Diana Ledford

With over 30 years of experience working with high net-worth families and family offices, Diana Ledford is CEO of ForeFold Ventures in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, In this role, Diana works with a family enterprise on the development and implementation of their strategic plan for investments, trust and estate planning, philanthropy, tax and accounting, and next generation education. Diana joined ForeFold Ventures in 2016.

Prior to this role, Diana was Senior Vice President at Northern Trust in Chicago responsible for client development for Northern’s Multi-Manager Solutions (OCIO) Group. In this role, Diana worked with family offices, ultra-high net worth individuals, foundations and endowments to develop custom advisory and discretionary investment solutions from single strategy mandates to total outsourcing programs. Diana served on the foundations and endowments investment committee at Northern Trust from 2013 – 2016.

Previously, Diana was a Director at BlackRock in Chicago where she was responsible for business development and relationship management for BlackRock's Wealth Management Group focusing primarily on family offices. Earlier in her career, Diana was a private wealth advisor at Goldman Sachs in the San Francisco and New York offices and was Assistant Vice President and Director at SCI Capital Management in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Diana received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Northwestern University and a Masters in Business Administration degree in Finance and Marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Diana is currently the board chair of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation. She is a trustee of Waypoint, and a member of the investment committee of Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids.