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Banking | Finance 2025: CASSADAY, STEPHAN Q.
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, CASSADAY & CO., MCLEAN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Stephan “Steve” Cassaday, photographed for Cassaday and Company, Inc., 2 November 2021, in Sterling VA. Photo by Mike Morgan.
Stephan “Steve” Cassaday, photographed for Cassaday and Company, Inc., 2 November 2021, in Sterling VA. Photo by Mike Morgan.
Banking | Finance 2025: CASSADAY, STEPHAN Q.
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, CASSADAY & CO., MCLEAN
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Since Cassaday founded his Northern Virginia firm in 1993, it has grown from $40 million in assets under management to $6.3 billion. Today, Cassaday & Co. has 93 employees advising more than 3,100 households. Cassaday ranked No. 52 on Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors list.
Last year, Cassaday & Co. was one of 10 financial advisory firms nationally named to the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation’s 2024 Charitable Champions list. The firm’s charitable fund supports organizations like HopeLink Behavioral Health, a mental health nonprofit in Northern Virginia. Cassaday matches employee donations to the fund at 200%, and 78% of employees participate in the firm’s philanthropic initiatives.
More interested in playing in his band than filling out college applications as a teen, Cassaday ended up at Radford University because it had the latest application deadline. He ended up completing his bachelor’s degree in psychology in three years.
Cassaday is a member of the board of directors of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.
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