For Immediate Release: February 8, 2021 10:00 a.m.
RiskBridge Appoints Clay Skurdal to Senior Client Service Role
The 35-Plus Year Wealth Management Veteran Brings Family Office and Institutional Client Experience to OCIO Startup
NEW CANAAN, CT, February 8, 2021 – OCIO firm RiskBridge Advisors, LLC (“RiskBridge”) announces the appointment of Clay Skurdal as Managing Director and Principal. Skurdal will focus on providing existing and new client relationships with extraordinary experiences through RiskBridge’s customized platform.
Skurdal, based in Eugene, Oregon, brings decades of experience serving entrepreneurs, families, and institutions from the Pacific Northwest to Silicon Valley and in his home state of North Dakota. He brings to RiskBridge a unique blend of client service leadership and a passion for operational excellence. Skurdal is poised to help the OCIO firm execute its rapid expansion plans and succeed in its mission to help investors prepare, protect, and perform.
Bill Kennedy, RiskBridge’s CEO and Chief Investment Officer, said, “Clay’s passion for serving clients and communities is a terrific fit. RiskBridge’s unconflicted investment advice coupled with Clay’s extraordinary reputation with individual and institutional clients will help advance our OCIO solutions to families and institutions.”
Craig Pfeiffer, Advisory Board Chair for RiskBridge, said, “we are thrilled to have Clay join the team. His demonstrated track record with deep engagement in the client’s interests and preferences enhances RiskBridge’s client care culture. His alignment with our risk management approach to portfolio construction will accelerate our client growth”.
Mr. Skurdal said, “It was an easy decision to join the RiskBridge team given their commitment to objective, transparent investment advice, and extraordinary client service. In addition to my expanded business development duties, I am excited to reunite with Bill and Craig, whom I have known and worked with for over two decades.”
Before joining RiskBridge, Mr. Skurdal was at Fieldpoint Private and served more than 30 years at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessor firms.
About RiskBridge Advisors
RiskBridge Advisors, LLC is an independent, privately-owned SEC-registered investment adviser and OCIO firm headquartered in Connecticut. Such registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. RiskBridge offers differentiated advice to nonprofit endowments and foundations, financial institutions, family offices, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. OCIO services include customized, risk-based investment solutions and tailored guidance and implementation to family offices and investment committees. For more information about RiskBridge Advisors, please see www.riskbridgeadvisors.com
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