THE AISTEAR WEALTH MANAGEMENT GROUP at Morgan Stanley

Bareq serves as an Executive Director and Family Wealth Director with the Aistear Wealth Management Group. He focuses on helping successful individuals and families navigate the complexities of multigenerational wealth—bringing together investment management and highly personalized planning. He leads a team of six professionals, and the group oversees $1.5 billion in client assets as of February 2026, serving as trusted advisors and “personal CFOs” to clients.

Bareq brings a distinctive, multidisciplinary perspective to wealth management. He earned a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Washington and began his career in chemical distribution and franchising before transitioning into financial services.

In 2011, he entered the wealth management industry at Bernstein Private Wealth Management in Seattle as a Vice President and Financial Advisor. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2013, drawn by the firm’s breadth of capabilities and integrated wealth management platform. Today, Bareq holds the Family Wealth Director title, reflecting his focus on the needs of ultra-high-net-worth families. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst^® (CIMA^®), CERTIFIED PRIVATE WEALTH ADVISOR^® (CPWA^®), Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA^®), and Qualified Plan Financial Consultant (QPFC), and has completed advanced training at the Yale School of Management. He also holds several Morgan Stanley internal designations, including Insurance Planning Director, Alternative Investment Director, Workplace Advisor (Equity Compensation), and Lending Specialist.

Bareq has been named to Firm's prestigious Master's Club, an elite group composed of the Firm's top financial Advisors, every year since 2023. He was also invited to join the firm’s West Coast Financial Advisor Council in 2026.

Outside of his practice, Bareq is active in philanthropic and community leadership. He serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Akin (formerly Childhaven & Children’s Home Society of Washington) and is President of the Akin Foundation Board. He also supports a number of local organizations, including the Seattle Children’s Hospital Legacy Advisor Council, Northwest Family Business Advisors, East King County Estate Planning Council, Seattle Philanthropic Advisor Network, and the Seattle Fifth Avenue Theatre Corporate Council. He is an active member of the Investment & Wealth Institute (IWI) and the Association of Professional Investment Consultants (APIC).

Bareq lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his family. In his free time, he enjoys golf, skiing, boating, and traveling, and is a member of Overlake Golf & Country Club.


Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Master's Club members must meet a number of criteria including performance, conduct and compliance standards, revenue, length of experience and assets under supervision. Club membership is no guarantee of future performance.

Todd Bonime is the first person many of our clients meet when they start working with The Aistear Group. Todd heads our business development efforts, forging relationships with attorneys, accountants and other centers of influence who understand the value an experienced team of financial professionals can offer their clients. Todd’s extensive capital markets background also provides our trading-oriented clients with someone they can turn to for guidance on individual stocks and new issues.

Todd began his financial services career more than three decades ago. A native of Portland, Oregon, he had always been fascinated by the financial markets. After graduating from Pomona College in California, he moved to New York to join a Morgan Stanley predecessor firm. There he served as the link between equity research analysts and Financial Advisors. Two years later, he moved back to the Northwest with the experience and contacts to begin his own career as a Financial Advisor.

Todd has been named to Morgan Stanley’s prestigious Master's Club since 2011, an elite group composed of the firm's top Financial Advisors. The appointment recognizes Todd's consistent creativity and excellence in providing a wide range of investment products and wealth management services to his clients. He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA^®) and he holds the internal Morgan Stanley designations Alternative Investments Director, Insurance Planning Director, and Workplace Advisor-Equity Compensation.

Todd played varsity tennis in college and still competes with a number of USTA teams. He was a longtime member of Rotary #4 and a volunteer with The Boys and Girls Clubs of Seattle. He and his wife, Brenda, reside in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood.

Brandon Leitgeb, CFP^®, CIMA^®, is a Financial Advisor with the Aistear Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley. He joined the team in 2021 and progressed from a client-facing service role into a front-line advisory position. Brandon earned the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^® (CFP^®) designation, the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA^®), and the Certified Investment Management Analyst^® (CIMA^®) designation through the Investments & Wealth Institute, reflecting a commitment to comprehensive planning and advanced investment and risk management.

Brandon works with families, corporate executives, and business owners navigating complex financial decisions. His experience includes advising on concentrated single-stock positions, pre- and post-liquidity planning, and the unique considerations of real estate-heavy balance sheets. He helps clients evaluate tradeoffs, improve cash flow and balance sheet decisions, and structure long-term strategies aligned with lifestyle priorities and multigenerational goals.

He is also passionate about working with next-generation clients, helping young professionals establish strong financial foundations and build disciplined long-term habits.

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Brandon graduated from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and was a four-year letterman on the UW baseball team, contributing to the program’s first College World Series appearance in school history. He lives in Seattle and enjoys staying active through coaching baseball, golf, pickleball, running, and outdoor activities. Brandon brings a team-first mindset, discipline, and consistency to every client relationship.

Contributing to an outstanding overall service experience for the team’s clients, Sidney Hussainee is responsible for an extensive variety of operational and administrative tasks, from helping clients open new accounts to arranging funds transfers, income distributions and online account access.

Sidney initially joined Morgan Stanley at the beginning of 2019 as an intern for the team. He graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in finance.

A native of Puyallup, Sidney enjoys playing soccer and spending time with friends and family.

This role cannot solicit or provide investment advice.

Drawing on more than 20 years of financial services experience, Erin Nold provides the team’s clients with the administrative and operational support they need to help keep their financial lives running smoothly.

Erin began her career at Edward Jones, where she worked for 13 years before joining Morgan Stanley in 2014. At The Aistear Group, she helps clients open accounts, transfer assets, complete documentation and address issues that range from updating beneficiaries to navigating Morgan Stanley’s online capabilities. She greatly enjoys the relationships she’s developed with clients over the years and the fact that many of them call her directly whenever they have an administrative problem to resolve.

Erin is a Seattle native who received an associates degree from South Seattle Community College. Outside the office, she is an avid supporter of The Multiple Sclerosis Society in honor of her mother, who lived with that disease for more than 30 years. She also loves to travel and looks forward to resuming that passion as the pandemic recedes in our rearview mirrors.

Eric Dimitrovich plays a major support role in the team’s financial planning efforts, working with clients to gather financial data, inputting it into the firm’s sophisticated financial planning platform and developing plans with the team.

Eric is a graduate of The University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. He has always had an interest in the financial markets, as well as a facility with numbers. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Eric and his family lived in Europe for several years before moving to Seattle. He is a soccer aficionado and avid bicycle rider, and recently he has been taking lessons in tango and other Latin American dances.