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Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Llc

161 Washington Street, Conshohocken, PA 19428 • United States

Current Registrations

AuthorityCategoryStatusDate
VA RA APPROVED 2025-01-03
  • VA RA
    APPROVED
    Since 2025-01-03

Branch Locations

1806 Summit Ave Ste 300 #109, Richmond, VA 23230 • United States

Disclosures

No disclosure categories reported as “Yes” on this SEC record.

  • Regulatory action No
  • Criminal No
  • Bankruptcy No
  • Civil judicial No
  • Bond No
  • Judgment / lien No
  • Investigation No
  • Customer complaint No
  • Termination No
Employment History
OrganizationCityStateFromTo
Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, Llc Richmond VA 12/2011 01/2025
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Milwaukee WI 06/2011 01/2025
Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company Milwauke WI 04/2017 01/2025
Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Llc Wilmington DE 01/2025 Present
  • 12/2011 → 01/2025
    Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, Llc
    Richmond, VA
  • 06/2011 → 01/2025
    Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Milwaukee, WI
  • 04/2017 → 01/2025
    Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company
    Milwauke, WI
  • 01/2025 → Present
    Wilmington, DE
Other Businesses

1) INSURANCE BROKERAGE | INVESTMENT RELATED: YES | DBA NAME: FORTE IMPACT ADVISORS | POSITION HELD: AGENT | ADDRESS: 1806 Summit Ave., Suite 300 - #109, Richmond, VA 23230 | START DATE: 01/04/2025 | NATURE OF ACTIVITY: INSURANCE BROKERAGE | APPROX HRS PER MTH: 150 | APPROX TRADING HRS PER MTH: 80 | DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: INSURANCE SALES AND SERVICE INCLUDING PENN MUTUAL LIFE PRODUCTS 2) NAME OF ACTIVITY HAMMER FORTE CONSULTING, LLC | INVESTMENT RELATED: NO | DBA NAME: HAMMER FORTE CONSULTING, LLC | POSITION HELD: CEO | ADDRESS: 3030 W LEIGH ST, RICHMOND, VA 23230 | START DATE: 05/01/2019 | NATURE OF ACTIVITY: CONSULTING FOR BUSINESS, PHILANTHROPY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PUBLIC SPEAKING | APPROX HRS PER MTH: 30 | APPROX TRADING HRS PER MTH: 5 | DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: PROVIDE CONSULTING SERVICES TO BUSINESSES, PHILANTHROPY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. PUBLIC SPEAKING 3) DITECH SOLUTIONS INC | POSITION: Strategic consultant | NATURE: Cybersecurity training firm | INVESTMENT RELATED: No NUMBER OF HOURS: 5 SECURITIES TRADING HOURS: 0 START DATE: 02/16/2026 | ADDRESS: 3030 W. Leigh St., Richmond VA 23230 | DESCRIPTION: DiTech Solutions, Inc., (DiTech Solution LLC., Cyber and Application Security training provider - DiTech Solutions) is a Delaware-based corporation, focusing on cybersecurity detection, protection, and training. The company is led by founder Cedrick Phillip, who has a renowned reputation in the cybersecurity world. Based on the quantum leap his platform provides in the cybersecurity space, his company is attracting worldwide attention from the US, Canadian, European, and other foreign governments, as well as wealth funds, and his platform is being considered for deployment in at least 20 different industry sectors. Due to the complexity of his opportunity that presents unique planning regarding his business expansion and intellectual property monetization, Mr. Phillip values my prior background leading large 9-figure business entities and IT groups, as well as my experience with intellectual property planning ranging from patents to proprietary algorithms. In addition, the work we currently do to assist business owners assess their financial planning options with business expansion and exit strategies has significant relevance, to help him understand the short- and long-term personal implications of certain decisions. Mr. Phillip also is not currently one of our financial planning clients, so there is no conflict on that regard. Strategic Consultant Role -The scope of this targeted role would be to serve as a key consultant for DiTech's US-based businesses regarding: o ongoing business expansion and exit strategies to protect the founder o decisioning frameworks to categorize pros/cons of different courses of action and collaboration offers presented to DiTech's leadership (without providing final course of action decisions on DiTech's behalf, which will be executed solely by the founder and his leadership team) o intellectual property planning and monetization feasibility assessments o review business projections and market assessments for quality of information o assist other US-based companies in DiTech's sphere with similar guidance Scope of role does not include: -Financial decision making on behalf of DiTech -Fundraising for private investment into DiTech -Soliciting Forte Impact Advisors' clients for investment into DiTech 4) PARKHILL CAPITAL GROUP | POSITION: Referral partner | NATURE: Tax mitigation strategies | INVESTMENT RELATED: No NUMBER OF HOURS: 1 SECURITIES TRADING HOURS: 0 START DATE: 07/01/2026 | ADDRESS: 9424 Alquist St, Glen Allen VA 23059 |DESCRIPTION: Connecting clients to Parkhill for consideration of tax mitigation strategies

Exams
CodeExamDate
S63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination 2012-01-14
  • S63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination
    2012-01-14
Designations
Other Names
  • Jeffrey Dean Hammer
  • Jeff Hammer
  • Jeffrey Dean Hammer

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