about us

Gabriel M. Bustamante is founder and president of Bayshore Wealth Advisors, a registered investment advisor. He has been serving clients as an investment advisor since 1998 and as a certified public accountant since 1980. Gabriel previously served as Managing Director of RSM McGladrey Wealth Management, a national investment management consulting firm, and Partner of McGladrey & Pullen LLP, a national CPA firm.

He co-founded BNC Advisors, Inc., a registered investment advisor, in 1998 and Bustamante Nunez & Company CPA in 1985, which became part of RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen LLP in 2003. He began his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse in 1980, and was previously employed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 1978 where he gained valuable experience in the financial services industry.

Gabriel is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) where he is designated a Personal Financial Specialist (PFS).

Gabriel is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Florida International University (1978) where he received a Bachelor in Business Administration degree with a major in Management and Accounting.

Gabriel is a Past Chairman of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce and served as a member of its Board of Directors for ten years. He also served on the City of Coral Gables Budget/Audit Advisory for three years.

In 1999 Gabriel was appointed by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to serve on the City of Miami Financial Oversight Board. In 2005 he was appointed by Governor Bush to the Florida Transportation Commission where he served until 2007. He has also served as Vice President, Treasurer and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Riviera Country Club of Coral Gables.

Gabriel J. (Gaby) Bustamante has been a certified public accountant in the State of Florida since March 2007, an Investment Advisor Representative of Bayshore Wealth since January 2008, and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner since December 2015.

Gaby began his professional career in public accounting, where he developed technical foundations in taxation as a Senior Consultant with Deloitte & Touche. For over two years in the Miami office’s International Tax group, he worked with industry leaders in developing tax-efficient solutions for high-net-worth families and dynamic multinational businesses through tax research and quantitative analysis.

Gaby’s Deloitte experience followed a series of internships with PricewaterhouseCoopers, during which time he provided tax services for high-net-worth individuals, families, corporations, partnerships, and trusts, as well as financial statement audits of large Latin American-based international banks.

Gaby’s career transition into the practice of wealth management took place in January 2008, when he began with Bayshore Wealth as an Investment Advisor.

Gaby is a Cum Laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, where in May 2005 he earned a Master of Science in Accountancy, specializing in Tax Services. This graduate program followed his Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree in December 2003 from the University of Florida’s Fisher School of Accounting – where he also completed the university’s Honors Program, as well as minors in economics, philosophy, and Spanish.