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The Firm

Leadership Team

The People

Senior judgment, on every engagement

Fifty-eight professionals across investments, credit, risk and client service — led by a committee whose members average 19 years of experience across bull markets, crises and everything in between.

Marcus A. Whitfield
Marcus A. Whitfield
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner

25+ years in institutional asset management. Formerly a senior portfolio strategist at a global bulge-bracket firm. Leads firm strategy and client partnerships.

Eleanor J. Castellanos
Eleanor J. Castellanos
Chief Investment Officer

Chartered Financial Analyst with two decades across public and private markets. Chairs the Investment Committee and oversees all strategy construction.

David R. Okafor
David R. Okafor
Head of Corporate Asset Management

Advises CFOs and treasury teams on liquidity, hedging and liability-driven investment programs across 40+ corporate relationships.

Sarah M. Lindqvist
Sarah M. Lindqvist
Head of Lending & Project Finance

Structured finance veteran with $3.2B in arranged project and corporate facilities. Leads underwriting, syndication and credit risk.

James T. Hartley
James T. Hartley
Chief Risk Officer

Former regulator-side risk advisor. Architects the firm’s enterprise risk framework, stress-testing regime and compliance governance.

Priya N. Raman
Priya N. Raman
Director of Wealth Advisory

Leads the private client practice — financial planning, trust services and generational wealth transfer for 300+ families nationwide.

Ownership Culture

Our partners eat their own cooking

Every member of the executive committee invests personally — and substantially — in the same strategies we recommend to clients. We consider this the only honest answer to the question every client deserves to ask: “Do you believe in what you’re selling me?”

We also cap firm growth deliberately. Client load per advisor is limited by policy, and we decline mandates that would dilute the standard of care — a discipline that has cost us revenue and earned us loyalty in equal measure.

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