Brad Kastan

Bradley R. Kastan is a senior vice president with Janney Montgomery Scott and a 40-year financial services industry veteran. He advises individual investors, corporations and municipalities in portfolio management, investment banking and public finance, and has been recognized among the industry’s top advisers by the Financial Times.

A 1981 graduate of The Ohio State University, Mr. Kastan and his wife, Holly, are longtime supporters of Ohio State, including its Office of Student Life, The James and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.

Mr. Kastan has held numerous civic leadership roles, including appointments by Governors George Voinovich and Bob Taft to the boards of Columbus State Community College, Ohio Arts Council and the Capital Square Review and Advisory Board. He has also served on the boards of COSI, Ashbrook Center and the Bexley Education Foundation.

A longtime Jewish community leader, he has chaired the Columbus Jewish Foundation, co-chaired the Jewish Community Relations Council at JewishColumbus, and served as board president of OSU Hillel. He helped lead an Ohio trade mission to Israel and was instrumental in the creation of the Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial.

His honors include membership to the Association of Ohio Commodores, Ohio State’s William Oxley Thompson Alumni Award, Therese Stern Kahn Leadership Award, Gordon B. Zacks Leadership Award, Columbus Jewish Foundation Vision Award and the State of Israel Bonds Leadership Award.