Roberts & Ryan Inc., America’s first Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Broker Dealer, is pleased to announce that Jim Burmeister and Major General Tracy W. King (Ret.) have joined the firm’s Advisory Board.
Jim Burmeister is a former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer with extensive experience leading finance, operations, strategy, and business transformation initiatives for global organizations. Throughout his career, he has worked across manufacturing, consumer products, and technology-driven businesses, helping companies improve operational performance, strengthen financial results, and drive profitable growth.
With a background spanning financial leadership and operational management, Mr. Burmeister has led corporate finance, strategic planning, capital allocation, risk management, information technology, supply chain operations, organizational development, and large-scale transformation initiatives. His executive leadership experience includes senior roles with Libbey Glass, The Andersons, Owens Corning, and General Electric.
Mr. Burmeister is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Major General Tracy W. King has held key leadership roles across the Joint Force, serving most recently as Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa from May 2021 to July 2023. In this role, he led forward deployed USMC forces across all of Africa and Europe and was responsible for the effective and safe employment of all rotational forces flowing in and out of, and operating in, two theaters. He was responsible for Military-to-Military relations with more than one hundred countries; improving the readiness ratings and effectiveness of U.S. forces across the board; and conceiving, gaining approval, securing funding, and successfully executing the largest Marine Corps exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Prior to that Major General King served as the Director of Expeditionary Warfare for the OPNAV Staff, serving as the direct representative for all matters of an expeditionary nature to the Chief of Naval Operations, advising foreign leaders, service chiefs, and U.S. Ambassadors on security-related issues. In this role he was responsible for the design, procurement, and construction oversight of all new Amphibious ship builds, including the Light Amphibious Warship and the replacements for the Landing Craft Utility and the Ship to Shore Connector.
Before that, Major General King served as Director of Asia Strategy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, covering down on forty-one countries. He has executed numerous deployments to the Middle and Far East.
Major General King holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Arts with Honors in Strategic Studies and National Policy from the Naval War College, and a Master of Science with Honors in National Security Studies from the National War College.
