Dynasty snatches a top 'road warrior' from FiNet

Dynasty Financial Partners is bringing aboard Ronald Sallet as the third in a triumvirate of top sales executives and partners charged with translating to prospects just what the heck Dynasty does and why they should sign on as clients.

Sallet, 49, who reports to Shirl Penney, president and chief executive of Dynasty, leaves a similar position at FiNet, Wells Fargo’s independent broker-dealer.

His departure is so fresh that a spokeswoman swore he was still on the job when for comment. She later called back to confirm that Sallet had in fact cleared out his desk.

“I was asking around for a year and there were a couple of names that kept surfacing,” Penney says.

Complex mission

Like Tim Bello and Ed Friedman before him, Sallet’s job will be to pursue RIAs, large-scale IBD reps, and so-called corner-office stockbrokers and to sell them on the Dynasty concept that has variously been called a completion strategy, an outsourcer, an outsourcer of outsourcers and a platform of platforms. See: Dynasty Financial Partners drops its passive-referral strategy and hires a ex-HighTower talent to engineer proactivity.

None of these descriptions pleases the Dynasty principals because each leaves something out. There are both proprietary and outsourced elements of the platform in addition to products, services and business connections and intellectual capital. See: Dynasty Financial Partners brings on Timothy Bello from SkyBridge Capital.

Shirl Penney: I was asking around
for a year and there were
a couple of names that kept
surfacing.

Penney says that, indeed, the message is complex enough that Sallet will ride shotgun with Bello and himself for a period of months to get up to speed. But once Sallet has a working knowledge of Dynasty, he will be invaluable as a means of opening his company’s bandwidth in communicating with prospects. Much of that weight falls on Bello — a difficult task because early conversations require broad (read: time-consuming) educational conversations.

Road warrior

Sallet will continue to live in St. Louis, but will start by spending six months in New York before hitting the road to cover his territory: the United States.

“It’s a road warrior position,” Penney says.

Sallet joined Wells Fargo Advisors in 2007 and, for the last four years, he reported to FiNet’s president. Sallet headed branch development and operations in 27 states with FiNet. See: Wells Fargo’s Finet deepens recruiting team, adds regions.

Prior to working at Wells Fargo, he worked at Citigroup/Smith Barney and was senior vice president, director of financial services groups in Manhattan at Citigroup Global Markets. Before that Sallet held a variety of field positions including: financial advisor, national training officer, assistant branch manager and branch office manager.

Sallet graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management.

“Dynasty stood as the clear leader in providing an integrated platform that empowers advisors who want to live the American Dream of owning their own business,” Sallet said in a release. “I am delighted to now be able to talk to these advisors, as a fellow entrepreneur, to help them accomplish their goals as business owners.”