Jeffrey Vanover is a 2004 graduate of Rice University, four-year letterman on the Rice University Football Team, former Team Captain, All-Conference Linebacker (WAC), and holds a Bachelor of Arts through the Weiss School of Natural Sciences/Humanities (Will Rice College). Jeffrey has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets, asset and portfolio management, and focuses primarily in private wealth advisory services and family legacy planning. Jeffrey is a native Texan and grew up throughout the swamps and Piney Woods of Southeast & East Texas. Born in Beaumont, TX, Jeffrey’s father was a football coach, and thus he crossed the State of Texas. Jeffrey graduated high school in Diboll, TX and headed to Rice University on a football scholarship, playing his first year at quarterback before settling into his role as a linebacker. Jeffrey began his early working career back in East Texas as an intern-analyst within the former Temple-Inland family of companies. Here he joined the Operations Research Group, within the Temple-Inland Forest Products division. This is where Jeffrey met his future wife, Elizabeth “Lisa” Vanover (University of St. Thomas ’04). Jeffrey and Elizabeth have been married for 20 years, and are proud parents of their son, Orion. A semester before his graduation at Rice, Jeffrey began an internship program with American Express in their little-known wealth management division. In late-2005, American Express successfully completed a spin-off of this division, now known as Ameriprise Financial. During his 10-year tenure at Ameriprise, Jeffrey became Manager of the Advanced Advisor Group, Field Vice President, and then Managing Director and portfolio manager of Kurka, Vanover, & Associates, a financial advisory and private wealth division within Ameriprise Financial. In 2014, Jeffrey co-founded OakStreet Capital Management, a financial advisory and private wealth management firm in Houston, TX, where he served as Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer for 5 years. In 2019, OakStreet Capital Management was acquired by HilltopSecurites, Inc. HilltopSecurities is a Texas-based, leading public finance, municipal underwriting, wealth management, municipal investment bank, and the third largest clearing firm in the U.S. OakStreet Capital Management, and its founding team, lead the Wealth Management division and continue to steward private clients autonomously within HilltopSecurities. Jeffrey currently serves as Financial Advisor and Senior Vice President of the Private Client Group at HilltopSecurities, Inc. Jeffrey, Lisa, and Orion reside in Houston, just south of campus in Old Braeswood. Jeffrey is a Lifetime Member of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. He has formerly served as the Vice-President of the Rice University “R” Association of Former Letterwinners and volunteers on the Rice Alumni Volunteers for Admission (RAVA).