Diana Kay Perez

Elijah has been a fee-only financial planner for over eight years. In 2025, he started Essa Financial to provide transparent and client-centric financial advice to folks in the Louisville community and beyond. As a teacher, Elijah’s favorite part about being a financial planner is communicating complex planning topics to clients in ways that are more easily understood. He enjoys the education aspect of being a planner, especially in a one-on-one environment. He values deep relationships with clients, and is always willing to listen and learn. He also believes exceptional client service (and swift communication) is the cornerstone of financial planning. Elijah is actively involved in the profession. He is an active volunteer with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), having previously served on their Genesis board for young advisors for five years and currently serving on the South Region board as the Membership Chair. He also reviews scholarship applications for the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning, which provides assistance to qualified candidates for the CFP® exam. In addition to his role as a planner, Elijah teaches part-time as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville. Elijah resides in Louisville with his wife, Sarah, and dogs, Landon and Korra. Aside from financial planning and teaching, Elijah spends his time frequenting local coffee shops, running (short distances) around his neighborhood, playing video games, watching the Minnesota Timberwolves, and of course, spending time with friends and family.

Mark Thompson is the sole advisor at MARK Investment Advisors in Louisville, KY, with 15 years of industry experience. He previously operated Thompson Investment Advisors for 35 years before establishing his current firm. Outside of advisory work, he is a minority owner of Whitecloud Technologies, LLC, a company involved in medical spine device inventions and marketing. MARK Investment Advisors provides investment counsel and portfolio management services to individuals, retirement accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm combines technical chart analysis, mathematical measures, and fundamental review to guide investment decisions and may adjust cash allocations to preserve capital during market declines.

Matthew Doyle is a financial advisor at Trimingham Financial with 10 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company. Outside of his advisory role, he maintains a bookkeeping client and works as a warehouse associate for Amazon. Trimingham Financial provides financial planning and investment management services primarily to individual clients. The firm focuses on asset allocation using exchange-traded funds and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management.

Jeb Jarrell is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 10 years of industry experience. He is the founder of Plentiful Wealth, LLC, an independent firm based in Louisville, KY. Prior to founding Plentiful Wealth, he worked at firms including Ameriprise Financial Services and Merrill. Outside of his advisory role, he hosts a podcast focused on Kentucky history and culture and serves as treasurer and board member of a nonprofit providing housing services to the homeless. Plentiful Wealth provides comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management for individuals, high-net-worth clients, nonprofits, and employers. The firm combines fundamental company analysis with modern portfolio theory and offers institutional-style services such as outsourced CIO support for nonprofit endowments and pension consulting for employer plans.

William Bowers is the sole advisor at Bowers Capital Management in Georgetown, IN, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 23 years of industry experience. He has led Bowers Capital Management since 2002. Bowers Capital Management serves individual investors, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations by providing discretionary asset management, ongoing investment advice, and limited financial planning. The firm employs a rules-based investment process that combines quantitative multi-factor models with fundamental, technical, and charting analysis, supplemented by margin and options strategies, focusing on long-term, diversified asset allocation.

Ross Wright is the sole advisor at Wrightpoint Wealth, holding a Series 65 credential with one year of experience in investment management. He has served with the United States Army Corps of Engineers since 2007 as a Risk Assessment Advisor and Senior Review Manager, leading risk assessments and managing engineering project teams. Wrightpoint Wealth is an investment manager specializing in discretionary management of pooled and institutional-style portfolios. The firm combines fundamental, quantitative, and Modern Portfolio Theory analyses to implement tailored strategies, utilizing proprietary models and third-party portfolios through the Altruist platform.