Captrust M&A head Benton reveals departure plans
Rush Benton, the industry veteran who’s led Captrust’s M&A-driven growth strategy for more than decade, plans to move on. The firm’s senior director of strategic growth announced he would be leaving the firm to pursue a personal business venture.
In an emailed statement, Benton, who has played a crucial role in expanding the firm through mergers and acquisitions, expressed pride in his accomplishments at Captrust.
“I am proud of the more than 40 wealth management-focused firms that I have been a part of adding to Captrust,” Benton stated. He emphasized the significance of these firms, recognizing them as “some of the most respected names in the industry.”
During his tenure exceeding a decade, Benton has been instrumental in shaping Captrust into one of the nation’s premier providers of retirement plan and wealth management advice.
His career in the wealth industry spans nearly four decades, with significant stints at various influential firms before joining Captrust in 2013.
Benton founded Weaver Barksdale & Associates, an institutional investment manager in Nashville, Tennessee. Later he led WealthTrust, a conglomerate of high-net-worth wealth firms managing approximately $6 billion, and then spent 2½ years as managing partner at Benton Capital Partners, an M&A consulting firm.
Fielding Miller, chairman and CEO of Captrust, commended Benton’s contributions to the firm over the years.
“We are thankful to Rush for his more than 11 years with Captrust, during which he has been the primary face of our wealth management M&A strategy,” Miller said.
In September, acquisition-hungry Captrust received a “minority growth investment” from private equity firm Carlyle Group. That marked Captrust’s second private equity stake; it
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