Brandon Pope
Building and advising close to $1 billion in investment portfolio assets and total personal fortunes exceeding $3 billion, Brandon brings a unique perspective to spiritual investment planning, giving and wealth. His groundbreaking book, Spiritual lessons from WALL STREET, shares the personal revelations that truly changed his life.
Brandon Pope has spent more than 20 years of his career providing financial advice for close to 100 of the nation’s wealthiest high net-worth individuals, families, trusts, estates and foundations. Pope’s tenure began advising clients of the international accounting and consulting firms of KPMG & PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He currently advises clients with the premier Wall Street investment management firm Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a unit of AllianceBernstein L.P., whose combined assets total close to $500 billion.
His realization that faith is more than two hours on Sunday, began on a
mission trip to Juarez, Mexico in the back of a 16-seat passenger van. After witnessing the abject poverty in Juarez, he yearned to do something to reconcile the imbalance he was experiencing in his own life and the lives of some of his clients. This culminated in a set of Spiritual tools that celebrate our choice to be
Greedy for God™ through deposits of
Time and Money for Others, rather than Ourselves.
Pope practices the fine art of balancing his role as a financial advisor with writing books and carrying his message of Christ-centered service and giving across the nation, including well over 40 unique guest appearances on
radio, television and in print. Brandon’s appearances have included Crown Financial Ministries’ MoneyLife Radio, the Moody Broadcasting Network (a Divison of the Moody Bible Institute), and Janet Parshall’s America. His television appearances have included WATC-TV 57's Atlanta LIVE, Crossroads Television’s "100 Huntley Street" (Toronto, Canada) and he is scheduled to appear in Dallas, Texas on Daystar’s "Celebration" in February 2010.
Brandon plays a passionate role in multiple organizations that serve local and international causes related to poverty, homelessness, education, hunger and prison ministry including Habitat for Humanity, Amor Ministries, Prison Entrepreneurship Program, SoupMobile, Global Advance and many others. He is a founding member of the North Texas Christian Foundation and serves on the Trinity Christian Academy Foundation Investment Committee. Brandon’s work focuses on mentoring, discipleship, conscious capitalism and social justice.
Brandon received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and his Master of Accounting degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is truly a student of his profession, gathering the following designations and licenses: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®).
Brandon and his adoring wife of 18 years, Maria have a son Jackson, 15, and a daughter Rachel, 11. Their church home is Cornerstone, the contemporary worship community of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, where he and his family have lived since 1993.
