Brooks is a Managing Partner of Icon Wealth Partners and serves on the firm’s Investment Committee. He has over four decades of industry experience that spans accounting, banking, family office, and wealth management. With his experience, he focuses on managing the unique and complex financial needs of high-net-worth individuals and their families.
Prior to joining Icon, Brooks was a Managing Director and Client Advisor at Avalon Advisors for 8 years; he managed and ran a Family Office for a prominent Houston family for 12 years; and worked 20 years in commercial banking, the majority of that time serving as Senior Vice President at Southwest Bank of Texas (now Amegy Bank).
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Baylor University in 1979.
A native Houstonian, Brooks currently serves on the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees, the Baylor St. Luke’s Hospital Board of Trustees, and is currently the Chairman of the Board of SpringSpirit. Brooks has been actively involved on the boards and investment committees of various banks, civic and charitable organizations, including the Posse Foundation Houston Advisory Board, the Yellowstone Academy Advisory Board, the Investment Committee of the Baylor University Endowment, and serving as chairman (2009–2011) of the Houston Baylor Business Network.
