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Virginia 500 Spotlight: WAYNE F. WILBANKS
EXECUTIVE MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLEARSTEAD ADVISORY SOLUTIONS, NORFOLK
Photo by Kristen Zeis
Photo by Kristen Zeis
Virginia 500 Spotlight: WAYNE F. WILBANKS
EXECUTIVE MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLEARSTEAD ADVISORY SOLUTIONS, NORFOLK
FIRST JOB: I worked in a Baskin-Robbins in downtown Chicago. Lost my appetite for ice cream for at least a decade.
ADVICE FOR NEW COLLEGE GRADS: Several items of advice:
- Choose your business environment or partners very carefully as it will reflect directly on your success.
- Take entrepreneurial risks early in your career as you have plenty of time to rebound if you don’t succeed on the first try.
- Study AI seriously as it will have a profound impact on a number of professions and will be critical to your career choices.
FAVORITE FASHION ACCESSORY: Floppy hat and arm protection to avoid skin cancer! Years in the sun are taking their toll, and I am my dermatologists’ favorite client.
WHAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT ME: I am an architecture and design enthusiast with interest in the art nouveau, art deco, Prairie School and midcentury modern periods.
DID YOU KNOW? As a student at Duke University, Wilbanks created an independent study course, for which he worked with a professor and the university’s treasurer to learn about equity portfolios and portfolio theory.
