Samuel P Kruschel

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.

Brian Selerski is a financial advisor with Selerski Asset Management, LLC in Hartland, Wisconsin. He holds the ChFC® designation and has 21 years of industry experience, including 19 years with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services and 16 years with Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company. He manages his independent advisory firm as a solo practitioner. Selerski Asset Management serves individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, businesses, charities, and employee benefit plans. The firm offers financial planning, discretionary investment management, and qualified plan consulting, employing a strategic asset allocation approach with custom portfolios and a mix of analytical methods. The firm is notable for providing both plan-level and participant-level retirement plan consulting, including discretionary services and educational seminars, which is uncommon among independent solo advisors.

Matthew Buehler is a financial advisor at Erenda Capital with three years of industry experience. He holds the Series 65 designation and previously worked at Glarus Capital for five years and Ankura Consulting for one year. Buehler’s background includes involvement in law, private equity, and asset valuation, including co-founding a farmland private equity business. Erenda Capital provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, and business entities. The firm employs a proprietary, value-oriented equity selection approach, focusing on concentrated portfolios and offering tailored allocation profiles without taking custody of client assets.

Luke La Manna is a CFA® charterholder with two years of industry experience. He is the founder of Founder360° Family Office and previously worked at Cottage Row Partners and Reinhart Partners, Inc. In addition to his financial career, he has worked in family dentistry at Lakeshore Family Dentistry for nine years. Founder360° Family Office provides services to founders of closely held businesses, their families, and entrepreneurs with complex business, tax, and estate planning needs. The firm combines family-office services, business advisory, discretionary investment management, and a proprietary business diagnostic software platform, offering a mix of personalized portfolio management and automated tools with an emphasis on integrating enterprise value drivers and personal financial objectives.

Brian Clarke is a CFP® professional with 22 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Clarke Financial Counsel, LLC, an independent firm he founded after previous roles at Financial Strategies, Incorporated, PNC Wealth Management, and Valic Financial Advisors. Clarke also provides advisory services to clients of Financial Strategies, Inc. separate from his work at Clarke Financial Counsel. Clarke Financial Counsel, LLC offers fee-only financial planning to individuals and high-net-worth clients, focusing on comprehensive, project-based planning without investment management or custody of assets. The firm emphasizes hourly and fixed-fee arrangements and provides services including retirement and estate planning, tax and business planning, and equity compensation guidance.

Mark Crawford is the principal of Crawford Asset Management, LLC, an independent investment advisory firm based in Glendale, WI. He holds Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and has 27 years of industry experience, including 20 years managing his own firm since 2006. Crawford Asset Management, LLC provides discretionary investment supervisory services and portfolio management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm combines fundamental and technical analysis with macroeconomic indicators and both quantitative and qualitative research to tailor portfolios that emphasize ETFs and individual equities, maintaining a long-term investment approach with an equities-heavy allocation.