Cary Carbonaro

Cary Carbonaro is an award-winning Certified Financial Planner™ professional with over 25 years of experience and currently serves as Managing Wealth Advisor and Women & Wealth Ambassador at Ashton Thomas, where she leads a multimillion-dollar financial planning practice focused on empowering women. She is the bestselling author of The Money Queen’s Guide: For Women Who Want to Build Wealth and Banish Fear (Morgan James, 2015) and Women and Wealth: A Playbook To Empower Clients and Unlock Their Fortune (Wiley, April 2025), which debuted as #1 in Economics and Business Finance and was ranked among WealthManagement.com’s Top 10 Books of 2025 for Financial Advisors. A respected industry voice, Cary serves as a CFP® Board Ambassador and represents the profession in the media. She has been honored six times on Investopedia’s Top 100 Financial Advisors list and received the prestigious InvestmentNews Women to Watch recognition.

In 2024, she was appointed as the first female member of the Nasdaq Advisor Council, and in 2025 she was named InvestmentNews DEI Trailblazer of the Year. Cary is also a dedicated philanthropist and board leader. She serves on the Cortland College Foundation Board, is the Founding President of the Women’s Giving Alliance of Southlake Foundation, and is part of the benefactors circle of the Center for Financial Planning.

She also participates in the Milken Institute’s Women’s Financial Security Initiative. Her knowledge and expertise are highly sought after, and she has spoken around the world on financial literacy advocating for women and guiding them.