CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, a Raleigh, N.C., firm with $274 billion in client assets, announced that Mark S. Wilson has been named to its board of advisors.
Wilson is the past chairman and president at Kimley-Horn, an engineering, design, planning and environmental consulting firm in Raleigh that he joined in 1989. The company has appeared 11 times in Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
CAPTRUST’s board of advisors was formed in 2005 and consists of business leaders from employee benefits law, technology, marketing, business finance and the retirement industry.
Other members of CAPTRUST’s board of advisors are Jim Dunn, the chief executive and chief investment officer of Verger Capital Management; Jenny Eller, principal at the Groom Law Group; Dave Liebrock, a retired CAPTRUST financial advisor and former Fidelity Investments Institutional Services executive; Rob Solomon, founder and chief strategist of Bulldog Solutions Inc.; and Jerry Tylman, partner and founder of Greenway Solutions Inc.
Charlie Ruffel of Kudu Investment Management, a New York City-based fund that takes minority stakes in asset management firms, announced he is stepping down from the board to focus on his own company Kudu, but he will remain as a counsel to the CAPTRUST leadership.