The business coming into the broker-dealer's network is founded by a man with strong ties to the US military.

Alden, the US independent broker-dealer founded in the mid-1990s, has brought over D Blair Thompson, who heads up the Sparta Wealth Partners multi-family office business, managing more than $600 million in assets.

Thompson concentrates on areas such as investment management, real estate, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, advanced planning and other family office services. He has worked in financial services for 15 years and has links to to the military, serving as a civilian on a National Innovation Council with the Department of Defense and as a strategic advisor to companies in the US Special Operations Command Network. 

Additionally, he is a private capital advisor with NavalX and strategic advisor with SOFWERX, connecting the US Navy and USSOCOM with private sector companies, entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies.

Alden has 57 advisors spread across 14 districts and states, including most recently Puerto Rico.