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Grant Rawdin, JD, CFP^®

President & CEO
Phone: 215.979.1600
Fax: 215.979.1622
Email: grawdin@wescott.com
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Assistant: Alicia Hughes
Phone: 215.979.1625

Grant Rawdin is President and CEO of Wescott. He founded the firm in 1987, which grew from the personal financial services he provided to clients at Duane Morris LLP, a venerable Philadelphia based law firm. Grant is an attorney, an accountant, a registered trust representative and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and has been awarded accolades as a top financial advisor by Worth, Barron’s and Philadelphia Magazine.

Grant is Co-Chair of Wescott’s Investment Committee, which is responsible for oversight of the firm’s asset allocation models, ongoing due diligence and the firm’s investment strategies. Grant also chairs the Management, Marketing and Sales Committees.

Grant's professional background includes a legal and accounting concentration in tax, business, estate planning and investment analysis. He has served as advisor to many businesses, providing strategic and ongoing business advice.

Grant has written extensively and his advice has been regularly featured in USA Today, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Financial Planning Magazine, Palm Beach Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Business Journal, The Legal Intelligencer and many other national and local publications. He has also made several television and radio appearances.

A leader of many professional organizations, he is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bars, the American Bar Association and the Financial Planning Association. He has also served on the national Charles Schwab and Co., Inc. Institutional Advisory Board.

Civically, Grant currently serves as Co-Chair and on the Executive Committee of the Urban Affairs Coalition, chairing its Strategic Planning Committee, and supporting the Coalition in its work to improve life’s chances for young people, low-income families and minority-owned businesses by creating economic opportunities and strengthening non-profit organizations in urban communities.

Grant served for over a decade as board member, Chair and Chairman Emeritus of People's Emergency Center, nationally recognized as one of the largest premier providers of emergency shelter services, and developers of transitional housing, rental housing, and homes for ownership. Grant is the past Chair of PEC Foundation, past Chair of the corporate United Way Campaign and has been on the boards of many other cultural, civic and charitable organizations. President of Temple University Beasley School of Law Foundation, he also serves as pro-bono investment and financial advisor to several charitable organizations.

Grant is a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law (where he served as a trustee of the school’s Foundation) and Temple University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

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