Jeff Hare

Jeff Hare is a Financial Advisor and the Managing Director of Aventus Investment Advisors LLC, a financial advisory firm he founded in 2009 located in Cornelius, North Carolina. Aventus Advisors provides investment management, retirement planning, and business advisory services to individuals, families, and business owners.

Prior to Aventus Advisors, Jeff Hare spent twenty years in investment management and investment banking starting as an investment analyst with a family owned real estate investment company. Following real estate investment, he worked for a South American based private equity firm analyzing strategic investments and new business ventures. Following private equity, Jeff Hare worked for Citicorp as an equity analyst and portfolio analyst in Santiago, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil. While at Citibank, his investment research on Latin American companies and markets was published and distributed globally. Following Citicorp, Jeff Hare moved to Charlotte, NC in 1995 to work for Banc of America Securities where he focused on capital raising for foreign companies in both emerging and developed markets completing over $10 billion in transactions from the UK, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, India, Germany and Australia. He transitioned to a senior banker role for the US market in 2002 working with US companies in a number of industries. While at Banc of America, Jeff Hare’s team managed several multibillion dollar portfolios of investments for the bank and its clients. In 2007, he moved to SunTrust Robinson Humphrey where his role as Managing Director involved providing advisory and capital raising services to financial institutions, specialty finance companies, financial sponsors, and consumer/retail companies.

Jeff Hare holds a BA in Economics from the Whittemore School at the University of New Hampshire and a MBA from the Thunderbird School of International Management which he attended on a Kraft Foods scholarship. Jeff is a Chartered Financial Analyst (1996) and is an active member of the CFA Institute and the North Carolina Society of the CFA Institute. Jeff was a Commissioner for the Town of Cornelius, NC from 2011-2013 where he focused on economic development and responsible growth.

Jeff Hare lives in Cornelius, NC with his wife Jackie and three children. The Hares have lived in the Charlotte area since 1995 and Cornelius since 2001. The family enjoys traveling, triathlons, sailing, basketball and lacrosse.