Emily Bowersock Hill, CFP®

CEO and Founding Partner

Emily Bowersock Hill established Bowersock Capital Partners in 2020. She spent eighteen years at Morgan Stanley, where she was Executive Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, and Family Wealth Director. She provides comprehensive wealth management across a range of disciplines important to high-net-worth families, including financial and estate planning, and portfolio strategies using both traditional and alternative investments. She provides access to advisory services such as structured lending, family governance, and intergenerational planning. In 2017, she was named to Working Mother’s inaugural list of “Top 200 Wealth Advisors”1 and to the Forbes inaugural list of America’s “Top 200 Women Wealth Advisors”2 and since then has been named to various national lists of top wealth advisors including Working Mother4, AdvisorHub5 and Forbes3. In 2019, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly appointed her to the board of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS), a $25 billion pension fund. In 2021, she was appointed chair of the KPERS Investment Committee. From 2022-24 she served on the Board of Directors for the Beneficient Company Group, L.P., a leading tech enabled financial services company whose mission is to democratize private capital markets by providing efficient liquidity, custody, and trustee management solutions for alternative assets and on the board of Beneficient Fiduciary Financial, Beneficient’s regulated entity (2022-25). She also serves on the board of the Kansas City Symphony Foundation.  She has appeared on Bloomberg, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance, and is periodically quoted in the financial press, including in Barron’s, Institutional Investor, Time, and The New York Times. Prior to her almost two decades at Morgan Stanley, she was a consultant in New York and Boston at McKinsey & Company, a worldwide consulting firm. At McKinsey, as an associate (1998–2000) and then a project manager (2000-2002), she and her team solved problems for companies in the financial services, biotech, and consumer products industries. Before working at McKinsey, Emily was a Research Associate in International Security Studies at Yale University (1993–1998) and a consultant at the RAND Corporation. Her publications include The Pivotal States: A New Framework for US Policy in the Developing World (Norton & Co., 1998) and articles in Foreign Affairs and The Journal of Strategic Studies. She has a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. from Yale, both with distinction. She has an M.A. from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Dartmouth College with honors. Emily lives in Lawrence with her husband and has one teenager still living at home. She and her family breed and show Dominique chickens, an American heritage breed.

1.        Top 200 Wealth Advisor Moms, created by Working Mother Magazine and SHOOK Research. Presented in October 2017 based on data gathered from 3/31/16 to 3/31/2017.

2.        America’s Top 200 Women Wealth Advisors (2017), created by Forbes and SHOOK Research. Presented in April 2017 based on data gathered from 9/30/15 to 9/30/16.

3.        America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors (2018 – 2020), created by Forbes & SHOOK Research. Most recently received in April 2020 based on data gathered from 9/30/18 to 9/30/19.

4.        Top Wealth Advisor Moms (2018 – 2020), created by Working Mother Magazine and SHOOK Research. Most recently received in August 2020 based on data gathered from 3/31/19 to 3/31/20.

5.        Advisors to Watch 2024, created by AdvisorHub. Presented June 2024 based on data gathered from 12/31/2022 to 12/31/2023.

No fees were paid to be included in the above rankings or to hold out marketing materials. Not indicative of advisor’s future performance. Your experience may vary.