Bio

Mr. Langston founded Republic Capital Group in 2015 and John and his incredible team have built the firm into an industry leading wealth and asset management investment banking firm. In 2023, the firm was awarded “Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year” by The M&A Advisor, the preeminent organization recognizing excellence among the world’s leading dealmaking professionals. Republic also won “M&A Deal of the Year” for a historic and complex wealth management transaction. In 2020, John was named to Wealthmanagement.com’s “Ten to Watch in 2020” list as an innovator and influencer set to change the industry. In 2022 and 2023, according to publicly available data, Republic advised on more transacted wealth management assets than any other investment banking group in its space. As a Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst and Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst, John has extensive financial services experience and is the architect of some of the most significant and complex transactions in the history of the RIA industry. Over his 20+ year financial services career, John has advised the nation’s leading RIA's, asset managers, senior wirehouse executives and financial advisors, large broker dealers, and family offices. He previously served as a Managing Director at Avalon Advisors, an RIA and asset management firm that was a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. In addition, he served as a Director for Salient Partners, an RIA and asset management firm that was a portfolio company of global private equity firm Summit Partners. John is a board member of the Founders Arena, a leading WealthTech accelerator. He is also the Co-Founder of the John and Candace Langston Fellowship at the University of Texas Wealth Management Center that provides scholarships to students committed to wealth management studies. He also sits on the board of the University of Texas Wealth Management Center. John received his MBA from Rollins College and the Crummer Graduate School of Business.