Andrea officially joined the Compass Wealth Strategies team in 2020 and is excited to be working alongside her lifelong mentor, her dad and firm founder David Gough. Andrea is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and holds her FINRA series 7 and 66 registrations through LPL Financial and a Life and Health Insurance license in Maryland.
Andrea graduated with Honors in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley where she played Division I Lacrosse and discovered her love for travel while studying abroad with Semester at Sea. With a strong desire to make an impact, Andrea returned east and launched a 15-year career in non-profit management, working at various DC-based organizations including National Geographic, the United Nations Foundation, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and ultimately starting a 501c3 focused on maternal and early childhood nutrition. Andrea had the great fortune of working at the intersection of philanthropy, marketing, advocacy, and entrepreneurship. She raised millions of dollars for causes; mobilized hundreds of thousands of supporters around issues of health, sustainable development, and social justice; and managed partnerships with celebrities, media, Fortune 500s, civil society, governments, and other unlikely bedfellows. But her favorite thing is knowing that she’s making a difference in people’s lives- and that is what attracted her to becoming a wealth advisor.
Andrea lives in Riva, MD with her husband Chris and their three young kids. When not in the office, you may find Andrea volunteering as a Board of Trustee for the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County or running around the playground with her family.