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David Brooks Sr. is a financial advisor at SMART Wealth, LLC in Omaha, NE, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 credentials with 18 years of industry experience. His prior work history includes roles at AE Wealth Management, Verus Wealth Management, and Morgan Stanley. He serves as president of several affiliated entities including Tax SMART, LLC, which provides tax preparation and planning services, and Mid-West Learning, Inc., which offers marketing and educational space. SMART Wealth, LLC serves individual and high-net-worth households with retirement income strategies, ongoing investment advisory, portfolio management, and financial planning. The firm employs a discretionary investment approach using in-house models, sub-advisers, and turnkey platforms, and operates a Private Wealth Partners division focused on clients with $5 million or more in investable assets.

Tyler Petersen is a Partner & Wealth Advisor with RetirePath Advisors partnered with the Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 13 years of industry experience. He has worked with various Thrivent entities since 2012, including Thrivent Investment Management Inc and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Petersen serves as a director for the Dana College Foundation and is a board member of Relational Tithe, an organization focused on community support through relationship-based resource distribution. Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC provides investment advisory services to individuals, families, trusts, businesses, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes a long-term investment approach with customized asset allocations, using low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, fixed-income securities, and alternative investments, while offering clients access to independent managers and integrated services within the broader Thrivent group.

Bruce Aken Jr. is a financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Network, holding a Series 66 designation and 10 years of industry experience. He has worked at Commonwealth since 2023 and co-owns Nelson Murphy Insurance & Investments, a private entity involved in securities, advisory, and insurance business. His prior experience includes roles at Securities America Advisors, Guardian Life Insurance, and Park Avenue Securities. Commonwealth Financial Network is a dual-registered broker/dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,900 advisors and managing about $212.7 billion in client assets. The firm provides a broad platform of managed-account programs, access to third-party asset managers, retirement and plan consulting, and custody and clearing services.

Joseph Hearn is the sole advisor at Intentional Retirement, LLC in Omaha, NE, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 30 years of industry experience. He has worked at Intentional Retirement (formerly Provisio Publishing) since 2004 and previously at Teckmeyer Financial Services, L.L.C. He also operates as an independent insurance agent, spending a small portion of his time on this activity. Intentional Retirement provides advisory services to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as retirement plan sponsors and participants, focusing on asset management, written financial planning, and retirement-plan fiduciary consulting and education. The firm manages over $131 million in client assets on a non-discretionary basis and offers pension consulting for plan assets exceeding $9 million.

Eric Horne is a CFP® with 20 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at ARC Element Wealth Design in Papillion, NE. He previously worked at Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade, where he spent over 18 years in various roles. ARC Element Wealth Design is an independent, state-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, and fiduciary entities. The firm manages approximately $29.5 million across about two dozen client relationships, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and educational communications. Its investment approach emphasizes strategic asset allocation using ETFs, mutual funds, selective individual securities, and option strategies, with periodic rebalancing and active management in certain asset classes.

Daniel Thompson Jr. is a financial advisor at First Class Wealth Management LLC with eight years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and previously worked at Omega Insurance Group LLC and Farm Bureau Financial Services. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a high school soccer referee during the spring and owns Isaiah Trucking, Inc. First Class Wealth Management is a small independent advisory firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients with tailored investment policy statements and portfolio management. The firm employs a long-term trading approach that incorporates cyclical, fundamental, technical, and modern portfolio theory analyses, focusing on mutual funds, ETFs, real estate funds, fixed income, and annuities.