John Rudolf

John attended Spokane's Gonzaga Prep, Notre Dame, and Columbia University, focusing primarily on global affairs and sociology. He has always been an intrepid explorer, hiking and cycling the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has climbed the highest mountains on all 8 continents. His professional career began on Wall Street in an entry level sales job and that competitive environment fit his own adventurous goal-oriented nature, building an investment career as a partner of Oppenheimer & Co., and eventually moving his growing family back to the Pacific Northwest where he founded Summit Capital and Glacier Peak Capital, named for his enthusiastic love of the outdoors.

Along with his family and investing, John has always been very passionate about engaging in the world and serving others in non-profit activities, coaching, and mentoring, as well as being very active with biking, hiking, tennis/pickleball, skiing, water sports, and golf. He enjoys walking conversations around Notre Dame's famous campus lakes as much as serious mountain climbs. For 20 years he has been an advisor to the Applied Investment Management [AIM] program of Notre Dame's Mendoza School of Business. He has also been a youth sports coach and mentor, and has served and supported many organizations including Andean Health and Development (a ND founded organization that builds hospitals in Ecuador and hosts an annual fundraising bike ride), trustee of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, chair of NY's Pelham Art Center, co-chair of the United Way of Seattle, chair of the advisory board of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art, Founder of the College Baseball Classic, trustee of the Pacific NW Ballet, advisor to the University of Washington's Institute of Prostate Cancer Research, and is involved with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony, Idaho Youth Ranch, Habitat for Humanity, Seattle Prep and Gonzaga Prep High Schools, and Gonzaga University's athletic programs.

John is blessed with a large, wide-spread family. He splits his time between Idaho, Palm Desert, and Seattle, and soon: South Bend, Indiana! His personal mantra is "Live Life Large and Get Involved," so he is eagerly looking forward to the many academic, cultural, and social opportunities and challenges that being a fellow of the ILI program for a full academic year on the Notre Dame campus is going to bring.