WealthEQ

CEO Narbeh Khachatryan founded WealthEQ in 2022. He previously held leadership roles at Equiniti Trust Company, a major US transfer agent. President and General Counsel Jonathan Gelfand brings SEC and FINRA regulatory experience from both law-firm and in-house positions. COO Armen Khachatryan rounds out the executive team with operational oversight. The trio left Equiniti to establish the platform.

WealthEQ operates three regulated subsidiaries: WealthEQ Securities (a FINRA-registered broker-dealer), WealthEQ Advisory (an SEC-registered investment advisor), and EQ Transfer (a stock-transfer agent). These entities work together so that the parent company can facilitate private capital raises, manage investor assets, and administer cap tables for private issuers. The structure is designed to create a single relationship spanning the full lifecycle of a private security.

EQ Transfer serves as a regulated stock-transfer agent, maintaining shareholder records for private companies. This produces recurring, relationship-sticky revenue independent of capital-markets cycles. It also generates visibility into private-company cap tables, which can inform the broker-dealer's capital-raising pipeline. The transfer-agent registration provides a regulatory moat that pure advisory platforms lack.

No. WealthEQ is an asset-management and financial-services platform, not a family office. It does not manage a proprietary balance sheet or a single-family pool of capital. The RIA manages client assets on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis, while the broker-dealer facilitates securities transactions for third-party investors.

The broker-dealer arm focuses on private-placement markets, specifically Regulation D and Regulation A offerings that permit general solicitation and wider investor participation (public record). WealthEQ positions itself as a distribution partner for private companies seeking to access accredited and qualified investors. The firm does not publicly disclose specific issuer mandates.

WealthEQ Securities (FINRA CRD #329211) and WealthEQ Advisory (SEC CRD #325333) were both registered in 2022, with principal offices in Miami, Florida. The firm's Form ADV and BrokerCheck records are publicly available through the SEC and FINRA respectively. These filings confirm the firm's status as an active, dual-registered financial-services platform in the United States.

Most competitors operate as a broker-dealer or an RIA, but rarely combine both with an in-house transfer agent. This vertical integration lets WealthEQ handle the entire lifecycle of a private security — from issuance and cap-table management through capital-raising to investor advisory — under one regulatory roof. The transfer-agent utility adds a recurring-revenue stream that standalone broker-dealers and advisors typically do not capture.