Craig D. Allen, Esq. ATTORNEY AT LAW CFA, CPA, CFP, RIA
Craig D. Allen has owned and operated Allen Wealth Management (AWM) since 2004. Allen Wealth Management is a Registered Investment Advisory firm, through which Allen provides wealth management, financial planning, and business consulting services. Allen has more than 30 years of wealth management and investment banking experience. For the past twenty+ years, he has focused increasingly on serving as an interim, fractional/consulting, and full-time CFO, with an emphasis on supporting the development, scaling, and success of start-up and early-stage businesses. He has served in multiple roles as CFO. In these roles, Craig has been directly responsible for developing, coordinating, and successfully completing many rounds of financing, in debt, equity, and hybrid securities, raising funding for growth. In addition, he has designed and implemented accounting systems for companies in the aerospace, specialty products, advertising/brand management and monetizing, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence, online education, and sensor networking/smart home technology industries.
Craig has also provided strategic management and planning support including drafting, negotiating, and finalizing leases, employment contracts, employee revenue sharing plans, profit-sharing plans, stock option plans (ESOPs), authorized dealer agreements, referral agreements, commissioned sales agreements, Investment banking/funding agreements with registered securities firms, and SEC filings including Reg D and related required funding filings through EDGAR.
Allen was the past President (2 terms) of the Board of Directors of Transition House, and also served as a board member and finance committee member. Transition House is a Santa Barbara-based charitable organization focused on transitioning families in need from homelessness and financial distress, to stability and home-ownership.
Allen is also a licensed Attorney in California.
Allen holds a Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from Concord Law School at Purdue University Global (2021), a Master of Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) degree from the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) (formerly the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies) at the University of California San Diego (2003), and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Finance from Stephen F. Austin State University (1990).
Allen also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA); is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). He is also a member of the CFA Institute, a member of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles, and a member of the Southern California Investment Managements Consultants Association. Craig is active with local Santa Barbara media, having presented financial markets update each week day on radio KZSB – AM 1290 for many years and writing numerous articles for the Santa Barbara News Press and Noozhawk.