This CEO Become The Financial Dad & Built A $3.4B Financial Empire By Doing The Right Thing.

Tim Smith, the Founder & CEO of Aurora Private Wealth. $3.4B
in AUM





The Financial Dad


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQMUujNA5Q





Aurora Private Wealth Website:


https://www.aurorapw.com/





Bio:


Tim started his financial services career in 1985 with an
independent financial planning firm in northern New Jersey. While
the firm was fee-and-commission oriented in its business model,
he moved primarily fee-based in 1988 to manage client portfolios.
In 1995, he went on his own by starting an RIA firm, and in 1997
he started what is now APW Capital, Inc., as a broker-dealer to
service the transactional needs of several colleagues who had
joined.





When calls started coming in looking for a fee-friendly
broker-dealer, Tim joined with a successful Florida entrepreneur
to seize the opportunity and penetrate this market niche. Today,
APW Capital is a national leader in providing broker-dealer
services to advisors who market under their own unaffiliated RIA.





In addition to APW Capital, Tim founded Comprehensive Capital
Management, Inc., an SEC-registered investment advisor, in 2002,
as a compliment to the broker-dealer. The company allows
investment advisory representatives to manage client portfolios
for a fee, or to connect clients with other money managers. Most
recently, he started Aurora Private Wealth, Inc., a new
investment advisor driven by high technology solutions for
investment advisors who want to grow their practices rapidly at
minimal cost.





Tim has been an industry leader as well, serving three years on
FINRA District Committee, including two as Chairman of his region
and the final year as Chairman of the National Advisory Council,
representing the industry’s interests in the regulatory policy
and rulemaking process before FINRA and the SEC in Washington,
DC.





He has also served as a panelist for the TD Ameritrade Advisory
Panel.


Tim also provides leadership in private capacities, including as
a former Councilman and Mayor of his municipality; founder and
chairman of New Jersey’s Government Efficiency Movement; Board
Member of his county’s Economic Development Corporation; Board
Member of the Arts Council of the Morris Area; Trustee of
Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ; Finance Chairman of the
Morris County Republican Committee; and currently as Chairman of
the Morris Republican Victory PAC and a Trustee of Skyline
Theatre Company. Tim has been married to his wife, Tara, for over
25 years. They reside in Roxbury Township, NJ. His avocations are
politics and theatrical performing.





He has a daughter who is a yoga instructor, a son who works at
Google, and a daughter who is a student at NYU studying musical
theatre.