Adam Antoniades promoted to CEO of Cetera

Adam Antoniades promoted to CEO of Cetera
Takes reins from chairman and interim CEO Ben Brigeman.
DEC 03, 2019
Cetera Financial Group has appointed Adam Antoniades its chief executive officer, and a member of board of directors. He has served as the company's president since 2014. [More: Robert Moore is back. And he's focused on REITs] Cetera's chairman, Ben Brigeman, had been serving as interim CEO since the departure of Robert Moore last February. [Recommended video: Joni Youngwirth: Factors that make clients the best fit for an advice firm] Mr. Antoniades was a founder of First Allied, now a Cetera broker-dealer, in 1994, and served as its president and CEO for almost two decades.

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