Who We Are

Carpenter Operations Group (COG) is a consulting firm focusing on providing a full range of operational and other advice to firms and vendors in the wealth management industry. With decades of real operational experience in transforming almost every type of wealth management organization, we like to say we “bring operational insight to every engagement”

COG takes an entrepreneurial approach to solving problems.  It believes that each firm has a unique value proposition and each solution has to be responsive to the firm’s value proposition and accretive to its long term goals. 

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Chris has experience as both a consumer and a vendor of operational services. He has worked with small and large firms in a variety of financial service business lines including bank trust and custody, broker/dealers, and RIAs alike.

Prior to consulting, Chris has held both operational management and product roles. He also co-founded ADVISORport, Inc., one of the first managed account platforms to deliver services to advisors via the internet.  ADVISORport was subsequently sold in 2006 to PFPC, a PNC Bank subsidiary.

History

Carpenter Operations Group was born in 2008 when, after a short stint at Lockwood Advisors, a Pershing company, Chris was asked to review the operations of an advisory focused RIA and BD and develop an operational plan to eliminate inefficiency and duplication.  He was subsequently hired to implement the plan. 

Carpenter Operations Group has helped many firms since then including trust companies, broker dealers, and advisory firms as well as several industry vendors, most notably Envestnet, one of the nation’s leading advisory platforms.