Jeffrey Griswold is a financial advisor with TRU Independence Asset Management 2, LLC and holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses. He has 21 years of industry experience, including roles at Merit Risk Management, LLC and Merit Wealth Management, LLC. TRU Independence Asset Management 2, LLC serves individual and institutional clients such as high-net-worth individuals, pension plans, trusts, and businesses. The firm offers discretionary and non-discretionary investment management, financial planning, pension consulting, and third-party manager selection, employing a blend of active and passive strategies across multiple asset classes.

John Denney is a financial advisor with Sage Investment Counsel in Franklin, TN, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 46 years of industry experience. He previously worked for Wiley Bros. Aintree Capital, LLC for 30 years. Outside of advisory work, he is a member of MBA Trailhead LLC, a vacation rental business. Sage Investment Counsel provides investment management, financial planning, and performance-measurement services to individuals, retirement plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm employs a long-term, concentrated portfolio approach and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management, including the use of hedging and leverage techniques in separately managed accounts.

William Calvin is a financial advisor at Sage Investment Counsel with 22 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been co-owner of MABRY-CALVIN, LLC, an investment consulting and performance measurement firm, since 1989. He has also worked at Wiley Bros. Aintree Capital, LLC since 1990. Sage Investment Counsel provides investment management, financial planning, and performance-measurement services to individuals, retirement plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm employs a long-term, concentrated portfolio approach and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary management, including the use of hedging and leverage techniques in separately managed accounts.

Kaitlin Jordan is a financial advisor at Stone Pillars Wealth Management in Franklin, TN, holding a Series 65 designation with three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Stone Pillars, she worked at Walkner Condon Financial Advisors and has experience as an independent volleyball coach. Stone Pillars Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, offering fee-based discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning. The firm employs a tactical allocation approach using a broad mix of investment instruments and manages held-away employer plan accounts through a third-party platform.

Jonathon Jordan is a financial advisor at Stone Pillars Wealth Management with 18 years of industry experience. He holds the CFP® and Series 66 designations. Prior to joining Stone Pillars, he worked at Merrill, Walkner Condon Financial Advisors, and Walkner Condon Tax Services. Outside of advising, he serves as a partner and business and finance advisor to a men’s health telemedicine company and a commercial construction contracting firm. Stone Pillars Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, providing fee-based discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning. The firm employs a tactical allocation approach using a broad mix of instruments, including public equities, options strategies, private offerings, and co-investments, and offers specialized services such as held-away employer plan management and business-owner transition advising.

Katie Carpenter is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience and currently advises at Springlake Financial Partners. She previously worked for Charles Schwab for seven years and has held positions at Ally Financial and other roles prior to entering the financial industry. Springlake Financial Partners provides wealth management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm employs an asset-allocation framework based on Modern Portfolio Theory, using a passive ETF core alongside select active strategies, and manages client assets on a discretionary basis.

Philip Resch is a financial advisor at MyTimeEquity with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at firms including Valor Financial Specialists and American General Life Insurance. MyTimeEquity, LLC is a discretionary registered investment adviser serving individual, high-net-worth, and institutional clients. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis, proprietary research, and AI-based tools to manage portfolios across equities, ETFs, mutual funds, and alternative investments, and sponsors pooled vehicles focused on late-stage and pre-IPO opportunities.

Ryan Redmond is an advisor at Stone Pillars Wealth Management with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Stone Pillars, he was employed at Vista Wealth Solutions and has worked as a pitching instructor and in the food service industry. Stone Pillars Wealth Management serves a diverse client base including individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, offering fee-based discretionary portfolio management and financial planning. The firm utilizes a tactical allocation approach with a broad range of investment instruments and specializes in business-owner transition and succession planning.

Jeffrey Hull is a financial advisor with SavvyFi in Franklin, TN, holding a Series 65 designation and six years of industry experience. His prior work includes roles at Nashville Capital Network and Vanderbilt University. Outside of advising, he has passive involvement in real estate leasing as a sole proprietor. SavvyFi specializes in education financing benefit services primarily for employers, offering solutions such as 529 plan administration and student loan repayment through an online platform that emphasizes automated enrollment and digital account reviews. The firm serves a large client base with a focus on employer contracts rather than individual high-net-worth clients.

Jeffrey Jordan is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional with 24 years of industry experience. He has been with Processus Wealth & Capital Management, LLC since 2010. The firm provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services primarily to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and plan participants. Processus Wealth & Capital Management employs fundamental analysis and combines strategic asset allocation with tactical overlays to construct portfolios from mutual funds, ETFs, and individual large-cap equities.

Douglas Vander Weide is a CFP® with 27 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Valiant Wealth, LLC in West Des Moines, IA. He has been with Valiant Wealth since 2008 and was previously involved with 2 Fish 5 Loaves, LLC, a fish farming business where he was a partner. Valiant Wealth manages approximately $382 million with a small advisory team, providing discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and related services to individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm employs a buy-and-hold, model-portfolio approach supported by proprietary tools and resources from Dimensional Fund Advisors, and it operates private pooled investment vehicles with performance-based fees and direct investments in private companies.

Michael Carmody is a CFA® charterholder with 15 years of industry experience, currently serving at Foresight Investment Advisors, LLC since 2010. He holds a Series 65 license and is involved in several business activities outside of investment advising, including roles in actuarial study material development, CFA exam preparation assistance, and ownership positions in two companies, one of which he leads as president and CEO. Foresight Investment Advisors, LLC is an Arkansas-registered firm that provides portfolio holdings and trade signals to other registered investment advisers. The firm focuses on conservative investment strategies for clients nearing or in retirement and combines fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis to guide its recommendations.

Craig Stapleton Corcoran is a CFP® and CFA® with two years of industry experience. He is currently with Stapleton Asset Management, LLC, where he has worked since 2022. Prior to this, he spent ten years at Securian Asset Management from 2012 to 2022. Stapleton Asset Management provides integrated wealth management services to high-net-worth individuals and a select group of institutional clients, including pension plans, endowments, and charitable organizations. The firm constructs customized portfolios using a combination of active and passive funds, individual securities, and derivatives, supported by quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Bennie Hobson is a CFP® professional with 15 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Springlake Financial Partners. His prior roles include positions at Charles Schwab Bank and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Outside of his advisory work, he is a property owner involved in real estate activities unrelated to securities trading. Springlake Financial Partners offers financial planning, consulting, and discretionary investment management to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm employs a financial-planning-led approach combined with Modern Portfolio Theory, using a mix of passive and selective active management strategies.

Tyler Baskin is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license, with four years of industry experience. He has worked at Defining Wealth Partners LLC since 2026 and previously held roles at Applied Capital LLC and Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC. Baskin is also a licensed insurance agent and works as an independent real estate broker on weekends. Defining Wealth Partners serves individual and high-net-worth clients and small businesses with financial planning, retirement-plan advice, and portfolio management. The firm employs an evidence-based, broadly diversified buy-and-hold investment approach emphasizing low-cost, tax-aware strategies with exposure to value, small-cap, and international equities.

Thomas Boyd is a financial advisor at Decker Wealth Management, LLC in Nashville, TN, with 12 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with Decker Wealth Management since 2014. Decker Wealth Management serves individuals—including high-net-worth clients—trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses, providing financial planning, consulting, and investment management primarily through exchange-traded funds and individual securities. The firm combines fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis with a focus on asset allocation and tax-aware security selection, and actively uses options and other derivatives in client accounts.

Michael Hughes is a CFP® with four years of experience at OLIO Financial Planning. Prior to joining OLIO in 2022, he worked at Viacom for three years. Outside of financial advising, Hughes operates Hartwell Studios, a home-based music and entertainment business where he works as a sole proprietor, producer, audio engineer, and freelance musician. OLIO Financial Planning serves individual clients across a range of wealth levels, as well as retirement plans, nonprofits, and corporations, managing approximately $600 million in assets. The firm offers comprehensive financial planning and investment management using a buy-and-hold, core-and-satellite approach, and utilizes project-based and fixed fees rather than traditional asset-based charges.

Grace Lewis is a CFP® professional with four years of experience at Abound Wealth Management, LLC and a total of six years in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Abound Wealth Management in 2022, she held roles at Regions Bank and Sentar, Inc., and has experience working in higher education and the coffee business. Abound Wealth Management is a multi-advisor firm offering wealth management, financial planning, portfolio management, and retirement-plan consulting to individuals, trusts, estates, and employer retirement plans. The firm manages approximately $1.95 billion in discretionary assets and emphasizes strategic asset allocation using low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, periodic rebalancing, and tax efficiency, supported by public educational content and an app-based financial planning membership.

Mark Dodson is a CFA® charterholder with 21 years of industry experience. He has worked at Cypress Capital, LLC since 2014 and has held roles at Cypress Capital Advisors, LLC and Hays Capital Management, LLC. Dodson holds the Series 63 designation. Cypress Capital is a registered investment adviser with a seven-advisor team managing approximately $413.5 million on a discretionary basis. The firm serves individuals, retirement plans, trusts, and organizations, offering financial planning, portfolio management, retirement plan advisory, sub-advisory, and model portfolio services. Their investment approach includes proprietary models and individual securities, employing strategies such as Strategic Income, Global Allocation, and Technology & Innovation.

Keith Hays is a financial advisor at Cypress Capital, LLC with 22 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has worked with Cypress Capital since 2014, including prior roles at Hays Advisory, LLC and Hays Capital Management, LLC. Cypress Capital, LLC is a registered investment adviser that serves individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm manages approximately $426 million on a discretionary basis and offers financial planning, portfolio management, retirement-plan consulting, research reports, and estate distribution assistance, using a combination of proprietary models and individual securities tailored to clients’ goals and risk tolerance.