Brian Soley is a CFP® with 18 years of experience currently serving as a financial advisor at Ameriprise in Hudson, WI. He has been with Ameriprise and its affiliated entities since 2012. Outside of his advisory role, Soley assists as a non-paid teaching assistant for Finance 429 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Ameriprise provides a retirement-income planning service aimed at individuals approaching or in retirement with significant investable assets, combining research, modeling, and tax-efficiency analysis to deliver written recommendation reports. The firm offers a broad range of advisory, brokerage, and insurance solutions typical of a large institutional firm.

Timothy Hansen is a financial advisor with RBC Capital Markets in Stillwater, MN, holding a Series 66 designation and 25 years of industry experience. He has worked at RBC Capital Markets since 2008 and also serves at City National Bank since 2017. RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, serves individual investors, institutional clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of advisory programs providing portfolio management, financial planning, custody, and brokerage services, with investment strategies tailored to each client’s risk profile and implemented through a mix of in-house and third-party managers.

Patrick Schulte is a financial advisor at XYPN Sapphire with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. He previously worked at Wanderer Financial LLC for nine years and joined Rudder Financial a year ago. XYPN Sapphire provides investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, business entities, and retirement plans. The firm follows a long-term, risk-based investment approach informed by Modern Portfolio Theory and offers services including discretionary portfolio management, integrated financial planning, and a pilot digital-asset management program.