About the Author

Gregory Curtis is the chairman and founder of Greycourt & Co., Inc., an open-architecture wealth advisory firm serving substantial families and select endowments on a global basis. Prior to founding Greycourt, Curtis served for many years as president of a Mellon family office and as president of the Laurel Foundation.

Curtis is the author of Creative Capital: Managing Private Wealth in a Complex World, and he is also the author of numerous white papers on a variety of investment topics. Curtis writes a blog for The Alliance Report.

Over the years Curtis has served on many investment committees for family and institutional investors. He currently serves on the investment committees for Carnegie Mellon University, The Pittsburgh Foundation, St. John's College, United Educators Insurance Co., and Winchester Thurston School, among others.

Curtis currently chairs the board of directors of The Pittsburgh Foundation (the community foundation for the Pittsburgh region); is a member of the board of directors of United Educators Insurance Co.; is a past chair of the board of St. John's College (Annapolis and Santa Fe) and past chair of the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations; and he has chaired or served on the boards of many other investment, educational, and cultural organizations. In addition to founding Greycourt and co-founding The Investment Fund for Foundations, Curtis is the founder and CEO of Moneybags LLC, the developer of the Moneybags financial app.

Curtis holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College, cum laude with high distinction in English, a JD degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and he is a graduate of The Endowment Institute at Harvard Business School. He also holds an honorary BA degree from St. John's College.

Curtis has six children and lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Simin, the founder and CEO of the American Middle East Institute.