Elaine King Fuentes, MBA, CFP®

Elaine King Fuentes, the founder of Family and Money Matters™, is on a mission to empower family financial and human capital for financial well-being. With over 1,200 families and 100 multigenerational family enterprises served as a Family Financial Planner, she crafts actionable family financial plans.

Elaine is a financial education advocate, creator of the first family financial program in Latin America and winner of the Best Parenting Book from the International Latino Book Awards. In 2023, she was recognized as one of Investopedia’s Top 10 Most Influential Financial Advisors and in 2017 as one of People magazine’s Top 25 Influential Hispanic Women. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Telemundo and CNN and is a columnist for financial journals in the United States and Latin America.

Elaine holds a B.B.A. in International Finance from St. Mary’s University and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She also undertook a postgraduate program in Bowen Family Systems Theory.