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Girish Gupte is a financial advisor at Magnus Financials LLC with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. He has prior business experience spanning various ventures including insurance and real estate companies that he has been involved with since 2008. Magnus Financials LLC serves individual investors and small businesses by providing financial planning, non-discretionary portfolio advisory, and targeted consulting such as small-business valuations. The firm’s investment approach focuses on strategic asset allocation informed by top-down and fundamental analysis, with advice delivered on a non-discretionary basis and tailored to client preferences.

Kartik Patel is a financial advisor at Simplify Investments with eight years of industry experience and holds a Series 65 designation. He is also the president of Data Express Inc., an information technology consulting firm where he provides IT consulting and business strategy analysis, including work with a client in the financial sector. Simplify Investments offers portfolio management services to private individuals, families, and small businesses, focusing on fundamental, value-oriented analysis using a concentrated portfolio of stocks, ETFs, and bonds. The firm serves a notable number of non-U.S. clients and emphasizes addressing currency risk and overseas investment considerations.

Bryan Thomas is the sole advisor at Financial Solutions, LLC in Oak Hill, VA, holding a Series 65 designation with seven years of industry experience. He has worked at Financial Solutions since 2018 and concurrently serves as Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc., specializing in commercial real estate services. Financial Solutions provides comprehensive financial planning to individuals and families, covering areas such as cash flow, retirement, education funding, estate and tax considerations, and risk management. The firm emphasizes a long-term, passive investment approach with fundamental analysis, offering written financial plans and educational workshops while clients retain full discretion over implementation.

Sunil Pai is a CFA® charterholder and the sole advisor at Proforza Advisors LLC, with 17 years of industry experience. He has led Proforza Advisors since its founding in 2012. Pai is also the managing member of QuantWorks, LLC, a now-dormant entity that previously developed an investment algorithm. Proforza Advisors provides fee-based investment management primarily to institutional clients such as corporate and public pension funds, university and foundation endowments, as well as high net worth individuals. The firm employs a systematic, quantitative Active Risk-Based investing (ARBi) methodology that uses algorithms to construct and actively rebalance portfolios of ETFs and individual stocks with limited human intervention.

Ever since I can remember, I have been fascinated by markets and investing. I can recall an early memory of my late father, fist pumping while watching the stock market channel on a shoddy TV set in the back of our local ice cream shop. I took this fervor for the stock market into a career in financial planning and have never looked back. My name is Brian Abatemarco, CFP®, founder of CedarStream Wealth. For the last 13 years, I have been accumulating the knowledge, skills, and temperament needed to manage your money and provide strategic planning advice for all facets of your life. I've launched my firm with a commitment to helping clients navigate consequential financial decisions. I founded CedarStream because I believe traditional wealth management too often stops at broad advice when clients need specific actionable guidance. Financial information is everywhere. The real value of an advisor is knowing how to apply it to your circumstances: when company stock dominates your wealth, a family medical crisis changes your priorities, or retirement turns decades of saving into decisions about income and taxes. CedarStream is built around three areas where those decisions demand focused attention: -Concentrated stock and equity compensation planning -Medical crisis and Estate Planning -Comprehensive Retirement and Tax strategy My purpose is straightforward: help you understand your options, weigh the trade-offs, and put a clear plan into action. I look forward to understanding more about you and your goals.

Uttam Bharwani is the sole advisor at SagePro Wealth Management, an independent firm based in Chantilly, VA. He holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has nine years of industry experience, including roles at Bharwani Asset Management LLC, Osaic FA, Inc., and Ameriprise. SagePro Wealth Management offers tailored portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, foundations, and charitable organizations. The firm combines fundamental analysis, modern portfolio theory, and technical analysis to develop personalized investment strategies, employing a variety of tactics such as long- and short-term positions, short sales, margin transactions, and options strategies.