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Carman Kubanda is a financial advisor with Innovative Wealth Building LLC in Fort Worth, TX, holding a Series 66 license and six years of industry experience. Prior to joining Innovative Wealth Building in 2023, he worked at First Command Financial Planning, Inc. and several other firms. Kubanda is also the owner of Wellbeing Financial, LLC, which provides insurance services and lead generation. Innovative Wealth Building LLC offers portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm employs long-term trading strategies guided by fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory, managing accounts on both discretionary and non-discretionary bases.

David Morales is a financial advisor at First Command Advisory Services with Series 6, 63, and Series 65 licenses and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining First Command, he served in the U.S. Navy from 2015 to 2019 and received his bachelor’s degree in Finance at the University of San Diego. First Command Advisory Services serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and charities through a multi-service platform offering financial planning, discretionary asset management, brokerage, insurance, and banking products. The firm emphasizes advisor-led financial coaching and provides tailored professional services through structured engagement cycles.

Michelle Vargas, Certified Financial Planner™ is the President of Waymaker Financial Planning, a Fee-Only firm that provides transparent and accessible financial guidance. She enjoys helping clients navigate and plan all aspects of their financial life so that they will worry less about their future and free up more time to spend doing what they love. After earning a degree in Finance from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1990, she moved to Florida and started her career with Harcourt Brace Publishing. Her journey into personal finance began when she signed up for her 401K and wanted to learn about additional options to plan for retirement. This eventually led to working as a financial advisor and completing the extensive education requirements for becoming a CFP® in 1998. She believes her experience as a young professional searching for unbiased advice enables her to better serve Gen XY professionals because she remembers what it was like being in their shoes. As a former homeschool parent and the wife of a federal employee, she is passionate about helping women, homeschool families, and federal workers plan wisely for a comfortable financial future. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking in Colorado, barbecuing with family, and working in her garden.

Lacy Rogers is a CFP® professional with 11 years of industry experience, currently operating as the sole advisor at The Dedicated Dollar since 2021. She previously worked at Hilltop Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo Clearing. The Dedicated Dollar is an independent, state-registered investment adviser serving individual clients, including high net-worth households, with tailored portfolio management and a variety of financial planning services. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory-based approach using passive asset-class portfolios and offers both project-based and ongoing planning, including business-planning consulting for small business owners.

Edward Whelan is the principal of EMW Capital Advisors, LLC, an independent firm based in Fort Worth, TX. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 20 years of industry experience. In addition to his advisory role, Whelan serves as Chief Financial Officer of Bobby Cox Companies, Inc., a holding company with operations in restaurants, real estate, and ranching, and as Treasurer for CNR, Inc., a holding company with interests in chemical manufacturing and distribution. EMW Capital Advisors serves individual and trust clients through separately managed accounts and acts as adviser and general partner to a pooled private fund, also accepting corporate clients. The firm employs a value-oriented equity approach combining fundamental company analysis with a macroeconomic overlay and a proprietary ranking framework, implementing both long and short positions in portfolios tailored to client objectives.

Chukwudi Uraih is a financial advisor at Lampados Financial Group, LLC with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at Booz Allen Hamilton. Uraih serves in the United States Army Reserve. Outside of financial advising, he is the owner and CEO of Lampados Realty Group TX, LLC, which focuses on acquiring real estate for rental purposes. Lampados Financial Group provides fee-only financial planning and investment advisory services to individuals, families, professionals, and investors in firm-managed investment funds. The firm employs a proprietary methodology combining fundamental analysis and algorithmic cash-flow modeling to evaluate financial scenarios and emphasizes diversified, long-term, risk-aware strategies for individual accounts, alongside real-asset acquisition for its funds.