Ralph is a senior consultant at Oyster Consulting, LLC offering top quality compliance, risk, and trading services to broker/dealers and investment advisers.

Ralph has been in the financial industry for 16 years, starting his career as a Financial Consultant for The Financial Group of Virginia.  Ralph then moved to Wachovia Securities, LLC, now Wells Fargo Advisors (and its predecessor firms) where he became a Fixed Income and Equity trader.  His trading experience includes trading preferred securities, convertible preferreds, convertible bonds, equity-linked products.  Ralph also served as the syndicate coordinator for each of those products.

Over the past three years, Ralph has held several consultant roles at broker/dealers including Trading Compliance Officer, Branch Compliance Officer, Capital Markets Equity Compliance analyst, and Heighten Supervision Analyst.  Ralph’s experience as a trader and financial consultant allows him to communicate effectively across an organization and increases his ability identify, prioritize and resolve issues.  

Ralph is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College with a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Economics.  In addition, he completed FINRA Series 6, 7, 55, 63 and 66 registration exams as well as three section examinations toward the CFP designation.  These registrations are currently active.