a yoga instructor, a son who works at Google, and a daughter who is a student at NYU studying musical theatre.