Management

Karla Rossetti Pippins, Founder and President

Karla Rossetti Pippins is the founder and president of Riverside Wealth Management Inc., a firm dedicated to serving the needs of successful families who desire to leave a lasting legacy for future generations. Mrs. Pippins began her career in wealth management after a prominent family asked her to design a comprehensive plan to manage their wealth. The specific client challenge was to construct a coordinated long-term investment strategy and to advise the family on the implementation of its plan to preserve and efficiently transfer wealth to future generations. After having developed the infrastructure to successfully serve her initial client, Mrs. Pippins works exclusively with successful families also wishing to establish a multigenerational legacy.

Prior to founding Riverside Wealth Management Inc., Mrs. Pippins was a management consultant with Andersen Consulting's Strategic Services Practice (now Accenture) in Chicago. While at Andersen, she worked with senior executives of Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble, Best Buy, Sara Lee, Super Value, Colgate-Palmolive, Budget Group (Budget Rent-A-Car) and Entergy. During her graduate work, Mrs. Pippins apprenticed at the treasury department of RJR Nabisco in New York.

Mrs. Pippins earned a Master of Business Administration from the Northeastern University Graduate School of Management and was graduated in the top 1 percent of her class. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College and was graduated magna cum laude. Mrs. Pippins holds the FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Series 65 license and is a South Carolina Registered Investment Advisor Representative. She serves as a trustee of the Beaufort County Open Land Trust and Beaufort Academy.