Gordon D’Angelo is the Chairman/CEO of NEXT Financial Group. He was actually a co-founder of the nine-year-old firm. D’Angelo is no stranger to success. Before NEXT Financial Group, he was a co-founder of the nation’s second largest tax service, Jackson Hewitt.
D’Angelo was significant in the company’s growth from 6 to 6,000 offices and he has consulted for two of the top 15 franchises in the world, according to Entrepreneur Magazine. With a background like that, it’s no wonder he’s been able to bring NEXT Financial Group to award-winning status.
Under his direction, NEXT Financial Group has won the Broker/Dealer of the Year Award for seven years by Investment Advisor Magazine. The Houston-based broker/dealer company has focused on achieving success for its representatives. D’Angelo believes that “NEXT was built on the premise that reps would have voice, value, and vision.” ** Each year investment Advisor magazine conducts a poll asking its representative readers to rate how well their broker/dealer is meeting their needs in key areas. Borker/dealers that are rated the highest by their reps are name “Broker/Dealer of the Year” in one of the four divisions based on each broker/dealer total number of representatives.
Today NEXT Financial Group is a fast-growing broker/dealer company, and at year-end 2007, it had 882 independent-contractor advisors and 110 home-office employees. D’Angelo says the firm has doubled its gross dealer concessions ($114 million in 2007) in two years.
