Vicki R. Brackens

Brackens is a graduate of the University of Houston in Houston Texas, where she earned a degree in Biology. Although a scholar of life science, she chose another career path, building an impressive list of credentials as a successful administrator at ELS Language Center as the Director of Courses and later on at Century 21 Financial Services(an affiliate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company).

After completing a successful two-and-a-half-decade career with Metropolitan Life Financial Services she associated her financial services firm, Brackens Financial Solutions Network, LLC (BFSN) with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., in Syracuse, NY. Beginning November of 2018, she started associating her firm with LPL Financial. At BFSN there are four principals that guide every client interaction: Advocate, Advise, Monitor and Motivate. She is known  throughout the community for helping clients answer the question, “What’s Important about Money... to Me?

In 2020, to address the need for greater diversity in the financial services industry, she co-founded Heritage Financial Partners (HFP). As a management company HFP provides individual advisors and firms, particularly those founded by African American and Latino practitioners, affiliation under one entity to provide the scale, the support and the resilience needed to consistently service their marketplace.