Christopher John Cappas
Financial Advisor|CFP®
Personal
Chris' three most important values are faith, family, and friends. He is engaged to Nicole, a registered nurse at NYU. They plan to get married in the Fall of 2025. Chris enjoys golfing with his closest friends, finding new recipes to cook, traveling to new places, and spending time with his 2 year old Bernedoodle, Winnie. Having both a hockey and baseball background, Chris is an avid New York Rangers and New York Mets fan.
Professional
Chris began his career as a financial advisor after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a pitcher and outfielder on the baseball team. During his time at Pitt, Chris was recognized with several awards as both a finance student and an athlete. He was a Newsday Long Island Top 100 Athlete Of The Decade across all sports between 2010 and 2020. He was also rewarded an Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll reward, which is given to the student-athletes with the highest academic achievements across all 15 conference schools.
Now, Chris continues to build his financial planning practice with the same competitive and disciplinary mindset that was instilled earlier in life. In addition to his career as a financial advisor, Chris works as a Field Director in his office, and he mentors new advisors to help them grow both personally and professionally.
Education
University of Pittsburgh - Finance (Bachelor of Science)
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
