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Heinrich Brandt is the sole advisor at Brandt Wealth Advisors, LLC in Centreville, MD, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations with 25 years of industry experience. He has led Brandt Wealth Advisors since its founding in 2012. Outside of his advisory work, Brandt is involved in local community organizations including the Choptank Puritan Club and serves on the advisory board for Healthy Families Queen Annes/Talbot, focusing on early childhood and young parent education. Brandt Wealth Advisors provides fee-based investment advisory and portfolio management services to a range of clients, including individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a tactical allocation approach using fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis, incorporating higher-risk instruments and trading strategies, and manages assets on a discretionary basis without imposing account minimums.

Alex is the founder of Clear Advisors, a fee-only financial planning firm based in Maryland. He founded the firm with a simple belief: investors are better served by focusing on the financial decisions they can control than by trying to predict the next market move or chase the next hot stock. Instead, Alex helps clients optimize the areas that have the greatest long-term impact on their financial lives—taxes, retirement income, investment costs, savings, and the countless planning decisions that shape financial success. Financial planning has been part of Alex's life for as long as he can remember. Having a father who spent a long career as a financial advisor gave him an early look at both the strengths and shortcomings of the traditional wealth management model. After earning a bachelor's degree in finance, becoming a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, and beginning his career advising clients on retirement, tax, and investment planning, Alex founded Clear Advisors to build the kind of firm he would want as a client: flat fees, no commissions, no asset gathering, and planning that goes far beyond just managing investments. What Alex enjoys most is uncovering planning opportunities that can make a meaningful difference in someone's financial future, whether it's identifying a Roth conversion strategy that could save substantial taxes over a lifetime, developing a retirement income plan that provides greater confidence, or helping clients make smarter financial decisions year after year. His goal is simple: to help clients keep more of what they've earned, reduce financial uncertainty, and retire with confidence.

Nicholas Lumpp is a financial advisor at RCN Wealth Advisors, Inc. in Stevensville, MD, holding a Series 66 designation with 13 years of industry experience. He has been with RCN Wealth Advisors since 2012. RCN Wealth Advisors is an independent firm providing fee-only financial planning and discretionary investment management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, corporations, and an exchange-traded fund. The firm combines long-term, value-oriented portfolio construction with tactical, rules-based allocations and serves as sub-adviser and co-sponsor of the RCN Pareto Strategic Allocation ETF, which employs a systematic trend-following strategy across multiple asset classes including digital assets such as bitcoin.

William Maxwell is a CFA® charterholder with 32 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Maxwell Family Office, LLC, an independent firm based in Rock Hall, MD, where he has worked since 2015 under the related entity names. Maxwell Family Office is a fee-only investment advisor serving primarily individuals, family-related clients, and select charitable organizations. The firm manages balanced portfolios using fundamental analysis focused on economic and sector trends, tailoring investments across mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, alternatives, and structured products to client risk tolerances and objectives.

Kevin Caldwell is a financial advisor at Islands East Advisors with a Series 65 credential and three years of industry experience. He previously worked for WR Grace & Co in a demand planner and financial analyst role within the specialty chemicals sector, dedicating approximately 80% of his time to that position. Islands East Advisors is an independent firm providing fee-only financial planning and investment management to individuals, high-net-worth households, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. The firm combines modern portfolio theory with passive and active strategies, offers retirement plan consulting including participant education, and manages accounts on a discretionary basis while providing ongoing and project-based financial planning.

Ernest Brittingham Jr. is a financial advisor at Bayview Investment Counsel, Inc. with over 56 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has worked at Bayview since 1991. His career also includes long-term involvement with Dockside Financial Group, INT'L Asset Management, International Money Management Group, Inc., and INT'L Money Management Corp. Bayview Investment Counsel serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses, focusing on discretionary portfolio management and investment counseling. The firm employs a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis and offers both long-term and short-term trading strategies tailored to client needs.