Adrianne is the Founder and Managing Partner of Praesidium Benefits. Her extensive background and demonstrated success with various types of institutional clients provides her the strong foundation to lead Praesidium’s efforts.

Adrianne spent 23 years in the asset management industry working with various private and public sector institutional clients and channel partners. Prior to founding Praesidium, Adrianne was a Senior Vice President at Baird Advisors, a +$120 billion fixed income investment manager. She developed and managed strategic relationships across the institutional marketplace resulting in several of the firm’s largest relationships during her decade-long tenure at Baird. Her experience also includes Dearborn Partners where Adrianne led the firm’s investment consultant relations efforts, the Institutional Sales and Marketing Group at Mesirow Financial and the AFL-CIO Office of Investment. Adrianne began her career at Marco Consulting Group working with multi-employer and public sector plans as a fixed income analyst and later as an investment manager analyst.  

Adrianne earned her undergraduate degree with a double major in Finance and Marketing from DePaul University and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She holds her producer licenses in Accident & Health, Life, and Property & Casualty, as well as her FINRA Series 7 and 66 licenses.

Outside of her professional pursuits, Adrianne is an avid golfer, a hobby baker and a Peloton enthusiast. She is deeply committed to community service and feels privileged to serve as a CALM volunteer every week at Boston Medical Center comforting NICU babies and newborns addicted to opiates. Once a month she spends her Saturday mornings volunteering with Boston Health Care for the Homeless at HER Saturday, a program for women experiencing homelessness.