Richard Ryffel
Professor of Practice
Executive Director of Business Leadership
Education
MBA, Finance Questrom School of Business, Boston University
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Richard Ryffel is the Executive Director of Business Leadership and a Professor of Practice in the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. He is responsible for leading the Professor of Practice faculty and for outreach to the practice community across multiple functions at Daniels. Prior to joining Daniels, he was a Professor of Finance Practice at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as an adjunct instructor at several universities in the U.S. and Europe.
Professor Ryffel’s professional experience over 35 years was concentrated in public and corporate finance and wealth management. While in industry, Mr. Ryffel advised colleges and universities, hospitals, cities, states, airports, school districts, and corporations on financings and capital structure, and led hundreds of financings in both the taxable and tax-exempt markets. As a private wealth and endowment manager, he advised high net worth families and endowed institutions on investment management and financial planning.
He previously worked at A.G. Edwards (now Wells Fargo Advisors), Bank of America, Edward Jones and J.P. Morgan. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Boston University.
He is the founder of the Daniels / Brookings / UChicago / Brandeis Municipal Finance Research Conference and the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis Wealth and Asset Management Research Conference.
Through his work on several not-for-profit boards over the last 20 years, he has been involved in urban education, low income housing and economic development primarily in St. Louis, Missouri.
