Photo Gallery

George’s grandfather, Frank Russell, founded the original Frank Russell Company in Tacoma in 1936.

Frank and George had much in common, as you can see here at George’s wedding to Jane Thompson.

George’s father, George Russell Sr., was an inventor with more than 100 patents to his credit, including a process for gluing wood together electronically.

George was captain of his high school wrestling team at Exeter.

George also joined the Mountaineering Club at Exeter, supervised by world-class climber and explorer, Bob Bates.

Bob Bates, George and Charlie Houston. George remained lifelong friends with Bob Bates. Charlie was one of Bob’s climbing partners on both historic attempts to scale K-2. Charlie was also the physician who advised George to stop worrying about heart problems and “do things!”

George’s wrestling career continued at Stanford University.

Frank Russell Company’s original headquarters was in the Rust Building

Making a cold call?

Paul Kaltinick was Treasurer at JCPenney when he received George’s call out of the blue. He later joined George as head of Frank Russell Trust Company in 1980, when this picture was taken.

In 1971, George's peers laughed when he predicted that they soon would be investing internationally—and in real estate. Shown here are George's handwritten notes for his famous speech at the Treasurer's Club in New York City. See line 6 from the top for the references to the two new asset classes.

Early analytics: original scatter diagram

Early analytics: the bank universe

“Hire people smarter than you are” has long been part of the Russell culture

Peter Dietz

Helane Grill, the first musketeer

Blake Eagle

Duncan Smith

Madelyn and Joan, two of the three musketeers

Don Ezra

George with Kelly Haughton, Don Hardy and Jan Twardowski at the inauguration of Russell Stock Index Futures at the New York Stock Exchange

Jan Twardowski

Mike Phillips

Lynn Anderson

Andy Turner

Russ Fogler

Jan Twardowski and George in front of the London office in 1983.

Banquet celebrating the launch of the Yasuda Model (“Swallow, don’t chew).

Aerial view of First Interstate Building in foreground where the company was located from 1977 to 1988. The new Russell building, under construction, is visible in the middle ground on the left.

Jane Russell and John James cut the ribbon on the new Russell Building

The Russell Building, oriented toward Mt. Rainier.

Smooth transition

Security is always an issue on 20-20 trips. This was particularly true on the first trip to Eastern Europe.

George inspects a work site in China

George conversing with Nand Khemka, chairman of Sun Group, a leading investor and private equity manager in Russia, India and emerging markets

Completing the transaction with Northwestern Mutual: Eric Russell, Lynn Anderson, Mike Phillips, Karl Ege, Jim Ericson, George Russell, Jane Russell

George chairs a meeting of East West Institute in Russia.