Hanson Slaughter is a Managing Director with 1919 Investment Counsel, a boutique investment advisory firm focused on high net worth, family office, and institutional clients. He began his career in 1994 with PaineWebber’s public finance group in New York, returning to Birmingham in 2000 to join a boutique investment bank. He joined Sterne Agee, a regional investment bank, in 2006 as head of public finance and subsequently formed the Sterne Agee Family Office in 2011 as an addition to the firm’s existing wealth management platform. Hanson served as President and CEO of the Trust Company of Sterne Agee prior to joining 1919 Investment Counsel as part of Stifel’s acquisition of Sterne Agee in 2015.

Hanson serves on the boards of CommerceOne Bank, Indian Springs School (Chair, Stewardship & Planned Giving), the Sterne Agee Charitable Foundation (President) and is a donor trustee of the Jefferson Trust. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham and past Chairman of the Birmingham Botanical Society. He majored in Finance and Marketing at the Commerce School at UVA (’94) and holds his MBA from Duke University (’02). Hanson and his wife, Melissa, have two children and live in Birmingham.