John Prendergast, Chief Executive Officer
John is an experienced senior executive who’s led product management, marketing, and finance teams. His background in banking and personal financial planning has shaped the vision for Blueleaf.
“Our vision is to make managing assets simple. We're doing that by tying the asset management process together, end-to-end, across custodians to make life simpler for financial advisors and their clients. ””
- John Prendergast, CEO
Blueleaf has a vision of making the best financial advisors available to everyone. We’re working to find the very best financial advisors and help them to make it profitable to deliver exceptional service to a radically broader audience.
Financial fees are already too high. Yup, we said it and lots of clients are saying it. Slowly but surely that is lowering fees. So, if we want to make it profitable to serve a broader audience we have to make it less expensive to service clients. It needs to be radically less expensive and we think that means service levels will need to actually increase.
We believe (and lots of data shows) that clients are happier when they can get what they want when they want it. They are also more profitable.
Not everyone or every company wants this to happen. Many large financial institutions depend on locking in advisors and their clients by holding data hostage. There are also lots of software companies that depend on the current order to charge advisors obscenely high prices. To succeed we’ll need to find enough exceptional financial advisors who are also sick of the status quo. Let the stone throwing begin. We can take it.
We were founded in 2009 and we care deeply about simplicity, transparency and doing the right thing. We decide what we do based on facts and data and thrive on learning. It’s also important that things get done, now.
We give you less? Yes, less. Fewer features, less for you to do, fewer choices to make. The essence of expensive complexity is more. The key to scalability is simplicity. It’s a trade off. If we’re right, you’ll value being finished over most features. You’ll value actual client happiness over fine control. The only thing we’re trying to give you more of is DONE.
John is an experienced senior executive who’s led product management, marketing, and finance teams. His background in banking and personal financial planning has shaped the vision for Blueleaf.
Chris is an accomplished internet entrepreneur with several patents pending on cryptography in auctions and financial markets. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard where he taught a graduate seminar in computational finance.
Chris is an experienced leader of early-stage technology teams. He’s been recognized for pioneering efforts in video and web traffic analytics, large-scale internet computing, software-as-a-service, user-generated content, and database and business intelligence.
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