Richard Ranck, CIMA® CKA® is the Founder & Managing Partner. He leads our distribution and consulting efforts for the central U.S. He is an industry veteran and entrepreneur with more than two decades of investment management experience serving financial advisors, RIAs and investment professionals.

Previously, Richard served in business development roles with Veriti Management, Eventide, Invesco, PowerShares and Morgan Keegan.

Outside of the office, Richard enjoys spending time with his wife and 5 kids on their farm. Richard is active in his local church and enjoys crossfit, hunting, skiing, horseback riding, and camping .

Chuck Friday is a Senior Advisor responsible for the distribution and consulting efforts focusing on Florida and Pennsylvania. Chuck is an industry veteran with 35 years of investment management experience serving financial advisors, RIA's and Independents.

Previously, Chuck spent the last 31 years in a similar role with Invesco Asset Management. Prior to that he worked for Continental Equities, Transamerica Capital as well as Security First Financial Group.

Chuck enjoys spending his free time with his wife of 29 years, his 3 children and 3 grandchildren. In addition, he enjoys playing golf, skiing and other sporting activities.

Austin Brown is an Advisor Consultant. He covers several different channels including regional, bank, independent firms, and RIA's in the Southwestern U.S. territory. He is an ambitious self-starter, who builds rapport and trust with both prospects and key partners alike, identifies new business opportunities, and presents value-added programs.

Previously, Austin served as an External Wholesaler with Protective Life, Highland Capital, and AIG.

When he is not in the office, he enjoys traveling all over the great state of Texas to spend time with his family. Austin is an avid golfer and enjoys shooting sporting clays, a day on the lake, or anything and everything outside.

Ed is the Founder of etfEd Advisory, which provides consulting services to existing ETFs and asset managers looking to enter the space, with a focus on sales & distribution strategy. Ed has over 20 years experience in the ETF industry in a variety of roles including key accounts, institutional sales, relationship management, research and model portfolio management. Previously he was Senior VP, Director of ETF Business Development & Portfolio Strategies at Invesco PowerShares. Ed is also a Contributing Editor for the ETF Business Review. Ed graduated from Quincy University with a Bachelor degree in Economics.

Adam Neumeister is an advisor consultant covering the Western United States. Adam focuses on helping advisors with business development, portfolio construction and investment selection.

Adam is a 10 year veteran and prior to joining Valor, Adam worked for Brinker Capital and Hartford Funds.

Adam resides in California where he enjoys spending time at the beach with his wife and two year old daughter. He also enjoys golfing, snowboarding and being outdoors.

Mark DiPippa is a seasoned advertising executive with over 30 years of experience, including 27 years as owner of a full-service ad agency, DNA Creative. His award-winning work includes clients in the entertainment and financial services industries: Sector SPDR ETFs, Alerian MLPs, Cullen Funds, Penn Mutual Insurance, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, History Channel and others.

DNA Creative is the pro-bono agency of record for Invest In Others and Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.

Mark also owns an experiential and event marketing agency, On the Go Marketing. Founded in 1999, his firm produces events nationwide for Fortune 500 companies.

Utilizing the combined resources of his companies, Mark conceived and created The Centsables project. Its mission: to teach kids and their families about money. The multi-media, financial literacy initiative - the first of its kind - is currently licensed over 30 banks and credit unions in 18 states. A 13 episode animated television series just completed a three year run on Fox Business Network. Other elements include a website, centsables.com, books and comic series, a school outreach program, action-figure toy line, Centsables mobile app, retail banking for kids program and licensed merchandise.

Mark has a B.S. in business administration and an MBA.

Rachel brings creativity and a critical outlook to Valor as she oversees our communications and operations.

Rachel graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Masters Degree in Speech & Language Pathology. She has spent most of her career in education and brings tremendous organizational skills to the Valor team.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and gardening, camping, hiking and cross-fit.

A bond market veteran with over 39 years experience, JR is currently owner of the Rieger Report® LLC. providing periodic market commentary, perspectives and insights into the fixed income markets through the newsletter www.straighttalkaboutbonds.com. An advisory board member of BondView®, JR also serves as a consultant to financial institutions on fixed income analytics, indexing & benchmarking, index selection, fixed income valuation and mark-to-market compliance related issues.

Before starting the Rieger Report®, JR was the Managing Director and Global Head of Fixed Income Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices. While at S&P Dow Jones Indices JR developed and launched a global suite of debt market indices resulting in investable index products in 12 countries and totaling over $46billion in assets under management. Innovative indices launched under JR's leadership include S&P Municipal Series (maturing indices), the S&P 500 Bond Index family, the S&P Green Bond Index family and the first ever factor-based U.S. high yield corporate bond index. During this role, JR presented on the bond markets around the globe at industry events and represented S&P as a subject matter expert on the bond markets with the financial media in both print and television including CNBC and Bloomberg News.

Prior to joining S&P Dow Jones Indices, JR developed his bond market skills over a 26 year period at S&P's bond valuation business and concluded his bond valuation career as the Global Head of Bond Evaluations at S&P Securities Evaluations Services (FKA J.J. Kenny). His role included bond pricing oversight, chair of the S&P Bond Pricing Committee, regulatory point of contact, mutual fund board of director and pricing committee presentations and speaking about the bond markets around the globe. JR is a member of the CFA Society, National Federation of Municipal Analysts, Municipal Analysts Group of New York and the Fixed Income Analysts Society. JR is also an Associate Member of the Securities Experts Roundtable.

In 2019, JR became a Certified Retirement Counselor to bring his bond market experience to the retirement planning process.

Kurt is a valued part of our advisor services team. Kurt is a results-oriented business & channel development professional with 6-years of combined experience in banking sales, and startups for B2B & B2C ventures.

Kurt is from Makati City, the CBD area of the Philippines. He loves both outdoor and indoor activities (diving, swimming, yoga, home workout) and finds joy in preparing his "Healthy Power Bowl" every morning. Outside of work, Kurt volunteers for a non-profit organization in the PH which helps kids with pediatric cancer.

Trixie Alipoyo is a valued part of our advisor services team. Trixie has a background in aeronautical engineering and has a passion for helping people. Previously, Trixie served in several roles in customer service and quality assurance.

Outside of the office, Trixie enjoys reading, learning about aviation, working out, and doing yoga.

Aaron is a third-year student at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business in Columbus, Ohio. He is specializing in Finance along with pursuing a minor in Spanish. Outside of the classroom, Aaron is active in his local church and is a volunteer leader in a high school aged bible study. Along with this, he enjoys spending his time on the golf course, snowboarding, playing tennis, and learning Spanish.