Independent Financial Partners has brought in Ned Van Riper, who co-founded and is managing partner of an online recruiting platform, to help it pick out fresh talent.

Tampa, FL-based Independent Financial Partners, an RIA, has hired Ned Van Riper as director of recruiting to expand its advisor network.

Van Riper will identify not only wirehouse advisors looking to go independent, but also RIAs and fee-only advisors looking to “tuck in.”

He started his career in 1999 as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley and then moved to Smith Barney. In 2007, he transitioned to advisor recruiting, working as an external recruiter for LPL Financial before becoming an external recruiting consultant at Finetooth Consulting.

IFP has just under $6 billion in assets under management.