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Jerry Broussard is a CFP® professional with 21 years of industry experience. He has operated Broussard Financial Group, LLC since 2002. The firm manages approximately $115 million in assets for around 180 individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, retirement plans, and business entities. Broussard Financial Group offers discretionary portfolio management alongside financial planning and consulting services, utilizing a combination of exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and cash equivalents.

Gus Godchaux is a CFA® charterholder and Series 65 licensee with 10 years of industry experience. He has been the principal advisor at Lailaps Capital, L.L.C. since 2015 and serves as an analyst at Abbeville Family Partnership. He is also a partner at Gulf Land Structures and a co-executor of his grandfather's estate. Lailaps Capital provides portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, corporate/business entities, and charitable organizations. The firm manages approximately $42 million in assets and offers access to a broad range of investment vehicles, including private placements, hedge funds, and venture capital, using a multi-method analytical approach tailored to client goals and risk tolerance.

Amie Varnado is a financial advisor at Capital Financial Planners, LLC with 17 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has been with Capital Financial Planners since 2011. Outside of her advisory role, she is a half owner of an electrical service company and spends part of her time on accounting and insurance sales. Capital Financial Planners is an independent firm serving individual clients, businesses, charities, and small pension plans. The firm offers comprehensive financial planning and discretionary portfolio management with a primarily passive, asset-allocation approach tailored to client goals.

Bradley Ortego is a financial advisor at SOW Advisors LLC in Lafayette, LA, holding a Series 65 designation. He has experience at Narrow Way Equity Partners, Adventure Vehicle Concepts, and IPT Global. SOW Advisors is a fee-only registered investment adviser offering financial planning, portfolio management, private market investing, and consulting services to a diverse client base including individuals, families, small businesses, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs an evidence-based approach to public markets and fundamental analysis for private markets, providing both discretionary management and standalone advisory engagements.

Logan Bowers is the owner and managing member of H&L Investments LLC, with over 10 years of experience in real estate investment and private fund management. He holds a Series 65 designation and has a background that includes roles at Power Investors LLC and Cetco Energy Services. His outside business activities include overseeing operations and asset management for multifamily, single-family, and mobile home park investments through H&L Investments. SOW Advisors LLC is a fee-only registered investment adviser offering financial planning, portfolio management, private market investing, and consulting services to individuals, families, small businesses, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs an evidence-based approach in public markets combined with fundamental and qualitative analysis in private markets, serving both accredited and non-accredited clients through discretionary management and hourly advisory engagements.

Charles Duchamp is a financial advisor at Apex Capital Management, L.L.C. with 23 years of industry experience and holds a Series 65 designation. He has been with Apex since 2002 and also serves as president of Charles J. Duchamp, CPA, a professional accounting corporation providing accounting and tax services since 1991. Apex Capital Management serves individuals, retirement plan sponsors and participants, trusts, and business entities with financial planning, asset management, retirement-plan consulting, and annuity product management. The firm uses fundamental analysis to guide asset allocation and trading decisions, and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary account management.