Joseph and Carmela Antolino were impoverished immigrants that struggled to come to America in the 1920’s to make a better life for themselves and their children. Ralph Antolino, Sr. was born shortly thereafter in Columbus Ohio. His father had a job laying tracks for the railroad and his mother built a small restaurant business serving railroad workers food and beverages. It was across the street from the railroad roundhouse where the workers came and went to work and where the family lived.

Carmela and her husband could not read or write Italian let alone English. It was a big handicap but did not stop them from sending all three of their children to college to become teachers. Carmela revered teachers because not only could they read and write, but they could also teach others how to read and write. Ralph Sr. was a revered teacher at Gahanna Lincoln High School for five years. During that time his income grew to $2,000 per year. Not per month! It was not much money even then. He struggled to feed his growing family. An older fraternity brother of his encouraged Ralph Sr. to begin selling life insurance part time in addition to his teaching, which he loved.

It did not take long for Ralph Sr. to make more money with his part-time job than his full time occupation so he quit teaching and started Antolino & Associates, Inc. in 1960. The business began with a strong emphasis on “teaching” clients principles that helped them preserve, build and transfer wealth. This emphasis persists today.

Ralph Jr. joined the firm in 1975 as a college student. Working at his dad’s business Ralph Jr. became inspired by his father along with the business professors at OSU. As an honor student he became president of the OSU Insurance fraternity and obtained dual majors in finance and insurance. The vision expanded to include a tax law degree to better help successful businesspeople optimize their wealth because so many large decisions had tax implications that people did not understand or get good advice on. The vision combined various tax and financial strategies in ways that crossed the disciplines of legal, accounting, finance and insurance. The vision evolved into The UltraVision System® which has become the firm’s flagship unique process. This process today adds great value to successful business owners, complementing traditional advisory services and allowing these owners to get greater value from what they have already developed in their lives.

As of 2025, the firm has over 2,000 client relationships, several offices, deep relationships with clients and other professional service providers across the United States and abroad. We are driven today to constantly improve our ongoing value proposition to busy, successful clients through The UltraVision System®. This helps The Few great people we work with get clearer and clearer about where they are, where they want to go, and the choices they have for getting there. All the while helping clients get better organized to achieve their dreams, goals and objectives and stay more in charge of their financial affairs. We end up being a companion like Jiminy cricket was to Pinocchio, helping The Few achieve their big dreams.