I'm a fee-only, fiduciary financial planner and investment manager in Austin, TX, and I specialize in working with tech professionals. I founded this firm in 2012 and was helping people with their finances for years before that. I was an engineer for nearly twenty years, so I greatly prefer research- and analysis-based approach to finance, rather than flashy salesmanship. More tax-efficient investing and research-proven factors of increased returns, and less market timing and hedge funds. Also, I stand out at financial advisor conferences, because I never wear a suit. Why? The better question is: why is a suit the official uniform of financial advisors? The answer is because our industry originated in sales; fee-only financial advisors such as myself are a relatively new invention, and still uncommon in the industry. Simply put, I don't wear a suit because I'm not a salesman. One of my favorite questions (generally asked only after a beer or two) is: if I'm so good at finance, why aren't I retired and living the good life? The answer is: I am! Building something from the ground up, working hard on something I'm that helps people and that I'm passionate about -- that's my kind of retirement, and it wouldn't have been possible without the financial skills I've built and been taught over the years. Sound interesting? You can set up a meeting at https://seabornfinancial.as.me/.

Sonya Leszczynski is a financial advisor at Black Dog Financial Ltd. in Austin, TX, holding a Series 66 designation with 18 years of industry experience. She has worked at Black Dog Financial since 2012 and was self-employed from 2007 to 2018. Black Dog Financial Ltd. provides personalized financial planning and discretionary investment management primarily to individual, corporate, and small business clients. The firm employs a top-down investment approach combining technical and fundamental analysis and does not sell commission products or act as custodian for client assets.

Marla Mcclain is a financial advisor at Kentor Financial with over 30 years of industry experience. She holds the ChFC® designation and Series 63 license, and has previously worked with firms including Lion Street Financial and M HOLDINGS SECURITIES, Inc. Mcclain also manages family-owned rental property. Kentor Financial provides wealth management, financial planning, and consulting services primarily by recommending and coordinating third-party investment advisers for individuals and various organizational clients. The firm offers tailored, non-discretionary advice while collaborating with clients’ other professional advisers.

James Garvin is a CFP® and Series 66 credentialed financial advisor at SeedSafe Financial LLC with eight years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at SeedSafe Financial, Garvin Planning Co., and Edward Jones. SeedSafe Financial provides investment management and financial planning services primarily to entrepreneurs, executives, and technology industry employees. The firm generally employs a passive investment approach with diversified portfolios of low-cost index mutual funds and ETFs, alongside educational seminars and optional tax return preparation.

Tarik Bakir is a CFP® with nine years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at TNT Asset Management, LLC. His background includes prior service in the US Army and earlier roles at TNT Asset Management and OSAIC Services, Inc. He is also a licensed life and health insurance agent. TNT Asset Management advises individuals and various institutional clients, providing portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting services. The firm emphasizes long-term investing through tailored model portfolios and utilizes a mix of fundamental, technical, and charting analysis.

Lorri Winkcompleck is a financial advisor at Gap Financial Services with nine years of industry experience and a Series 65 designation. She has worked at Gap Financial Services since 2017 and was previously self-employed for eight years. Outside of her advisory role, she has been involved with Austin Ridge Church since 2022. Gap Financial Services provides discretionary investment management, written financial planning, and a comprehensive planning retainer to individuals—including high-net-worth clients—as well as businesses and retirement plan sponsors. The firm typically employs a passive investment approach with index mutual funds and ETFs, supplemented by a proprietary options program.

Today’s modern wealth builders understand they need someone to represent their best interests in a non-commission based fiduciary role, someone who also has access to the institutional level products and a massive research database. For the past 26 years, Jarrod Winkcompleck has offered clients both. Jarrod started his working life as an investment advisor with a national brokerage firm before becoming a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), assisting our nation’s veterans as a Senior Financial Planner for USAA. In addition to this professional designation, Jarrod has qualified for and then earned six more highly valued professional designations: Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC®), Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor (CMFC®), Cash Balance Consultant (CBC®), Certified Health Savings Advisor (CHSA®), and Chartered Advisor for Senior Living (CASL®). As his professional career advanced, he served as Director of Business Development and Senior Planner for one of Texas’ largest and most profitable Registered Investment Advisors. In recent years, he also acted as Partner and Senior Advisor to a specialized private wealth management firm before founding Gap Financial Services, a firm birthed from his desire to bring honesty and integrity to all clients seeking to build their financial legacies. In 2019, he accepted an appointment from the Texas Lt. Governor to serve on the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board, a group of experts dedicated to managing the Texas Tuition Promise Fund and Texas 529 Savings Plan. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BBA in Finance. Jarrod has been married for twenty-nine years and has one high-school aged daughter.

Sarah Borgonah is a financial advisor at Watercolor Financial in Austin, TX. She holds a Series 65 designation and has one year of industry experience, including prior roles at Steward, Inc. and Northwestern Mutual. Watercolor Financial provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and businesses. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation approach with diversified mutual funds and ETFs, integrating modern portfolio theory and fundamental analysis, and manages $234.8 million in assets across a three-advisor team.

I believe that no matter what living a wealthy life means to you – maximizing your happiness begins with taking control of your financial life. My mission is to cut through the crap and meet you where you are. I offer you online, automated ways to manage your money with flexible financial planning. I work with tech entrepreneurs and professionals as a financial coach and confidant, helping you grow your wealth. I help my clients learn more about stock option/RSU strategies, IPO and acquisition stock sale strategies, real estate investment analysis, business strategy and other financial planning topics. In my off-time, I enjoy mentoring startups through Techstars and helping small business owners think more about their operations and financial metrics. I am originally from Dallas, Texas and I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in the Business Honors Program and Accounting with a Masters in Professional Accounting. Before founding SeedSafe Financial, I was a Director of the Investment Team for Lighter Capital, a financial advisor at Merriman Wealth Management, and headed the tax department for Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Ryan Nixon is a Series 65 licensed financial advisor with 20 years of industry experience. He has been with Nixon Capital LLC since 2008. Nixon Capital LLC provides discretionary investment management to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, corporations, pooled investment vehicles, and other advisers. The firm focuses on a concentrated long-only value equity approach for separate accounts and also manages a long/short, opportunistic value strategy through a pooled investment vehicle.

Timothy Sittler is a CFP® professional with 19 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Planning Works Advisory, Inc. in Austin, TX. His prior experience includes roles at UBS Financial Services Inc., P1 Capital LLC, Waterloo Capital Management, LLC, and Calton & Associates, Inc. He is also a self-employed independent insurance agent. Planning Works Advisory serves individuals, families, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business clients, providing portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services. The firm employs an investment approach based on modern portfolio theory, global diversification, and fundamental security analysis, managing approximately $178.5 million for around 122 clients.

Rachael is a Partner and Director of Financial Planning at Peltoma Capital Partners. She splits time between Austin, TX and Park City, UT with her husband, daughter, and Australian Shepherd. With over a decade of financial experience, Rachael is passionate about leveraging financial planning to help people reclaim life’s most valuable asset—time—and using it to construct lives of meaning, happiness, and fulfillment. Before finding her niche at Peltoma in 2023, Rachael honed her investment expertise as a Regional Director at Dimensional Fund Advisors, a leading global investment manager renowned for applying empirical research to real-world investment portfolios. In that role, she oversaw billions of dollars in assets and consulted to many of the nation’s top performing financial advisory firms on asset allocation and evidence-based investing principles. As a result of that experience, she sought to build the type of advisory firm that she would like to be a client of. An avid traveler, Rachael is passionate about empowering others to experience the world more deeply. Having ventured through 38 countries (and counting), she champions the myriad benefits of sabbaticals, remote work experiences, and long term travel opportunities. Rachael graduated magna cum laude from The University of Texas at Austin, earning her Bachelor's degree in Finance. As a holder of the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation, she is committed to serving clients as a fiduciary, which means acting in the best interests of the client at all times when providing financial advice.

Sophia Daigle is a CFP® professional with 13 years of industry experience, currently serving clients at Gen Y Planning in Austin, TX. Her prior experience includes roles at Ellevest, Inc. and operating Sophia Bera LLC, where she conducts speaking engagements and seminars on general financial planning topics. She also works as a freelance author, editor, and speaker outside of her advisory duties. Gen Y Planning serves individual clients, families, trusts, and retirement plans, managing approximately $53.7 million in assets across about 90 client relationships. The firm employs a passive, index-based investment approach grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory, utilizing a third-party platform for discretionary portfolio management and offers both fixed-fee and hourly financial planning options.

Roger Brooks is a financial advisor with Strategic Investment Management in Round Rock, TX, holding a Series 63 designation and 22 years of industry experience. He has been with Strategic Investment Management since 2014. Strategic Investment Management serves individual clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, and corporate clients by providing discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial advice. The firm employs active asset management with a focus on fundamental analysis, managing portfolios on a discretionary basis within the parameters set by an affiliated investment committee.

Justin Fort is a CFP® with 14 years of industry experience and is affiliated with Fort Advisors Inc in Austin, TX. He has held advisory roles at Fort Advisors since 2019 and at Fort Wealth Management since 2014. In addition to his advisory work, he is a principal and agent at Amicord LLC, a non-investment-related insurance agency. Fort Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients with discretionary and non-discretionary asset management and financial planning, while also conducting due diligence and monitoring for private investment fund opportunities. The firm employs multiple investment methods and commonly recommends third-party money managers, acting as the primary adviser for clients’ portfolios.

Christopher Larochelle is a CFP® with 21 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at RIA Wealth Advisors, LLC in Round Rock, TX. His prior experience includes roles at Arkadios Capital, DFPG Investments, Inc., and First Allied Advisory Services, INC. In addition to his advisory work, he operates Advanced Wealth Strategies Group, focusing on client financial planning and securities sales. RIA Wealth Advisors provides fee-based investment management and financial planning primarily for individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm emphasizes strategic asset allocation with a core of passive index funds and ETFs, complemented by selective active management and global diversification.

Vicki Aycock is an advisor at Austin Money Management Corporation with one year of industry experience. She has been involved with Tarrytown United Methodist Church for over 30 years. Austin Money Management Corporation provides fee-based investment management and financial planning to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as institutional clients such as pension plans and trusts. The firm uses a tactical asset-allocation approach with customized portfolio management, primarily recommending exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, and offers a range of retirement-plan services and advisory products.

Robert Berger is the principal of Founder Family Financial, LLC in Austin, TX, with 15 years of industry experience and a Series 66 designation. He founded the firm in 2014 and serves as the sole advisor. Outside of his advisory work, Berger is involved with the YMCA as treasurer and incoming president. Founder Family Financial, LLC provides wealth management, investment management, family office, and financial planning services to individuals, family offices, trusts, estates, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm manages over $321 million in discretionary assets and offers personalized portfolio management and planning tailored to client objectives, including strategies that incorporate margin and derivatives.

Walter Thomas is a financial advisor at GoalFusion Wealth Management with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked in roles including tax consulting and nonprofit ministry. GoalFusion Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, and businesses with discretionary asset management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm manages approximately $199 million across about 295 client relationships, employing a blend of fundamental, quantitative, and technical analysis alongside asset allocation and periodic rebalancing to align portfolios with clients’ objectives and risk tolerances.

Gloria Park is a financial advisor at Nest Financial LLC in Austin, TX, holding a Series 65 credential with six years of industry experience. She has been with Nest Financial and its related entities since 2015 and previously worked at Sagepoint Financial, Inc. She also owns and operates a retail apparel business in San Antonio, TX. Nest Financial serves individual clients, pension plans, and nonprofit organizations by providing asset management, financial planning, and estate-planning services, utilizing a blend of fundamental and technical investment strategies tailored to client needs.