Before joining Davenport, Mario was a registered representive for eight years with a regional brokerage firm in Virginia. He entered the financial services industry after a career as a Business Development Representative for Chesebrough-Ponds USA, Inc., a division of Fortune 1000 company Unilever. Mario was the third generation of his family to serve his country as a Navy Flight Officer. He flew missions with VAW-121 off the USS Franklin D Roosevelt during the Arab-Israel war of 1973 and also served as the squadron’s legal officer.
Mario graduated with a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University and earned his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation from the College for Financial Planning. He is Series 7, 63 and 65 registered with FINRA and licensed to offer long-term care insurance, annuities and life insurance. Mario has taught classes in financial planning, mutual funds and retirement planning at local area adult education programs and college night school programs for twenty years. Mario won the outstanding instructor award from Old Dominion’s Center for Global Business and Executive Education.
Mario is an active participant in various volunteer activities for St. Nicholas Catholic Church. In his spare time, he enjoys reading about economics, politics, sociology and psychology. Mario and his wife, Lois, have two children and enjoy taking family outings to the beach where he enjoys swimming in the ocean.