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Jan. 27, 2015
Hall of Fame Speaker Series Continues Feb. 5 with CEO of RBC Wealth Management
The University of Tampa will welcome John G. Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management, on Thursday, Feb. 5, who will speak as part of the Sykes Hall of Fame Speaker Series.The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., with networking and coffee. The presentation, Back from the Brink of Disaster! Reinventing Capitalism, begins at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.The great grandson of former U.S. President William Howard Taft and grandson of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Taft has worked in the financial services industry for more than three decades. He is CEO of RBC Wealth Management, the seventh largest full-service retail brokerage firm in the U.S. with nearly 2,000 financial advisors in 42 states and more than $235 billion in assets under administration.As an active member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) — Taft served as chairman-elect in 2010, chairman in 2011 and is now chairman emeritus — he advocated for responsible financial reform and testified before Congress in support of a federal fiduciary standard of care.Taft is the author of two books, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance Can Restore Faith in Capitalism and Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, has been a guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box and been interviewed by other top news outlets, including FOX, FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV and radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune and Financial Times.For more information or to RSVP, go to sykesspeaker.eventbrite.com or contact McKala Mason at mmason@ut.edu or (813) 257-3782.
The University of Tampa will welcome John G. Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management, on Thursday, Feb. 5, who will speak as part of the Sykes Hall of Fame Speaker Series.
The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., with networking and coffee. The presentation, Back from the Brink of Disaster! Reinventing Capitalism, begins at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.
The great grandson of former U.S. President William Howard Taft and grandson of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Taft has worked in the financial services industry for more than three decades. He is CEO of RBC Wealth Management, the seventh largest full-service retail brokerage firm in the U.S. with nearly 2,000 financial advisors in 42 states and more than $235 billion in assets under administration.
As an active member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) — Taft served as chairman-elect in 2010, chairman in 2011 and is now chairman emeritus — he advocated for responsible financial reform and testified before Congress in support of a federal fiduciary standard of care.
Taft is the author of two books, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance Can Restore Faith in Capitalism and Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, has been a guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box and been interviewed by other top news outlets, including FOX, FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV and radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune and Financial Times.
For more information or to RSVP, go to sykesspeaker.eventbrite.com or contact McKala Mason at mmason@ut.edu or (813) 257-3782.
The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., with networking and coffee. The presentation, Back from the Brink of Disaster! Reinventing Capitalism, begins at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.
The great grandson of former U.S. President William Howard Taft and grandson of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Taft has worked in the financial services industry for more than three decades. He is CEO of RBC Wealth Management, the seventh largest full-service retail brokerage firm in the U.S. with nearly 2,000 financial advisors in 42 states and more than $235 billion in assets under administration.
As an active member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) — Taft served as chairman-elect in 2010, chairman in 2011 and is now chairman emeritus — he advocated for responsible financial reform and testified before Congress in support of a federal fiduciary standard of care.
Taft is the author of two books, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance Can Restore Faith in Capitalism and Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, has been a guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box and been interviewed by other top news outlets, including FOX, FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV and radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune and Financial Times.
For more information or to RSVP, go to sykesspeaker.eventbrite.com or contact McKala Mason at mmason@ut.edu or (813) 257-3782.
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