Ron Rydekk

Ron Rydell is the founder and CEO of Rydell Financial, LLC, a one-person sell-side M&A and estate-planning boutique he has run in Bloomington, Minnesota since July 1999. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional and a member of the Financial Planning Association. FINRA records confirm he has been a registered securities professional since 1982 — passing the Series 7 (General Securities Representative) and Series 63 in 1982, the Series 24 (General Securities Principal) in 1983, the Series 65 (Investment Adviser Law) in 1999, the SIE in 2018, and the Series 79 (Investment Banking Representative) in 2023 — making for roughly four decades in the industry, with no disclosure events on his record.

According to his firm's own biography, early in his career (around 1979, at age 39) he structured and sold a publicly held insurance company, and was one of five executives who decentralized a Fortune 500 company into financial services over an eight-year period. He is reported to hold a B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota (1961) and a mergers-and-acquisitions certificate from Columbia University. He describes himself as "a long time investment banker" with "a strategic relationship with a nationally known money manager."

His FINRA registration history shows a long sequence of broker-dealer affiliations — Anchor National Financial Services (1982–1986), Securities America, Washington Square Securities, Fortis Investors, SunAmerica Securities, Sentra Securities, LPL/Linsco-Private Ledger, and Princor Financial — followed by more recent investment-banking-focused roles: Registered Representative at Wm. H. Murphy & Co. in Houston (2009–2018), Senior Managing Director at Mid-Market Securities in Mount Kisco, NY (2020–2024), and, since January 2025, Registered Representative / Investment Banking Representative at Finalis Securities LLC (New York), licensed as an agent in Minnesota.

In addition to Rydell Financial, FINRA filings list him as owner/operator of Rydell Farms in Walcott, North Dakota (a non-investment land-rental operation) and, as of January 2025, an investment-banking registered representative for PatriotPrivate Inc. (Bloomington, MN), whose role he describes as "find sell-side clients."

• Primary business is sell-side M&A, not equity investing. Rydell Financial states it is "firmly committed to sell side Mergers and Acquisitions and Comprehensive Estate Planning to complement a successful engagement." The firm advises owners on selling, recapitalizing, and valuing their privately held businesses.
• Service-quality–driven engagement model: the firm's stated commitment is a "very strong work ethic… we do what we say we're going to do" and to "complete our work through extremely prompt and cordial service to our clients."
• Fee-only, no asset minimums for the wealth-management/financial-planning side (per his planner profile), covering investment management, estate planning, retirement, insurance, charitable/planned giving, and business valuation.
• Works through a flexible "bench" of CPAs, attorneys, and other professionals assembled per engagement rather than a fixed in-house team.
• No startup/seed-stage investment thesis is publicly documented. There is no evidence in any source found that Ron Rydell makes angel investments or writes seed-round checks; founders seeking venture capital are unlikely to find a fit here.