Kirby Rosplock, PhD, founded Tamarind Partners, Inc. in 2014, a leading family office consultancy named 2019 & 2023 Best Family Office Management Consultancy and Best Family Wealth Counseling by the Family Wealth Report in 2022 & 2019. She is also CEO and co-founder of Tamarind Learning in 2020, winner of Best Specialty Firm 2022 from the Family Wealth Report. Tamarind Learning is an online learning platform for families, beneficiaries, and their advisors. Recognized by her peers as an innovator, educator, trusted advisor, lauded author, and world-renowned speaker, Kirby helps both business-owning families and family offices.  Born into a complex, enterprising family, Kirby understands firsthand being a beneficial owner, inheritor, fiduciary, board member, and operator.

Kirby combines her life experiences with her passions for research, client advisory, and her love of writing, culminating in many articles, research studies, and books including The Complete Family Office Handbook (1st & 2nd Ed.) and The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. Kirby received honors, including the prestigious Family Wealth Industry Thought Leadership award in 2018 from the Family Wealth Alliance and the Richard Beckhard Practice Award for lifetime achievement and outstanding contributions to family business practice from the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in 2018. Kirby has authored several books, white papers, articles, and research studies and hosts the Tamarind Learning Podcast series. She has been a guest on numerous podcast series, spoken internationally, and featured in publications globally.

Kirby earned her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, MBA from Marquette University, and PhD from Saybrook University. For more than 25 years, she has worked in the world of finance, family wealth, and family business, including working in the securities industry for a broker-dealer and more than a decade in a prominent multi-family office as the head of Research and Development. Kirby is Dean of Family Office at the Purposeful Planning Institute, a Fellow and former Family Governance Faculty of the FFI GEN Program, a co-trustee of the Harbeck Family Foundation, and on faculty and the board of Family Office Real Estate Institute (FOREI).