Plan for the eleven years that change everything.

With wealth management experience dating back to the mid-1990s, the Rock Creek Wealth Team at Farther works in partnership with you to balance the complexities of your financial life directing both assets and liabilities to help you realize your most important financial goals. Our team’s 30-plus years of experience enables us to deliver pragmatic advice to orchestrate your wealth to fuel the experiences that make life truly meaningful.

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Grow throughout your financial life

Farther meets you where you are in your wealth building journey, always focused on connecting you to greater wealth opportunities. We scale with you as your family and financial complexity grows.

Financial Planning

Transform financial complexity into a clear, purposeful strategy that grows alongside your life — aligning your current reality with your future ambitions through a dynamic, holistic approach that turns uncertainty into confidence.

Financial Planning

Getting to know the Rock Creek Wealth Team

We believe financial planning should be a collaborative journey. Our team works interactively with you to understand your desired life experiences and bring your biggest goals into focus. Our aim is simple: to make sure you feel completely confident and always understand the why behind every financial decision we make together.

Contact us

Our primary office

8607 Cedar Street Silver Spring, MD 20910

Our philosophy: The plan, the structure, the product

Comprehensive wealth management, simplified for you. A three-pillar methodology designed to help translate ambition into execution.

  • The plan+

    A data-driven roadmap that plots your current standing against future milestones, from funding a child's education to securing a work-optional lifestyle.

  • The structure+

    Works to protect what you've built through strategic tax-efficient entities and trusts that prioritize privacy and ease of transfer.

  • The product+

    Selecting the right financial tools (investments, insurance, and credit facilities) that align with your structures to move you toward your targets.

Our services

We pair Rock Creek Wealth’s signature methodology with Farther's Intelligent Wealth Platform to deliver:

Financial planning

Comprehensive planning guidance from CFP(R) professionals to integrate with portfolio strategy, tax planning, and family considerations.

    Investment management

    Custom portfolios using public markets and private investments aligned with your plan, with ongoing rebalancing and tax-awareness

      Strategic income

      Designed for retirement, business exits, and liquidity events to build durable, flexible streams that help provide financial clarity when active income ends.

        Public market tax-efficient portfolios

        Tax-aware portfolio construction for your taxable accounts, with tax-loss harvesting and strategic asset location

          Private investments

          Curated access to private equity, private credit, and other private market opportunities

            Estate planning

            Estate, trust, and generational wealth transfer strategies, coordinated with your attorney.

              Our Clients

              We work with a select group of clients whose financial lives demand sophisticated planning, integrated tax strategy, and discreet stewardship of their wealth.

              Traditional Professionals

              Including attorneys and physicians, who are balancing practice income, partnership equity, malpractice and disability planning, and complex tax exposure.

              Traditional Professionals

              Your all-in-one financial ecosystem

              Our Intelligent Wealth Platform brings your financial world into a trusted, single-view, with technology natively built to avoid the limitations of legacy wealth management institutions. Your information and accounts are protected with the highest levels of data security and compliance.

              Deep Integration With

              Pershing, Apex, Schwab, Fidelity, and 90+ additional custodians

              Complete Financial Operation System

              AWS Security & Privacy and Plaid Connectivity

              Banking
              Performance Dashboards
              Insurance
              Financial Goals
              Properties
              Wealth Team
              Documents
              Investments
              • Effortless control+

                Gain a comprehensive view of your financial landscape — banking, investments, lending, insurance, and more — all organized on one platform.

              • Streamlined collaboration+

                Share specific financial data with your CPA, attorney, and family members — promoting transparent and collaborative wealth management.

              • Centralized document hub+

                Store every financial document in one organized, secure, and easily accessible location.

              • Cash management+

                Our intelligent system continuously monitors your bank accounts — maintaining your liquidity, while ensuring excess cash is efficiently invested and working to increase your wealth.

              • Save time and hassle+

                Find answers and perform financial tasks swiftly with just a few clicks, from anywhere, at any time.

              Our team

              Lewis Baker, CFP®, CEPA®, CRPS®

              Principal, Wealth Advisor

              Michael (Mike) Smith

              Associate Vice President, Wealth Advisor & Investment Portfolio Manager

              Ferris Dean

              Relationship Manager & Associate Financial Planner

              Laurel D'Andrea

              Wealth Planner

              Christina Valenzuela

              Christina Valenzuela

              Office Manager & Administrative Assistant

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