Doug Rubenstein

As Senior Advisor to the Chairman, I am fortunate to be a key partner to Tad and our leadership team as we continue to build our culture across the firm, engage our many shareholders, spend time in our branch offices and help shape our vision for the next decade. I am proud that Tad created this new role to “honor my decades of leadership and enables his experience, perspective, enthusiasm and infectious energy to be leveraged in new ways as we grow into our future.”

My previous position as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the past 10 years played, as Tad mentioned, “a vital role in getting Edwards to where we are today.”

I enjoy being a member of our Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and a shareholder. My tenure as a public company board chair and almost 10 years as a director at that previous company has enabled me to carry out duties and responsibilities as an Edwards director.

Doug sourced, led and participated in transactions totaling more than $50 billion over his 30 years in investment banking. Before joining Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. in 2012, Doug served as managing director and Real Estate Investment Banking Group head at Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. Doug led one of the real estate industry’s longest-serving investment banking groups, which included more than 75 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) client relationships developed over his 18 years in the REIT industry.

Previously, he worked in investment banking for over 25 years at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., managing a variety of transactions including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions, and joint venture private placements.

As managing director and Real Estate Investment Banking Group head at A.G. Edwards, Doug’s management responsibilities included the Strategy Committee, Debt Capital Markets Committee and Equity Capital Markets Committee.

Doug received his M.B.A. at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in economics from Lake Forest College near Chicago. He holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 55, 63 and 79 securities licenses.

Doug is known by many friends and colleagues as “Ruby,” which he enjoys.

Ruby and his wife, Stacy, (his one and only girlfriend) met when he was 17 and she was 14. If Ruby were asked what celebrities would draw similarities to himself and his wife, he would say that Stacy reminds him of Mary Tyler Moore and that his mom thought he looks a

bit like Dustin Hoffman. The Rubensteins have two awesome sons, David and Michael, born in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Like so many, family is everything to the Rubensteins. They are avid skiers and travelers. A weekend alone together – anywhere — is priceless.

Fitness is called upon often because one of my mottos is: Life can be serious, but family, friends, good food, fine wine and traveling is fun.

Ruby grew up in the world of A.G. Edwards with one of his mentors, Norman Handel, a grand man and father figure.