Ron D. Cordes has enjoyed a 40+ year career in the investment industry. He is a retired co-founder and CEO of AssetMark, a $ 100 bb AUM wealth management firm, and in 2006 co-founded the Cordes Foundation with his wife Marty, which has a global mission to drive market-based capital to address the world’s most important problems.
Ron speaks extensively on impact investing and achieving meaning and purpose in an “encore” career, and has been profiled in multiple publications including FORTUNE, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, FastCompany, Forbes, Private Wealth Management and The New York Times.
He is a co-founder of ImpactAssets, a leading U.S. Donor Advised Fund platform focused on impact investing, and currently serves on the corporate boards of Pathstone and Definiti as well as the Advisory Board of Rebalance Capital. He received his BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.