Elissa Buie, CFP® earned an MBA from The University of Maryland and a B.S. in Commerce from The University of Virginia. She has been practicing financial planning since 1983. Elissa sits on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Financial Planning and is Chair of the Grants Committee. Elissa is a past Chair of the Financial Planning Association (US).  She has been named as a top advisor by Worth and Washingtonian magazines and by Bloomberg Wealth Manager.  Elissa has appeared on The Today Show, CNBC, CNNfn, NBC News and McLaughlin One-on-One.  She has been quoted in national media including The Washington Post, Time and Businessweek magazines.

Elissa’s article, “To Feel . . . Like a CFP”, was published in July 2000 in The Journal of Financial Planning.  Her article, co-authored with David B. Yeske, CFP, “Policy-Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World”, was published in July 2006 in The Journal of Financial Planning. 

Elissa sits on the Cornerstone Advisory Board of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and is a member of the DC Estate Planning Council.  She is a Dean for FPA’s Residency Program.  And Elissa is a co-founder of the International Training Center for Financial Planners, which is a not-for-profit dedicated to developing successful financial planners around the world through mentoring and training. She also sits on the FPA Leadership Development Subcommittee and on the FPA Solutions Advisory Board.