FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Brian Kerekes

In 1998, while still a junior at West Virginia University studying mechanical engineering, I accepted an offer from the United States Navy to become a Nuclear Power Officer. With the following sign-on bonus, my father, a local banker of 25 years, recommend I invest part of it, which I did with a little known company at the time called Edward D. Jones. Subsequently, investing became a hobby, then a passion and then eventually a career.

Eleven years later in 1999, I jumped on an opportunity to share my investing passion with others and became a financial advisor with Edward Jones. Since...