Jean Peguero is a financial advisor at Empower Advisory Group with Series 66 and Series 63 credentials and five years of industry experience. Prior to joining Empower Advisory Group in 2025, Peguero worked at GWFS Equities, Inc. and has held positions in companies including Tesla, Lyft, and UPS. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, as well as to Empower Premier IRA and certain retail brokerage account holders. The firm delivers services through an integrated model linked to Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms, focusing on long-term portfolio returns, annual rebalancing, and clients’ savings rates.

Michelle Guarino is a financial advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC with five years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at The Colony Group, LLC, Connectus Wealth Advisers, NEIRG Wealth Management, LLC, New England Investment & Retirement Group, Inc., and BNY Mellon. Focus Partners serves individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, and institutional clients with a range of wealth management and advisory services. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach under an enhanced open architecture framework that combines active and passive strategies, external managers, and private funds.

Martin Scafidi is a financial advisor with Money Concepts Capital Corp and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has 25 years of industry experience and has operated his own accounting and tax preparation firm, Martin J. Scafidi P.C., since 1989. He also serves as a board member and director of First Priority Credit Union. Money Concepts Advisory Service provides portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting to individuals, pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm employs a range of managed programs and combines model portfolios, advisor-designed portfolios, and third-party sub-advisers using fundamental and technical analysis along with modern portfolio theory.

Paul Garozzo is a CFP® professional with one year of experience at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC. He previously worked at Ouellette Wealth Advisory, LLC for three years and BNY Mellon Wealth Management for five years. Garozzo also has a background in academia from his time at Lasell University. Focus Partners Wealth serves individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, corporate and institutional clients with a range of wealth management and advisory services. The firm combines active and passive strategies within a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach, offering discretionary and non-discretionary management, financial and tax planning, and access to private and registered pooled vehicles.

Robert Trudo is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in Lawrence, MA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and 29 years of industry experience. He has worked at Valic Financial Advisors since 2013 and also serves as an agent with Agia, focusing on non-securities insurance products. Additionally, he is the owner of The Lake Mush LLC, an inactive entity with no current operations. Valic Financial Advisors serves U.S.-domiciled individual investors, including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, as well as corporate and retirement-plan participants. The firm offers discretionary managed-account programs, financial planning, consulting, and brokerage services, utilizing Envestnet UMA models and overseeing approximately $26.4 billion in discretionary assets.

Tracy St Onge is a financial advisor with OSAIC Institutions, INC. and holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses. She has 10 years of industry experience and has worked at Infinex Investments, Inc. and Pentucket Financial Services since 2015. Outside of her advisory role, she serves as a volunteer board member for the Liz Murphy Open Hand Pantry, a local nonprofit food pantry. OSAIC Institutions, INC. is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, ERISA retirement plans, trusts, estates, and corporate clients. The firm provides customized advisory services, financial planning, ERISA plan services, and access to alternative investments, operating a hybrid adviser/broker-dealer structure with a significant non-discretionary asset base.

John Pagliuca is a financial advisor at TIAA-CREF with three years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has worked at TIAA-CREF since 2025, following prior roles at TIAA and Boston Advisors, LLC. Pagliuca serves on the boards and finance committees of several nonprofit assisted living and nursing care facilities operated by the Carmelite Sisters. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC provides financial planning and discretionary managed account programs to individuals, trusts, estates, and corporate entities, often serving clients with existing retirement plan relationships. The firm offers model and customized portfolio management within a fiduciary framework while also advising a donor-advised fund sponsored by Charityvest.

Jeffrey La Cross is a CFP® and PFS™ with 11 years of industry experience. He is associated with Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC and has operated LaCross Financial Advisors since 2016. In addition to his advisory role, he works as a tax manager providing accounting, tax, and consulting services through LaCross Financial Advisors. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans through a network of independent financial advisors. The firm offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, and family office services, employing customized, primarily long-term portfolio strategies using mutual funds, ETFs, individual equities, and fixed income.

Christopher Wilde is a CFA® charterholder with five years of industry experience. He is currently with Focus Partners Wealth, LLC and has worked previously at The Colony Group, Connectus Wealth, NEIRG Wealth Management, New England Investment & Retirement Group, and SCS Financial Services. Focus Partners serves individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, and institutional clients with wealth management and advisory services. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach using a blend of active and passive strategies, third-party managers, and private funds under an enhanced open architecture framework.

David Lewis is a financial advisor at Citizens Securities, Inc. with 25 years of industry experience. He holds Series 66, Series 63, and Series 65 designations. His prior work includes roles at Edward Jones, LPL Financial LLC, Camden National Bank, Morgan Stanley, and TD Ameritrade. Lewis serves as a trustee for the William Searls Foundation, which provides scholarship funds to local students. Citizens Securities serves a broad retail client base, including individual and high-net-worth investors, offering investment advisory programs, brokerage, and insurance services. The firm’s advisory offerings include a digital advisory program and a managed account program, operating as a broker-dealer and insurance agency with an integrated bank ownership structure.

Joshua Sanchez is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group and holds a Series 66 designation. He has one year of industry experience, including prior roles at RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Bar Harbor Bank and Trust. Outside of finance, he is the sole proprietor of Tongues Out Hockey Classic, a hockey tournament business that he operates with friends. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, as well as certain retail brokerage clients. The firm integrates its services with Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms and emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and client savings rates in its financial planning.

Michael Barry is a financial advisor with Citizens Securities, Inc. in Hudson, NH, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and 17 years of industry experience. He has been with Citizens Securities since 2009. Outside his advisory role, Barry serves as a Player Agent on the Board of Directors for Goffstown Junior Baseball. Citizens Securities serves retail clients, including individual and high-net-worth investors and retirement plans, offering investment advisory programs as well as brokerage and insurance services. The firm’s advisory offerings include a digital advisory program and a Managed Account program, and it operates as a broker-dealer and insurance agency.

Gregory Gonynor is a financial advisor at Citizens Securities, Inc. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has seven years of industry experience. Prior to joining Citizens Securities, he worked at Santander Securities, LLC and NYLIFE Securities LLC. Citizens Securities serves a broad retail client base, including individual and high-net-worth investors, and offers investment advisory programs alongside brokerage and insurance services. The firm provides a digital advisory program that utilizes proprietary algorithms to recommend ETF-based portfolios, as well as a Managed Account program.

Thomas Deblasio is a financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Network, bringing 20 years of industry experience. He has been a partner at Luca, DeBlasio & Co., Inc., a CPA firm, since 2003 and has maintained his own CPA practice since 1994. Commonwealth Financial Network serves a national network of approximately 2,950 advisors and their clients, offering a range of advisory programs and services. The firm provides operational, trading, technology, investment management, compliance, and practice-management support, enabling advisors to construct portfolios from diverse securities and insurance products.

Jason Hevey is a financial advisor with Steward Partners Investment Advisory, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 25 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Morgan Stanley and Raymond James Financial Services. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as CEO of Marathon Wealth Management, a firm focused on holistic wealth planning including investment, insurance, estate, and legacy planning. Steward Partners Investment Advisory, LLC is an SEC-registered enterprise-scale RIA managing approximately $36.7 billion in regulatory assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension plans, corporations, and charitable organizations, offering a range of investment advisory and financial planning services.

Jharid Pratt is a financial advisor at Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC with three years of industry experience. He has been affiliated with Granite Peak Associates since 2012, where he also practices as a CPA. Integrated Wealth Concepts serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans through a network of independent advisors. The firm offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, and consulting services, employing a long-term investment approach with customized portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, equities, and fixed income.

Christopher Kelliher is a CFP® professional with 19 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Creative Planning since 2013. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and is based in Windham, NH. Creative Planning provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, corporations, foundations, trusts, and retirement plans. The firm employs a financial planning–led investment process focused on low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies, supplemented by specialized approaches such as direct indexing and tax-loss harvesting, supported by a large advisory team and centralized investment infrastructure.

Eric Vacca is a financial advisor with TIAA-CREF in Andover, MA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and 10 years of industry experience. He has been with TIAA-CREF and its related entity, TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, since 2016. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC’s Advice & Planning Services division offers financial planning, discretionary managed account programs, and broker-dealer services primarily to individuals connected to TIAA-administered retirement plans, as well as to trusts, estates, partnerships, corporate entities, and small retirement plans. The firm distinguishes between point-in-time financial planning and ongoing discretionary management, employing model portfolios or customized portfolios managed under client-approved investment policies.

Willie Ramirez is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group in Lawrence, MA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and 14 years of industry experience. He has been with Gwfs Equities, Inc. since 2010. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, offering integrated services tied to Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms. The firm emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and annual rebalancing within plan lineups selected by plan sponsors.

Nathaniel Clark is a financial advisor with Citizens Securities, Inc. in Hudson, NH, holding a Series 66 designation and three years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Pruco Securities LLC, and Athas Capital Group. Before entering financial services, he worked in the restaurant industry. Citizens Securities serves a broad retail client base, including individual and high-net-worth investors as well as individual retirement plans, offering investment advisory programs alongside brokerage and insurance services. The firm’s advisory approach includes a digital advisory program partnered with SigFig and a Managed Account program, operating as both a broker-dealer and insurance agency.