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Stephen De Cesare is a CFP® professional with 26 years of industry experience, currently serving as the principal of De Cesare Retirement Specialists since 2008. His prior roles include positions at Triad Advisors, LLC, Royal Alliance Associates, Inc., Investment Advisors Asset Management, LLC, and Investment Advisors & Consultants, Inc. In addition to his advisory work, he is an independent insurance broker. De Cesare Retirement Specialists provides portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative investment methods, offers both discretionary and non-discretionary services, and incorporates a range of strategies including leveraged and inverse funds as well as crypto-focused ETFs for clients with higher risk tolerance.

Santino Rao is a financial advisor at MassMutual Investors Services with a Series 66 designation and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining MassMutual, he held positions at TD Bank, Rowan University, and Ocean Casino & Resort. MassMutual Investors Services is a broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that provides financial planning and asset management services to individuals, business owners, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employers. The firm offers a range of programs including wrap and money-manager services, along with educational seminars.

Phyllis Storms is a financial advisor at Arrington Financial Advisors, LLC with 17 years of industry experience. She holds the CFP®, CFA®, and Series 65 designations and has worked at Touchstone Financial Advisors since 2011. Arrington Financial Advisors provides financial planning and discretionary investment management to individuals, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a top-down investment approach combining active and passive strategies, serving a diverse client base including retail, institutional, and charitable entities.

Edward Goldstein is a Certified Financial Planner® with over 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been the principal advisor at Financial Life Planning, LLC since 2008. Financial Life Planning, LLC provides comprehensive financial planning, consulting, and portfolio management services to individuals, families, small business owners, trusts, estates, and retirement plan participants. The firm uses customized, diversified portfolios primarily consisting of ETFs, mutual funds, and individual securities, supported by continuous supervision and advanced planning tools such as Monte Carlo analysis.

Francis Manella is a CFP® professional with 17 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is currently with CoAdjutant Financial Planning Services and has previously worked at OSAIC Wealth, Emoney Planning Services, American Portfolios, and MassMutual Greater Philadelphia. CoAdjutant Financial Planning Services provides outsourced, white-label financial planning and support primarily to other investment adviser representatives and business owners. The firm specializes in creating compliance-tested, comprehensive financial plans using deterministic and probabilistic projections, focusing on practice support and compliance rather than direct client asset management.

Alan Gottlob is a financial advisor at Pine Valley Private Wealth with 41 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at Ethos Financial Group, LLC, TFS Securities, Inc., and Shingle Oak Advisors, LLC. He serves as a board member of West Bay Holdings Ltd., providing oversight in strategic, capital, solvency, and actuarial governance matters. Pine Valley Private Wealth offers financial planning and consulting services to individuals, retirement and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm refers clients seeking investment management to an unaffiliated registered advisor and focuses on comprehensive planning engagements under written agreements without directly managing client assets.