About Us
Empowering Advisors.
Accelerating Results.
At Advisor Acceleration, we believe every financial advisor deserves the tools, strategies, and support to build a thriving, future-ready business.
Trusted by Leading Advisors
Our Journey
Empowering Advisors For Over 20 Years
Advisor Acceleration was founded by Gina Rainey and Tony Drake, two industry leaders with over 40+ years combined experience in financial services, business development, and leadership coaching. Our mission is simple: to help financial advisors break through barriers, maximize their potential, and create lasting impact for themselves and their clients.
We know that running an advisory business comes with unique challenges—whether it’s scaling your team, streamlining operations, or attracting and retaining clients in a competitive market. That’s why we offer a blend of proven strategies, personalized coaching, and transformative leadership development, tailored to your specific needs.
We’re more than coaches—we’re partners in your growth. Our approach is hands-on, straight-forward, and results-driven, designed to empower you with the confidence and clarity to lead your business to new heights.
Our Core Values
Unfiltered
We don’t sugarcoat feedback—expect direct, candid conversations that cut through the noise and get to the heart of what matters.
Driving Real Results
Step into your role as a leader with clarity and conviction, knowing you have a proven roadmap to success.
Big Picture Clarity
We take the time to truly understand what you want to accomplish and the kind of life you want to build, empowering you to define success for yourself.
Confidentiality
Your trust is paramount; we treat all client information with the utmost discretion and respect, creating a safe space for open and honest growth.
Our Team
Meet the team dedicated to helping you realize your potential.
Gina Rainey
Co-Founder
Gina Rainey is a 17+ year veteran of working alongside the nation’s top producers and is the go-to expert for financial producers seeking to elevate themselves to “the next level.” She has an uncanny knack for identifying the specific problems that plague practices and applies clear-cut, easy to implement solutions that create trusting, efficient, profitable and systematic practices through the United States.
Gina has spoken at numerous Advisors Excel events and training programs including the World Series of Success, The Journey, Complete Advisor Bootcamp, and Elite Team Training. She is the creator of AE Coach, Operational Excellence, and Elite Team Training. She has been instrumental in helping create the Advisor Success Tracks, led the Inspiring Women initiative, created Marketing on Demand, and has been a contributor to the AE Insider Magazine since inception. She also co-founded Advisor Employee Services, which focuses on placing top talent at financial producer practices across the country.
As of 2024, she has personally coached over 70 of Advisor Excel’s top 100 offices and consulted more than 400 producers and their teams.
When she’s not working with financial advisors, her other passion is everything outdoors including bikepacking adventures with her sister, hiking with her bonkers rescue dog Snoopy, to downtime at her little cabin in the woods in Michigan. She also has a new-found passion for land restoration and is helping restore the forests and pastures on 400 acres in north central Wisconsin with her significant other.
Tony Drake
Co-Founder
Tony Drake was born and raised in Milwaukee. He graduated from Pius XI High School and went on to receive his insurance licenses, post-graduate certificate from DePaul University and CFP® designation. Tony is an Investment Advisor Representative. With over 20 years of experience in the financial industry, Tony has served clients from all over the country and focuses on asset preservation, retirement planning and tax reduction strategies.
In addition to serving his clients, he trains and mentors other financial professionals all over the country. He has made appearances on Milwaukee’s FOX-6, CBS-58, TMJ4, WISN-12, NASDAQ, USA Today, Forbes, US News, CNBC, MSN, PBS, Wall Street Journal, TheStreet, Yahoo! Finance, Investopedia, Market Watch and Kiplinger. Additionally, he hosts the “Retirement Ready” podcast and radio show on 620 WTMJ-AM Saturdays at 11 a.m.
Tony lives in Oconomowoc and has three beautiful children. As a family, they participate in waterskiing tournaments all over the country and love sports and spending time together. Tony bow hunts and owns Wirehaired Pointing Griffons — you can often find him pheasant hunting with friends.
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“We were doing about 25 million in new business, last year we did 125 million. We could not have done this without Gina’s direction on process.”
David S Blackston
CEO Blackston Financial Advisory Group
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