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John Couric is the principal of Couric Financial and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 25 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Providence Asset Management and Cetera Advisor Networks, and he currently serves as a director for the Organization of Indigenous Missions, a nonprofit. He is also an Enrolled Agent providing tax preparation and IRS representation through his separate businesses. Couric Financial Partners is a state-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, endowments, and businesses. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management and financial planning with a fundamental, long-term investment approach, utilizing mutual funds, ETFs, individual stocks, and other securities, alongside an automated portfolio option through Schwab Institutional Intelligent Portfolios.

Ashley Owens is a financial advisor at 11 Financial with 13 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at CapFinancial Securities LLC, Benchmark Bank, Infinex Investments, and Securities America. Outside of her advisory role, Owens is a loan officer at Neighbors Bank. 11 Financial provides portfolio management, financial planning, and education services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as corporate clients. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis with modern portfolio theory, offering tailored strategies that include both long-term allocations and more active approaches.

Gerald Denney Jr. is a financial advisor with Kestra Advisory, holding the CFP® and ChFC® designations and bringing 37 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions with LPL Financial, Ameriprise Financial Services, and Private Advisor Group. He serves as an Emeritus Board Director for the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry and is President of the Board for his condominium association. Kestra Advisory Services provides investment advisory and retirement-plan consulting to plan sponsors and a diverse range of institutional and individual clients. The firm offers fiduciary consulting, plan design, employee education, and access to multiple management platforms, serving large institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds.

Keith Wayne is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license with three years of industry experience. He has been with Mercer Global Advisors Inc. since 2022, following prior roles in education at Campbell County Public Schools and Lynchburg City Schools. Mercer Global Advisors serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth families, small business owners, and nonprofit organizations. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory-based investment approach focused on globally diversified, risk-appropriate portfolios using low-cost index vehicles and multi-factor tilts, offering a range of portfolio management and financial planning services.

Tiffany Fath is a financial advisor at LPL Financial in Altavista, VA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 designations. She has worked at LPL Financial since 2016, with a break from 2020 to 2025 during which she was unemployed, and also has experience at First National Bank and Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. LPL Financial provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individual investors, retirement plan sponsors, institutions, charities, and high-net-worth households. The firm offers a variety of investment solutions supported by an in-house research team and combines large-scale advisory operations with non-advisory product activities such as insurance and lending services.

Matthew Szabo is a ChFC® and Series 66 credentialed financial advisor with Edward Jones in Gretna, VA. He has seven years of industry experience, including five years at Liberty University before joining Edward Jones in 2018. Edward Jones is a full-service wealth management firm serving over four million individual and institutional clients. The firm manages approximately $1.01 trillion in assets under management and offers a range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment strategies, including access to separately managed accounts and affiliated mutual funds, operating under a fiduciary standard.