Stephen B. Pryor

Stephen began his financial services career as a Merrill Lynch advisor trainee in 1991 in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He then spent two years as a financial advisor with Smith Barney and two more with Morgan Stanley. In 1998, Stephen joined Prudential Securities as a trainee manager, later becoming a sales manager, regional development manager and, ultimately, branch manager in Carmel, California. When Wachovia acquired Prudential, Stephen continued to serve in several roles: national director of Profit Formula, national director of recruiting, and complex manager in Richmond, Virginia. In August 2006, Stephen returned to Merrill Lynch where, for the next seven years, he served as complex director, first in New York’s Manhattan East Complex and then in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was recognized with the firm’s 2011 Complex Service Quality Award* and appointed as a director of the Merrill Lynch National Advisory Council to Management (ACTM). In 2013, Stephen was recruited by RBC Wealth Management to oversee six offices as their Portland, Maine, complex director.

Stephen joined Alex. Brown, a division of Raymond James, in January of 2017 as the regional executive for the Boston marketplace. The Boston office of Alex. Brown currently includes 27 client advisors and 17 administrative associates, with approximately $5.3 billion in assets under management. In 2019, the Alex Brown Boston market expanded to include Portland, Maine with the addition of a new office in the Old Port.

In 2018, Stephen was recognized as the Alex. Brown regional executive of the year and sits on the the Raymond James Advisory Board. In 2021, Stephen was appointed to the firm’s Sustainable Investing Advisory Committee as well as the Raymond James Diversity and Inclusion Network and Black Financial Advisor Network Council.

Stephen earned his Bachelor of Arts in government from Wesleyan University and attended graduate studies at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business.

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