Sally Gries is the founder and chair of Gries Financial LLC, a multi-family wealth management firm for private clients, foundations and institutions. An avid reader of the Wall Street Journal as a teenager, she entered the male-dominated financial field in the late 1960s after graduating from Northwestern University. A decade later, she started her own company. She has the distinction of being the founder of the first female-owned money management and financial planning firm in Ohio.

Gries also is a founder and chair of Fieldstone Associates Inc., a real estate investment advisory firm, and is an investment committee member of several large institutions. She is vice chair of Holden Arboretum’s board of directors, a life trustee of Hawken School and a trustee of Case Western Reserve University and Town Hall of Cleveland.