{"id":2769,"date":"2018-01-18T02:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2018-01-20T00:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:37:42","slug":"the-madison-group-announces-ownership-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"The Madison Group announces ownership change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2770 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pg-6-Madison-Group-Mark-Richards-357x300-300x252.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pg-6-Madison-Group-Mark-Richards-357x300-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pg-6-Madison-Group-Mark-Richards-357x300.png 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark J. Richards<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Madison Group, Inc.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>announced that CEO Mark J. Richards has finalized a mutually agreed upon transaction to become the sole shareholder of the independent financial firm and take on the added role of president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">For more than a year, firm Founder and Chairman Emeritus Neal Groff and Richards have been working closely to transition ownership of the firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cJust as we work with our clients to plan for the future, this natural succession plan for The Madison Group ensures we will continue to provide best-in-class financial strategies to our clients,\u201d said Richards, noting that The Madison Group turns 50 years old this year. \u201cWe take pride in our established team\u2019s foundation of experience based on competence and integrity, all of which results in exceptional personal service to our clients. This seamless ownership transition solidifies that client-centric foundation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Richards started with The Madison Group 21 years ago, and has been its CEO since 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Madison Group continues to partner with M Financial Group, one of the nation\u2019s premier financial services distribution companies, and is the original Colorado M Financial member firm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark J. Richards The Madison Group, Inc.\u00a0 announced that CEO Mark J. Richards has finalized a mutually agreed upon transaction to become the sole shareholder of the independent financial firm and take on the added role of president. For more than a year, firm Founder and Chairman Emeritus Neal Groff and Richards have been working &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}