Andrea Paradise

Andrea is a Wealth Planner and Senior Vice President at Baird, having joined the firm in December of 2023. Andrea has been in financial services for over twenty-five years. She has spent the last ten years as a Wealth and Financial Planner, empowering clients and their advisors through education, analysis, and discovery to align their life and financial goals. She particularly loves helping solve those financial and estate planning questions that keep clients up at night. Prior to working at Baird, Andrea worked as a Financial Planning Director at Morgan Stanley and as a Wealth Planner at Wells Fargo Private Bank serving high to ultra-high net worth clients.

Andrea has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington and holds both the Certified Financial Planner® designation and the National Social Security Advisor® designation. She is based in the Pacific Northwest, in Baird’s Seattle, Washington office, and lives in Tacoma with her husband, Jeff. Outside of work, Andrea has three children, loves running and writing, and is a mentor in the University of Washington Tacoma School of Business Milgard Women’s Initiative.