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Amie Varnado is a financial advisor at Capital Financial Planners, LLC with 17 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has been with Capital Financial Planners since 2011. Outside of her advisory role, she is a half owner of an electrical service company and spends part of her time on accounting and insurance sales. Capital Financial Planners is an independent firm serving individual clients, businesses, charities, and small pension plans. The firm offers comprehensive financial planning and discretionary portfolio management with a primarily passive, asset-allocation approach tailored to client goals.

Bradley Ortego is a financial advisor at SOW Advisors LLC in Lafayette, LA, holding a Series 65 designation. He has experience at Narrow Way Equity Partners, Adventure Vehicle Concepts, and IPT Global. SOW Advisors is a fee-only registered investment adviser offering financial planning, portfolio management, private market investing, and consulting services to a diverse client base including individuals, families, small businesses, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs an evidence-based approach to public markets and fundamental analysis for private markets, providing both discretionary management and standalone advisory engagements.

Logan Bowers is the owner and managing member of H&L Investments LLC, with over 10 years of experience in real estate investment and private fund management. He holds a Series 65 designation and has a background that includes roles at Power Investors LLC and Cetco Energy Services. His outside business activities include overseeing operations and asset management for multifamily, single-family, and mobile home park investments through H&L Investments. SOW Advisors LLC is a fee-only registered investment adviser offering financial planning, portfolio management, private market investing, and consulting services to individuals, families, small businesses, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs an evidence-based approach in public markets combined with fundamental and qualitative analysis in private markets, serving both accredited and non-accredited clients through discretionary management and hourly advisory engagements.

Mark Avant is the sole advisor at Avant Capital, LLC in Lafayette, Louisiana, with 16 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Avant Capital since 2014, following prior roles at Avant & Associates LLC and L and M Avant Holdings, LLC. He is also an independent insurance agent involved in the sale of life, health, and variable insurance products. Avant Capital serves individuals, trusts, estates, and retirement plans by offering discretionary investment management and retirement-plan advisory services. The firm uses a primarily long-term investment approach tailored to client objectives, combining fundamental and technical analysis to build diversified portfolios using low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, and selective individual securities.

Charles Duchamp is a financial advisor at Apex Capital Management, L.L.C. with 23 years of industry experience and holds a Series 65 designation. He has been with Apex since 2002 and also serves as president of Charles J. Duchamp, CPA, a professional accounting corporation providing accounting and tax services since 1991. Apex Capital Management serves individuals, retirement plan sponsors and participants, trusts, and business entities with financial planning, asset management, retirement-plan consulting, and annuity product management. The firm uses fundamental analysis to guide asset allocation and trading decisions, and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary account management.

Darren Cart is a financial advisor with Going CPAs and Wealth Advisors in Opelousas, LA. He holds the PFS™ designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 15 years of industry experience. He has been a partner at Going, Sabastein, Fisher & Leboeuf, LLP since 2009. Outside of advisory work, he is involved as a partner in a consulting business, Majestic Heights Group, LLC. Going CPAs and Wealth Advisors serves individuals, trusts, estates, and retirement plans by providing financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and project-based consulting. The firm integrates accounting and tax services with wealth management and employs a long-term, buy-and-hold investment approach primarily using mutual funds, ETFs, and fixed-income instruments.