Michael Stanfield

Mr. James M.
Stanfield is Chief Executive Officer at VSR Financial Services, Inc. He co-founded the firm in March 1985.
He entered the financial services industry in December 1972 and spent the next eight years as a registered representative with Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter.
He received his Certified Financial Planner designation in 1985, and is past President of the Kansas City Chapter of the FPA.
Mr. Stanfield has served on the FPA Broker Dealer Advisory Council and is past Chairman of the National FPA Compliance Advisory Council.
He was VSR’s first National Sales Manager, from 1985 to 1991, and was named VSR’s President and Chief Executive Officer in 1991.
Mr. Stanfield served as President at VSR until June 2007, and then continued to serve as CEO until July 2009 when he was named as Chief Investment Officer.
In October 2010, he was named as Chief Executive Officer again.
He served four years as an Army officer.
Mr. Stanfield received an Economics degree, with honors, from the University of Missouri in 1968 and also received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri.