Welcome to Kellerman & Castle

A note from Oda Mae Brown, Office Manager, for every new team member’s first week.

Simulation only. Kellerman & Castle is a fictional firm built for this workshop. Nothing in this document describes a real client, a real account, or real financial, legal, or tax advice.

Hi, and welcome aboard. Everyone on this floor gets one of these on day one, because it’s faster than explaining the same history in five separate hallway conversations. Keep it handy for your first couple of weeks.

Kellerman & Castle was founded in 1994, starting as a two-person shop before growing into the firm you’re joining today. We’re a boutique wealth-management and financial-advisory practice, which means we’re small enough that you’ll know most people’s names by your second month, and big enough that we currently manage $2.3 billion in client assets across individual, family, and small institutional relationships. Johnny runs the advisory side day to day; Wade’s been here long enough to remember when the whole firm fit in one conference room.

Our main office is at 1420 Marner Street, Suite 900, Averton Harbor, CT 06880. That’s where you’ll be most days, though a few of our advisors split time with a smaller satellite desk closer to downtown for client meetings. If a client or vendor ever asks where to send something physical, that Marner Street address is the one to give them.

A couple of names you’ll hear around the office in your first few weeks, just so they’re not a surprise: we’ve had a long-running estate and trust engagement for Priya Anand, who’s been a client long enough that half the senior team has worked on her file at some point, and a corporate retirement-plan relationship with Marcus Delacroix that Sam usually handles the data side of. You don’t need to know either of their situations in detail yet - just recognize the names if they come up in a handoff.

A few habits worth picking up early: we never tell a client what to do with a specific position, and anything touching a client’s specific financial or legal circumstances gets routed to a specialist outside this business rather than answered here directly - that’s Dalton’s team’s job to flag if a draft ever gets close to either line, and everything here operates under the assumption that we’re not bound to any one real-world regulatory regime, since none of this is a real firm operating anywhere. If that all sounds like a strange thing to put in a welcome note, it’s because it is one of the first habits this whole workshop is built around teaching. More on that as you go.

Glad you’re here. If anything above stops matching reality (a new office, a rebrand, whatever), this document gets updated - so if you’re reading an old printout, check with Oda Mae before you quote it to a client.