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Nkozi Knight is a financial advisor with Thrivent Investment Management in Germantown, WI, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Thrivent, Knight worked at Northwestern Mutual Investment Services and U.S. Bank. Outside of advising, Knight owns multiple businesses including GreenHomeHub, a cleaning and sustainability company, NEST Healthworks, a healthcare consulting firm, and Bodhi Photography, a creative media enterprise, and serves on the boards of the Marquette University Alumni Association and Greater Galilee Community Development Center. Thrivent Investment Management provides Dedicated Planning Services to individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits, offering holistic, goal-based financial planning without discretionary portfolio management, and allows clients to integrate planning with managed-account services through its WealthPlan option.

Ronald Larson is the sole advisor at Larson Wealth Management, LLC, an independent firm based in West Bend, WI. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 21 years of industry experience. Prior to founding his firm in 2013, he coached high school basketball during the 2013–2014 season. Larson Wealth Management provides financial planning, consulting, and discretionary investment management to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs multiple analysis methods in its investment decisions and integrates insurance analysis and product placement into its services.

Diane Esser is a CFP® professional with 13 years of industry experience, currently operating as the sole advisor at Direction Financial Management, LLC since 2012. Her background includes integrating financial planning with tax services through her CPA credential and affiliation with an in-house tax practice. Direction Financial Management is an independent, fee-only firm serving individuals, families, trusts, retirees, professionals, and small business owners. The firm provides consultative financial planning and investment advice based on a long-term, passive approach using Modern Portfolio Theory and broad index fund exposure, focusing largely on non-securities planning areas such as tax, estate, and risk management.

Kevin Chapman is the sole advisor at Crossover Capital Trading LLC in Germantown, WI. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 13 years of self-employed experience, with one year specifically at his current firm. Crossover Capital Trading LLC provides discretionary portfolio management for individual clients using a proprietary price-momentum model to trade exchange-traded funds, including leveraged and inverse ETFs. The firm focuses on price-based signals with short holding periods and aims to limit market exposure while managing accounts daily without taking custody of client assets.

David Lake is a financial advisor with Capital Wealth Advisors, Ltd. in West Bend, WI, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and possessing 27 years of industry experience. He has worked at Capital Wealth Advisors since 2010 and has been involved with RIA Services LLC since 2015. Outside of his advisory roles, he is a member and executive vice president of Black Earth LLC, a real estate investment company. Capital Wealth Advisors, Ltd. provides financial planning, investment management, and consulting services to individuals, trusts, retirement plans, and business entities, as well as sub-advisory services to other financial firms. The firm uses a combination of fundamental, technical, charting, and cyclical analysis to build portfolios and offers ongoing portfolio monitoring and reviews.

Dave Isaacson is a financial advisor at Morgan Dempsey Capital Management LLC with nine years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 designations. Prior to joining Morgan Dempsey in 2019, he worked at firms including Schenck Investment Solutions LLC and CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC. Since 2025, he has also served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at a Wisconsin-based trust company. Morgan Dempsey Capital Management provides equity-focused investment and wealth management services primarily to high-net-worth individuals, families, and institutional clients. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamentally driven value approach and offers strategies including Large Cap Value, Enhanced Income, and Micro-Cap, as well as serving as sub-advisor to a Large Cap Value ETF.