RWA Wealth Partners Expands Family Office Division with Two Senior Wealth Advisors

Jennifer Votano and Evelyn Pepe bring decades of experience advocating for women advisors and clients

BOSTON, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- RWA Wealth Partners, a national independent and boutique wealth management firm responsible for $19.7 billion in client assets, announced today that senior wealth advisors Jennifer Votano, CFA®, CFP®, and Evelyn Pepe, CFP®, CDFA®, have joined the firm's family office team. Ms. Votano and Ms. Pepe will serve as Managing Directors at RWA Family Office and report to Nicole LaChapelle.

"Following our welcome of the San-Francisco-based Moirai team led by Karen Schmid in August, the addition of Jennifer Votano and Evelyn Pepe to RWA's East Coast presence is yet another exciting sign of the momentum we are building here at RWA Wealth Partners. We are so proud to be a destination for women advisors and for clients seeking a team with institutional quality expertise delivered in a boutique way. Jennifer and Evelyn are a natural fit as they offer a deeply intentional, educational, and client-centric approach to multi-generational wealth management," said Michelle Knight, CEO of RWA Wealth Partners.

Jennifer Votano brings 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. She is a seasoned advisor specializing in comprehensive, thoughtful wealth management for individuals, families, and business owners. Prior to joining RWA, Ms. Votano held advisor roles at Clarfeld | Citizens Private Wealth and New England Private Wealth Advisors. She is a CFA® Charterholder and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, a member of the CFA Institute, CFA Society Boston, and Financial Planning Association of Massachusetts. Ms. Votano received her B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Simmons University. 

Evelyn Pepe provides highly personalized wealth management advice designed to help individuals and families achieve clarity and confidence in their financial lives. Prior to joining RWA, Evelyn spent 15 years as a Senior Private Wealth Advisor at Clarfeld | Citizens Private Wealth, where she advised executives, business owners, and multigenerational families across the full spectrum of wealth management. Ms. Pepe holds a B.S. in Finance from Quinnipiac University and is both a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®.

"We are honored to welcome these two incredibly talented women to our extraordinary family office team. They bring with them a long history of advocacy for women advisors and clients. As we look to 2026, stay tuned for the launch of a meaningful and impactful education and empowerment initiative spearheaded by Jennifer and Evelyn," commented Nicole LaChapelle, President of Family Office at RWA Wealth Partners.

About RWA Wealth Partners
With $19.7 billion in client assets, RWA Wealth Partners is an independent wealth management firm and one of the largest woman-led registered investment advisers in the nation. RWA Wealth Partners has a rich history of serving individuals and families to help create and sustain wealth for generations. The firm has its main offices in Boston, MA and in the San Francisco Bay area, with additional locations in Newton, MA, Chicago, IL, Traverse City, MI, and Costa Mesa, CA. For more information, please visit www.rwawealth.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Contacts

KWM Communications
Kellie Walsh
[email protected]
(914) 315-6072

or

Venkat Patla
Chief Marketing Officer
[email protected]

SOURCE RWA Wealth Partners