Jim is the founder and Managing Director of Wealth Management Associates, Inc. as well as being the Manager of our Securities America, Inc. branch office. After graduating with a degree in Finance from the University of Virginia, Jim started his career in 1986 as a financial advisor trainee with Smith Barney Harris Upham; the firm that "made money the old fashioned waythey earned it." He worked for Smith Barney for several years and then joined the old Philadelphia brokerage firm of Butcher & Singer, which through various mergers and acquisitions became First Union Securities and today is part of Wells Fargo. Having worked for a major New York brokerage firm, a regional brokerage firm