Emily Steinbarth
Co-Head of North America Advisor & Intermediary Solutions (AIS)
Emily Steinbarth is Co-Head of North America Advisor & Intermediary Solutions (AIS) at Russell Investments and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. In this role, she helps lead the firm’s advisor and intermediary business across the U.S. and Canada, with a particular focus on advancing strategic partnerships, expanding platform and RIA relationships, and accelerating delivery of outcome-oriented portfolio solutions across ETF and model portfolios.
Previously, Emily served as Chief of Staff to Chairman & CEO Zach Buchwald, where she played a key role in shaping the firm’s enterprise strategy, driving execution discipline, and aligning cross-functional initiatives with long-term growth goals.
Emily began her career at Russell Investments as a Quantitative Research Analyst and later served as Director of Research and Development, where she led the development of systematic investment strategies with a focus on sustainability, tax management, and factor investing. In these roles, she partnered closely with clients to design solutions tailored to their objectives ranging from sustainable multi-manager solutions to tax-managed direct indexing.
She joined Russell Investments in 2016 and holds a Master of Financial Engineering and a Master of Economics from UCLA.