Skip to main content
Raymond James FinancialPromotion

Raymond James names new indie division boss.

What happened

Raymond James will promote Kirk Bell to president of Independent Contractor Division on Apr 1st '26.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

Raymond James names new indie division boss. March 19, 2026 Kirk Bell, who will take over as president of Raymond James' Independent Contractor Division effective April 1. Raymond James Financial elevated one of its divisional leaders, Kirk Bell, to be president of its Independent Contractor Division effective April 1, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Bell, who had been central divisional director based at Raymond James' St. Petersburg, Florida headquarters, fills a role left vacant by Shannon Reid, who left in December to join competitor Osaic Wealth. "I look forward to drawing on decades of experience and best practices as I meet advisors and their staff across the country, partner with the firm's strong leadership teams and work with ICD associates to build on our momentum and continue to be the destination of choice for financial advisors," Bell said in a statement. Bell had held responsibility for 12 states with approximately 265 so-called offices of supervisory jurisdiction and more than 600 financial advisors, according to his LinkedIn profile. The announcement did not identify a successor for his role as one of four divisional managers at the independent channel. Bell has spent his entire 26-year career except seven rookie months with Raymond James, according to BrokerCheck. He did not respond to a request for comment sent through social...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for Raymond James Financial, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Promotion

What this signalsA newly promoted leader often gets the budget to change how the team works.

Person
Kirk Bellpresident of Independent Contractor Division
Takes effect
Apr 1, 2026

More promotion signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Kirk Bellpresident of Independent Contractor Division · Named in the story

Details

Category
Promotes

Topics and mentions

Job title tags

  • directors

Extraction

Confidence
93%
Detected
Mar 19, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
promotes

Use this data

Get every promotion signal for Raymond James Financial and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Raymond James Financial this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns promotion signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/de008606-b040-40c1-bc4e-a2d93a21a91b returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for raymondjames.com.

{
  "signal_id": "de008606-b040-40c1-bc4e-a2d93a21a91b",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "promotes",
  "detected_at": "2026-03-19T14:56:08+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Raymond James Financial",
    "domain": "raymondjames.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.advisorhub.com/raymond-james-names-new-indie-division-boss",
    "title": "Raymond James names new indie division boss.",
    "contact": "Kirk Bell",
    "excerpt": "Raymond James names new indie division boss.\n\nMarch 19, 2026\n\nKirk Bell, who will take over as president of Raymond James' Independent Contractor Division effective April 1.\n\nRaymond James Financial elevated one of its divisional leaders, Kirk Bell, to be president of its Independent Contractor Division effective April 1, according to an announcement on Wednesday.\n\nBell, who had been central divisional director based at Raymond James' St. Petersburg, Florida headquarters, fills a role left vacant by Shannon Reid, who left in December to join competitor Osaic Wealth.\n\n\"I look forward to drawing on decades of experience and best practices as I meet advisors and their staff across the country, partner with the firm's strong leadership teams and work with ICD associates to build on our momentum and continue to be the destination of choice for financial advisors,\" Bell said in a statement.\n\nBell had held responsibility for 12 states with approximately 265 so-called offices of supervisory jurisdiction and more than 600 financial advisors, according to his LinkedIn profile. The announcement did not identify a successor for his role as one of four divisional managers at the independent channel.\n\nBell has spent his entire 26-year career except seven rookie months with Raymond James, according to BrokerCheck. He did not respond to a request for comment sent through social media.\n\nDavid...",
    "summary": "Raymond James will promote Kirk Bell to president of Independent Contractor Division on Apr 1st '26.",
    "category": "promotes",
    "found_at": "2026-03-19T14:56:08Z",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://www.advisorhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kirk-bell-2.jpg",
    "job_title": "president of Independent Contractor Division",
    "confidence": 0.9322,
    "published_at": "2026-03-19T14:56:08Z",
    "effective_date": "2026-04-01",
    "job_title_tags": [
      "directors"
    ],
    "article_sentence": "Raymond James Financial elevated one of its divisional leaders, Kirk Bell, to be president of its Independent Contractor Division effective April 1, according to an announcement on Wednesday."
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.