Ashman, Kristin
Ashman, Kristin
Kristin is a managing director – financial advisor at RBC Wealth Management. She brings more than 25 years of experience. She is integral to the team’s focus on estate planning services and works closely with clients and their advisors to satisfy the visions and values of client families.
As part of our practice, Kristin provides ongoing dialogue with clients, emblematic of the group’s style. This degree of collaboration allows for greater efficiencies, more impactful results and better use of clients’ time.
Devoted to acting in a client’s best interests, Kristin looks to understand family dynamics, their wealth objectives, concerns and the specific needs of various stakeholders. She helps create family mission statements surrounding goals for legacies and philanthropy, educate the next generation, build tax considerate strategies and direct asset allocation strategies based on time horizons that often span future generations.
Kristin has had a distinguished career at leading financial institutions. In 2025, she joined RBC Wealth Management, prior to that she was at J.P. Morgan then First Republic, where she was the Northeast regional team lead for First Republic Trust Company. Previously, she served as a regional trust head for Brown Brothers Harriman Trust Company as well as affiliations with Bessemer and Citigroup Trust Companies.
Kristin grew up on an apple orchard that had been in her family for seven generations. Pursuant to her interest in generational planning, she earned a J.D. from New York Law School, focusing on trusts and estates, following graduation from Syracuse University, where she earned a B.S. in economics and international relations and a minor in French.
Active in the New York trust and estate community, Kristin is a member of the Calvary Hospital Professional Advisors Council, New York City Estate Planning Council, Westchester Estate Planning Council, Lifting Up Westchester Community Council, as well as the New York and Connecticut State Bar Associations. In 2018, she received an Outstanding Women in the Law award from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.
