Our Team

R. Michael Ricketts, Principal
Chief Executive Officer

Mike Ricketts is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ricketts Financial, LLC. Mike leads Ricketts Financial’s vision to advance the wealth management experience. Mike brings more than five decades of experience in private wealth management, financial services, and business management to this role. He is passionate about working closely with multiple generations within successful families and businesses to help them navigate challenges, change, and generational transitions. What he considers his life calling dovetails perfectly with that of our firm: To help individuals and families thrive and prosper in all aspects of their lives. Wealth presents many unique opportunities and also challenges. Mike considers his work successful when he helps clients realize the full potential of all that is valuable to them, including financial wealth, relationships, education, and community. This extends beyond all the nuts and bolts of choosing investments to really understanding what his clients’ priorities are. Mike has consistently delivered year over year because of the high level of integrity and expertise of his team and allowing the firm and its clients to grow and thrive through the changes we all experience.

Since 1972, Mike, has been dedicated to providing best in class client service while always acting in the best interest of the clients he serves. Detailed and analytical, Mike is passionate and devoted to helping clients pursue their important investment objectives. As the senior member of our team, Mike acts as a goal-focused investment advisor and wealth management consultant. He provides a cohesive vision to help ensure clients needs, wants and wishes are met with as much certainty and as little risk as possible. His expertise includes individual fixed income and equity portfolio management as part of a goals-based asset allocation strategy. In 2011 and 2012 Mike was selected as a Barrons Top 1000 Advisors nationally and one of the Top 10 Advisors in Kentucky. In 2016 Mike was a panelist for Louisville’s Business First Wealth Management Table of Experts. With over 50 years of investment experience, his philosophy and process have always been to adhere to quality in both fixed income and equity holdings. His long history with the bond markets is very unique to the investment community and a tremendous value to our firm.

Mike has spent his entire professional career in an investment advisory and management capacity starting in 1972 at Citizens Fidelity Bank, Investment Division, Bond Department. In 1977 he became a Registered Representative and for the following 45 years worked for the likes of Paine Webber, EF Hutton, Morgan Keegan, and Raymond James. He currently holds his series 3, 5, 7, 8, 63, 65 as well as the SIE, PC and Life & Health licenses. Mike is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and is married to his wife, Cary, for which they have four children and nine grandchildren.

Patrick H. Ricketts, Principal
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Compliance Officer

Pat Ricketts is Co-Founder of Ricketts Financial, LLC. Pat also serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) at Ricketts Financial. Pat is responsible for coordinating all aspects of our practice primarily developing and executing Ricketts Financial’s overall business and marketing strategy as well as investor relations and compliance. In his role, Pat oversees all client services, technology and operations, information and systems technology, HR, trading, reporting, and billing. Pat helps create a positive client experience aimed at streamlining and enhancing the well-being of the families we serve.

Pat has been providing the necessary tools and resources to develop efficient business models, focused on building long-term partnerships with clients by providing best-in-class client service. He began his career in 2005 working with his father, Mike, as a financial advisor trainee at Morgan Keegan & Company. A few years later they would partner with his brother, McCauley, to form The Ricketts Group of Morgan Keegan|Raymond James. From 2005 to 2020, Patrick chaired The Ricketts Group’s Equity Strategy Committee where he worked closely with the Equity Advisory Group and Equity Research Group as well as leading industry portfolio managers and analysts to manage their day-to-day equity and option positions as well as providing his team with the latest market conditions. Pat was also tasked with developing and revising investment policy statements, plan review and cost analysis, asset allocation modeling, manager due diligence, and performance evaluation. After 15 years of service to Morgan Keegan|Raymond James Patrick, McCauley and Mike decided it was time for a new direction and founded Ricketts Financial, LLC in 2020.

Pat is a golf enthusiast and soccer fanatic. He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and is married to his wife, Ashley. They are the proud parents of three beautiful daughters: Maddie, Elliott and Lucy.