Fielding is Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors.

Fielding is the founding partner who led CAPTRUST from an entrepreneurial start-up to one of the nation’s largest independent financial advisory firms. He remains active in all aspects of the business. He is well known as a pioneer in the financial services industry. Previous recognitions include:

• Lifetime Achievement Award, U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, August 2022
• RIA CEO of the Year, Wealth Management, September 2020
• Icons and Innovators Award, Investment News, April 2019
• CEO of the Year, Triangle Business Journal, March 2016
• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Southeast Region Finalist, 2013
• Lifetime Achievement Award, PlanAdviser, 2012

An entrepreneur himself, he supports many causes that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. He and his wife, Kim, are the lead benefactors of The Miller School of Entrepreneurship at their alma mater, East Carolina University (ECU). Fielding also serves on the Board of Trustees of ECU and as an independent director for Dogwood State Bank.

Fielding passionately believes in sharing his resources and opportunities to improve the lives of others, encouraged by Luke 12:48: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”