Michael Capelle Email Address

Retired

United Capital Financial Partners, Inc. is a fast growing national partnership of exceptional Private Wealth Counseling offices.* These independent advisors find they can better serve their clients through shared access to centralized back office operations, specialized professional advice and objective, expertly applied investment management.

Mike Capelle is co-founder and co-CEO at Modern Wealth Management. From his decades-long career in wealth management, Capelle has experience building advisor-client wealth management platforms to drive continuous growth. Prior to co-founding Modern Wealth, Capelle was a managing director at Goldman Sachs Personal Financial Management where he was head of high-net-worth product. In addition, Capelle was part of the team that co-founded, scaled and sold United Capital, a $25B RIA with 90 locations, to Goldman Sachs for $750M, where he served as Chief Platform Officer. Capelle was responsible for the company’s operating platform and technology and for driving enterprise innovation. He was also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Early in his career, Capelle worked on microprocessor design and manufacturing at Intel Corporation. Capelle earned a master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.