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Paul Jones is a financial advisor at Great Ocean Road Financial with 13 years of industry experience. He holds the PFS™ designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Prior to founding his current firm, he worked at Watchtower Wealth Management and held roles with various organizations including TransCore and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Comptroller's Office. Jones also owns and operates Jones Accounting Company LLC, providing accounting, bookkeeping, and tax preparation services. Great Ocean Road Financial is an independent advisory firm serving individual investors and plan sponsors with investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm offers tailored portfolios using a mix of fundamental, technical, and quantitative analysis, and provides specialized ERISA advisory services, benefiting from the owner’s CPA background and affiliated accounting practice.

Nicholas Shevland is a CFP® and CFA® with 12 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Breakwater Wealth Management, a Delaware-registered independent firm he founded in 2022. His prior experience includes roles at Janney Montgomery Scott, Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley Private Bank. He is also a licensed insurance agent in Millville, DE. Breakwater Wealth Management serves individuals and high-net-worth clients with wealth management services including financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and retirement-account advice. The firm employs a primarily long-term, ETF-centered investment approach tailored to client goals and risk tolerance, and offers a wrap fee program that integrates transaction and custodial costs into its advisory fee.

Glen Harding is the sole advisor at Harding's Wealth Managers, Inc. in Millsboro, DE, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 25 years of industry experience. He has led his independent firm since 2006. Harding is also active as an independent insurance agent, selling fixed and indexed annuities as well as various life and long-term care insurance products. Harding’s Wealth Managers, Inc. offers personalized investment management and financial planning services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses. The firm provides both discretionary and non-discretionary asset management, constructing custom portfolios using mutual funds, ETFs, and other exchange-traded products, with ongoing account monitoring and formal reviews at least semiannually.

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, currently serving as the sole advisor at Metz Capital Management LLC in Lewes, DE. She has been working in the financial industry since 2015, including her current role at Metz Capital Management since 2024 and prior experience at Merrill. 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 focuses on diversified portfolios mainly composed of no-load mutual funds, certificates of deposit, bonds, equities, and ETFs, with an investment process that includes portfolio diversification, periodic rebalancing, and detailed risk and fee analysis.