• Earned bachelor’s degree, 1993, and JD/MBA, 1996, from KU School of Business
• KU School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, 2021

Peter Mallouk is the president of Creative Planning and affiliated companies. Creative Planning provides wealth management services to high-net-worth clients, managing more than $90 billion for clients in all 50 states and abroad. The company has been featured by Barron’s, CNBC and The New York Times, among other media outlets.

He has been consecutively recognized by Barron’s as one of the “Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in America,” and he has been named among Worth magazine’s “Power 100,” which features powerful men and women working in global finance. In 2017, he was named a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Additionally, Mallouk is a founder, executive board member and former chairman of the Kansas City Children’s Assistance Network (KC CAN!), an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of children in Kansas City. He also is the founder and an executive board member of Pathway Financial Education, which provides teenagers, adults and business owners in under-resourced communities with actionable financial education. He has served on the boards of Pathway to Hope, the American Stroke Foundation, St. Michael’s Finance Council and Kansas City Hospice. Mallouk and his wife, Veronica, have received the Giving the Basics Human Dignity Award for their contributions toward helping struggling adults and children meet basic needs as well as the Variety Presidential Citation Award for their work supporting children with developmental disabilities.

Mallouk graduated from KU in 1993 with four majors, including degrees in business administration and in economics. He earned his law degree and MBA from KU in 1996 and has also earned certified financial planner designation.