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Committed to Helping You Build Your Practice

Creating Wealth
Through Client Success

Founded by two financial advisors searching for a better way than their experience at a global wirehouse, Pinnacle Investments has grown to become one of the largest dually registered Broker-Dealers and Registered Investment Advisors in our region. Pinnacle offers a full range of products and services to support Advisors including rep-managed discretionary accounts (fee-based), third-party advisory accounts, employer-sponsored retirement plans, financial planning, lending, and insurance in addition to traditional securities brokerage products (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, UITs).

As an employee-owned company, the Pinnacle management team is comprised of practicing Financial Advisors who understand the hard work you’ve put into building your brand. That’s why we give you the option to keep your identity or share in our branding. We are happy to support your brand in the same way we’d be proud to have you share our name.

Since our inception, Pinnacle has repeatedly delivered on our commitment to be a supportive partner for our advisors. Whether you’re moving from a small firm or a major wirehouse, our experienced and efficient transition team will ensure your business hits the ground running.

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Why Pinnacle is Right For You

Multi-Company Ownership Opportunity

  • Equity in the parent company
  • An added benefit on top of your book of clients

One-of-a-Kind Business Model

  • Broker-Dealer / RIA / Insurance / PEO / Creative Marketing
  • Multiple business lines give you more opportunities to make money while reducing competition
  • Enables you to provide more services to your clients all under one roof

Advisor Run Firm

  • Founded by advisors, for advisors
  • Management are still advisors themselves and “walk in your shoes” every day
  • Clients first, advisors second, firm third
  • Flexibility to invest and run your practice your way

The Benefits are Endless

In 2015, Pinnacle started its own Professional Employer Organization (PEO) called Pinnacle Employee Services (PES). A PEO is principally a payroll, Human Resources, and benefits provider that is a way for businesses to comply with ever-increasing and burdensome regulations that are constantly changing. By streamlining these processes, PES is able to provide services not readily available to small businesses ultimately saving them money and time. The perfect union between our Broker-Dealer/RIA and PEO are energized by one another and, as any good team, is unstoppable. They grow organically and provide guidance and opportunities that couldn’t happen without each other.

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More About Pinnacle’s Offerings

Elizabeth Higman, Marketing and Branding Manager

Marketing and Branding Manager

Elizabeth Conklin

When you join Pinnacle Investments, you’re joining more than an advisory firm; you’re partnering with people who want to help you grow your business. Why? Because when you succeed, we all succeed. Our in-house marketing team will work with you to not only build the brand image you want but listen to your personal marketing needs and help you get it done. We make it easy for our advisors to effectively and efficiently market themselves at Pinnacle.

“Working at Pinnacle gives me the chance to utilize every part of my marketing and branding experience to elevate the advisors’ presence in front of prospective and current clients. Whether it’s a custom video, social media pages and posts, email campaigns, or tangible marketing materials, you’ll have someone in-house ready to help you at a moment’s notice.”

Marketing Strategy

We believe each advisor has their own business under the Pinnacle brand. We dive deep into you, your clients, and what sets you apart from other advisors to create a truly custom marketing strategy. We’re there to help you every step of the way; whether you need help generating ideas, have an idea you want to bring to life or want to know what’s working for other advisors.

Website Design & Hosting

If you already have a website, we can seamlessly transition it to our secure hosting platform, where our team will ensure it receives ongoing maintenance and support. If you don’t have a website yet, our expert designers will create a custom site that fits your unique needs, handle all maintenance and updates, and ensure it’s fully compliant.

Traditional Print Marketing

Despite what you may hear, print isn’t dead! It is a great way to establish your business and show your support of local causes and events. We’re here to help you create stand-out materials that showcase you and your business.

Product & Services Brochures

Our in-house team will work with you to create product and services brochures to help you market the wide variety of things Pinnacle has to offer your clients.

Social Media Marketing

Whether you’re just getting started with social media or are already a pro, our team will help you market yourself in an effective way across multiple platforms establishing yourself as a trusted source in the finance space.

Digital Ad Campaigns

Digital marketing is the best way to target your ideal client with the right message at the right time. There are a variety of strategies that can be used and we’ll help you figure out which is best for your business.

Email Campaigns

Emailing prospective and current clients is a great way to stay top-of-mind and remind them you’re there. Our team will help create, send and track your email campaigns so you know how people are interacting with your business.

Videos

Whether it’s creating a script, shooting a quick video for social media, or assisting with the branding and messaging of your video with an outside production company, our team will help with any video questions you may have.

Liz Bartlett, Director of Recruitment

Ready for a Confidential Discussion?

Our recruitment team is available to answer any questions you have about Pinnacle Investments.

Liz Bartlett,
Chief Business Development Officer
(315) 295-3826
LizBartlett@PinnacleHoldingCo.com

Schedule a Meeting on Liz’s Calendar

Our Core Values

  • Clients’ interests are the reason we are in business. Period.
  • Our people and the reputation of our company are the two most important assets that we have. We expect the best of our people and will be unyielding in protecting our reputation.
  • Most of our people have ownership in our business and recognize that teamwork and collaboration are a superior method of moving our organization forward for the benefit of all our stakeholders.
  • We operate with a flat organizational structure. Anyone with an idea or constructive thought can openly present them to colleagues. We have found that some of our best ideas come from the non‐management members of our organization.
  • We encourage and support the growth of our people in both their professional as well as their personal lives to better the communities in which they live.
  • Entrepreneurship is the oxygen we thrive on.
  • We believe transparency is an essential trait for building trust.

Gregg Kidd

Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle Holding Company, LLC
Gregg Kidd, Co-Founder

Gregg founded Pinnacle Investments with Dan Raite in 1996. Their vision was to create a financial services firm focused on serving the needs of clients. With over 35 years of industry experience, Gregg started his career in the financial services industry in 1985 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984 from Ithaca College.

Prior to starting Pinnacle Investments, Gregg served as a Vice President with a global financial services firm for 10 years. He is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) General Securities Principal (Series 24) and Municipal Securities Principal. In addition to his role as Managing Partner at Pinnacle Investments, he also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle Holdings, founded Pinnacle Capital Management in 2006 and coordinated the acquisition of Confidential Planning in 2007.

Gregg continues to explore growth opportunities for the Pinnacle brand along with ways of enhancing the client experience. He is very involved in overseeing the Pinnacle Team to ensure his founding vision of serving clients continues to be met with the highest standards. He works with high-net-worth individuals and families, specializing in growing and preserving multi-generational wealth.

Gregg served as a FINRA District Committee Member from 2003-2006, a member of the FINRA Consultative Committee from 2006-2007, and served as a board member of the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency.

Check the background of this investment professional on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.

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