Bud Kahn is the Founding Principal of WMS Wealth Planners. The Pittsburgh-based SEC-Registered Investment Adviser provides financial counsel, fiduciary asset management, and other wealth management services to a wide range of individual, corporate & endowment clients throughout the eastern US. Bud is a licensed CPA and holds professional credentials of Certified Financial Planner®, (CFP), Certified Investment Management Analyst®, (CIMA), Certified Private Wealth Advisor®, (CPWA) and Accredited Estate Planner® (AEP).
Bud is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA in accounting and finance. He also earned a master’s degree in taxation at Robert Morris
University. Bud is a member of the Investments and Wealth Institute, Pittsburgh Tax Club, Allegheny Tax Society, and Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh. He is an alumnus of Leadership Pittsburgh, Class XIV, and the FBI Pittsburgh Citizens Academy.
Bud is a Visiting Executive Lecturer at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.