Deron Richens serves as Senior Vice President, Internal Sales and Distribution for Carter Funds, leading internal sales efforts across the firm’s investment platform, including Carter Multifamily, Aphorio Carter, and Carter Exchange. Deron brings over 25 years of experience in third party distribution, building and scaling high‑performing sales and distribution organizations across Real Estate, Alternative Investments, Annuities and other financial products. Prior to joining Carter Funds, Mr. Richens was SVP, Head of Internal Sales at Bluerock Capital Markets where he was instrumental in Sales and AUM growth, while scaling sales process and CRM enhancements for the team.

Prior to joining Bluerock, Mr. Richens was SVP, Internal Sales with Griffin Capital Securities where he was responsible for supporting and expanding the company’s Sales Growth and AUM of NTREITs and Interval Funds while developing sales training programs and enhancing the data strategy at the firm.

From 2000 – 2010, Mr. Richens was at MetLife Investors as Head of Internal Sales for one of the most successful Variable Annuity distribution companies in the sector in the 2000’s.  In addition, he worked with MetLife International on best practices and training of the distribution organizations in the UK and Japan.

Mr. Richens started in third party distribution at AXA Distributors (aka Equitable Distributors) as Team Leader in Bank Channel distribution covering New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. 

Mr. Richens graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Bachelor of Science in Finance, Real Estate and Law. He currently maintains the FINRA Series, 7, 63 and 24 licenses.