Nate Willer

Nate Willer joined RIA Registrar as a Director of Compliance in December 2025. Nate brings over 15 years of broad financial services industry experience to RIA Registrar. Nate started his career as an operations associate for Thrivent specializing in Stock Certificates, check deposits and distributions. Nate worked his way up through the operations department, increasing his knowledge in policy and procedure updates, customer service, and team leadership. Nate moved into a compliance analyst role in 2015 where he gained valuable experience doing OSJ exams, books and records review, Firm Element course creation and regulatory audits. In 2019 Nate took on a Compliance and Supervision Management role at a small RIA aggregator where he continued to develop his compliance and supervision skills by helping independent advisors with account reviews, billing, trade issues, disclosures, regulatory audits and due diligence. Immediately prior to joining RIA Registrar, Nate worked as a principal for Northwestern Mutual reviewing new client accounts, transactions and providing consultations to Advisors on client file documentation, VA replacements, qualified rollovers and 529 plans. Prior to joining the industry in 2010, Nate spent three years living and working in South Korea as an ESL (English as a Second Language) Instructor. Throughout his career Nate has focused on building and maintaining solid relationships, expanding his industry knowledge and expertise and always taking an educational approach to his work with advisors. Nate holds his FINRA 7, 24, 52, 53 and 66 licenses and has a Bachelor of Arts in Modern US History from the University of Minnesota.