Marcella Kanfer Rolnick

Executive Chair and Founding Partner, Walnut Ridge

Marcella Kanfer Rolnick is Executive Chair and Founding Partner of Walnut Ridge, a private capital and family office organization supporting the Kanfer family’s investment, business, philanthropic, and multigenerational goals. She focuses on vision, strategy, governance, and stewardship of values and culture. Keys to their success: seeking possibilities for making the world better; being adaptable in a fast-changing world; team-based co-creation; great people; and non-stop learning. 

Marcella proudly served as Executive Chair of GOJO, Makers of PURELL, successfully transitioning her family’s 80-year-old enterprise to its next chapter as part of The Clorox Company. Marcella has founded two nonprofits and serves on a variety of nonprofit and for-profit boards. She earned her BA in International and Public Affairs at Princeton University and her MBA at Stanford, and has four children, ages 11 to 21.