Based in the firm’s private client group office in St Louis, MO, Bledsoe will provide wealth management and investment advisory services to high net worth investors.

He joins Stifel after spending 11 years at Merrill Lynch, where he was a senior vice president and past chairman of the firm’s advisory council to management.

Earlier this month, Stifel hired Michael Sullivan as managing director of the private client group and eastern region director of the firm's broker-dealer division .