Experience. Advice. Collaboration.

Planning for your family’s entire financial needs

At times, the complexity of today’s global economy may feel overwhelming. Whether you’re a working professional who is building wealth, a successful executive or business owner contemplating your next act, or the head of a multigenerational family looking to preserve your family’s future—you have questions. You expect clear answers from an advisor with worldwide experience who understands you, your family and your community.


Our highly credentialed team offers the thoughtful perspective and proactive service your family needs to help meet their goals. With a team of advisors spanning decades of experience, we strive, relentlessly, to make sure you feel well taken care of. By putting financial planning at the core of everything we do, we offer the capabilities to help you, your business and your family unlock opportunity, preserve wealth and create continuity.

Three generations in front yard

Rob Ray, CPWA, CFP, CEPA, ADPA

Vice President–Wealth Management

Certified Private Wealth Advisor®

An industry veteran since 2005, Rob is one of the partners of The Wealth Consulting Group and has devoted his career to providing comprehensive financial planning.

Rob is both a Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®) and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) practitioner, a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA©), and an Accredited Domestic Partnership Advisor (ADPA).  He is a goals-oriented planner with vast experience helping families make well-informed financial decisions at every stage of their lives.  He caters to established, multi-generational family wealth and those with a liquidity event on the horizon that will set their family on a similar path.

Rob’s professional licenses include the Series 7, 65, 66, and 31 along with licenses for variable annuities, life, accident, and health insurances.

His bachelor’s degree in Finance comes from Oakland University where he continues to serve his alma mater in two unique capacities.  Rob is the Secretary of the Oakland University Alumni Association, where the board provides counsel and advice to the Office of Alumni Engagement, University Advancement, President, and other members of university leadership.  He also serves as the Chair of the Champions Club and liaison to the Men’s Basketball Team where he advocates for a comprehensive student-athlete experience that prepares them for life beyond the court.

Rob, his wife, Summer, and their children, Sienna and Jackson, live in the City of Rochester.  With a passion for his community, he proudly served as Mayor for the City of Rochester, was the first Chair of the City of Rochester’s Pension/OPEB Board and served numerous other City-related organizations.  After choosing to not to run for another term, his constituents these days are the youth of Cub Scout Pack 902 where he serves as Cubmaster.

Registered States:
  • AL
  • AZ
  • CA
  • CO
  • DC
  • FL
  • GA
  • HI
  • IA
  • IL
  • IN
  • KS
  • MA
  • MD
  • MI
  • MN
  • MT
  • NC
  • NJ
  • NM
  • NV
  • NY
  • OH
  • PA
  • SC
  • SD
  • TN
  • TX
  • WA

Recognized as an industry leader:

  • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2023, 2024The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.

Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

Education

  • Finance, Oakland University, 1997 - 2005
  • Personal Financial Planning, Oakland University, 2005 - 2007
  • Certified Private Wealth Advisor Program, Chicago Booth School of Business, 2023 - 2023

Credentials

  • Certified Private Wealth Advisor®
  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®
  • Certified Exit Planning Advisor
  • Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®
  • Accredited Domestic Partnership Advisor

I can provide individualized guidance in the following areas to help you pursue your wealth management goals:

Multi-generational families
Women investors
Business Owners
Exit planning
Corporate executives
Financial planning
32300 Northwestern Highway
Suite 150
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
  • (248) 737-5452

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Our experience and structured planning process drives a comprehensive financial plan and customized investment strategies. Depending on where you are in your life and the priorities that matter most, our planning conversations may focus on liquidity management, your cash flow needs, asset replacement solutions such as insurance, estate planning strategies, or tax and legal structures such as trusts and philanthropic vehicles.

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