Meet Our Team
With Aureus Asset Management, you aren’t one advisor’s client. You are the entire firm’s client. Because we believe client service and portfolio management should be a collaborative effort.
Karen Firestone
Co-founder & Chair Emerita
Kari Firestone is Co-founder and Chair Emerita of Aureus Asset Management, an investment firm that manages over $8 billion of assets for families, individuals, and non-profit entities. Previously, she spent 22 years at Fidelity Investments, most recently as a diversified fund manager of Destiny 1 Fund, the Large Cap Fund, Advisor Large Cap Fund and managing numerous sector funds, including Biotechnology, Health Care, and Media. Her Fidelity career began as an assistant fund manager to Peter Lynch on the Magellan Fund. She was twice named to the Institutional Investor “Best of the Buy Side” All Star team.
In 2022, Kari was named to the Forbes 50 Over 50 list of women, recognizing achievements occurring from age fifty and beyond.
Kari is a regular contributor on CNBC, where she appears on Half Time Report, Squawk Box, and Worldwide Exchange, and writes for the website CNBC.com. Ms. Firestone’s book, “Even the Odds: Sensible Risk Taking in Business, Investing, and Life” was published by Bibliomotion in 2016. She gave a TEDx talk on “Becoming a Sensible Risk-Taker.”
Ms. Firestone received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ms. Firestone serves as a Trustee Emerita at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is on the Board of Governors for the Boston Athletic Association. She serves on the board of directors for the public company, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals.
Kari lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband, David. They have four grown children, six grandchildren, and two Springer Spaniels. Kari is an avid runner, tennis player, golfer and plays jazz and blues piano.
Find Karen’s book here, titled “Even the Odds”.
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