The firm.By design.

Large financial institutions build sophisticated tax and capital architecture for their largest clients. Retail accountants file returns. Between those two tiers sits a gap where most business owners pay more in tax than they need to, not because the strategies don’t exist, but because nobody designs and implements them at this client scale.

Quantus is built to close that gap. Two principals with backgrounds across institutional wealth management, alternative investments, real estate, and family offices. A partnership model, not a pipeline. A small number of engagements per quarter.

The work isn’t product. It’s architecture. Built once, maintained continuously, and designed to compound.

Shaun is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Quantus. His background includes work in structured finance, investment management, and tax-advantaged wealth strategy. He serves as a trusted advisor to high-net-worth individuals and family offices looking to enhance returns while protecting their assets.

Before Quantus, Shaun served as Senior Vice President of Advanced Planning at a family office-owned life insurance consultancy, where he engineered sophisticated asset protection and estate planning strategies for ultra-high-net-worth domestic and international families. Earlier, as Vice President at Merrill Lynch, he developed a proprietary investment model designed to identify excess returns through systematic analysis of publicly traded companies.

Before wealth management, Shaun was Managing Partner at a consulting firm focused on capital acquisition and real estate development, where he secured debt and equity financing for regional and national developers, an international oil company, and retired professional athletes.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa.

Jordan Frenkel is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Quantus, and a seasoned investment management executive with a focus on alternative investments and democratizing financial literacy. He has been an active investor for more than two decades across real estate, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and blockchain, with a consistent focus on tax-advantaged strategies and structured solutions for downside protection. For the past several years he has provided advisory and structuring services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business owners developing the same.

Before Quantus, Jordan spent over a decade at Guggenheim Partners, where he served as Head of Special Projects for the Global Chief Investment Officer. His responsibilities included portfolio management and strategy, along with due diligence of alternative investments.

Earlier in his career, Jordan was Vice President of Acquisitions for a Los Angeles-based real estate private equity firm, head of operations for a long/short equity activist hedge fund, and a strategic and operational due diligence analyst for a multi-billion-dollar diversified fund of hedge funds. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers specializing in alternative investments, including hedge fund, private equity, relative value fixed income arbitrage, and exchange fund strategies.

Jordan graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Accounting from Yeshiva University. He holds an MBA and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California.