Sarah Duff Werner

David Brooks Sr. is a financial advisor with SMART Wealth, LLC in Omaha, NE, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 designations and 18 years of industry experience. He has been associated with SMART Wealth since 2020 and has leadership roles in multiple affiliated companies, including serving as president of Tax SMART, LLC and Mid-West Learning, Inc., which provides marketing and educational services. Brooks also oversees DMDN Insurance Company, Inc., which offers pooled insurance solutions. SMART Wealth serves individual and high-net-worth households with retirement income strategies, investment advisory, and financial planning. The firm manages discretionary portfolios through in-house models and sub-advisers, offers a Private Wealth Partners division for affluent clients, and sponsors the SMARTWay ETFs, integrating proprietary products with affiliated services.

Tyler Petersen is a Partner & Wealth Advisor with RetirePath Advisors partnered with the Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 13 years of industry experience. He has worked with various Thrivent entities since 2012, including Thrivent Investment Management Inc and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Petersen serves as a director for the Dana College Foundation and is a board member of Relational Tithe, an organization focused on community support through relationship-based resource distribution. Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC provides investment advisory services to individuals, families, trusts, businesses, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes a long-term investment approach with customized asset allocations, using low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, fixed-income securities, and alternative investments, while offering clients access to independent managers and integrated services within the broader Thrivent group.

Bruce Aken Jr. is a financial advisor at Commonwealth Financial Network with nine years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Securities America Advisors and Guardian Life Insurance. He is co-owner of Nelson Murphy Insurance & Investments, LLC, a private entity engaged in securities, advisory, and insurance business. Commonwealth Financial Network is a dual-registered broker/dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,900 advisors and managing client assets totaling around $212.7 billion. The firm offers a comprehensive platform including managed-account programs, access to third-party asset managers, retirement consulting, and custody services.

Joseph Hearn is the sole advisor at Intentional Retirement, LLC in Omaha, NE, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 30 years of industry experience. He has worked at Intentional Retirement (formerly Provisio Publishing) since 2004 and previously at Teckmeyer Financial Services, L.L.C. He also operates as an independent insurance agent, spending a small portion of his time on this activity. Intentional Retirement provides advisory services to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as retirement plan sponsors and participants, focusing on asset management, written financial planning, and retirement-plan fiduciary consulting and education. The firm manages over $131 million in client assets on a non-discretionary basis and offers pension consulting for plan assets exceeding $9 million.

Eric Horne is a CFP® with 20 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at ARC Element Wealth Design in Papillion, NE. He previously worked at Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade, where he spent over 18 years in various roles. ARC Element Wealth Design is an independent, state-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, and fiduciary entities. The firm manages approximately $29.5 million across about two dozen client relationships, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and educational communications. Its investment approach emphasizes strategic asset allocation using ETFs, mutual funds, selective individual securities, and option strategies, with periodic rebalancing and active management in certain asset classes.

Daniel Thompson Jr. is a financial advisor at First Class Wealth Management LLC with eight years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and previously worked at Omega Insurance Group LLC and Farm Bureau Financial Services. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a high school soccer referee during the spring and owns Isaiah Trucking, Inc. First Class Wealth Management is a small independent advisory firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients with tailored investment policy statements and portfolio management. The firm employs a long-term trading approach that incorporates cyclical, fundamental, technical, and modern portfolio theory analyses, focusing on mutual funds, ETFs, real estate funds, fixed income, and annuities.