Current

  • Swanson Fiduciary Services - a Certified Professional Guardian and Conservator since 2014.
  • Public Guardian for Clark County - served from 7/1/2017 to 6/30/2019


Small Business

  • Heritage Hotels - operated a 3 hotel hospitality company for 5 years
  • Ship Shop - owned and operated a retail business for 5 years
  • Cogent Marketing Information - owned and operated consulting business for 3 years
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Corporate

  • KinderCare Learning Centers (Portland, OR) - directed corporate marketing for 6 years
  • Red Lion Hotels (Vancouver, WA) - directed corporate marketing infor-mation for 3 years
  • American Airlines (Dallas, TX) - dev-eloped and managed corporate mar-keting analytics for 6 years
  • Harris Corporation (Melbourne, FL) - information systems sales for 2 years


Master of Business Administration

University of Texas, Austin. 1988

education

Swanson Fiduciary Services is owned and operated by Gregg T. Swanson.  Occasionally we contract with other professionals to provide certain services, but there are no other employees or full-time contractors.  Gregg prefers it that way because it keeps him close to his clients and allows him to spend his time doing what matters most to him.  


After a successful 17-year corporate career, Gregg chose to leave the corner office to own and operate his own businesses.  That range of experience – from corporate executive managing multi-million dollar assets and budgets to small business owner – has provided broad exposure to business, legal, financial and people issues that are relevant to a professional fiduciary.  In addition, having been entrusted as an elder and occasional pastor of his protestant church for over 17 years, Gregg provides very personal help to people in need. 

While divesting his businesses, personal experiences led Gregg to see firsthand the growing needs of the elderly and disabled.  He began the process in 2013 to become a Certified Professional Guardian.  The Washington State Supreme Court certified Gregg on July 7, 2014.  Since then Gregg has served over 100 clients and is frequently referred by other professionals who have worked with him.  Gregg was honored to be asked to serve as the Public Guardian for Clark County from 2017 to 2019.


about

experience

Associations

Continuing Education

12 credits required annually since 2014

WHAT MATTERS MOST?

Bachelor of Science

University of Illinois, Urbana, 1983

ACFE

Certificate in Guardianship

University of Washington, Seattle, 2014

National Guardianship Association

"I feel that everything - education, work, family, church, and life experience -  has been preparing me for this work.  In addition, I love that as a fiduciary I can see how the hard work I put in makes a positive difference in the lives of others.  As a Christian, I see this work as not just a way to make a living, but as a way to show the compassion of Jesus Christ to people."