The Sleight Group
The Sleight Group Team
For years, Chris has worked with clients specializing in the preservation of principal through income-driven investments and planning. He recognizes that people are searching for a reconnection in their financial relationships, and offers a vehicle to forming that personal rapport with the company’s professional staff. Chris utilizes a holistic approach to financial planning rather than simply leading with product. Chris specializes in pre-retirement, retirement and income planning for successful business owners and their families.
Christopher Sleight
WEALTH MANAGER
Prior to forming The Sleight Group, Chris was a compliance officer for Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation. He made the transition into the financial advisory industry to help serve a community in need of a professional who specializes in the legacy of wealth. After becoming managing director of Global Financial Private Capital in September 2009, Chris was responsible for building and mentoring a distribution network of 500 advisor’s groups and helped GFPC grow from $200M AUM in 2009 to over $5B AUM at the time of their Private Equity sale in September 2016. Chris’s focus on High Level Practice management through his mentoring tutelage with CEG Worldwide helps him maintain his high-level practice management consulting.
In 1987, Mr. Sleight relocated from Dayton, Ohio to Sarasota, Florida. He and his wife Renee’ have been married for 29 years and have two daughters, Bianca & Savannah. They are involved in many charities throughout Sarasota and Venice, including In-Stride, Donte’s Den, and Homes for Our Troops. Chris enjoys playing tennis and getting his daughters back home whenever possible.
Renee' Sleight
CLIENT RELATIONSHIP/PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
PRESENT POSITION:
Client Relationship/Practice Management
EDUCATION:
Ringling College of Art and Design, Bachelor’s in Interior Design and Space Planning
CREDENTIALS:
Registered Insurance Agent
Interior Designer in Sarasota for over 20 years
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Volunteering:
InStride – Equine assisted activity that contributes positively to the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social well-being of individuals with and without disabilities.
Oak Park School – Provides educational and therapeutic services to over 300 students with disabilities.
Sponsor:
“Honey” In stride Therapy Horse
Charities:
Toys for Tots, Homes for our Troops, Play For Pink, Hope 4 Communities and InStride
PASSION & COMMITMENTS:
Tennis with family and team tennis
Love to read, especially historical fiction
Anything creative, love building and creating
Spending time with my husband, 2 daughters and 3 pups
Bonnie Anderson
PRACTICE MANAGER
PRESENT POSITION:
Practice Manager
EDUCATION:
Rutger’s University, New Jersey, Bachelor’s of Art in English Literature and Art History
CREDENTIALS:
Life, Health and Annuity License, Series 7
PASSION & COMMITMENTS:
My Family, Husband 3 Children, and 1 Dog,
learning new things, travel, hiking, yoga, sailing, antiques and history, gardening, volunteering and supporting my children’s schools and activities, including Sarasota Youth Sailing, Technology Student Association for robotics, art music, and theater activities.
QUOTE:
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Nick Gyeszat
CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
PRESENT POSITION:
Client Relationship Manager
My professional focus is developing and maintaining formal, financial plans for our clients, as well as tracking performance and due diligence of the money managers we employ in our clients' investment portfolios.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors of Arts in Economics from The Ohio State University
CREDENTIALS:
Hold the Certified Investment Management Analyst® certification, administered by Investments & Wealth Institute™ and taught in conjunction with the Yale School of Management.
Carries his Series 65 license.
PASSION & COMMITMENTS:
Ohio State Football, My Dogs and as a new homeowner… house projects.
QUOTE:
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” -Warren Buffett