Rockefeller Global Family Office Adds Fort Lauderdale-Based Team

Editorial Staff

30 June 2025

Rockefeller Global Family Office, the wealth management division of Rockefeller Capital Management, has added Suskind Ripple Halliwell Wealth Partners. The team is joining from UBS.

Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Suskind Ripple Halliwell Wealth Partners is led by private advisors and managing directors Leonard Suskind and Seth Ripple; it includes private advisors and senior vice presidents Karleen Halliwell and Laura Raybin Miller, and private advisor and VP Teddy Pappas.

The team also includes team chief operating officer and senior VP Gigi Whitlock, and senior client associates and associate vice presidents Rebecca Garcia and Susie Rodriguez.

The team reports to Kristen Sario, Southeast divisional director of Rockefeller Global Family Office.

Rockefeller Global Family Office has been adding teams across the US. For example, in April it added two teams in Chicago. In another case, Chase Newman Riordan Wealth Partners joined RGFO, based in New Jersey.

In February it added Meyer DeMartini Wealth Partners, based in San Francisco. The group used to work at Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management. In January, Rockefeller Global Family Office added two private advisor teams – Heritage Wealth Partners of Houston, Texas, and Venetos Wealth Partners of New York. In July last year, the group added Titus Wealth Partners, adding to its presence in Boston, Massachusetts.

As of May 31, 2025, the firm was responsible for $164 billion in client assets across its three businesses, Rockefeller Global Family Office, Rockefeller Asset Management, and Rockefeller Global Investment Banking.