Mark Casady

General Partner & Co-Founder, Vestigo Ventures

Mark Casady has a winning track record of deploying innovation and creativity to his roles as an investor, executive, and board member. His four decades of experience have focused on honing and powering change to enable organizations to reach new opportunities and sharper market focus.

Mr. Casady co-founded Vestigo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and serves as general partner and chairman of the advisory board. Mr. Casady retired as CEO of LPL Financial and later as non-executive chairman of the board in 2017. Before joining LPL Financial in 2002, Mr. Casady served as managing director of the mutual fund group at Deutsche Asset Management, Americas (formerly Scudder Kemper Investments) and held roles at Concord Financial Group, a startup taken public by Hambrecht & Quist. His early career was in wealth advisory at The Northern Trust in both London and Chicago.

He currently serves as an advisor to EverQuote, Inc. and has previously held board positions at Horace Mann Educators Corporation, Jobcase, Citizens Financial Group, and EZE Software. Notably, he also served as a governor of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Deeply involved in philanthropy, Mr. Casady serves as treasurer of the One Step Forward Education Foundation and is a founding benefactor of the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation. Mr. Casady received a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from DePaul University.