Our team

The people you meet are the people who do the work.

Lumarra has no relationship managers handing off to a service desk. Every family works directly with two partners, supported by the whole firm.

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Elena Marchetti

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer

Multigenerational family strategy

Elena founded Lumarra to build the firm she wanted to work with as a client: independent, unhurried and accountable to one party only. She leads the firm's family strategy practice, working with families through liquidity events, generational transitions and the governance that holds a balance sheet together over decades.

  • CFA
  • CFP®
  • 20 years in wealth management
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Daniel Okafor

Co-founder, Chief Investment Officer

Portfolio construction and manager research

Daniel oversees Lumarra's investment committee, asset allocation framework and manager due diligence. His work centres on the parts of a portfolio that are controllable: cost, tax drag, factor exposure and the discipline to leave a sound allocation alone.

  • CFA
  • Former institutional allocator
  • 18 years investing
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Priya Raghavan

Partner, Head of Wealth Advisory

Founders and concentrated equity

Priya advises founders and executives whose net worth is concentrated in a single company. She builds the pre-liquidity planning, diversification schedules and charitable structures that turn a paper position into a durable balance sheet.

  • CFP®
  • JD
  • Equity compensation specialist
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James Holloway

Partner, Director of Tax and Estate Strategy

Trusts, estates and philanthropy

James coordinates the technical work that sits behind every plan — trust design, gifting strategy, entity structure and the annual tax calendar — in partnership with each family's attorneys and accountants.

  • CPA
  • Personal Financial Specialist
  • 22 years in practice
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Sofia Alvarez

Partner, Chief Operating Officer

Reporting, administration and client service

Sofia runs the operating side of the firm: consolidated reporting, custodial relationships, cash management and the service standards that determine whether advice actually reaches a client's life.

  • MBA
  • Former family office operations lead
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Thomas Reid

Partner, Institutional and Foundations

Endowments, foundations and nonprofits

Thomas advises foundations and nonprofit institutions on spending policy, investment policy statements and the governance rhythm that keeps an investment committee focused on the long horizon.

  • CFA
  • CAIA
  • Investment policy governance

Careers

We hire slowly and rarely.

If you are an adviser or analyst who wants to do the work rather than sell it, we would like to hear from you.