Joe applies his decades of business and investment experience to help his clients navigate their financial road. This partnering requires a trusted relationship built over the course of time through positive and stressful environments.

 

Prior to joining HJ Sims, Joe spent more than 20 years in the computer, applications and communications technology sectors, and working for tech start-ups supporting Fortune 100 companies. He also spent more than four years working in the insurance industry, managing litigation.

 

Born in Michigan and raised in New Jersey, Joe had insatiable curiosity and relished his father’s in-depth answers to his many questions.

 

Joe is practiced at the skill of listening, and is adept at applying solutions to problems, having learned this skill during his time in the technology sector where he was continually examining a variety of organizations from the inside-out, including brokerage, government and private companies. Joe gained a deep knowledge of how businesses succeed, factors that affect financial performance and the mechanisms of a company’s organization. Consequently, Joe possesses a broad business knowledge. Joseph leverages this knowledge while examining investment opportunities with his financial clients—a powerful know-how that helps inform his role as a Financial Advisor.

 

After leaving the technology sector, in 2004, Joe secured a position as a licensed financial advisor with David Lerner Associates. He built a business comprised of approximately $90 million worth of client assets. When Joe moved to HJ Sims, many clients followed him—he is truly valued by his clients for his ingenuity and honesty, which begets trust. Some of those client relationships are now approaching 17 years—all because Joe does what is in his clients’ best interest. Joe also takes time to educate and explain investment strategies to his clients so they are prepared for the potential upside and downside of any solution.

 

In his spare time, Joe enjoys woodworking, building furniture for a purpose. Joe sees a correlation between the craft of woodworking and financial planning. He believes that like furniture, long-term financial needs require a plan in order to be built. Just as the woodworker takes raw material and applies his techniques and tools to build something useful, Joe believes the same holds true with investing. He strives to apply the right solutions at the right times within a client’s comfort level in order to build a useful plan.

 

Joe also enjoys spending time with this family, exercise and running.

 

Joe holds his Series 7, 63, 66 and insurance (life, health and long-term care) licenses. He earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.