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Paul Jones is a financial advisor at Great Ocean Road Financial with 14 years of industry experience. He holds the PFS™ designation as well as the Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Prior to founding Great Ocean Road Financial, he worked at Watchtower Wealth Management and held roles in both the public and private sectors. In addition to his advisory work, he is the owner and sole proprietor of Jones Accounting Company, an accounting and tax preparation practice. Great Ocean Road Financial is an independent advisory firm that provides investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to individual investors and plan sponsors. The firm offers tailored portfolios based on client goals and risk tolerances, utilizing a combination of fundamental, technical, and quantitative analysis along with modern portfolio theory.

John Oxley is a financial advisor with Oxley Capital Management, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and possessing 10 years of industry experience. Prior to founding his current firm in 2018, he worked at USA Financial Securities Corporation and Freedom Financial Strategies. He is also a licensed insurance agent involved in life insurance and annuity sales. Oxley Capital Management provides financial planning and investment consulting primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm recommends unaffiliated third-party managers and focuses on planning and monitoring rather than discretionary asset management.

John Rothe is the sole advisor at ARTAIS Capital Management, LLC in Lewes, Delaware, holding Series 63 and Series 65 registrations with 24 years of industry experience. He has worked at ARTAIS Capital Management since 2006. ARTAIS Capital Management provides ongoing portfolio management and project-based financial planning to individuals, including high net worth clients, corporate entities, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm combines fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analysis to construct portfolios and offers both research-driven model portfolios and individualized management, with a notable emphasis on non-discretionary assets and serving institutional-type clients alongside individual households.

Eric Stone is a CFP® with 17 years of industry experience and is the sole advisor at ECT Advisory, LLC. He has worked at ECT Financial since 2010. Outside of his advisory role, he is also involved in selling group insurance. ECT Advisory, LLC provides investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to individuals, estates, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporate pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm employs an asset-allocation approach using actively managed mutual funds, index funds, stocks, and bonds, and offers vendor due diligence and performance monitoring for retirement plans.

Kirsten Lopez is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with three years of industry experience. She has worked at Metz Capital Management LLC since 2024 and previously was employed at Merrill for 11 years. Metz Capital Management serves individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, providing discretionary investment supervisory services alongside financial, estate, business, and educational planning. The firm focuses on diversified portfolios primarily invested in no-load mutual funds, bonds, equities, and ETFs, with an investment process that emphasizes portfolio diversification, periodic rebalancing, and risk-adjusted analysis.

Andrew Metz is the principal of Metz Capital Management LLC in Lewes, Delaware, with 26 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has led his firm since its founding in 1999. Metz Capital Management provides discretionary investment supervisory services and fee-based financial planning to individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm manages approximately $86 million in client assets, offering portfolio management and comprehensive planning with a focus on diversified allocations primarily using no-load mutual funds, ETFs, individual equities, and fixed income securities.