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Joy Liu is a financial advisor with Connective Wealth Partners, LLC, holding a Series 65 designation and two years of industry experience. Her prior roles include positions at FG Advisory Services, LLC, The Financial Gym, and Burns Group. She has also worked as a freelancer. Connective Wealth Partners provides discretionary wealth management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and estates. The firm uses a fundamentally based investment approach with a long-term orientation, constructing portfolios with ETFs, equities, bonds, and alternative investments while offering both full-service and stand-alone planning options.

Joshua Mudse is a CFP® professional with 22 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Atlas. His prior roles include positions at OneAscent Financial Services, FF Advisors, Running Point Capital Advisors, Carnegie Investment Counsel, and Munn Wealth Management. He is also Associate Vice President of Client Services at Synergy Private, where he manages family office services such as accounting, tax preparation, and coordination of professional advisors. Atlas (ATFS Advisers LLC) provides wealth management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans. The firm employs a longer-term, index-based investment approach supplemented by concentrated strategies, ETFs, and direct equities, and manages both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolios alongside a private credit fund.

Brian Liedstrand is a financial advisor at Selective Wealth Management, Inc. with 11 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has served in the U.S. Marine Corps since 2017, including a role as a Marine for Life Representative. Liedstrand also acts as the music director for Harvest Presbyterian Church PCA. Selective Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients, providing portfolio management and financial planning services. The firm manages approximately $426 million in assets across eight advisors and offers discretionary investment supervisory services with tailored financial planning and periodic account reviews.

Caleb Rich is a Series 65-licensed advisor with PracticeCFO Investments in Swansboro, North Carolina. He is part of a ten-advisor team at the firm. PracticeCFO Investments provides investment management, strategic personal and business financial planning, retirement plan advisory, insurance placement, and tax and accounting services to a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm uses a hybrid investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory, combining low-cost passive ETFs with tactical asset allocation and formal Investment Policy Statements to guide portfolio management.

Perry Aycock is a financial advisor with Credit Union Investment Services, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing nine years of industry experience. He has held roles at Members Trust Company and SECU Life Insurance Company, among others, and serves as a Financial Advisory Services District Manager at State Employees' Credit Union. Outside of finance, he previously operated Old Siam Thai Restaurant for seven years. Credit Union Investment Services serves primarily individual investors in North Carolina, offering non-discretionary portfolio management, retirement and financial planning, and a wrap-fee program. The firm emphasizes low-cost, index-based mutual funds and ETFs, with salaried advisors who provide recommendations while clients retain final decision authority.

Richard Pugh is a CFP® with 33 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been with Financial Security Advisory, Inc. and Financial Security Management, Incorporated since 1997, and has also been affiliated with Guardian Life Insurance Co. since 1993. In addition to his advisory work, he teaches financial planning and insurance courses as a professor at The American College. Financial Security Advisory, Inc. serves individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities by providing discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning. The firm emphasizes asset allocation and a long-term buy-and-hold strategy, utilizing quantitative screening and qualitative due diligence in its investment process.