About Us
Institutional discipline. Personal service.
Institutional-grade wealth management for individuals and families, with a focus on concentrated stock, liquidity events, and the transition to retirement.
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Harry Prabandham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Why I started Rubric
For 14 years I led multifactor investing at AXA Investment Managers, and later served as Chief Investment Officer of Radiant Global Investors. The institutions I worked for had disciplined, systematic investment processes. I started Rubric to bring an institutional-grade investment approach to individuals and families, measured against an agreed rubric rather than a hunch.
2007–2021
AXA Investment Managers
Head of Multifactor Investments
2021–2025
Radiant Global Investors
Chief Investment Officer
2025–today
Rubric Advisors
Founder & CEO
Our Mission
Our decisions are measured against an agreed rubric: tax, implementation costs, risk, and your goals. We focus on what we can control: process, cost, and taxes, and we’re transparent about all three.
Fee-only. Fiduciary.
As a Registered Investment Adviser, we are required to act in your best interest. We are fee-only: no commissions and no proprietary products. Our fees are published, and our conflicts are disclosed in Form ADV and Form CRS. To see how advisory fees compound over time, try our fee calculator.
Our Team
Harry (Harish) Prabandham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Harry brings nearly two decades of institutional investment experience. He founded Rubric Advisors to bring the same rigor and discipline he applied managing institutional capital to individuals and families.
His investment career includes 14 years at AXA Investment Managers, where he served as Head of Multifactor Investments. He later served as Chief Investment Officer of Radiant Global Investors.
Before finance, Harry built his career in technology, holding engineering and strategy roles at Sun Microsystems, Motorola, and Openwave Systems. He holds 7 U.S. patents in enterprise authentication, mobile device management, and web services, and co-authored a book on Java programming.
Harry is also CEO of StartupCFO.AI, an AI-powered finance platform for startups. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Saint Francis Foundation and is a mentor at Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley’s startup accelerator.
He holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Bangalore University.
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Nihal Muzumdar
Senior Wealth Advisor
As Senior Wealth Advisor, Nihal works with clients on portfolio construction and on keeping portfolios aligned with their long-term goals.
Nihal combines investment and operating experience. He was the founder of Adaptive Frontier Investments LLC, a California-registered investment advisor built on a client-first philosophy and a disciplined, evidence-based approach to investing. His work has focused on helping families navigate complexity by integrating financial planning with portfolio construction, with an emphasis on a systematic approach to risk management, maintaining perspective during market volatility, and staying aligned with long-term objectives.
Prior to joining Rubric Advisors, Nihal spent three decades at Intel Corporation including senior leadership roles across business operations, pricing strategy, and global sales. He led business operations and pricing for multi-billion-dollar customer segments and business lines in core and emerging technology markets including artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, managing complex decisions around market opportunity assessment, demand forecasting, pricing, supply, and revenue optimization. This experience brings a practical, decision-oriented lens to his work with client portfolios in today's technology-driven markets.
At Rubric Advisors, Nihal is committed to supporting a fiduciary, goals-driven investment approach, where portfolios are designed not in isolation, but as part of a broader financial life strategy.
He holds an MBA in Finance with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and a BE in Electronics Engineering from Bombay University.
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We draw on specialized consultants who contribute research and technical expertise to our investment process. Consultants support the firm and do not provide personalized investment advice to clients.
Anil Vijendran
Quantitative Research Consultant
Anil began his career as a software engineer before moving into quantitative investment management. Over more than a decade as a quant portfolio manager at prior firms, he managed portfolios for a range of institutional clients, including 1940 Act funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, investment-adviser portfolios for retail clients, and smart-beta ETFs, across strategies such as quantitative equity selection, asset allocation, global macro, and tail-risk hedging, and asset classes spanning equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and futures and options.
He is currently a data scientist at YouTube, applying quantitative methods to a range of strategic and product-level initiatives. At Rubric Advisors, Anil serves as a consultant, contributing quantitative research, analytics, and modeling that support the firm's investment process. His role is a firm consulting role only; he does not provide investment advice to clients or manage client accounts.
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