Leigh Pravda

Leigh Pravda is an operations and compliance executive in private wealth management, based in New York City. She served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Managing Director/Director of KORE Private Wealth, LLC, a boutique registered investment adviser founded in June 2018. Aggregator profiles list her association with the firm running through late 2023. Following CI Financial's acquisition of KORE, she moved into the role of Regional Head of Operations at Corient (the CI Financial U.S. wealth-management brand), a position dated from January 2023 on professional profiles.

KORE Private Wealth was launched in mid-2018 when a team departed Merrill Lynch's Private Banking and Investment Group (PBIG) to build an independent, fee-based RIA in midtown Manhattan. The founding partners are commonly identified as Eric Bodner and Benjamin (Ben) Sax, along with Andrew Rinaldi, Jennie Sowers and Adam Katz; press reports at the time cited a team overseeing on the order of $5 billion in client assets. The firm positioned itself as delivering "purposeful and impactful wealth solutions to affluent investors," with interdisciplinary services (investment management, tax, trust, personal-CFO, lending and related family-office offerings) for entrepreneurs and executives across financial services, consumer, real estate, technology and entertainment.

As COO/CCO, Pravda's remit centered on firm operations and regulatory compliance rather than deal origination — building and running the operational and compliance infrastructure of a fast-growing independent RIA. On November 10, 2022, CI Financial completed its acquisition of KORE Private Wealth, after which the business operated as CI Kore Private Wealth and was ultimately consolidated under the Corient brand, where Pravda continued in a regional operations leadership capacity.

• Pravda's verifiable professional identity is that of a wealth-management operations and compliance leader (COO/CCO), not a traditional venture capitalist or publicly documented angel investor. No stated startup-investing thesis, check size, or sector focus could be found in primary sources.
• The stub's "Angel Investors / Seed Round" classification appears to originate from an investor-database aggregator. This classification could not be corroborated by any primary source (firm site, filings, interviews, or the investor's own writing). It should be treated as unverified.
• Through KORE Private Wealth / Corient, her firm's *client* base — and the industries it serves — spans financial services, consumer, real estate, technology and entertainment, oriented to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. This is a client-industry profile, not a documented venture investment mandate.