Lincoln S. Ellis is a deeply experienced entrepreneur and investor whose career has spanned startups, bulge bracket investment banks and niche family offices. Lincoln has delivered deeply impactful P&L results across a wide variety of strategic and tactical business. Most recently his work has contributed to a doubling of revenue inside the family office investment business at Northern Trust.
Mr Ellis currently heads Northern Trust’s Global Family Office Investment Strategy. This work involves a team of near 30 investment professionals leveraging a$1 Trillion dollar asset management business in the service of the discrete market segment focusing exclusively on family offices
Lincoln began his career as a start-up entrepreneur using a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the early effects of the Internet on publishing – specifically in the disciplines of Politics and Economics. At Columbia University he developed a stable of global content contributors and subscribers to one of the world’s first online research tools in the process creating the most profitable business at Columbia University’s Press.
After a number of years consulting in the start-up world, he moved into the private wealth management business at Morgan Stanley where he spent the next 8 years developing a $1B + book of business and a team of 4 advising high net worth families.
Mr. Ellis then went on, in 2009, to found Astor Janssen Holdings, a diversified consulting, strategy and asset management group. Through the diversity of his background and skill set, Lincoln was able to leverage the skills of due diligence and manger selection into the fields of product creation and risk management. Currently the corporate risk management business has over $1.5Billion in asset under advisement.
His work also included the launch of a Chicago and New York office for the $6Billion AUM Multi Family Office group Green Square Capital. And, most recently, he has contributed to the $100MM equity raise for Delos Living, a wellness based real estate services firm based in NYC.
Media includes BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Sky News, Roubini Economonitor (founding contributor),Market Place, Business Insider and NPR.