FOCS

Focus Financial Partners Inc.

A company that partners with independent financial-advisory and wealth-management firms, giving them capital, technology, and back-office support so they can grow without giving up their own names or independence. It was founded in 2004 by Austrian-born Rudy Adolf (a former McKinsey consultant and son of a small-town CPA), along with Rajini Kodialam and Leonard Chang, who saw that independent advisors lacked the resources of big banks. Today it backs a network of advisory firms across the country, helping them expand while staying independent.