Having founded a firm called The Financial Engineering Institute back in 1996, Mr. Gregory and his colleagues utilized the Institute’s WealthEngineering ™ Platform and a plethora of other resources to engineer The Family Wealth Hub as an ecosystem for families and their businesses. They are gathering places for Families and Businesses to peruse a carefully selected and categorized portfolio of ExpertSourcing Firms. Families create their FWH Dashboards to access the expert sourcing firms and the Family Knowledge Center coupled with Regional Chapters and synchronized with discreet peer-to-peer Forums and dynamic regional and national Conferences. Nick is dedicated to providing quality education, training coaching and advanced strategies for families of wealth and their advisors. He is also President and Managing Director of The Charitable Capital Design Center, an organization which assists both financial professionals and charitable organizations in enhancing their planned giving capabilities by redefining “planned giving” as a unique form of financial capital. In addition, Nick and his colleagues have developed Give Back Nation, a non-profit, national community foundation to create even bigger waves of giving across the nation. He is also Founder and CEO of The Family Business Hub, a national association of family businesses. Over the past 40 years Mr. Gregory has consulted with attorneys, accountants, and financial services professionals in better serving their high net worth families and businesses. He also provides consulting for some of the largest financial services organizations in the world. He functions as a speaker, writer and consultant in the areas of cash management, risk management, investing, taxation, estate preservation, employee benefits, business succession and retirement planning, as well as business valuation, asset protection, and charitable giving. Mr. Gregory holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Ball State University with minors in Economics and Finance. Mr. Gregory is a member of the Financial Planners Association, The Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, The International Institute of Financial Engineering, The Charitable Capital Advisory Institute and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Give Back Nation.
Kyle and several other entrepreneurial philanthropists developed Give Back Nation as a national community foundation serving hundreds of non-profits on a concierge services basis as well as thousands of giving Americans and their causes. Kyle Gregory has held management positions with UPS, Lowes and The Bank of New York Mellon. Using his vast array of management experience and dedication to “giving back”, Kyle helps great causes expand their fight while creating a “circle of winning” within communities across the nation. Kyle received his bachelors degree in Business Management from the University of Central Florida. He is a member of The Charitable Capital Advisory Institute.
Oleg Tishkevich is the founder and CEO of Invent®, a leading cloud-enabling software development firm. Prior to founding Invent®, Tishkevich founded Finance Logix, a next generation financial planning software company which sold to Envestnet in 2015.Finance Logix has pioneered an engaging mobile planning app Retire Logix that was named Best Money Move by Money magazine and voted number one mobile app for advisors. At Finance Logix, Tishkevich led the development team that delivered custom firm-wide solutions for companies such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Assetmark, Janney Montgomery Scott and other major firms.
John Pileggi is an Executive Manager of Global and Diverse Financial Services Organizations, including Investment, Wealth & Asset Management, Mutual Funds, Exchange Traded Funds, Collective Funds, Banking, Trust, Retirement, Insurance, Alternatives (Hedge & Private Equity), Brokerage, Crowd Funding, Donor Advised Funds, Financial Planning and FinTech. John Pileggi's Specialties: Retail and institutional financial services including brokerage, wealth management, hedge funds, mutual funds, banking and asset management.
Rob leads the Business Resource Network practice of the BDO Alliance USA which provides consulting and business services to the Clients of BDO USA and its 260+ alliance firms across the country. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics Ursinus College and an MBA from the University of Maryland.
Gladstone Associates, established in 2006, provides M&A advisory solutions to the national RIA sector, encompassing Wealth Managers and Asset Managers. As Founder of Gladstone, Dan shares in setting firm vision and strategy, works with Enterprise Clients, and oversees all operational and branding functions. Dan is also founder of D.A. Kreuter Associates, Inc. (“DAK Associates”), a national retainer-based executive search firm with decades of search success (2,500+ searches) on behalf of the global financial services community. He co-founded two successful FinTech Businesses, Coates Analytics (now BNY/Mellon Distribution Analytics) which provides productivity software on behalf of Money Managers and Advisory Platforms; and Gladstone Analytics (sold to Truelytics, purchased by Envestnet in 2022), a SaaS solution for Valuation analytics, benchmarking and business process improvement to the RIA space. Dan recently served as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Chalice Financial Network, a national peer-to-peer association group for Independent Advisors; and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Real Assets Adviser, a leading Alternative Investments publication with over 65,000 readers in the wealth management sector. He currently serves on the Advisory Counsel for AlphaTrAI, a San Diego-based AI/Machine Learning quantitative asset manager.