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Andrew Gluck - President, Editor

Andrew Gluck is a veteran financial reporter and the founder and CEO of Advisor Products Inc., a marketing company serving 1,800 financial advisory firms. Founded in 1996, Advisor Products provides private-labeled websites, client newsletters, brochures, and creative services, including graphic design and marketing copy writing, to independent advisors. The company recently launched Personal Client Portals, which allows an advisory firm to provide a personal website for of its clients.

Gluck began his career as a police-beat reporter at daily newspapers. In 1983, he began covering personal finance, ghost writing a newspaper column for the American Institute of CPAs. He returned to newspapers in 1986, covering Wall Street and writing a Sunday column for five years at The New York Daily News. From 1991 to 1996, Gluck covered investing and financial planning at Worth magazine, where he was a senior writer.

Since mid-1996, Gluck has been writing a monthly column, The Gluck Report, which is now published in Financial Advisor Magazine, where he serves as editor-at-large. The Gluck Report covers advisor technology, wealth management, and practice management. Gluck earned a BA in journalism at New York University, and an MIA from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. He and his wife, Mindy, have two children, Alison, 16, and Jason, 14, and live in Long Island with their three dogs, Ozzie, Sophie, and Wally.

 

Jim Voss - Chief Technology Officer
Jim Voss is an expert web technologist, having held engineering and management positions at several software companies.  In addition to his role as CTO of Advisors4Advisors, Jim serves as Operations Director for Advisor Products Inc. 

Jim owned an IT consulting business serving small companies on Long Island in the early 90s.  After selling the business in 1999 he transitioned to a career in software development at Fatwire Software.  In 2004, he was recognized as one of Long Island's Top Twenty Techies by LISTnet for his role there as Director of Product Management. Jim went on to become Vice President of Client Services at Fatwire before leaving to take on the role of Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Heartbeat Software. In Fall of 2008 he joined Advisor Products Inc. as Operations Director.

Voss studied mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a B.A. in organizational management from Manhattan college.  He lives on Long Island with his wife Diana and their two sons Thomas and Peter.  When he's not if front of a computer or spending time with his family, he enjoys woodworking in his backyard shop.

Steve Gordonson - Vice President, Information Technology

Steve Gordonson has developed software and IT systems for over 25 years. In 1997, Steve co-founded AdvisorSites, a website development company, with Andrew Gluck. AdvisorSites later merged with Advisor Products Inc.

Gordonson oversees all technology systems at API, including development and maintenance of its content management and compliance systems, which are used by 1,800 advisory firms to manage their websites, email newsletters, and print newsletters. He is the chief architect of API’s Personal Client Portals system, overseeing development of interfaces with professional applications used by advisors. The company’s proprietary CRM system, which embeds all of API’s processes to create websites, newsletters, brochures and other products, is maintained by developers supervised by Gordonson, as are the company’s web servers and internal network.


Before joining Advisor Products, Gordonson consulted to Citibank, Comverse Technologies, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, and EDO Corporation. He designed and developed software used in biomedical instrumentation, satellite phones, EZPass toll systems, digital call recording,  bank transaction messaging, and a wide range of other systems. Gordonson received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University, College of Engineering, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Santa Clara. He and his wife, Lynn, live in Long Island with their daughter, Julie, 15, and their son, Josh, 18, who attends MIT.

 

Mindy Gluck - Vice President, Finance 

 

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