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Jessica Champion is an independent financial advisor based in Chittenango, NY, with eight years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has worked at firms including Ameriprise Financial Services LLC, LPL Financial, and The Summit Federal Credit Union. Since 2025, she has operated her own firm, Champion Method LLC. Champion Method LLC provides wealth management and financial planning services to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm blends modern portfolio theory with fundamental, technical, and charting analysis, employs both passive and active investment vehicles, and integrates behavioral finance coaching and customizable socially responsible investing options.

Judson Ames is the sole advisor at Dark Horse Wealth LLC in Cazenovia, NY. He holds Series 63, 65, and 66 credentials and has 5 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Dark Horse Wealth, he worked at 1 St Discount Brokerage, Inc. He also serves as a referee during the months of September and October. Dark Horse Wealth LLC provides advisory services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporate clients. The firm focuses on retirement-plan work using discretionary investment supervisory services, financial planning, and hourly consulting, employing a combination of low-cost funds and tactical individual securities to meet client objectives.

Maggie Sayers is a CFP® and Series 65-licensed advisor with over 13 years of industry experience. She is the principal of Tendful Wealth Planning, an independent firm based in Rome, NY, and previously worked at Gunther Wealth Management from 2011 to 2024. In addition to advising, she provides virtual paraplanning support through Method Financial Planning. Tendful Wealth Planning offers fee-only financial planning and discretionary investment management to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm combines fundamental analysis with Modern Portfolio Theory to construct diversified portfolios using active and passive funds, and incorporates ESG options upon request.

Clinton Kane is a financial advisor at Kane Financial with 17 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Kane Financial since 2017, following five years at Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc. and Strategic Financial Services. Kane Financial serves individual clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and small businesses by offering discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan consulting. The firm employs a primarily passive investment approach, combining fundamental analysis with index mutual funds and ETFs, and provides financial planning to all investment management clients without additional charge.

Maxwell Moore is a financial advisor at Birch Wealth Management with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and three years of industry experience. He previously worked at Citigroup and Manning & Napier and has experience at State Street Corp and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Birch Wealth Management provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm uses a combination of analytical approaches and focuses on equities, ETFs, and money-market funds while delivering written financial plans and managing portfolios on a discretionary basis.

Iris Buczkowski is a financial advisor at Birch Wealth Management with 20 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc., Alan R. Leist Planning Group, Inc., and Strategic Financial Services Inc. Outside of her advisory role, she is a notary public and an independent insurance agent. Birch Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients with discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting. The firm combines diversification principles with technical and fundamental analysis to deliver tailored investment solutions.