TRUE FAMILY OFFICE MANAGEMENT  

About Us
We are a provider of comprehensive and sophisticated family office management technology that enables firms to simplify the complexities of managing client wealth information. With Aristata, firms can be more productive, more efficient, and provide a higher level of service to its clients.

We are located in Seattle, Washington.


MANAGEMENT TEAM

Keith Vernon, Founder

Keith is a founder of Aristata and serves as the Managing Principal of Bristlecone Advisors, a multi-family office located in Seattle, WA. Keith founded Bristlecone Advisors in April 1999 as a dedicated family office. In that capacity, Keith established the office, organized, and managed all of the family's financial activities. In 2001, Keith transitioned the firm from a single family office to a multi-family office. In the multi-family office environment, Keith is responsible for client relationships and for overseeing the family office activities for the firm's clients. Keith is also responsible for setting the firm's strategic direction and for developing Aristata, the firm's proprietary information management application. In 2007, Aristata was formed into a separate software company to serve the needs of the family office industry.

 

Prior to Bristlecone, Keith worked as a Senior Associate for Financial Resources Group, a wealth management firm in Bellevue, WA. He has also worked as a portfolio manager for Laughlin Stable Asset Management and in investor relations for the Vanguard Group.


Keith graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Puget Sound, and he received a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Washington. Keith has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Institute, and a member of the Seattle Society of Financial Analysts. Keith also serves on the Advisory Board and Executive Committee of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Washington.


Kristoffer P. Ryden, Founder and VP of Client Services

Kris has made a career out of solving business problems through innovative and pragmatic technical solutions. He draws his real-world expertise from a wide background in Web development, project management, technical due diligence, integration services, and research and analysis. As a principal with Ryden Group, LLC, Kris spent five years designing and developing the Aristata technology platform which has helped Bristlecone Advisors LLC, a Seattle-based multi-family office, grow their business in an efficient and cost-effective manner. In 2007, Kris founded Aristata, Inc. with Keith Vernon to create the Aristata technology platform they had built in-house and commercialize it for the family office market.

Kris is fluent in English, Dutch, Swedish, and French, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University.



Brian McManus, Chief Software Architect

 

Brian has been building enterprise solutions, primarily in document/records management and financial services, for almost fifteen years and joined Aristata in 2008 as Chief Software Architect. Prior to that Brian had been a senior architect at Autonomy Meridio, where he led the research team and was responsible for the technical partnership with Microsoft. Before Meridio, Brian contributed to the establishment of a .NET Center of Excellence as a technical architect for HBOS plc. Brian has developed software for a host of Fortune 500 / FTSE 100 companies including National Westminster Bank, Sainsburys Bank, Sprint, and British Telecom.

Brian earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Queen's Universtity of Belfast, where he graduated with first class honours. He currently serves on the Microsoft Developer Advisory Council for the next generation of Microsoft Office technologies.