From Serving Entrepreneurs to Becoming One: A $2B UBS Breakaway Story
<h3>With Ben Domingue, Founder & Managing Partner of Family Office Partners</h3>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p><em>Louis Diamond speaks with Ben Domingue, Founder of Family Office Partners, on his move from UBS PWM to independence—why control became essential, and how building his own firm reshaped how he serves entrepreneurial clients.</em></p>
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<h3><b data-stringify-type="bold">About this episode…</b></h3>
<p>Many advisors build impressive businesses within large firms—serving entrepreneurs by helping them navigate liquidity events, capital decisions, and growth strategies.</p>
<p>But they’re still operating within someone else’s structure. And over time, a gap can develop between what you’re advising clients to do… and what you can actually execute yourself.</p>
<p>For Ben Domingue, that gap became a turning point.</p>
<p>After more than two decades at UBS Private Wealth Management, where he built a $2B ultra-high-net-worth practice, Ben became increasingly aware of the tension between the advice he was giving and the constraints of the platform he was operating within.</p>
<p>So he decided to leave and build Family Office Partners alongside Elevation Point—not to replicate what he had, but to design something different. A firm where he could “eat his own home cooking” and operate with the same level of control and flexibility his entrepreneurial clients expect.</p>
<p>In this episode with host Louis Diamond, Ben shares what that shift really looks like, including:</p>
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<li>The decision to leave UBS—and why he wanted to not replicate what he had, but to design something different.</li>
<li>The lessons learned in serving entrepreneurs—and how that transformed his own mindset and business practices.</li>
<li>The limitations at UBS—and its impact on how advice was delivered, and solutions were sourced.</li>
<li>The reality of “getting bigger”—and why it wasn’t about scale for its own sake, but about building the capabilities his clients actually need.</li>
<li>Choosing Elevation Point—and why they were the right partner for their independent firm.
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<p>This conversation offers a clear look at what changes when an advisor moves from producer to owner—and how that shift can reshape growth, service, and long-term strategy.</p>
<p><strong><em>Want to learn more about where, why, and how advisors like you are moving? </em></strong><a href="https://www.diamond-consultants.com/contact-us/"><strong><em>Click to contact</em></strong></a><strong><em> us or call 908-879-1002.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Benjamin T. Domingue</strong><br /><strong>Founder | Managing Partner</strong></p>
<p>Ben is a Founder & Managing Partner of <a href="https://familyofficepartners.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Office Partners</a>, an independent multi-family office that works with founders, entrepreneurs, family offices, and ultra-high-net-worth families. With over 25 years of experience, he has guided clients with a range of complex needs while working closely with several members of their firm for more than two decades.</p>
<p>Prior to founding Family Office Partners, Ben spent 20+ years at UBS — including 11 years in its Private Wealth division where he served as Managing Director and was among the firm’s Chairman’s Club advisors. He advised some of UBS’s largest, most complex client relationships, specializing in private‐company ownership and significant liquidity transactions.¹</p>
<p>While there, he founded the Exit Planning & Wealth Consulting Group, coordinating with internal and external resources to address the complex needs of families and businesses, supporting over 40 transactions. Ben also frequently spoke on topics related to family wealth and the intricacies of private company transitions to other advisors and industry groups. His experience reinforced the view that solutions are rarely contained within a single institution, which led him and his partners to pursue a more collaborative, open-architecture business model focused on identifying the right resources, regardless of their origin, to best serve clients.</p>
<p>Family Office Partners was built on that insight. For Ben, the firm embodies a model built around an expansive matrix of specialists who have the experience of addressing real-world challenges faced by founders, entrepreneurs, and families, especially those navigating the complexity of private company ownership. What makes this work most rewarding for him is the significant learning he has gained from the clients themselves, leaders, innovators, and stewards of generational success. And for Ben, the most humbling aspect has been their desire not only to achieve their own goals but to contribute to the success of the firm and other families in similar positions.</p>
<p>Ben is married to Dana and has two children, Abby and Luke, both students at Louisiana State University.</p>
<p>My commitment to clients goes beyond managing wealth; it’s about partnering on critical family and business decisions that shape legacies for generations. I strive to cultivate deeply personal trust, built on over two decades of shared experience and collaborative problem-solving.</p>
