Dasarte Yarnway

Biography

Dasarte Yarnway is the founder and managing director of Berknell Financial Group, an innovative, independent wealth management firm focused on helping millennials and seasoned investors primarily in the tech space design their best lives. Dasarte has been honored as a top-10 advisor on the Investopedia 100 list for the past three years.

Since the firm’s inception, Berknell Financial Group has become one of the most notable, millennial-led financial services organizations. In an industry that focuses on revenue and dollars invested, Dasarte believes that a firm’s value is created through how it can invest in its clients. Berknell encapsulates this approach in their motto: Advice With You In Mind.

Dasarte is the head of community at Altruist, an all-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients, and also serves as an ambassador for SaverLife, a nonprofit that aims to teach financial literacy to underrepresented communities. In May 2022, Dasarte and partner Emlen Miles-Mattingly launched the onyx Advisor Network, which helps underrepresented advisors start to scale and sustain their practices.

Coined a "financial thought leader" and guru by NerdWallet and Financial Planning Magazine, Dasarte believes in meeting you where you are. He offers advice and insight through his weekly podcast, The Young Money Podcast, three books, and weekly blog. His prayer is that you may design your wealth on your terms.