CIM Securities, LLC is a registered broker-dealer providing transaction-based capital markets services to institutional clients.

Bryan Tiller Emerson is a FINRA-licensed securities executive, investment banker, and entrepreneur with more than four decades of experience in capital markets, broker-dealer operations, and corporate leadership.

Mr. Emerson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Registered Principal, Chief Compliance Officer, and Financial and Operations Principal (FINOP) of CIM Securities, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. In this role he oversees regulatory compliance, broker-dealer operations, investment banking activities, and financial supervision. He holds FINRA licenses Series 7, 24, 27, 63, 79, 87, and 99.

Prior to joining CIM Securities, Mr. Emerson was a Registered Representative with Great Point Capital. Earlier in his career he served as Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Supervisory Principal of Sequence Financial Specialists LLC, where he was responsible for regulatory oversight, financial operations, and supervisory compliance.

Mr. Emerson is also the founder and former Managing Principal of Starlight Investments, LLC, a Houston-based investment bank specializing in private placements of equity securities. Under his leadership, the firm grew to approximately fifteen investment professionals operating in eighteen U.S. states.

Beyond his broker-dealer leadership, Mr. Emerson has been an entrepreneur for over forty years, founding and operating multiple companies. A decade of his career was spent in the telecommunications sector throughout Latin America, where he developed international business operations and strategic partnerships. He is fluent in Spanish.

Mr. Emerson has also served the securities industry in several capacities, including as a FINRA arbitrator, a member of FINRA’s National Technology Committee, and a member of FINRA’s Southwest Nominations Committee.

He holds a B.A. with Honors in Spanish and Economics from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He also completed the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base.

Mr. Emerson has been active in civic and academic organizations, including serving on the Council of Overseers of the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, the Rice Alliance Roundtable Advisory Board, and as President of the Jones School Alumni Association. His community service has also included leadership roles with Houston Achievement Place, the Center for Houston’s Future program, and the Houston Philosophical Society.

In Alaska, he has served for many years as Director of Communications, Public Affairs, and Finance for the Alaska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.Mr. Emerson is also an instrument-rated private pilot and an Extra Class amateur radio licensee.