Shawn Tydlaska, CFP®, MBA, is the founder and CEO of Ballast Point Financial Planning. Tydlaska earned his BA from UCLA in 2004 and began working in the broader financial services industry. Wanting to make a direct impact on people’s lives, he studied for and earned the CFP® marks in 2010. He began his financial planning career working for a high-net-worth firm in San Diego, where the account minimum was $2M in assets.
In order to serve clients that were more in his peer group with a new service model, Tydlaska decided to pursue his MBA from the University of Michigan - Ross School of Business and ultimately launched Ballast Point in 2016. He is a co-founder of the BLX Internship program, which aims to provide an entry point into the financial planning profession to Black and LatinX students and career changers.