Joe Duran's Rise Growth Recruits Two Senior Executives

Rise Growth Partners, the recently launched strategic RIA minority investment firm led by Joe Duran, the United Capital founder and Goldman Sachs veteran, has appointed two new senior executives in Jennifer Geoghegan and Tony Ling.

Geoghegan, formerly of Focus Financial Partners, joins the firm as chief marketing officer, while Ling, who departs Corsair Capital, has been named managing partner of investments.

Geoghegan entered the RIA industry as the head of marketing and advisor coaching at Focus Financial Partners. From there she joined a Focus partner firm, the Colony Group, as its first chief marketing officer. Geoghegan has been replaced in that role by Kathleen Alcorn, who was previously with Focus partner firm Connectus Wealth Advisers.

Ling most recently served as managing director of Corsair Capital, a financial services-focused private equity firm, where he managed transactions totaling billions of dollars of enterprise value. He previously worked at Lightyear Capital and JPMorgan.