Marilyn Capelli Dimitroff, CFP®
2009 Chair CFP Board of Directors
CFP Board of Standards
President
Capelli Financial Services, Inc.
A CFP® certificant since 1982, Marilyn Capelli Dimitroff is president of Capelli Financial Services, Inc., in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She previously was senior vice president and private banking manager at Citizens Bank in Michigan and Illinois. She also managed Forest Financial Corporation in Chicago, Ill. Her professional affiliations have included the CFP Board's Board of Practice Standards, the national Chapter Advisory Council of the former IAFP, and the Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. Advisory Board. She served as Chair of the Ethics Task Force that developed CFP Board's updated Standards of Professional Conduct, which takes effect July 1, 2008. She currently also serves on the Retirement Security Coalition Advisory Board of the Financial Services Roundtable.
The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the New York Times and other publications have quoted Dimitroff, who has appeared regularly on television and radio. Worth magazine has identified her since 1994 as one of the nation's top financial advisers, and she has appeared on Bloomberg Press's top 55 practicing financial advisors and Money magazine's top 200 financial planners. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University, respectively.