Brenda Ross-Dulan is the founder and managing principal of The Ross-Dulan Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm designed to transform companies by transforming decision-makers. She leverages more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry to help CEOs and executives across the US solve their toughest business challenges.

Prior to launching her consulting practice, Ross-Dulan led the merger of Wachovia and Wells Fargo, noted as the largest merger in the banking industry. She served as president of the consumer banking group for southern New Jersey, overseeing more than $12 billion in deposits and $5 billion in loans while managing 1,700 employees. Her region’s revenues exceeded $500 million annually, and her region was recognized as one of the best places to work in New Jersey. Driven by her personal mission to continue to make a difference in the lives of others, Ross-Dulan also leveraged her experience in corporate and real estate banking as well as community development to establish RD Capital Partners. The firm seeks to demonstrate that investments in underserved markets can be both transformative and profitable for local stakeholders and investors.

In 2021, Ross-Dulan was elected to the board of directors of NJM Insurance Group, her first corporate board. She serves on its investment and audit committees. In 2022, she was named to the board of trustees of NCIF, a Chicago-based firm that invests in minority-owned banks across the nation. Ross-Dulan has extensive experience in nonprofit board governance on both the east and west coasts. She became the first African American female to lead a majority chamber in the State of New Jersey, when she was installed as the chair of the board of the Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce in January 2020. She led the board through the unprecedented pandemic and economic shutdown. During that time, she served on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Advisory Council. Her board service is quite impressive and includes the College Achieve Charter Schools and Young Audiences, NJTV, Greater Trenton Initiative, and Coopers Ferry Community Development Association. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and an adviser to the New Jersey Black Women’s Collective.

Ross-Dulan has been recognized as one of the most influential business owners and consultants in New Jersey by ROI-NJ. She has been ranked as one of the nation’s most powerful women in corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine and has received dozens of accolades as a leading executive.

Ross-Dulan holds a bachelor of business administration from Howard University in Washington, DC, and an master of business administration from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

People who know Ross-Dulan describe her as caring, disciplined, and visionary. Fearless in the face of challenge, she is guided by her personal mission: to make a difference in the lives of others and to leave them better off. That philosophy has led to countless testimonies about the impact she’s had on them, their careers, and their companies.