Mark Douglas Kalish

Michael Lofley is a financial advisor with HBKS Wealth Advisors in Stuart, Florida. He helps individuals and families make informed decisions about retirement, investments, taxes, and wealth transfer. Michael’s background in accounting and wealth management shapes his approach to financial planning. He considers investments, taxes, retirement spending, and estate planning together, helping clients understand how decisions in one area affect the others. He particularly enjoys working with people approaching or already in retirement, as well as high-income professionals and business owners facing increasingly complex financial decisions. His approach is straightforward: understand what matters to each client, explain the tradeoffs clearly, and build a plan around the decisions that can make a meaningful difference. Michael is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional, a Certified Public Accountant and Personal Financial Specialist (CPA/PFS), and an Enrolled Agent (EA) with the Internal Revenue Service. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA), and Martin County Estate Planning Council. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 2009. Areas of focus: • Retirement planning and withdrawal strategies • Tax planning and tax-efficient investing • Investment management • Social Security and Medicare planning • Estate and wealth-transfer planning • Business-owner planning

Bryce Buchanan is a financial advisor with Edward Jones in Palm City, Florida. Since joining the firm in 2014, he has been dedicated to helping individuals, families, and business owners make informed financial decisions and work toward their long-term goals. Bryce believes financial planning is about more than investments. It is about understanding what matters most to each client and building a strategy that aligns with their values, priorities, and vision for the future. He works closely with clients through life's major transitions, including retirement, business ownership, wealth accumulation, and legacy planning. A particular area of focus for Bryce is helping business owners prepare for significant financial and personal transitions. He enjoys collaborating with clients and their other professional advisors to create thoughtful strategies tailored to their unique circumstances. Bryce and his team are committed to building long-term relationships based on trust, personalized service, and ongoing guidance.

My name is Trishul Patel, CFP®, MBA. I’m a fee-only financial planner based in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and the founder of Investing Forever Advisory, a 100% virtual financial planning and investment management firm serving clients across the country. I achieved financial independence before age 40 by saving aggressively, investing thoughtfully, and being intentional about what mattered most to me. That experience ultimately shaped the work I do today: helping clients make smarter financial decisions so they can build greater security, flexibility, and freedom in their own lives. I’ve always been an entrepreneur, investor, and problem solver at heart. As a kid, I soldered analog circuits, built computers, and programmed simple games. That curiosity eventually took me to Cornell University, where I earned a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Engineering, and an MBA. My professional career has taken me through technology, banking, trading, and investment management. I designed large-scale financial applications for major global banks, managed an exotic options book for a private firm in Southeast Asia that generated more than $750 million in sales over three years, and later served as a hedge fund portfolio manager responsible for more than $100 million in assets. Those experiences taught me to think critically, question assumptions, and look beyond conventional answers. Today, I bring that same mindset to financial planning. I enjoy taking complex financial problems, understanding what really matters, and turning them into clear, practical decisions. What motivates me most is helping people use money intentionally to create the life they want. I’m endlessly curious, enjoy thoughtful debate, and genuinely love learning about investing, markets, technology, and the many ways people define a successful life. When I’m not helping clients pursue their financial and investment goals, you’ll usually find me writing, podcasting, biking, and hiking with my wife and daughter.

Nicholas Silva is the sole advisor at N.A. Silva & Company, Inc., an independent firm based in Fort Pierce, FL. He holds a Series 65 designation and has three years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Grand Bay Investments, Silva & Associates, and Raymond James. N.A. Silva & Company provides discretionary asset management and financial consulting to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and business entities. The firm combines fundamental, technical, cyclical, and quantitative analysis to develop tailored investment strategies and also offers business-focused consulting services such as capital structure advice and cash-flow forecasting.

William Riddick is a financial advisor with Riddick & Co Entrepreneurial Finance, LLC in Palm City, FL. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 17 years of industry experience. Prior to founding his firm in 2021, he worked at Fortitude Advisory Group LLC and Saffer & Co. He also serves as Director of Operations for AV8 Realty, a real estate brokerage specializing in aviation properties, providing pro bono operational guidance. Riddick & Co Entrepreneurial Finance offers asset management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advice to individual investors, small business owners, and pension or profit-sharing plan clients. The firm utilizes both automated and traditional planning methods and conducts educational webinars and seminars on asset allocation, retirement, and tax planning.

Marc Rittersporn is a financial advisor with Integritt Wealth Management, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 43 years of industry experience. His prior experience includes roles at Wells Fargo Clearing and Prudential Equity Group, LLC. Outside of his advisory work, he co-owns an alarm monitoring business and serves as president of the homeowners association board for The Esplanade of Downtown Stuart. Integritt Wealth Management provides discretionary asset management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and entities such as trusts and charitable organizations, focusing on tailored portfolios of individual stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs. The firm follows investment strategies guided by Modern Portfolio Theory with an emphasis on ETF-based allocations and offers both discretionary management and periodic portfolio monitoring.