Our Story
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it…he who doesn’t…pays it.”
– Albert Einstein
Einstein never worked in the financial industry, but now, his words ring as true as ever. Like him, we are visionaries, because we value education, are open minded and continually challenge the status quo.
Eleven years ago, after realizing how many families struggled with saving and planning for their children’s college education, our founder, Tom Chrobak, launched his own college planning company. Soon after, he became a leading expert on getting students into their dream college at the lowest possible cost. Just as paying for college is only one part of a family’s financial plan, college planning is just one chapter of our story.
MC2 has now grown into a successful, holistic financial planning firm, that includes a full body of professionals – CPAs, Estate Planning Attorneys, Medicare and College Planning Professionals – who all participate, as needed, in the formulation of each of our client’s wealth planning.
Thomas M. Chrobak is a financial adviser, speaker and author with over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. He specializes in working with people who are planning for their retirement or are already retired. As a financial adviser with mc2 Wealth Management, Thomas, along with his team, empowers his clients to build financial legacies beyond their lifetimes, while preserving their estates to pay a lifetime of income during retirement years.
As a holistic fiduciary, Thomas specializes in retirement income planning, as well as legacy building. He is dedicated to educating his clients on the new financial realities of the “Post Crash” world and how utilizing holistic financial planning strategies to thrive in these uncertain times, while reaching all their financial milestones.
Thomas is uniquely qualified to help high net worth families save ON college, not just FOR college at the nation’s leading universities. He helps his clients avoid ‘raiding’ their retirement accounts by showing them how to pay for college in addition to and not instead of, their retirement.
Thomas is highly sought after as a speaker for private groups and he teaches classes on retirement regularly throughout Illinois. He teaches adult continuing education classes on retirement income a at the University of Illinois and other college campuses throughout Chicagoland.
He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, travel, sports and has great passion for cooking. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his loving wife and business partner, Sonia, two beautiful kids, Szymon and Natalia and their big, playful dog, Auron.