Craig Young
Managing Director
National Business Development Executive
Merrill, A Bank of America Company

“Our ability to grow is reflective of our teamwork and our culture. We work hard to ensure that our teammates feel empowered to leverage their unique strengths to help our clients achieve their goals.”

Description of field of expertise

Craig Young, one of the youngest members of the executive leadership team at Merrill Lynch.

In his role,  Young wears many hats – mentor, motivator, and coordinator, all while ensuring a disparate team of some 14,000 across the Thundering Herd are working toward the same goals and learning from the best among them.  Craig and his team play a key role in ensuring the field is positioned to leverage two major enhancements for advisors and their clients—the Merrill advisor workstation, and financial planning and monitoring capabilities—in ways that help advisors create capacity and best serve clients.

Through his position atop Merrill’s Advisor Growth Network, the group’s nationwide forum of advisors, Young filters and amplifies new practice management ideas. He’s upped advisor use of “the Bull Horn”—an internal, Wiki-like site for best practices and case studies contributed by the firm’s top advisors.

Young is also responsible for organizing weekly leadership meetings between Andy Sieg and the company’s approximately 750-strong divisional and market leadership ranks and organizes Sieg’s weekly podcasts for Merrill Lynch’s 25,000 employees with outside experts and internal stakeholders.

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