Kenneth Taylor Graeter II

Elijah has been a fee-only financial planner for over eight years. In 2025, he started Essa Financial to provide transparent and client-centric financial advice to folks in the Louisville community and beyond. As a teacher, Elijah’s favorite part about being a financial planner is communicating complex planning topics to clients in ways that are more easily understood. He enjoys the education aspect of being a planner, especially in a one-on-one environment. He values deep relationships with clients, and is always willing to listen and learn. He also believes exceptional client service (and swift communication) is the cornerstone of financial planning. Elijah is actively involved in the profession. He is an active volunteer with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), having previously served on their Genesis board for young advisors for five years and currently serving on the South Region board as the Membership Chair. He also reviews scholarship applications for the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning, which provides assistance to qualified candidates for the CFP® exam. In addition to his role as a planner, Elijah teaches part-time as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville. Elijah resides in Louisville with his wife, Sarah, and dogs, Landon and Korra. Aside from financial planning and teaching, Elijah spends his time frequenting local coffee shops, running (short distances) around his neighborhood, playing video games, watching the Minnesota Timberwolves, and of course, spending time with friends and family.

Mark Thompson is the sole advisor at MARK Investment Advisors in Louisville, KY, with 15 years of industry experience. He previously operated Thompson Investment Advisors for 35 years before establishing his current firm. Outside of advisory work, he is a minority owner of Whitecloud Technologies, LLC, a company involved in medical spine device inventions and marketing. MARK Investment Advisors provides investment counsel and portfolio management services to individuals, retirement accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm combines technical chart analysis, mathematical measures, and fundamental review to guide investment decisions and may adjust cash allocations to preserve capital during market declines.

Jeb Jarrell is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 10 years of industry experience. He is the founder of Plentiful Wealth, LLC, an independent firm based in Louisville, KY. Prior to founding Plentiful Wealth, he worked at firms including Ameriprise Financial Services and Merrill. Outside of his advisory role, he hosts a podcast focused on Kentucky history and culture and serves as treasurer and board member of a nonprofit providing housing services to the homeless. Plentiful Wealth provides comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management for individuals, high-net-worth clients, nonprofits, and employers. The firm combines fundamental company analysis with modern portfolio theory and offers institutional-style services such as outsourced CIO support for nonprofit endowments and pension consulting for employer plans.

Andrew Sloan is a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) with 11 years of industry experience. He has operated Bluegrass Financial Planning, LLC in Louisville, KY since 2013. Outside of his advisory role, he coaches field hockey part-time at the Christian Academy of Louisville. Bluegrass Financial Planning primarily serves individual clients, offering comprehensive financial planning, discretionary investment management, and tax planning and preparation services. The firm follows a fundamental, long-term buy-and-hold investment approach focused on asset allocation and low-cost index funds, managing approximately $56.2 million on a discretionary basis for about 73 clients.

Ross Wright is the sole advisor at Wrightpoint Wealth, holding a Series 65 credential with one year of experience in investment management. He has served with the United States Army Corps of Engineers since 2007 as a Risk Assessment Advisor and Senior Review Manager, leading risk assessments and managing engineering project teams. Wrightpoint Wealth is an investment manager specializing in discretionary management of pooled and institutional-style portfolios. The firm combines fundamental, quantitative, and Modern Portfolio Theory analyses to implement tailored strategies, utilizing proprietary models and third-party portfolios through the Altruist platform.

Patrick Lach is a CFP® and CFA® credentialed financial advisor with 14 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Lach Financial in Louisville, KY. In addition to his advisory work, Lach serves as an Associate Professor of Finance at Indiana University Southeast and contributes to The Wall Street Journal. He also provides consulting related to textbook material and legal expert witness engagements. Lach Financial offers financial planning and portfolio management primarily for individual investors and trusts through ongoing discretionary planning and hourly consulting. The firm employs a long-term, passive buy-and-hold investment strategy based on academic research, utilizing no-load mutual funds and ETFs, including those from Dimensional Fund Advisors.