Ahmed Hassanein

Director

Ahmed Hassanein is Chief Accounting Officer of Advisor Group. He is responsible for the Firm's accounting operations and financial reporting functions, treasury, tax, and advisor compensation. 

Prior to joining Advisor Group, Ahmed was Chief Accounting Officer of Cetera Financial Group, Inc., which had approximately 9,500 financial advisors, $190 billion in client assets under administration, and $45 billion in assets under management. He was responsible for the oversight of accounting, procurement, advisor compensation, and administration across multiple locations. Prior to Cetera, Ahmed served as Chief Financial Officer of the Library of Congress Federal Credit Union (a $200 million credit union),where he was responsible for the cash management, accounting, financial and regulatory reporting and risk management functions. Ahmed also managed and invested the credit union’s investment portfolio, mitigating interest rate and credit risk. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Steben & Company, a commodity pool operator and an introducing broker dealer with over $1 billion in assets under management.

Before joining Steben, Ahmed served in a number of key positions at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., a financial services firm that provided investment banking, institutional brokerage and research, and asset management services in the United States and Europe. Ahmed was Senior Vice President of the Asset Management Group, where he was responsible for the oversight of all finance, accounting, operational and administration functions for the Alternative Asset, Mutual Fund and Private Wealth Groups which, on a combined basis, managed approximately $2.5 billion in assets. Prior to that, Ahmed was part of the company’s Principal Investing Group where he was responsible for the administration, marketing and investor relations of two commercial paper conduits with a combined program size of $17 billion. Before joining the Principal Investing Group, Ahmed spent over six years in Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc.’s Finance Group where he was an integral part of the firm’s Initial Public Offering in December 1997 and served in various capacities, including Corporate Controller. Ahmed began his career as an Auditor with Deloitte & Touche LLP, a multinational public accounting firm.

Ahmed earned a BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland, and his MBA (concentration in Finance) from Marymount University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds FINRA Series 7, 28, and 63 licenses.