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Aaron Locker is the sole advisor at Ellis Financial Solutions LLC in Longmont, Colorado. He holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has three years of industry experience. Prior to founding Ellis Financial Solutions in 2025, he worked at Summit Financial Planning and Edward Jones. Outside of his advisory role, he manages Ellis Bottom Line Bookkeeping, a tax management and preparation business. Ellis Financial Solutions provides investment management and retirement plan services primarily to employer plan sponsors, pooled vehicles, and other institutional clients. The firm’s investment approach combines passive and active strategies focused on asset allocation and long-term portfolio construction, with additional services including investment policy statement drafting, investment and fee reviews, vendor searches, participant education, and discretionary ERISA 3(38) investment management.

Derek Wolff is a CFP® with 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been the sole advisor at Wolff Financial Advisors, LLC since 2005. Wolff Financial Advisors, LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and other business entities. The firm constructs diversified portfolios using a combination of equity and fixed income securities, mutual funds, ETFs, and employs both fundamental and technical analysis alongside long- and short-term trading strategies, including the active use of options and leveraged ETFs.

Bruce Fleet is the sole advisor at Fleet Capital Management, LLC, an independent firm based in Boulder, CO. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 37 years of industry experience. Fleet has led his firm since 2006. Fleet Capital Management, LLC is a fee-only investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth families, trusts, foundations, and charitable institutions. The firm focuses on discretionary portfolio management with an emphasis on downside protection and risk management, utilizing quantitative techniques grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory.

Joseph Michalski is a financial advisor with Fortified Wealth Strategies, Inc. in Northglenn, CO, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 27 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Kestra Financial Services, and Nfp Securities. Outside of advisory work, he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, teaching a business school course. Fortified Wealth Strategies serves individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as trusts, estates, and business entities, providing financial planning and investment advisory services. The firm manages client portfolios on a non-discretionary basis, utilizing custom allocation models and third-party managers, with an emphasis on strategic asset allocation and periodic rebalancing.

Kyle Sothers is the sole advisor at Kyso Financial, a state-registered independent investment advisory firm based in Superior, Colorado. He holds a Series 65 designation and has eight years of industry experience, having managed investments privately before founding Kyso Financial in 2016. Kyso Financial provides discretionary portfolio management to individuals, families, and businesses, offering three actively managed model portfolios and a customized ETF-based option. The firm employs a fundamentally driven approach combining growth and value strategies with a long-term orientation, alongside the explicit use of hedging techniques and derivatives for tactical downside protection in certain accounts.

Craig Thompson is a ChFC®-designated financial advisor with 26 years of industry experience. He has been the sole advisor at Asset Solutions since 2003. Asset Solutions is an independent registered investment adviser managing approximately $13.5 million for around 76 clients, mainly individual investors and small-business retirement accounts. The firm employs an active, market-timing investment approach using technical, cyclical, and fundamental analysis to rotate among sectors and asset classes, with portfolios that may be concentrated or moved fully to cash depending on market conditions.