DENNIS W. COVINGTON, CFP®

Dennis W. Covington is a Principal of Capital Directions and is a Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner. Mr. Covington joined the firm in April 2000 following five years as a Senior Institutional Consultant with TIAA-CREF, the world’s largest private pension system, and three years as a staff accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Covington leads the firm’s wealth management practice and has extensive experience in helping the firm’s clients identify their most important financial goals and developing a plan and a process that greatly increases their chances of achieving those goals. Mr. Covington also led the firm’s integration of its corporate work flow and portfolio management systems that allows the firm to successfully support the investment advisory practice of more than 15 accounting firms. These efforts were a significant part of the firm’s recognition in 2006 as a Best-Managed Firm based on the research commissioned by the Financial Planning Association and conducted by Moss Adams LLP. Mr. Covington holds a degree in Accounting from Appalachian State University, which was conferred in August 1992.

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