Dan Rutnik is the Chairman and a founding member of Graypoint LLC, a financial advisory and investment firm for families and nonprofit institutions. Dan and his team specialize in working with ultra-high-net-worth families managing their wealth, providing estate and income tax planning, educating family members and advising on family philanthropy.
Dan began his career at The Ayco Company (now part of Goldman Sachs) in 1982 and was instrumental in building its ultra-high-net-worth practice. He left Ayco in 2002 as a Senior Account Manager to form Bender Lane Advisory, LLC, which continued his work with complex families. In 2019, BLA merged with Hugh Johnson Advisors LLC and was subsequently rebranded as Graypoint LLC. Graypoint now employs over seventy people and has offices in Albany and Saratoga Springs with clients throughout the country. They work with a range of families and nonprofits, providing sophisticated investment management and financial planning services.
Dan is a member of the Board of Trustees of Siena College and a member of the Finance Committee of Double H Ranch. He received a B.A. from Siena College in 1980 and a J.D. from Albany Law School in 1983. Dan was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by The Stack Center of Siena College in 2018. He is an active volunteer with several local groups, including many affiliated with Siena College. Dan lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, Mary, and is the son of a Siena College graduate and the father of two sons who are also graduates. They have one other son who is not (yet) a Siena graduate.