Kelly joined HB Wealth in January 2025 after working with WMS Partners. She is a Senior Wealth Advisor whose focus centers on helping clients identify and pursue the impact they wish to create in their families, their communities, and the world. Kelly works with individuals and families who are navigating the complexities of sudden wealth–whether that wealth is derived from the sale of a business, an inheritance, a divorce, or some other life event. Kelly has over 15 years of experience coaching individuals and families through the intricacies of business succession planning, estate planning, the creation of charities, generational gifting, trust creation and administration, financial literacy, financial stewardship, philanthropy, and impact investing.
Prior to joining HB, Kelly was a Vice President and Senior Fiduciary Advisor with PNC Bank’s Family Office, known as Hawthorn. Prior to that, she was a practicing attorney in the Tax and Wealth Planning Group of Venable LLP. As a Tax and Wealth Planning Associate with Venable, Kelly planned and administered clients’ estates, advised entrepreneurial clients with respect to their business succession plans, and assisted families and corporations in the creation and administration of private foundations and donor-advised funds. Kelly served on Venable’s Hiring Committee and on the Grants Committee of the Venable Private Foundation.
Kelly graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and is a member of the Order of the Coif. She served as Associate Editor of Maryland Law Review, in which she was a published author. She was also selected as the Joseph R. Hardiman Leadership Scholar for the Class of 2008. Kelly earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, graduating summa cum laude.