Biography

Tom Puentes has been in the financial services industry since 1985. He is the Managing Director and Financial Advisor with Langley Pacific Partners, working in Seattle, Washington and Ventura, California. His clients include family foundations, labor unions, health professionals, executives, internet entrepreneurs, and business owners across the entire United States. Mr. Puentes has worked with clients in fixed income markets for approximately 30 years. For the past three decades, Tom has conducted seminars for practice management groups, the purpose of which is to provide physicians and other health practitioners with practical solutions to their financial challenges. From 1989 to 2000, Tom hosted a weekly financial show called “Your Money Matters,” on The Business Channel, station KWHY, Los Angeles. He was the financial correspondent for KADY-TV in Ventura CA.

Mr. Puentes actively supports many local and national charitable organizations including Pacific Northwest Ballet and PNB School, Seattle Union Gospel Mission, Everett Gospel Mission, Good Cheer food bank in Langley, WA, Starlight Foundation, Beit Tikvah, Seattle Symphony, Haitian Health Foundation, Hope to Haiti, Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera. Tom is committed to financially supporting philanthropic causes and, in recent years, has traveled to support such outreaches in Sri Lanka, Israel, and, most recently, Haiti.

Tom Puentes is an avid fan of the opera and attends as many operas as possible averaging 12- 15 operas each year in New York, London, and Verona, as well as Seattle. He loves exploring new restaurants, taking in a Seattle Mariners baseball games, attending the ballet, symphony and jazz concerts, sailing, scuba diving, and exploring tropical beaches. Tom finds his greatest pleasure spending time with his grandchildren in the Seattle area and his wife Gretchen, with whom he has been love with since 1986. Tom can be reached at [email protected] or 360-221-2100.

You can also connect with Tom at any of the links below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tompuentes/
https://twitter.com/TomPuentes
http://www.tompuentes.com/
http://www.tompuentesphilanthropy.com/
http://www.tomandgretchenpuentesscholarship.org/