Management Bios

Our Team



Jack Grella - CEO

Mr. Grella is a registered principal in the financial services industry, with experience ranging from financial planning, leveraged day trading, public & private investment relations, registered private placement transactions, life insurance, Broker Dealer relations, supervision, sales, and operations.  He has over 5 years of robust direct & indirect supervisory experience in the financial industry.

His focus is on the implementation of industry regulations to establish effective controls for his representatives, B2B operations, and Private Placement Transactions he manages as a Broker Dealer. His experience in the industry has provided him with excellent knowledge of relevant rules, regulations, procedures, and an overall business approach to problem solving.  He has in-depth knowledge of alternative investments, asset management, mutual funds, variable annuities, marketing reviews, branch audits, suitability, and compliance.

Prior to joining Metric Financial as a Registered Representative and Fund Administrator in early 2021, Mr. Grella was the head of operations, book-keeping, and investor services at a Land Transaction & Renewable Energy company.  Under Mr. Grella’s operational supervision, the company successfully completed several transactions as an issuer between 2019 and 2021, raising over $40,000,000 and administratively supporting many more affiliated funds.  Mr. Grella decided to move to Metric Financial because he wanted to spread his expertise to more issuers.

Mr. Grella started his career after Boston College (2016) at Charles Schwab, where he excelled through all aspects of the Wealth Management & Active Investing business, and became a registered Investment Consultant providing financial planning expertise to Schwab’s clients.  After Charles Schwab, he worked with business development and financial planning consultations for high net worth individuals at Fidelity Investments for 10 months.  During this time, he was also an intermediary for Alternative Investments held in accounts at Fidelity Investments in the Tri-State Area.

Mr. Grella enjoys skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and taking trips around the country with his family.  He has lived in Boston, Denver, Connecticut’s greater NYC area, along the east coast of Florida, and currently resides in Atlanta, GA.

Mr. Grella’s experience consists of the following:

  • Monitoring and reporting results of the compliance/ethics efforts of the company, interacting with operations and other monitored departments to facilitate cooperation and communication of goals and resolutions.
  • Reviewing and assessing all functional areas within the facility to ensure compliance with the consumer laws, state and federal regulations, company policies and procedures. Documents reviews through formalized reports with assessment of the areas and recommendations for improvement.
  • Collaborates with other departments (e.g., HR, Operations, Information Technology Training, training, client service and the Executive Team) to ensure issues are presented to and resolved with the appropriate existing channels for investigation and resolution. He then consults with the appropriate legal resources as needed to resolve difficult legal compliance issues.
  • Responds to alleged policy violations of rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and Standards of Conduct by evaluating or recommending the initiation of investigative procedures.
  • Termination of Registered Representatives of Metric Financial, when necessary.
  • Supervises operational reviews and audits of designated departments as required by a published schedule, accurately reporting any findings of noncompliance, and recommending appropriate corrective actions.
  • Works with the Human Resources Department and Corporate Training as appropriate to assist in the development of an effective compliance and employee training programs.
  • New hire investigation and due diligence for possible representatives which included background checks, credit checks, and letters to prior firm for possible issues not noted on U5, etc.
  • Customer complaint investigations and filings
  • Transaction reviews and approvals. They included many suitability forms and the investment objective must match for the account or an update would be required. In instances where the firm did not agree with the transaction but the client insisted on proceeding, a letter of understanding was drafted and submitted to the client for the files that the firm did not recommend this transition for whatever reason it may be. Logs were maintained for all annuities and could be searched by client age, Annuity Company, type of transaction (1035 exchange, IRA transfer, additional deposit, new business, etc.) A balance sheet was required to show the client had enough assets available to them after locking up money into this type of product.
  • Electronic communications review
  • Advertising & sales literature review and approvals as well as correspondence review and approvals
  • Established selling agreements for firm and maintained files separate from selling agreements maintained through clearing entity.
  • Code of ethics/employee personal trading reviews
  • Continuing education administrator, branch auditor
  • General Compliance and Operations duties as well as many other supervisory responsibilities.

Nikola Miskovic - Director of Public Finance

Mr. Miskovic is an experienced Municipal Securities Registered Representative with more than 10 years in the Municipal Bond Origination industry, with experience ranging from analytics to sales, price discovery operation and Variable Rate Remarketing activities. He has an in-depth knowledge of analytics including bond structuring, timing of issuance, refunding opportunities as well as marketing the issue with different retail and institutional clients.

  • Reviewing the offering documents for the upcoming new bond issue. Offering documents usually include Preliminary Official Statement and Rating Reports. Familiarizing with issue details, use of the proceeds, issuer’s ability to service its debt obligations, previous debt obligations and other specific features of the bond.
  • Soliciting orders from potential investors in an effort to achieve the most reasonable price for the municipality.
  • Analyzing current municipality’s overall financial health, outstanding debt and other obligations, revenue streams and current funding needs
  • Updating generic scales on daily basis; updating Treasury interest rates for the Taxable generic scales as well as using current MMD scales for updating Tax-exempt generic scales.
  • Using DBC software for structuring “New Money issues”, also using the same software for calculating refunding results; determining if the potential refunding savings are sufficient to be presented to municipal issuer; tracking the market conditions over time and monitoring how these changes affect the respective refunding opportunities.
  • Developing and implementing Refunding tracking system that including a database of outstanding bonds and analysis if some of these bonds were potential candidates for refunding
  • Assisting Variable Rate Remarketing desk conducting in-depth research of current short-term market condition; conducting analysis of outstanding variable rate issue market and searching for potential takeover candidates; researching and analyzing different Banks as liquidity providers for short-term variable rate issues; comparing their LOC credit ratings
  • Assessing the general character of the market, supply and demand , US Treasuries, MMD daily rates
  • Developing generic scales for different Ratings and credit risks; these scales are used as starting point discovering refunding opportunities and as well as custom scales for different bond issues.

  • Setting up the New Bond Issue including all the material information available. The information would consist of maturity dates, par values, initial offering yields, rating information, relevant dates, call provisions, order priority provisions, order period time ect.
  • Creating the reports necessary to be distributed to the other syndicate members. Allotting the bonds with the marketing team to the prospective investors.

Andy Marshall – Head of Capital Markets

Mr. Marshall has been in the financial services industry since 2000, specializing in helping sponsors raise capital. With extensive knowledge of alternative investments, he has led national sales teams, managed billion-dollar offerings, created new offerings, and run a broker dealer he help cofound. At Metric, he aims to enhance the firm's rapid growth as a premier alternative investment broker dealer, assisting quality sponsors in delivering high-quality, risk-adjusted solutions to multiple investment channels. Drawing on decades of experience, he meets sponsors at any stage of their fundraising process to propel them forward.

After earning a Finance degree from the University of Georgia in 2000, Mr. Marshall began his career in securities, focusing on alternative investment capital raising. He has played a key role in raising billions of dollars for sponsors such as Inland Securities, WP Carey, Realty Capital, Strategic Capital Distributors, and Peachtree Group. His expertise spans capital raising for office, industrial, data centers, hospitality, multifamily, alternative energy, and various private debt offerings.

In 2009, Mr. Marshall joined WP Carey (NYSE: WPC) to co-run its sales efforts and manage its two internal sales desks. He then served as a national product manager for a billion-dollar hospitality REIT managed by Realty Capital. Later, he moved to Peachtree Hotel Group to build and run their broker dealer and assist in creating new investment products. Before joining Metric, he was Head of Capital Markets for Bonaventure, overseeing sales, marketing, new product development, and investor relations teams.

Sharon Jones - CCO

Sharon brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, with an emphasis on broker-dealer and registered investment advisory compliance. Sharon was the Director of Compliance for a consulting firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. In that role, she managed a team of consultants and served as a Director with the company's consulting program for broker-dealers and investment advisors. She has a tremendous amount of regulatory experience working with FINRA and the SEC, and has a strong working knowledge of regulatory rules, examinations, and how to apply them to the daily operations of broker-dealers and advisors. Mrs. Jones works extensively with new and current changes in regulation, how to comply with the new requirements and how to supervise and implement the changes.  Mrs. Jones has continued her role in consulting by starting her own compliance consulting practice where she assists her clients with the design and implementation of compliance programs.

In September 1999, Mrs. Jones joined the Atlanta FINRA District Office, and was promoted to a Senior Compliance Examiner during her four-year tenure.  After leaving FINRA, Mrs. Jones joined SunTrust Investment Services where she served as the Associate Director of Compliance, General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, and Registered Options Security and Futures Principal. While employed, she was responsible for overseeing the firm’s Branch Audit Program, Regulatory Examinations and Inquiries, Policies and Procedures, and for ensuring the equity and bond trading desks were operating efficiently and in compliance with regulatory and firm procedures. From March 2006 to April 2020, Mrs. Jones was employed with Securities Compliance Management as the Director of Compliance. Securities Compliance Management is a compliance consulting company servicing broker/dealers and registered investment advisors. In this capacity, Mrs. Jones worked with over 30 Broker/Dealers and Registered Investment Advisors in assisting them with the implementation and design of their compliance and supervisory programs.

In April 2020. Mrs. Jones started her own consulting firm, Northpoint Consulting where she consults with broker-dealers and Registered Investment Advisors, assisting them with the implementation and design of their compliance and supervisory programs. Below is a list of areas of her expertise.
• She serves in various roles as CCO, FINOP, Options Principal, Municipal Principal, General Securities Principal and Investment Banking Principal • Works with broker-dealers in MSRB RTRS Trade Reporting and TRAQS reporting, including reviewing trade reporting, patterns of reporting inaccurate data, and assisting with regulatory responses to FINRA. Also experienced in Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting and implementation of CAT. • Works with broker-dealers and investment advisors in reviewing firm data to detect sales practice patterns related to general securities and firm activities (equities, bonds, municipals, options, private placements, complex products, prepaid advisory fees, billing, custody, etc.) • Prepares regulatory responses to SEC/FINRA on behalf of broker-dealers and RIAs (trade inquires, TRACE, RTRS, OATS, possible pump and dump schemes, trading surveillance, and responses to regulatory examinations) • Experienced with MSRB Rules, Municipal Underwriting, and Municipal Advisory Activities (including SEC registration), SEC Rule 15c2-12, & Sophisticated Municipal Market Professionals • Creates Written Supervisory Procedures for broker-dealers and investment advisors for general compliance regulations and all product offerings, including gap analysis of procedures • Creates broker-dealer and RIA Form CRS/Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) Disclosure Statements and assists in identifying conflicts of interest and fee/compensation disclosures. • Creates Code of Ethics, privacy policy, and other related RIA compliance forms and processes. • Experienced with general securities product offerings, underwritings, private placements, Mergers and Acquisitions and Fairness Opinions, which includes new product due diligence, trade reviews, surveillance, due diligence, and deal offerings and corporate finance filings for public and private deals. • Prepares and designs Heightened Supervisory Plans for disciplined representatives/advisors • Prepares and reviews broker-dealer net capital computations, allowable assets and haircut calculations for monthly and quarterly filings. • FINRA Expert with New Member Applications (NMAs), Changes in Membership Applications (CMAs) and Materiality Consultations (MatCons); includes building new broker-dealer infrastructures and reviewing/changing existing compliance and supervisory infrastructures. • New RIA Registration for SEC and State registered advisers • New Exempt Reporting Adviser Registration (ERA) for hedge funds including state and SEC filings. • Creates and designs Anti-Money Laundering and Branch Audit Programs • Prepares and files Form ADV, Form ADV annual updates, and Part 2B Questionnaires for Investment Advisors • Supervisory Oversight of equity, fixed income, and municipal trading desks and compliance with trading regulations, and proprietary trading • Identified pump and dump schemes of broker-dealer related trading activity and able to perform enhanced sales practice reviews.