Janet’s career in financial services began with a college internship and continued through the next 25 years. A Florida native, she is a graduate of the University of South Florida’s College of Business.
Janet received her securities license and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification in 1988. Since then, she has been nominated three times to the Barron’s list of “Top 100 Advisors”. In working with our clients, she specializes in comprehensive financial planning, including retirement income planning, estate and tax planning, education funding, and risk management.
Janet is very active in her local community and also has a special interest in international affairs. She has served as a director and officer of the United Nations Association of Tampa Bay; a director of the Tampa Club, Inc.; a past director of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; a member of Women’s Leadership of the United Way of Tampa Bay, and has been involved with numerous other charitable and civic organizations. Currently, she is a member of the Society of International Business Fellows and the Tampa Bay Area Committee on Foreign Relations. Also, Janet is one of the two founding donors who have recently established the Study of the Ancient World Endowed Scholarship at the University of South Florida.
Janet, her husband and three children live in South Tampa. When not working with clients or filling her many volunteer roles, she enjoys traveling, gardening and entertaining.
Like Janet, Greg is a veteran of the financial services industry. He began his career in 1987 and shortly thereafter joined Shearson Lehman Hutton. After moving his practice to Tampa in 1990, he enjoyed a long tenure with Citigroup/Smith Barney. In 2008, he joined longtime colleagues Janet Nichols and T.J. King to form Nichols, Geegan and King Family Wealth Advisors of Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Greg is an honors graduate from the University of Florida and holds numerous securities, insurance and commodities licenses. He has also held a principal/supervisor’s license for over 20 years.
A St. Petersburg native, Greg is an avid outdoorsman and athlete. He enjoys sport fishing and hiking in addition to running and weight training. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife and son.
After graduating with a degree in finance from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Thomas “T.J.” King obtained his securities license and began his financial services career in 1991. He received an MBA with a concentration in finance and international business from the University of South Florida in 1998 and his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification in 2004.
In helping our clients manage their wealth, T.J. specializes in retirement income planning, investment analysis, lending strategies and charitable giving.
T.J. has been a longtime volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters, having mentored his “little brother” for over a decade. He currently serves as Advisory Board Chair for the Hillsborough County Academy of Finance, a program which provides a finance curriculum, internships, mentoring and other opportunities for high school students.
He is also a board member of the Tampa Theatre Foundation and is very passionate about helping with the restoration and cultural efforts of the historic movie theatre.
T.J. lives with his wife and son on Davis Islands in Tampa where he serves as a board member of the Davis Islands Civic Association.
A native of Tennessee and a graduate of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Leah has worked in the financial services industry for more than 19 years. When she moved to Florida in 1997, she began working with Janet Nichols, Greg Geegan and T.J. King. She remained part of the team when Nichols, Geegan and King was formed in 2008.
Leah holds Series 7, 63 and 66 securities licenses, as well as the WMS (Wealth Management Specialist) designation. She is also life, health and variable annuity licensed. She actively assists our team in the financial planning discovery process and specializes in securities trading, mutual fund research, and establishing retirement accounts for our clients.
Laurie’s career in the financial services industry began in 1982 in her hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1989, she relocated with her family to Clearwater, Florida, where she continued to work in the brokerage industry.
After a hiatus to spend time with her children, she resumed her financial services career in 2004 and began working with the other members of our team.
Laurie holds her Series 7 and 66 securities licenses as well as Series 9 and 10 supervisory licenses. Laurie is also life, health and variable annuity licensed. She concentrates on all aspects of service and operations for our team’s clients, including trade executions, funds wiring and transfers, insurance and annuity operations, and cash management.
In addition to parenting her three children, Laurie enjoys music, football and deep sea fishing.
About Raymond James
Raymond James is one of the largest independent financial services firms in the United States. Since its beginning in 1962, it has always been a different kind of company – embracing long-term planning and methodical decision-making while staying uncompromisingly client focused. When other firms were simply buying and selling stocks or mutual funds, Raymond James focused on financial planning to help individuals reach their goals. It was the first firm to pioneer that concept – and today it supports its advisors with access to a full range of comprehensive resources, helping them to do the same.
- More than 5,400 financial advisors
- 2 million client accounts
- 2,400 locations (United States, Canada and abroad)
- $268 billion in client assets
- $35 billion managed by its subsidiary asset managers
Raymond James Financial was recently named the best full-service broker in the 2011 SmartMoney annual broker survey for the third time in four years – ranking above Edward Jones, Wells Fargo, UBS, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
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