Childhood Friends & Bay High School Alums Team up at Baird

By Chip Krueger

After more than 23 years in the private wealth management industry, I have finally admitted that I need some additional help! Pam Huston, Senior Client Specialist at Baird, and Amherst native has been with me since the beginning. Over the past year or so, Pam and I have been thinking about our future and how expanding our team to include another financial advisor was a necessity. To keep things easy for Pam, we simply brought on another Chip. Two Chips?! Why not? We added Chip Aschenbrener to our team in January of this year, and upon Chip A getting fully licensed this past June, we formed The Krueger Aschenbrener Group.

Chip and I have known each other since our first day of preschool. When you are looking to make friends on the first day of school, you look for connections. He was the only other kid named Chip, and he liked dinosaurs. So, that was that. We grew up down the street from one another in Bay Village. We played on the same Bay Travel soccer team as kids, shared an outfield together for Bay’s Varsity baseball team, and just this past June watched each of our oldest kids graduate from Bay High School together. It seems like yesterday that Chip and I walked across that same stage at Bay High back in 1994.

Chip Aschenbrener lives in Bay Village with his wife Katie, a flight attendant for United Airlines. They have been married for 20 years and have 4 children: Ava (18), Emery (17), Cullen (14), and Arden (10). Chip is a board member for the Bay Rockets Association, a long-time youth soccer coach, and an avid home cook in his spare time. He graduated from John Carroll University in 1998 where he played collegiate soccer. Before joining me at Baird, he had an impressive 25-year career in medical device sales where he ran his own company as an independent distributor for Zimmer Biomet.

Last year when I first approached Chip A about joining my team, I was so happy that he was willing to make the leap. We have established a mutual trust over many years, and he and I are both grounded in our commitment to our clients.

Who is Baird? Baird is a privately held, employee-owned international wealth management company that has been named one of the “Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for” for 21 consecutive years. For more than a century, Baird has followed the principles of integrity, transparency, teamwork, and keeping clients first, while providing the best financial advice and service to our clients.

If you are ever in need of first-class financial services, don’t hesitate to contact “The Chips!”

Baird – Private Wealth Management, Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, The Krueger Aschenbrener Group, 200 Public Square, Suite 1650, Cleveland, OH 44114 • (216) 737-7339 | 888-792-9821 • ckrueger@rwbaird.com • caschenbrener@rwbaird.com