Buddie C. Ballard, Jr., CFA
Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager at Alpha Capital Management. Mr. Ballard co-founded Alpha Capital Management to provide clients a non-biased partner, free from Wall Street conflicts, whose interests are aligned with their own.
Mr. Ballard is an eighteen-year industry veteran and earned a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Texas in 1997, a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Texas in 1986, and earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2002.Experience & Accomplishments:
- Managing Director, Wachovia Securities
- Senior Vice President, Salomon Smith Barney
- Member, Oversight Committee, University of Texas Ex-Student Association
- Member, Board of Directors, Austin YMCA
- Member, Board of Directors, Capital Certified Development Corporation
- Chairman of the YMCA of Austin Endowment Alliance
- Austin Under 40 Nominee, sponsored by the Young Men's Business League of Austin, 2003
- Member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute
- Austin Society of Financial Analysts member
- Member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals
- Resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children