Amanda Burkhart Ryder

Timothy Taylor is a financial advisor with Taylor Capital Management in Martinsburg, WV, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 25 years of industry experience. He has led TCM Advisors, LLC since 2006. Taylor serves on the finance committee of Highland View Academy, a nonprofit Christian high school. Taylor Capital Management provides discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to individuals, charitable organizations, corporate entities, retirement plans, and institutional mandates. The firm focuses on individualized account supervision, employs a broad range of investment instruments including derivatives, and manages a relatively large client base through a wrap fee program administered on two account platforms.

Diane Case is the principal of Shenandoah Financial, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 20 years of industry experience. She has operated as a sole proprietor since 1993 and worked at Gradient Advisors, LLC from 2015 to 2016. In addition to her financial advisory work, she is a licensed insurance agent and dedicates approximately 25% of her time to that practice. Shenandoah Financial provides financial planning and consulting services to individuals and small businesses, referring clients to third-party money managers for investment management. The firm assists clients with tailored financial plans, monitors third-party manager performance, and handles related administrative tasks.

Thomas Maiden is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience and is the sole advisor at Mission: Advice, an independent firm based in Shepherdstown, WV. He has worked with Investment Outfitters, LLC since 2019 and Insurance Outfitters, Inc. since 2000. Outside of his advisory work, Maiden serves as a Commanding Officer in the Navy Reserve with the United States Africa Command J2, leading a 70-member Naval Intelligence unit. Mission: Advice serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, and pension and profit-sharing plans, offering financial planning, discretionary investment management, and retirement plan consulting. The firm emphasizes tax-efficient portfolio construction, using low-cost, passive ETF allocations combined with long-term fundamental analysis, and provides institutional retirement plan consulting alongside individual wealth management.

Jeffrey Bowers is a CFP® with 25 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Plan2Retire in Hagerstown, MD. He has worked at Bowers Advisory Group, LLC since 2008 and co-owns Donald C. Bowers Insurance, Inc., a non-investment-related business. Plan2Retire is an independent, fee-based advisory firm that serves individual households and employer retirement plans with discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and qualified plan consulting. The firm employs individualized investment policy statements and a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis, and offers comprehensive financial consulting, participant education, and public seminars.

Cassandra Sakala is a financial advisor at Strada Wealth Management, LLC with five years of industry experience. She holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has previously worked at Williams Associates for 25 years. Outside of financial advising, she has been involved with My Virtual Sales Assistant LLC since 2011. Strada Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients with financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and a specialized marital-matters practice. The firm employs both long-term and active investment strategies and emphasizes client education and unique fee arrangements such as hourly and retainer billing.

Archibald Hoxton IV is a CFP® with 26 years of experience in financial advising. He is currently with Hoxton Planning & Management, LLC, where he has worked since 2022 following six years at United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC. Outside of advisory work, he serves on the board of a funeral home and a local bank, and he is a co-author of a financial planning book. Hoxton Planning & Management, LLC provides financial planning, investment, and wealth management services to a range of clients including individuals, trusts, and government entities. The firm employs a strategic asset allocation approach combining Modern Portfolio Theory with active management, tailoring portfolios to client-specific risk, time horizon, and tax considerations.