Melisa Beauchesne Ellis

John Howe is a CFP® professional with 13 years of industry experience, currently serving as the principal advisor at Hamewith Wealth. His prior roles include positions at Generation Capital Management, Wells Fargo Advisors, and St. John Fisher University. Hamewith Wealth is an independent registered investment adviser offering discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and businesses. The firm’s approach combines Modern Portfolio Theory with passive and active strategies, incorporating client preferences such as ESG investments, and provides ongoing monitoring including held-away account oversight.

Mark Paganelli is the sole advisor at Mark Andrew Paganelli, an independent firm based in Pittsford, NY. He holds the CFP® and ChFC® designations and has 43 years of industry experience. His career includes long tenures at Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc., RFG Associates, LLC, and Commonwealth Financial Network. He also serves as a trustee for two family trusts. The firm provides comprehensive financial planning and consulting to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporations, focusing on retirement planning, estate and tax considerations, cash-flow analysis, investment review, and insurance evaluation. Recommendations are based on fundamental, technical, and qualitative analysis and are delivered in writing, with implementation at the client’s discretion. The firm does not take custody of client assets or exercise discretionary management and follows the Department of Labor’s process for retirement rollover advice.

Priscilla Baker Jones is the sole advisor at Occam Capital Management, LLC in Pittsford, NY, holding the CFP® designation and Series 63 license with 12 years of industry experience. She has been with Occam Capital Management since 1998. Occam Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and consulting services to individuals, pensions, profit-sharing plans, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a value-oriented investment approach combining top-down economic analysis with bottom-up security selection and manages approximately $66 million for about 95 clients.

Christopher Coleman is a financial advisor with Fiduciary First Advising, LLC in Rochester, NY. He holds a Series 66 designation and has five years of industry experience, including prior roles at Sage, Rutty & Co., Inc. and consulting work. Fiduciary First Advising, LLC is an independent, state-registered investment adviser serving individuals and businesses, including high-net-worth clients. The firm focuses on passive portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation based on Modern Portfolio Theory, with portfolios tailored to client-specific investment policies and reviewed quarterly.

Andrew Fama is the sole advisor at Fama Fiduciary Wealth LLC, an independent firm based in Rochester, NY. He holds a Series 65 credential and has 25 years of experience with his firm. In addition to his work in financial advising, Fama operates a legal practice as an attorney and is a licensed real estate broker, both as sole proprietor. Fama Fiduciary Wealth LLC is a fee-only investment adviser serving individual clients, families, trustees, executors, qualified retirement plans, corporations, partnerships, and small businesses. The firm manages discretionary portfolios with an investment approach focused on asset allocation, diversification, and Modern Portfolio Theory, utilizing primarily no-load mutual funds and ETFs with a long-term, low-turnover philosophy aligned to clients’ risk profiles and income needs.

Brian Imrich is a CFP® with 18 years of industry experience. He has been with GPS Financial, LLC since 2017 and previously worked at Cambridge Investment Research Advisors and Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as treasurer for Victory Boys Youth Lacrosse, a community organization. GPS Financial, LLC serves individual and high-net-worth clients by combining financial planning and discretionary portfolio management, focusing on goal-based planning, capital preservation, and asset allocation. The firm manages approximately $57.8 million in assets for about 269 clients, primarily using ETFs and mutual funds, with investment decisions executed through custodial platforms like Schwab and Betterment.