Jon’s passion for helping others achieve their full potential permeates throughout his work both in and out of the office.

Professionally, it has driven him to create investment strategies that help investors sidestep the personal biases that can lead them to abandon a sound financial plan during periods of euphoria or fear.

He began his career as a trader and market maker at Bear Stearns before serving as an equity research analyst with Prudential Equity Group. In 2003, he began collaborating with fellow Blueprint founder Brandon Langley. They partnered to create a quantitative alternative investment firm, Robinson-Langley Capital Management, in 2006. Their work demonstrated the efficacy of systematic investment strategies, but they became disillusioned with the “black box” that surrounded many similar models they saw available to financial advisors.

Jon and Brandon decided to shine a light on the black box and transform it into a simple, transparent cube when they launched Blueprint in 2013. The goal was to package systematic, repeatable, and rules-based investment tools as strategies that are highly accessible for financial advisors to use in their practices.

As CEO of Blueprint, Jon is intentional about extending the firm’s focus on transparency beyond investing by cultivating a culture of honesty, integrity, and generosity.

The same principles are roots for his life outside the office. He’s a family man who spends his free time with his wife and three children.

Plenty of investment managers like to say they’re data-driven, but it takes a different level of discipline to follow the data even when it’s bucking conventional thinking, signaling something new, or making you feel a little uncomfortable. As president and co-founder of Blueprint, Brandon is unwaveringly in the latter camp.

He and fellow Blueprint founder Jon Robinson have been collaborating to build systematic trading systems since 2003, believing that data and trend following are the superior inputs for making investment decisions.

Prior to founding Blueprint in 2013, the pair created Robinson-Langley Capital Management, where they honed their management philosophy in the futures markets during the Financial Crisis.

As they spent tens of thousands of hours researching financial market prices and navigating through the Financial Crisis and Great Recession, Brandon and Jon became convinced of the importance of process and behavior on investors achieving their financial goals. It motivated them to create a firm that could offer financial advisors access to systematic, repeatable, and rules-based investment strategies that would increase the chances of clients remaining anchored to their financial plans during times of euphoria and fear.

Prior to teaming with Jon, Brandon was a credit risk manager for Wells Fargo’s automotive lending division, Wells Fargo Dealer Services.

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and he holds FINRA Series 3 and 65 licenses.

In addition to helping lead Blueprint, Brandon also enjoys traveling with his wife, daughter, and son. When at home, his passion is spending time working and playing on the family farm.