Melissa Adams is a CFP® with 29 years of experience in the financial industry. She is the principal advisor at Achieve Retirement & Wealth Management, LLC, an independent firm she joined in 2025. Her prior experience includes roles at Merit Financial Partners LLC and Prudential Annuities Distributors. Outside of her advisory work, she is a co-owner of a family rental property with her husband. Achieve Retirement & Wealth Management provides comprehensive portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals as well as institutional and business clients. The firm employs a diverse investment approach combining fundamental, technical, quantitative, cyclical, and qualitative analysis, and serves a range of clients including pension plans, corporations, and charitable organizations.

Leo Mc Grath is the principal of McGrath WealthCare, LLC, an independent advisory firm based in Brewster, NY. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 4 years of experience in financial advisory services. In addition to his advisory role, Mr. Mc Grath is also a practicing lawyer through his affiliated law practice, McGrath Law. McGrath WealthCare serves individual and high-net-worth clients by providing ongoing portfolio management on a co-advisory basis through third-party managers. The firm focuses on mutual funds and ETFs, using a combination of fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory, and operates non-discretionarily while preparing documented Investment Policy Statements tailored to each client.

Vincent Dagnese is a financial advisor at Westchester Wealth Management with eight years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at several firms, including Mass Mutual Investors Services, LPL Financial, and Principal Securities. Westchester Wealth Management serves individual investors, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporations. The firm employs a proprietary multi-bucket Model Portfolio Series focused on capital preservation and risk management, utilizing ETFs, mutual funds, and annuities, and also offers manager-of-managers programs, comprehensive financial planning, pension consulting, and public educational seminars.

Paul Padovani is the sole advisor at Padovani Asset Management in Somers, NY, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 14 years of industry experience. He also owns MGPC Agency, a licensed insurance agency, and works as a mortgage loan officer at Warshaw Capital. Padovani has held roles at MetLife Securities Inc. since 2012 and has been involved with both MGPC Agency and Warshaw Capital since 2018 and 2014, respectively. Padovani Asset Management is a registered investment adviser providing discretionary portfolio management and written financial planning services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other entities. The firm employs an individualized investment process utilizing fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analysis, offering a broad range of security types and continuous account monitoring with formal annual reviews.

Michael Casper is a CFA® charterholder affiliated with the independent firm Casper, Michael J. He has five years of industry experience, previously working at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc for three years. He operates Light Macro Capital, where he provides discretionary investment management. Light Macro Capital serves high-net-worth individuals and qualified entities through a quantitative and qualitative macro relative-value strategy focused on developed-market sovereign bond futures and foreign exchange. The firm manages concentrated portfolios with defined risk controls and emphasizes specialized data and a futures-only fixed-income derivatives approach.

Phillip McClain is the principal of McClain Value Management, LLC in New Canaan, CT, and holds the CFA® designation with 25 years of industry experience. He has led McClain Value Management since its founding in 2001. McClain Value Management provides discretionary portfolio management to high-net-worth individuals, institutional, and charitable clients. The firm emphasizes a concentrated, out-of-favor value investment approach based on bottom-up fundamental analysis and formal price targets, managing accounts with client-specific considerations across its primary strategies.

Nathaniel Prentice is a CFA® charterholder with 16 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Prentice Investment Management, LLC, an independent firm he founded in 2018. His prior experience includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Altium Wealth Management LLC, Oppenheimer, and Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. Prentice Investment Management provides discretionary portfolio management and periodic account reviews for a limited client base of individual investors and charitable organizations. The firm employs a long-only strategy combining fundamental and technical analysis with qualitative review and asset allocation, managing portfolios on a discretionary basis without margin, short sales, or most derivatives.

Lawrence Tankel is the principal advisor of LT Advisors LLC and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has six years of industry experience and previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC for five years. He also owns and operates a separate tax and accounting practice, Lawrence Tankel CPA, P.C., where he provides tax preparation and consulting services. LT Advisors LLC offers discretionary asset management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and business entities. The firm manages a concentrated portfolio of approximately $53.5 million through tailored investment programs that incorporate fundamental and technical analysis, with a combined tax and accounting service as part of its operating model.

Julian Cash is a CFA® charterholder with seven years of industry experience. He has been with Savrin LLC since 2017, following two years at Troubh Partners, LP. Savrin is an independent firm that provides investment management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and other entities. The firm manages accounts on a discretionary basis and employs active allocation and periodic rebalancing, utilizing fundamental, technical, and economic analysis, including the use of derivatives and performance-based fee arrangements for qualified clients.

Ray Spano is a CFP® credentialed financial advisor with 13 years of industry experience. He is the principal of Spano Advisory Services Inc. and has been a partner at Spano & Treglia LLP, an accounting firm, since 1997. In addition to his advisory work, he is a licensed independent insurance agent. Spano Advisory Services, Inc. provides discretionary portfolio management and consultative financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and pension or profit-sharing plans. The firm uses fundamental analysis to select securities and manages accounts on a discretionary basis with daily monitoring, offering both investment management and hourly financial planning engagements.

William Knox is the sole advisor at Knox Capital with 37 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Kahn Brothers Advisors LLC and Kahn Brothers & Co. Inc. from 1996 through 2022. Knox Capital provides discretionary investment management services primarily to individual clients, focusing on value-oriented strategies that combine quantitative and qualitative analysis. The firm emphasizes long-term investment horizons, management quality, and tailors portfolios to clients’ risk tolerances and financial goals.

Michael Pappas is the sole advisor at Michael Pappas Advisor LLC in Bedford, NY. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 17 years of industry experience. He has operated his independent advisory firm since 2014. Michael Pappas Advisor LLC provides portfolio management services to individual and high-net-worth clients, advising on mutual funds, fixed income, equities, ETFs, and Treasury Inflation-Protected securities. The firm uses a combination of econometric and quantitative analysis with fundamental, technical, and cyclical methods, emphasizing large- and mid-cap value exposures and including options trading strategies.

Maria Lebron is a financial advisor with LeBron Financial Services, Inc. in Congers, NY, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 30 years of industry experience. Her career includes roles at Empower Advisory Group, GWFS Equities, Inc., and Prudential Insurance Company of America. LeBron Financial Services provides financial planning and portfolio management for individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals, as well as retirement plan advisory and education services to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations. The firm employs an investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory, using diversified asset allocation across institutional and no-load mutual funds, ETFs, and individual securities, and delivers both discretionary portfolio management and non-discretionary financial planning tailored to client objectives.

Michael Dymant is the sole advisor at The Eastrade Asset Management Corporation, holding a Series 63 designation with four years of industry experience. He has been with the firm since 1996. The Eastrade Asset Management Corporation provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm uses fundamental analysis and combines long-term and short-term strategies to create customized portfolios, with a focus on serving charitable organizations and pension or profit-sharing plans.

Evan Bullington is the principal of Bullington Advisors Inc. and holds a Series 65 credential with three years of industry experience. He has worked at Bullington Advisors since 2022 and serves as Director of Entrepreneur Selection at Endeavor Global, a non-profit organization supporting entrepreneurs. Prior to this, he was employed at Charles Tucker Goods from 2015 to 2020. Bullington Advisors Inc. is a single-principal investment management firm focused on managing pooled vehicles and institutional-style mandates. The firm uses fundamental analysis across a broad range of instruments and typically provides discretionary portfolio management.

Paul Williams is a financial advisor at Paul M Williams LLC with four years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and also maintains a full-time career as a general practice dentist. Paul M. Williams LLC offers fee-only financial planning and investment advisory services to individuals and families without income or asset minimums. The firm emphasizes a long-term, passive investment approach using diversified low-cost index funds and ETFs, providing advisory guidance while clients retain control over their accounts.

Anthony Torchia is a financial advisor at Lone Wolf Trading LLC with a Series 65 credential and four years of industry experience. He has been involved with Lone Wolf Trading LLC since 2016 and also works seasonally at Coral Sea Pools. Outside of advising, he is the founder and CEO of Best Way Technologies LLC, a software company focused on developing tools for trades businesses. Lone Wolf Trading LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to individual, high-net-worth, and corporate clients. The firm uses charting, quantitative, and technical analysis, employing both long- and short-term trading strategies, with a focus on U.S. stock index ETFs and a practice that includes hypothetical performance illustrations and the use of borrowing in managed accounts.

James Lott is the sole advisor at Cropsey Asset Management, LLC, an independent firm based in Ridgefield, CT. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has 21 years of industry experience. Lott has been with Cropsey Asset Management since its founding in 2003. Cropsey Asset Management provides discretionary investment management services to individuals, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes portfolios built primarily from closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and individual equities, employing a variety of fundamental and technical strategies tailored to each client’s risk profile.

Thomas Faranda is a financial advisor with Hudson View Advisors, LLC, holding the ChFC® and Series 63 designations and bringing 40 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Mass Mutual Investors Services and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. In addition to his advisory work, he is an independent insurance agent specializing in disability, fixed annuities, life/accident/health, and long-term care insurance. Hudson View Advisors provides portfolio management, pension consulting, and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a variety of analytical approaches and offers both long- and short-term trading strategies, with a notable focus on pension consulting uncommon among independent single-advisor firms.

John Crum is a Series 66-licensed financial advisor with 29 years of experience. He has been the sole advisor at Indigo Asset Management, Inc., an independent firm based in New Canaan, CT, since 1997. Indigo Asset Management provides discretionary portfolio management and investment advice to individuals, families, businesses, retirement plans, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a prudent-investor approach focused on strategic asset allocation and diversification, primarily using mutual funds and ETFs, and offers pension consulting along with access to independent platforms for held-away employer benefit accounts.