Jasper Vaccaro is a Senior Wealth Adviser at Atlatl Advisers and leads the firm's advanced planning work. He serves as a senior adviser on client relationships across the team, and he is the firm's primary point person when prospective clients come to Atlatl with complex tax and estate planning needs. He brings more than 25 years of trust and wealth management experience along with 11 years of legal experience, which informs his work with families on trusts, estates and the transfer of wealth across generations.
Before joining Atlatl in December 2023, Jasper was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Prairie Trust, a division of Waukesha State Bank. From 2015 to 2021 he was Senior Vice President and Regional Manager at Heartland Financial USA, where he oversaw wealth management services for four of its banks: Wisconsin Bank & Trust, Illinois Bank & Trust, Minnesota Bank & Trust, and Blue Valley Bank & Trust in Kansas City. Earlier, as a Vice President with BMO Private Bank, he managed personal trust relationships for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families.
Jasper earned his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and a B.S.B.A. in accounting from Chapman College in Orange, California. He and his family live in Waunakee, Wisconsin, where he is active in the community. He has served on the boards of directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison, the YMCA of Dane County, and Community Action, Inc. of Rock and Walworth Counties, and he is a member of the Italian Workmen's Club of Madison.
Credentials and background
- J.D., The John Marshall Law School, 1991
- B.S.B.A., Accounting, Chapman College, 1987
- Prairie Trust (Waukesha State Bank): Senior Vice President and Managing Director, 2021 to 2023
- Heartland Financial USA: Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, 2015 to 2021
- BMO Private Bank: Vice President, 2011 to 2015
- SEC record (IAPD), CRD 4087537