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Charles Steele is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license, with 20 years of experience in the financial industry. He has worked at Kestra Advisory, Kestra Investment Services, and Cambridge Investment Research prior to founding Steele Advisory LLC. Steele is also a licensed insurance agent, spending a limited amount of time on insurance sales and implementation. Steele Financial Studios provides discretionary investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, businesses, and plan sponsors. The firm emphasizes fundamental analysis and a long-term investment approach, incorporating low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, individual securities, and unaffiliated independent managers, with a notable focus on pension and retirement plan consulting.

Gregory Smarr is the sole advisor at Smarr Financial Services Inc. in Atlanta, GA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses with 20 years of industry experience. He has operated Smarr Financial Services since 2004. Outside of advisory work, he has been involved in selling various insurance products through multiple agencies. Smarr Financial Services provides financial planning and investment supervisory services to individuals, high net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. The firm also functions as an insurance agency, offering life, disability, long-term care, group life and health products, and fixed annuities. Its investment approach emphasizes fundamental analysis and long-term buy-and-hold strategies supplemented by moderate trading across a range of asset classes.

Robert Jetmundsen is the principal of Worthscape, LLC in Atlanta, GA, where he has been providing advisory services since 2006. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has 16 years of industry experience. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in several entrepreneurial ventures, including serving as president of Bobbo Aviation and Raj Holdings, owning a publishing company, and managing a motor yacht charter business. He also serves on the board of L2C, Inc. Worthscape offers discretionary portfolio management primarily to individuals, trusts, and estates, including high-net-worth clients. The firm’s investment approach focuses on concentrated portfolios of U.S. common stocks supplemented by other securities and employs both fundamental and technical analysis, with occasional use of active trading strategies and derivatives.

Lucas Marsh is the principal of Engineered Wealth Management LLC in Avondale Estates, GA, holding a Series 65 designation with one year of experience in financial advising. He has a full-time role as a biomedical engineer with the Veterans Health Administration and serves as treasurer and board member of the Georgia Biomedical Instrumentation Society. Additionally, he provides tax and accounting consulting through a separate business. Engineered Wealth Management offers discretionary investment management, wealth management, and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm uses fundamental analysis with a generally long-term investment approach, incorporating exchange-traded funds and providing standalone financial planning engagements on an hourly or subscription basis.

James Stanhouse is the sole advisor at Stanhouse Financial Planning and Management, LLC in Duluth, GA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 16 years of industry experience. Since 2009, he has been preparing to start Oakworth, a separate business activity. Stanhouse Financial Planning and Management, LLC provides fee-only financial planning, investment advisory, and asset management services to individuals, families, small businesses, and trusts. The firm follows a long-term, buy-and-hold investment philosophy based on Modern Portfolio Theory and emphasizes low-cost, tax-efficient investment options.

William Parsons III is a financial advisor with Vickery Creek Capital Management in Roswell, GA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and possessing 21 years of industry experience. He has worked at Merrill Lynch since 2000. Parsons is also active as an independent insurance agent, collaborating with an outside consultant to offer nonproprietary insurance products. Vickery Creek Capital Management serves individual and family clients with significant investable assets, providing investment management and comprehensive financial planning services. The firm employs a top-down, macroeconomic investment approach focused on retirement income objectives, using diversified portfolios with bonds, equities, mutual funds, and ETFs, while emphasizing client education and regular portfolio reviews.