Bruce Ritter is the sole advisor at Ritter Wealth Counsel, an independent fee-only wealth management firm based in San Rafael, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has over 36 years of experience in the industry. Ritter Wealth Counsel serves primarily high-net-worth individuals and families, as well as trusts, estates, pension, and charitable organizations. The firm offers customized investment programs implemented mainly with passive index funds or ETFs, maintaining predominantly non-discretionary client relationships and a small, concentrated client roster.

Randall Huyser is a financial advisor with Full Compass Investment Advisors in Novato, CA, holding a Series 63 designation and 21 years of industry experience. He has been with Full Compass Investment Advisors since 2012. Full Compass Investment Advisors provides personalized investment management and advisory services to individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, and charitable organizations, typically through separately managed discretionary accounts. The firm uses a multi-disciplinary investment process combining fundamental research with quantitative and qualitative analysis to construct tailored portfolios across various strategies.

Joseph Gallagher is a financial advisor at Pacific Crest Asset Management LLC with 31 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Dorsey Capital Management and Kimun Lee. Pacific Crest Asset Management LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and prepares Investment Policy Statements tailored to clients’ goals, tax considerations, and risk tolerances. The firm employs a mix of analytic techniques and implements long-term purchase strategies across equities, fixed income, and ETFs, managing client assets internally without third-party managers.

Steven Toomey is a financial advisor at Wholeness Financial in Richmond, California, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses with three years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he has held positions at several companies including Snout, Inc., where he serves as CFO, focusing on wellness payment plans for veterinary clinics. Wholeness Financial is an independent California-registered investment adviser offering financial planning and investment management to individuals, trusts, small businesses, charitable organizations, and pension/profit-sharing plans. The firm emphasizes personalized financial plans translated into customized investment policy statements, with a discretionary management approach involving diverse asset classes and ongoing portfolio monitoring.

John Cort is a financial advisor with Compass Wealth Advisors in Petaluma, CA, holding a Series 66 designation and 16 years of industry experience. He has been with Compass Wealth Advisors since 2012, where he serves as the firm's sole advisor. Compass Wealth Advisors is an independent, state-registered firm that offers comprehensive financial planning and discretionary investment management to individual and household clients. The firm employs an active management style tailored to clients’ risk tolerance and time horizon, utilizing both fundamental and technical analysis across a range of investment vehicles.

Peter Dobson is a Series 66–licensed financial advisor with five years of industry experience. He is the sole principal of Riverwest Financial LLC in Petaluma, CA, where he has worked since 2025. His prior roles include positions at Cambridge Investment Research Advisors and Cambridge Investment Research, as well as operating his own advisory practice. Riverwest Financial LLC provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a fundamental-analysis framework with a long-term orientation, utilizing exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, individual securities, bonds, CDs, and options, and offers both asset-based wealth management and hourly financial planning.

Jennifer Ramaswamy is a Series 66 licensed financial advisor with two years of industry experience. She is the principal of Sonoma Mountain Financial LLC, an independent firm based in Petaluma, CA, where she has worked since 2025. Prior to founding Sonoma Mountain Financial, she was with LPL Financial LLC for two years and has experience in other roles outside the financial industry, including as a homemaker and positions at Lyft and Within Unlimited. Sonoma Mountain Financial LLC provides wealth management, discretionary investment management, and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, and small businesses. The firm uses a strategic asset allocation approach grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory and offers customized portfolios with a variety of investments while maintaining a long-term orientation.

Joseph Arsenio II is the sole advisor at Arsenio Capital Management LLC in San Anselmo, CA, holding a Series 63 designation with 53 years of industry experience. He has led Arsenio Capital Management since 2004. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a project manager for Sonoma fire clean-up efforts, overseeing on-site management and regulatory interactions. Arsenio Capital Management provides portfolio analysis, macroeconomic asset-allocation advice, and hourly consultations primarily to individuals, trusts, retirement accounts, and pension or profit-sharing plans. The firm’s investment approach integrates fundamental and technical macroeconomic analysis, focusing on ETFs, closed-end funds, and income vehicles, delivering non-discretionary advice through written and verbal communication.

Mark Bourguignon is the sole advisor at Proprietor Wealth Management Inc. in Larkspur, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has nine years of industry experience, having led Proprietor Wealth Management since 2015. Proprietor Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, and occasionally institutional investors, with a focus on high-net-worth clients. The firm employs an evidence-based, long-term investment approach grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory, offering globally diversified portfolios with factor tilts and tax-efficient rebalancing, along with access to institutional share classes and private fund opportunities.

Steven Sherman is the sole advisor at Steven William Sherman, an independent firm based in San Rafael, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 13 years of industry experience. Sherman has operated his own advisory practice since 2005. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management for individual and IRA accounts, managing a focused book of approximately 25 clients with $5–6 million in assets. Its investment approach combines fundamental and technical analysis, emphasizing ultra-diversified portfolios primarily using exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds, along with active trade-timing decisions uncommon among independent advisers.

Robert Margetic is a financial advisor at Redwood Financial Advisors, Inc. in San Rafael, CA, with 28 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 designation and has worked with multiple affiliated firms since 1987. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as president of WealthNet Charitable Gift Fund, a nonprofit organization that manages donor-advised accounts, and is involved in the administration of charitable remainder trusts through Redwood Financial Group, Inc. Redwood Financial Advisors, Inc. offers portfolio management, comprehensive financial and retirement planning, philanthropic planning, and financial consulting to a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and professional advisors. The firm develops tailored strategies using a combination of fundamental, technical, and market-timing analysis and provides both discretionary and non-discretionary management.

Edward Sporl is the principal of Sporl & Company in San Anselmo, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials with 24 years of industry experience. He has operated Sporl & Company since 1990. Outside of advisory work, he also manages real estate through Sonoma Investment Partners on a limited basis. Sporl & Company provides discretionary investment management focused on fixed-income securities and derivatives, specializing in U.S. government securities, agency mortgage-backed products, and other high-quality debt instruments. The firm employs an investment approach centered on economic and fundamental analysis aiming for total return with capital preservation, utilizing actively monitored strategies involving collateralized mortgage obligations, interest-only/principal-only structures, and asset-backed securities.

Khaled Salama is a CFA® charterholder with 27 years of industry experience. He is the principal of KS Global Advisors, Inc., an independent firm he has been associated with since 1995. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years at The Headlands Group. Outside of his advisory role, Salama serves on several investment committees and boards, including positions at the San Domenico School, Sisters of St. Dominic of San Rafael, U Corp-SF State, and the Terra Fund, and he is a guest lecturer at Stanford University. KS Global Advisors provides discretionary investment management and financial consulting services primarily to individual clients and certain trusts. The firm employs a global, long-term investment approach emphasizing fundamental valuation and dynamic rebalancing, managing portfolios with an unusually large number of individual securities while applying institutional-style processes to a relatively small client base.

Monib Khademi is the principal of Cypress Praxis, LLC, an independent advisory firm located in San Rafael, CA. He holds a Series 65 credential and has 14 years of industry experience. Khademi has been with Cypress Praxis since its founding in 1992. He also has a history of long-term pro bono service on nonprofit and education boards. Cypress Praxis serves a selective group of primarily high-net-worth individuals and families, providing discretionary portfolio management, financial consulting, and education. The firm employs a proprietary Strategic Portfolio Design™ process that focuses on asset allocation, tax-managed indexing, and investor behavior coaching while offering virtual family-office capabilities for large households.

John Girton is the sole advisor at Girton Capital Management, Inc. in Larkspur, CA, holding the CFA® designation and Series 63 license with 27 years of industry experience. He has led Girton Capital Management since its founding in 1998. Girton Capital Management provides individualized portfolio management and periodic hourly consultations for individuals, trusts, retirement accounts, corporations, foundations, and pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm employs a research-driven investment approach focused on fundamental analysis, emphasizing socially responsible investment themes, and manages diversified portfolios with a growth-at-a-reasonable-price orientation.

John Vreeland is a CFP® with 22 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. He is the sole advisor at Fairlead Financial Advisors, LLC, an independent firm he has been with since 2004. Fairlead Financial Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management along with financial, estate, and business planning services to individuals, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, and closely held entities. The firm manages approximately $95 million using mutual funds, ETFs, and individual securities, applying institutional-style manager due diligence and offering specialized services for charitable clients.

Christopher Mckeon is the sole advisor at Oakvale Investments Inc., an independent firm based in Fairfax, CA. He holds 30 years of industry experience, having led Oakvale since its founding in 1995. Oakvale Investments is a fee-only registered investment adviser providing discretionary portfolio management for individuals, trusts, and retirement accounts. The firm employs a long-term, bottom-up value investment approach focused on companies with strong cash flow, solid balance sheets, and turnaround potential, managing roughly $73.8 million across about 30 clients.

Brian Miller is a financial advisor with 5 years of industry experience, currently operating through 245 Investments LLC. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at Farnam Street Investments LLC and Blue Shield of California. Outside of his advisory work, Miller serves on the board of directors for Alta Mesa Cemetery Association, overseeing operations and finance. 245 Investments LLC provides discretionary asset management primarily through separately managed accounts and offers financial planning services exclusively to those clients. The firm serves individual investors as well as small businesses and institutional clients, employing a disciplined, bottom-up valuation process to manage concentrated, long-only portfolios with a focus on intrinsic value.

Kelly Jones is the sole advisor at Kelly Jones Investment Services, Inc., an independent firm based in San Rafael, CA. Holding a Series 66 designation, Jones has 20 years of industry experience and has led the firm since 2007. Kelly Jones Investment Services provides personalized financial planning and discretionary portfolio management to individuals and a range of institutional and corporate clients. The firm employs a core-and-satellite investment approach, combining strategic asset allocation with tactical satellite allocations, and incorporates derivatives strategies such as covered call writing and cash-secured puts to generate income and manage risk.

Domenica Stokes is a financial advisor at JPC Wealth Management, Inc. with two years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Curran & Lewis Investment Management, Inc. for five years and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP for five years. JPC Wealth Management primarily serves individual clients and manages approximately $312.7 million in discretionary assets. The firm offers goals-based financial planning and discretionary portfolio management, using a broadly diversified, multi-asset-class approach with an emphasis on passive asset allocation.