Jonathan Dane, CFA, CFP®

I help founders & affluent families optimize taxes and build wealth.

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Defiant Capital Group Jonathan Dane, CFA, CFP®
Warrendale, PA

Serving Clients Nationwide

I help founders & affluent families optimize taxes and build wealth.

Areas of Focus

  • Alternative Investments
  • Business Owners
  • Estate Planning
  • Financial Planning
  • High Net Worth
  • Investment Management
  • Multi-Generational Wealth
  • Taxes

About Jonathan Dane, CFA, CFP®

I founded Defiant Capital Group as a fee-only fiduciary firm built for founders, entrepreneurs, executives, and the families who depend on them. We specialize in comprehensive planning before and after a liquidity event, with advanced work spanning equity compensation, QSBS, capital gains, estate strategy, and multi-generational family businesses. Our team includes CFA Charterholders and CFP professionals, and we work in both flat-fee and AUM models depending on the engagement. Everyone works together on every client, and no two engagements look alike - we structure each one around what the client actually needs.

For nearly two decades I've worked across financial markets as a sell-side analyst, a buy-side investor, and an advisor to highly affluent families and businesses. Much of my work centers on the moments that define real wealth: guiding founders and executives through concentrated equity compensation, structuring QSBS to maximize the exclusion on a business exit, managing capital gains around a liquidity event, and building complex, multi-generational estate strategies that move wealth efficiently across family lines.

Before founding Defiant, I was Director of Portfolio Strategy & Research for a $900M multi-family office, and earlier worked at Goldman Sachs and Jefferies in New York. In 2019 I was named to Citywire's 40 Under 40 Rising Stars.

Professional Designations

  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ®
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Affiliations

  • CFA Institute
  • CFP Board
  • Financial Planning Association

Primary Location

50 pennwood place, warrendale, pa 15086

Additional Locations

📍 301 Grant Street, Suite 270, Pittsburgh, PA 152219

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Meeting Options

  • Video Conference
  • In-Person
  • Phone

Compensation Methods

  • Annual Retainer
  • Flat Fee
  • Percentage of Assets Managed

What to expect in the first meeting

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Offers Investment Management

Yes

About Defiant Capital Group

Defiant Capital Group is an independent wealth management firm in Pittsburgh providing hands-on advisory for founders, business owners, and highly affluent families with complex financial lives.

We are a fee-only fiduciary firm specializing in comprehensive planning before and after a liquidity event, with advanced work spanning equity compensation, QSBS, capital gains, estate strategy, and multi-generational family businesses. Our team includes CFA Charterholders and CFP professionals, and we work in both flat-fee and AUM models depending on the engagement. Everyone works together on every client, and no two engagements look alike — we structure each one around what the client actually needs.

Education

University of Pittsburgh, BS, Finance

Hobbies and Interests

  • Family

Who We Serve

  • Baby Boomers
  • Business Owners
  • Corporate Executives
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Gen X
  • Gen Y / Millennials
  • Intergenerational Families
  • Living in Retirement

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