About
Ryan Kay, CFP®, AIF®, launched Arena Wealth Management in 2023 after previously working for an independent wealth management firm. He also previously ran his own branch office for a national broker dealer. He has spent his entire professional career providing and implementing investment recommendations to families and institutions.
Ryan graduated from Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors for the Purdue Alumni Association and has previously served as a member of the Purdue University System Retirement Plan Committee. He is a past President of the Purdue Alumni Club of Fort Wayne, recipient of the 2015 Purdue University "Outstanding Young Alumni Award", and in 2021 received the "Alumni Service Award" from the Purdue Alumni Association. He received a Certificate in Financial Planning from Boston University and in 2016 was awarded the CFP® certification from the CFP Board.
Ryan is a member of Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly’s Forty Under 40 class of 2017. Ryan is a past Adjunct Lecturer at Purdue University, Fort Wayne (PFW) and previously served as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors for Power House Youth Center. He and his wife reside in Fort Wayne with their daughters.
Man in the Arena
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 26th president of the United States
