Our Founder

Samuel Yakubu, CLU®, ChFC®, LUTCF

Samuel K. Yakubu, the founder of SKY Financial Group LLC, began his carrier in financial services in 2004. SKY Financial Group LLC is a comprehensive/ holistic financial planning and investment advisory company located in the New York metropolitan area. Samuel enjoys helping his clients crystalize and achieve their financial goals and objectives and is passionate about creating a comprehensive/holistic solution which emphasizes wealth management, risk management, estate planning, business succession planning, retirement and or financial security planning. Samuel is an investment advisor representative and a financial planner with Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser. With the breadth of such resources at his disposal, Samuel can utilize a comprehensive platform to assist the needs of his clients.

Samuel is a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®), a chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®) and holds a Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF®) from the American College of Financial Services, Bryn Mawr, PA. Over the course of his career Samuel has earned numerous industry awards including achieving the status of Qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table* (MDRT) and national sales Achievement Award (NSAA) from the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA).

Samuel is very active in his community and is part of Mind Renewal International (MRI) a Non-Profit organization dedicated to renewing minds and transforming lives, raising funds to support orphans, widows, elderly and the provision of subsidized counseling at the PhD level in the USA and Africa.

In his personal life, Samuel is most proud of his three daughters. He also enjoys spending time with his family, loved ones, cooking, and playing tennis.

*The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), The Premier Association of Financial Professionals, is recognized globally as the standard of excellence for life insurance sales performance in the insurance and financial services industry.