Celeste Gurulé, CFP

Celeste has served our organization in every way, navigating the waves of change from many different roles. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Economics, Celeste joined California Fringe Benefit as a sales associate in the healthcare 403(b) marketplace.  She put in long hours servicing hospitals and truly working in the trenches as a financial professional. Celeste qualified for the Lincoln’s Club sales level nine times and for the Cabinet sales level one time. In 2006, Celeste took on a national role when she became the Managing Director of FPG a part of Lincoln Financial Group’s newly formed Employer Markets division, now called Lincoln Retirement Plan Services.  Celeste fearlessly leads 200 financial professionals in the employer-sponsored marketplace.  Her areas of responsibility include planner growth and development, recruiting, employer client development and relations, company strategy, fiscal and budgetary issues, compliance, revenue growth, and overall operational issues.  There is nothing Celeste could ask you to do that she hasn't done herself. She is ferociously devoted to the success of her team, and anticipates issues and concerns before they arrive. She is the first to go to bat for her people and the last to throw in the towel at the end of the day. Celeste spends her limited free time with her husband Jim, and her two children, Anthony and Julia.