Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Modera’s Tom Orecchio on Scaling Agency Tradition

Progress can imply very various things relying on how a agency is constructed and who it’s constructed for.

What does it actually take to evolve from a small advisory observe right into a professionally managed agency with out dropping tradition, consumer focus or identification?

On this episode of the RIA Edge Podcast, host David Armstrong speaks with Tom Orecchio, CFA, CFP, ChFC, AIF, chief government officer, wealth supervisor and principal at Modera Wealth Administration, about constructing an employee-owned RIA designed for long-term development. He shares how management, possession alignment and disciplined M&A form Modera’s development strategy. 

Tom additionally explains how service enlargement, expertise investments and natural development planning help advisors whereas conserving purchasers on the heart.

Key takeaways:

  • Figuring out the expansion trajectory inflection level the place advisor principals have to grow to be, or rent, skilled managers

  • His agency’s expertise with worker fairness possession

  • What Modera seems for in acquisition companions (past location or dimension)

  • Why a expertise revamp set the agency as much as help future development, retain operational consistency and the consumer expertise

  • His agency’s strategy to natural development

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About Our Visitor:

Tom’s profession started at Heritage Monetary the place he labored as a monetary planner. In 1995, he joined the agency Greenbaum and Associates the place he later turned a associate. His position as a principal and wealth supervisor continued because the agency grew and developed into Greenbaum and Orecchio after which into its present entity, Modera Wealth Administration, LLC.

Tom obtained his B.A. in authorities and legislation from Lafayette School and went on to earn a few of the most acknowledged credentials within the business. He holds the Chartered Monetary Analyst® designation and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER skilled. He’s additionally a Chartered Monetary Advisor, a Chartered Life Underwriter® and an Accredited Funding Fiduciary.

Tom is a Nationwide Affiliation of Private Monetary Advisors (NAPFA) registered monetary advisor. He has demonstrated his management and dedication to fiduciary requirements within the business by serving as NAPFA Chairman (2007-08) and as a nationwide board member (2004-08). In 2013, Tom was the recipient of the NAFPA Robert J. Underwood Distinguished Service Award. He’s an lively member of the CFA® Institute, the Nationwide CEO Research Group, and the 20/20 Nationwide Research Group.

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Tom is actively concerned in the neighborhood as director of the Modera Wealth Administration Scholarship Fund and is on the board of administrators for the Modera Charitable Basis. He additionally sits on the Northeast Advisory Board for Lafayette School. Tom has served as a board member of the finance committee for the Cathedral of Saint John the Theologian and in addition Northvale PAL, Inc. As well as, he has served as NV Eagles Youth Soccer president, Bergen County Junior Soccer League treasurer, and has sat on the board of administrators for the youth baseball league in his city. Tom loves spending time along with his household and three sons and infrequently might be discovered on the soccer or baseball subject teaching his sons’ groups.


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