Kenny Brown Jr., Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, has been with AmeriTrust’s parent company, Argent Financial Group, since 2013. He joined AmeriTrust in 2017 as Assistant Vice President and Portfolio Manager, bringing more than 10 years of trust and investment management experience serving clients ranging from endowments, foundations, trusts, pensions, mutual funds, and high net worth individuals. During 2018 AmeriTrust merged with Argent Financial Group and in 2019 he was named VP, Business Development. Later in 2021 he was promoted to Senior Vice President and COO of AmeriTrust. Prior to AmeriTrust, he spent four years at Heritage Trust in Oklahoma City, also part of Argent Financial Group, serving as a trust investment officer and a trust administrative officer.
Kenny began his career as a fund accounting analyst with Fidelity Investments and later transitioned to Guidestone Financial Resources in Dallas, Texas where he served as a financial analyst and then as an investment analyst.
Kenny is an active Tulsa Estate Planning Forum member and currently serves on the board. He earned both his B.B.S. and his MBA in finance from Dallas Baptist University. He is a Registered Investment Advisor Representative and a Level II Candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Kenny volunteers with The Coffee Bunker, an organization supporting veterans and service members in their transition back to civilian life. He also volunteers with Tulsa Classical Academy, Oklahoma’s first classical charter school. In his spare time, Kenny enjoys traveling, reading, running, giving back to the community and spending time with his wife, an OB/GYN at OSU-Physicians; and son and daughter; and doodle, Zoey.