Biographies

  Gregory A. Gallo, CPA/PFS, CRPC®

Gregory A. Gallo, CPA/PFS, CRPC® co-founded The Opus Group at Garden State Securities, Inc. in February of 2004. His experience is vast, having worked in the financial services industry for more than sixteen years. With his accounting background, PFS (AICPA's Personal Financial Specialist) and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC®) credentials, Series 7 & 27 licenses at Garden State Securities Inc., and both life and health insurance designations, Greg takes pride in his ability to understand an investor's broad range of financial needs. While Greg integrates the entire planning process, i.e. investment, retirement, insurance, income tax and estate planning, his CPA experience has helped him understand the devastating impact that taxation can have on retirement and thus he specializes in tax efficient planning strategies. Before establishing The Opus Group, Greg served as a Senior Vice President of Investments at Kirlin Securities, Inc. and M.S. Farrell & Co., Inc. for eight years. In 1992, he began his professional career in the Financial Services Division of the Audit Group at Ernst & Young LLP. Greg graduated from Trenton State College Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Accounting and completed the Executive Education Retirement Strategy Program at the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School.

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  Kevin J. DeRosa

Kevin J. DeRosa is a principal owner of Garden State Securities, Inc., a 30 year old independent retail brokerage firm, and he is also the co-founder of The Opus Group. Over the past 16+ years Kevin has specialized in areas of risk management, portfolio optimization, and wealth planning. Since his brother Mark signed his first Major League Baseball contract in 1996, Kevin's focus has been on developing financial strategies to turn short athletic careers into lifetime financial security. He has been able to apply these same principles to corporate executives of public and private companies, small business owners, and the individual investor. Kevin is an Investment Advisor Representative and holds various securities licenses at Garden State Securities Inc., including the Series 7, 24, 55, 63, and 65. He received his B.S. in Management from Southern Connecticut State University in 1992. 

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Thomas A. Gallo

Tom brings a career to The Opus Group at Garden State Securities that has spanned 25 years. Over that career, Tom has always had a focus on High Net Worth investors and satisfying their needs. Specializing in growth investments, Tom has monitored corporate insider purchases and has used this discipline as a catalyst for building stock portfolio since 1992.

Being a co-founder of the investment bank and brokerage firm, M.S. Farrell & Co. in 1991, Tom held senior management positions which included Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. During his 10 year tenure at Farrell, Tom was responsible for the day to day operations of the company including managing the firm’s sales force and overseeing their investment banking operations. All the while, he tended to a select high net worth client base. After orchestrating the successful sale of M.S. Farrell to Kirlin Securites on September 4, 2001, Tom took over the role of President of the 8 office national firm. After leaving Kirlin in 2003, Tom decided to leave the securities industry to pursue a number of interests which would enable him to satisfy his entrepreneurial spirit. From 2003- 2009, Tom was an Executive Producer of HATS, an Off- Broadway musical that had played in Denver, Chicago and Harrah locations in New Orleans and Las Vegas; real estate developer; merchant banker and a management/business consultant.

Seeing many similarities in today’s current economic climate to 1991, when Tom co-founded M.S. Farrell, he has decided to reenter the securities industry. He takes pride in his 25 year career and will utilize all of that experience on round 2 of his securities industry career.

Tom holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses at Garden State Securities Inc. and graduated from Fordham University in 1983.