Richard Purkiss Jr. is a CFP® with 23 years of industry experience, currently serving at Purkiss Capital Advisors, LLC, where he has worked since 2001. He is the board chair and investment committee member at Wooster School, overseeing its endowment investments at Vanguard. Purkiss Capital Advisors provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as institutional and household entities. The firm uses a fundamental analysis framework to build tailored portfolios focusing on absolute returns within clients’ risk tolerances and regularly monitors and adjusts allocations.

Gregory Brushett is a financial advisor with Purkiss Capital Advisors, LLC in Ridgefield, CT. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has 10 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Purkiss Capital Advisors in 2026, he worked at New Age Alpha Advisors, LLC, Raymond James, and UBS. Purkiss Capital Advisors provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and consulting to individuals—including high-net-worth clients—and various institutional and household entities. The firm uses a fundamental analysis approach to construct tailored portfolios primarily with mutual funds, ETFs, and individual securities, emphasizing absolute returns within clients’ risk tolerances, and employs account aggregation and selective use of sub-advisers.

David Luo is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 66 license, with five years of industry experience. He has worked at Purkiss Capital Advisors, LLC since 2025, following roles at Hightower, FMA Advisory, Edward Jones, and F&M Bank and Trust Company. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as an adjunct professor of finance at Shippensburg University. Purkiss Capital Advisors provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as institutional and household entities. The firm employs a fundamental analysis framework to construct tailored portfolios focusing on absolute returns within clients’ risk tolerances and regularly monitors and adjusts allocations to reflect changing needs and market conditions.

Thomas Snayd is a CFP® with 24 years of industry experience, currently serving at Purkiss Capital Advisors, LLC since 2017. He previously worked at Commonfund Asset Management Co., Inc. for 12 years. Snayd serves as the Investment Committee Chair for the Newtown Pension Committee. Purkiss Capital Advisors provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and consulting to individuals—including high-net-worth clients—as well as institutional and household entities. The firm uses fundamental analysis to construct tailored portfolios emphasizing absolute returns within client risk tolerances and monitors accounts regularly, employing mutual funds, ETFs, individual securities, and limited options strategies.