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Aubrey Williams is a financial advisor at Open Path Financial with a Series 65 designation and two years of industry experience. He has a background in defense technology, having worked as an Associate Director of Program Management at Raytheon Technologies from 2021 to 2025 and previously at Lockheed Martin Corporation for 17 years. In addition to his advisory role, he is involved in an affiliated education business focused on public financial education and workshop content. Open Path Financial provides fee-only financial planning and advisory services primarily on an hourly or fixed-project basis, serving individuals, families, businesses, and trusts. The firm emphasizes long-term, diversified investment strategies using low-cost index funds and ETFs and operates without managing assets or charging percentage-based fees.

Frank Troise is a financial advisor with Soho Financial Services LLC in Montecito, CA, holding Series 65 and Series 66 credentials and 20 years of industry experience. He has been involved with Soho Financial Services LLC since 2006 and also serves as a principal of Soho Capital LLC and Soho Asset Management LLC, both management consulting firms. SoHo Financial Services LLC provides discretionary portfolio management, model portfolio management, and consulting services to individuals, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm employs a mix of fundamental, technical, quantitative, and qualitative analysis, typically managing accounts on a discretionary basis with a focus on longer-term purchase strategies.

Dave Strandberg is the founder and sole advisor at Montecito Investment Strategies in Santa Barbara, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 11 years of industry experience. In addition to his advisory work, he founded Supreme Indicator, a software company that produces technical analysis indicators for the TradingView platform. Montecito Investment Strategies provides discretionary portfolio management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, pension plans, trusts, and charitable organizations. The firm employs two main strategies, combining passive and active management with a focus on fundamental and technical analysis, including proprietary indicators.

David Peckham is the sole advisor at Peckham, David A, an independent firm based in Santa Barbara, CA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 2 years of industry experience as a financial advisor, alongside over 30 years with Santa Barbara Pension Consultants and 40 years as a sole proprietor. The firm provides investment management primarily to individual clients, building portfolios from mutual funds offered by a single fund family. Its investment approach blends modern portfolio theory with a buy-and-hold, fundamentals-based strategy, with client consent required before transactions.

Steven Gold is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 63 license with seven years of industry experience. He has been the sole advisor at Placera Capital Management LLC since 2014. Placera Capital Management LLC is an independent investment adviser that provides discretionary portfolio management and related advisory services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm focuses on equity-oriented portfolios using a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis, and it employs long-term trading strategies alongside mutual funds, fixed income, and ETFs for diversification.

David Johannsen is the sole advisor at Johannsen & Associates, Inc., an independent firm based in Santa Barbara, CA. He holds 19 years of industry experience and has been with Johannsen & Associates since 1990. Johannsen & Associates provides discretionary investment management primarily for individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, and trusts using proprietary trend-following systems that allocate among stock, sector, and money market mutual funds. The firm exclusively uses Fidelity mutual funds and offers written fee discounts tied to employer groups and client tenure.