Elissa Buie, CFP®
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 the Foundation’s vice-chair. 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 (JFP). Her article, co-authored with Dr. Dave Yeske, CFP, “Policy-Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World”, was published in the July 2006 issue of the JFP, where their most recent collaboration, “Evidence-Based Financial Planning: To Learn . . . Like a CFP®” also appeared in November, 2011.
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.
Elissa holds an appointment as adjunct professor in Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business, where she teaches the capstone Cases in Financial Planning course.
Elissa was named one of the DC area’s top financial planners in the January 9, 2009 issue of Washingtonian Magazine. This is the third time Washingtonian has compiled such a list and Elissa has been on every one.
Elissa and Dave are husband and wife. They share two daughters from Elissa’s first marriage, Lauren and Alisson. Life with Lauren and Alisson is about sports (soccer, basketball and horseback riding), school and travel. When not with the girls, Dave and Elissa enjoy reading, playing in the financial planning profession, eating out, working out (necessary when your other hobbies include eating out), and traveling.