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Judson Ames is the sole advisor at Dark Horse Wealth LLC in Cazenovia, NY, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses with five years of industry experience. He has led Dark Horse Wealth LLC since 2011. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as a referee during the fall months. Dark Horse Wealth LLC advises individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporate clients, offering discretionary investment management, financial planning, and hourly consulting. The firm emphasizes retirement-plan services and combines long-term strategies with tactical portfolio adjustments, typically using low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, and select individual securities.

Jessica Champion is a financial advisor based in Chittenango, NY, with eight years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has worked at several firms including Ameriprise Financial Services LLC, LPL Financial, and The Summit Federal Credit Union. Since 2025, she has operated her own independent practice, Champion Method LLC. Her firm provides wealth management and financial planning services to individuals and high-net-worth clients, delivering ongoing investment advice and written financial plans covering retirement, estate, tax, college savings, business planning, insurance review, and risk management. The firm uses a blend of modern portfolio theory, fundamental and technical analysis, and behavioral finance coaching, offering both passive and active investment options, as well as customizable socially responsible investing portfolios.

Maggie Sayers is a CFP® and Series 65-licensed advisor with over 13 years of industry experience. She is the principal of Tendful Wealth Planning, an independent firm based in Rome, NY, and previously worked at Gunther Wealth Management from 2011 to 2024. In addition to advising, she provides virtual paraplanning support through Method Financial Planning. Tendful Wealth Planning offers fee-only financial planning and discretionary investment management to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm combines fundamental analysis with Modern Portfolio Theory to construct diversified portfolios using active and passive funds, and incorporates ESG options upon request.

Clinton Kane is a financial advisor at Kane Financial with 17 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Kane Financial since 2017, following five years at Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc. and Strategic Financial Services. Kane Financial serves individual clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and small businesses by offering discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan consulting. The firm employs a primarily passive investment approach, combining fundamental analysis with index mutual funds and ETFs, and provides financial planning to all investment management clients without additional charge.

Maxwell Moore is a financial advisor at Birch Wealth Management in Rome, NY, with three years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has worked at firms including Citigroup and Manning & Napier. Birch Wealth Management provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm uses a variety of analytical approaches and typically manages accounts on a discretionary basis, focusing on equities, ETFs, and money-market funds.

Iris Buczkowski is a financial advisor at Birch Wealth Management with 20 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc., Alan R. Leist Planning Group, Inc., and Strategic Financial Services Inc. Outside of her advisory role, she is a notary public and an independent insurance agent. Birch Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients with discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting. The firm combines diversification principles with technical and fundamental analysis to deliver tailored investment solutions.