Wendy Dominguez, MBA

Principal, Co-founder, and President

Wendy is the president and co-founder of Innovest Portfolio Solutions.  She has more than 30 years of experience in the investment consulting profession.  Her clients include some of the largest retirement plans in the United States, as well as many large nonprofits, and wealthy families.  She is a member of Executive Leadership Team, which makes decisions on firm related issues.  Additionally, she leads Innovest’s Retirement Plan Practice Group, a specialized team that identifies best practices and implements process improvements to maximize efficiencies for our retirement plan clients. Wendy has been named one of the 20 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising in the nation by Employee Benefit Adviser.  Finally, Wendy has been designated as one of the Financial Times' Top 100 Women Financial Advisors.

Wendy is responsible for contract negotiation between many of our clients and their vendors.  Through her efforts she has saved clients millions of dollars. Wendy’s views on investment cost control have been published in Pensions & Investments, and the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators (NAGDCA). She was a key contributor to the Innovest White Paper on Employee Directed Defined Contribution Retirement Plans, as well as The Case for Vendor Consolidation and Investment Menu Simplification.  She has also authored several articles on fiduciary related matters which have been published in several national publications. Additionally, Wendy has been a speaker at the Center for State and Local Government Excellence, a national conference in Washington, DC, the Colorado Public Pension Conference, and the Rocky Mountain Benefit Plans Conference, among others.

Wendy has a Bachelor of Science in Finance (magna cum laude) and an MBA from the University of Denver. In 2019, she received the University of Denver Reiman School of Finance Distinguished Alumni Award.  Wendy was appointed to the Public-School Fund Investment Board (PSFIB) in 2020 by the Colorado State Treasurer. In her role, she oversees the investments of the $1 Billion fund for the benefit of Colorado public school students. She is also a member of the Reiman School of Finance Advisory Board at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.  Wendy is a Trustee for the Colorado Trust, an organization whose purpose is to improve health equity in the State of Colorado, as well as a board member for FirstBank, one of the largest privately held banks in the country. Wendy is also on the Board of The 100 Club of Denver, which provides financial support to the families of fallen police officers, and the J.K. Mullen High School, a Lasallian Catholic High School where her children attended.  Wendy was also appointed by former Colorado Governor Hickenlooper to serve on the Metropolitan State University Board of Trustees in 2016, where she served for three years. Wendy is married to a retired Denver Police SWAT officer and is the mother of young adult twins. 

Wendy's Personal Code of Ethics

•The ends do not justify the means • Always tell the truth, no matter how difficult • Be present in the moment, and not distracted • Happiness is a choice • Serve others in everything you do • All that I have and possess is a gift from God • Be grateful for answered and unanswered prayers • Be relentless:  look up, get up, and never give up • My success will ultimately be judged by what my children think of me •

wdominguez@innovestinc.com