Mr. Doyle has been in the securities industry for 25 years. He began his career at Wheat, First Securities in 1987 when the firm had 50 offices and 500 brokers in the Mid-Atlantic region. Through 10 acquisitions and mergers, the firm evolved into Wachovia Securities LLC, one of the largest in the country. Buddy was a Senior Vice President and held leadership roles in that growing organization in Operations, Finance, Commodities, Technology, Compliance and the Private Client Group.

Prior to joining Oyster, Buddy was responsible for the technology that supports the compliance and control environment for the firm’s retail brokerage division. The division included traditional, bank, independent rep, clearing, online, discount, and Latin America brokerage business. In that role, Buddy and his team transitioned the organization from paper-based activity reports and manual processes to web-based exception reports and automated processes with the appropriate control points in the workflow.

Buddy was responsible for the creation and implementation of the Wachovia Securities branch manager workstation, branch audit, customer identity, dispute resolution, email archiving and supervision, issue tracking, registration, rule implementation, SharePoint, and surveillance applications.

Buddy is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.  He is a member of the NSCP and has passed the FINRA/NFA Series 3, 7, 8 (9/10), 24, 53, 63 and 66 exams.  Registrations are typically inactive, but may be used when appropriate to perform interim functions for our clients.