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Bret Rodgers is the sole advisor at Rodgers Capital Management, LLC in Canton, Ohio, holding a Series 66 designation with 14 years of industry experience. He has been with Rodgers Capital Management and NDSI since 2012. Outside of his advisory work, he is employed at NDSI as a disability aid, assisting handicapped individuals with daily activities. Rodgers Capital Management is a state-registered investment adviser offering discretionary portfolio management for pooled and employer-sponsored retirement plans, as well as individual and charitable clients. The firm employs a statistical investment process focusing on volatility correlations across various asset classes and manages portfolios with Conservative, Moderate, and Aggressive strategies using ETFs, options, and individual securities.

Robert Everett is a financial advisor at FSC Advisors LLC in North Canton, OH, holding a Series 65 designation with 11 years of industry experience. He has worked at Wall Street Financial Group since 2002 and Financial Security Center Inc since 1997. Everett also operates an affiliated tax and insurance business and is an enrolled agent licensed to provide tax preparation and insurance products. FSC Advisors LLC serves individuals, families, trusts, and select institutional clients with asset management and financial planning services. The firm uses written investment policy statements to implement client strategies, offering model portfolios or fully customized allocations with discretionary authority.

Michael George is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with George Financial Services in Canton, OH, where he has worked since 2022. He has four years of industry experience, including prior roles at Parkland Securities and Access Financial Group. Outside of finance, he provides DJ services through his business, Headtrauma Entertainment. George Financial Services advises individual investors and pension or employee benefit plans, offering portfolio management, financial planning, pension consulting, and digital-asset consulting. The firm employs a core–satellite investment approach and manages approximately $16.2 million in assets across 135 client relationships.

Giancarlo Variola is a CFA® charterholder and founder of Chiarezza Capital Management, LLC, where he has provided investment management services since 2013. He has 12 years of industry experience and operates as the sole advisor at his independent firm based in North Canton, Ohio. Chiarezza Capital Management offers customized separate-account investment management to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, endowments, businesses, and trusts. The firm focuses on fundamental analysis to build concentrated equity portfolios primarily invested in U.S.-listed stocks, with additional allocations to ETFs, foreign equities, options, and U.S. government securities.

Daniel Belden is a financial advisor with Belden Financial, LLC in Canton, Ohio. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 19 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Wells Fargo Clearing and Wells Fargo Advisors LLC. Belden Financial provides portfolio management and investment advisory services primarily to individual clients and investment companies. The firm uses a combination of fundamental analysis, modern portfolio theory, quantitative models, and technical analysis to manage client portfolios, typically with discretionary trading authority.

Anthony Deem is the principal of Deem Asset Management, an independent advisory firm, with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and has worked at firms including KeyBanc Capital Markets, Longbow Securities, and Diebold Nixdorf. Outside of his advisory work, he operates a residential rental business as the president of A2 Properties, LLC. Deem Asset Management provides fee-based portfolio management and hourly asset management consulting to a diverse client base that includes individual investors, pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, charities, corporations, and other institutional accounts. The firm employs a proprietary AI-assisted equity research system and offers an AI consulting and development service alongside traditional financial planning and real estate investment analysis.