Brad Raymond Stifel Net Worth 2026: $6M Pay, Soledad O'Brien's Husband

No reputable outlet has published an estimate of Brad Raymond's net worth. What is public is his pay: Stifel Financial's 2026 proxy statement reports total compensation of $6,068,230 for 2025, the first year he was listed among the firm's named executive officers. Raymond, full name C. Brad Raymond, is global co-head of institutional equities and advisory at Stifel, and he is married to journalist Soledad O'Brien. The $10 million net worth and income figures that appeared on this page before had no source and have been removed.

What is Brad Raymond's net worth?

Compensation is not the same as net worth, and Raymond's total holdings of Stifel stock, deferred awards and other assets are not reported in any source we found. He has spent more than 20 years as a senior technology investment banker, first at Thomas Weisel Partners and then at Stifel, so his earnings over time have likely been substantial, but no outlet has put a figure on his wealth. We therefore do not show one.

How much Brad Raymond earns

Stifel's 2026 proxy statement breaks down his 2025 pay:

The proxy's own analysis of his annual incentive, which excludes long-term retention grants, put it at $5 million: $3.12 million "realized" and $1.88 million "at risk," with at-risk pay vesting over several years. On top of that, the board granted him long-term retention restricted stock units worth about $1 million (13,504 units) in early 2026, which vest over ten years, and performance units worth about $940,000 (12,694 units), both valued at a reference share price of $74.05.

Career

As Stifel's head of investment banking, he was the firm's public voice on its expansion. In September 2016 he announced the hiring of a seven-person senior energy banking team in Houston, saying the firm saw opportunity in the energy sector through market cycles. The release noted that Stifel's energy and natural resources practice had completed more than 70 M&A deals and about 500 capital markets transactions over the prior decade. In April 2019 Stifel agreed to buy Mooreland Partners, a technology M&A advisory firm, the St. Louis Business Journal reported, and in December 2019 Raymond announced a new Stifel office in Israel, telling the Jerusalem Post it would let the firm better serve clients active in the Israeli market.

The proxy credits him in 2025 with recruiting more than 13 senior bankers and research professionals and overseeing investment banking growth that included the largest IPO fee in Stifel's history. Stifel reported record net revenue of more than $5.5 billion for 2025.

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Education

Raymond earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, according to Stifel's proxy statement.

Wife and family

Raymond married broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien in 1995, according to Wikipedia. They have four children: daughters Sofia and Cecilia and twin sons Charlie and Jackson, the New York Times reported in 2012, when the family split time with a country house in Dutchess County, New York. O'Brien hosts the syndicated show Matter of Fact and chairs Starfish Media Group. Raymond sits on the board of the PowHERful Foundation, according to the proxy.

Boards and lacrosse

He is a trustee of the Westminster School and joined the board of the Tewaaraton Foundation, which presents the top award in college lacrosse, in 2025. He said lacrosse had been an important part of his and his family's life. The award itself is presented by Stifel.

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How Stifel pays its top bankers

The proxy explains that most of an executive's annual incentive is deferred. Restricted stock units and deferred cash in the annual award vest in equal parts over five years, performance units are measured and delivered only in the fourth and fifth years, and the special retention units granted in 2026 vest over ten years. That structure means a large share of the $6.07 million reported for 2025 is not money Raymond can spend yet, and some of it can be lost if performance targets are missed or he leaves.

Age, height and name

His date of birth has not been published in the sources we reviewed; the age, height and weight shown on this page earlier had no source and were removed. His surname is Raymond. "Stifel" in this page's address refers to his employer, not his name.

How this page was checked

We used Stifel's 2026 preliminary proxy statement filed with the SEC, Wikipedia's entry on Soledad O'Brien, the New York Times, the Tewaaraton Foundation, the St. Louis Business Journal and the Jerusalem Post.