Sam Hicham Alaoui is a financial advisor with 20 years of industry experience, currently affiliated with 9D Capital LLC in New York, NY. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at firms including 5D Partners LLC, Crito Capital LLC, and Capital Trust and Associates LLC. Alaoui also serves as a managing member and strategy consultant at Antimatter Capital LLC, a non-securities-related business. 9D Capital provides investment management, financial planning, and wealth-management services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as pension plans, corporations, and other entities. The firm employs fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis in its discretionary portfolio management, which includes equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, and digital assets.

Vincent Maffucci is a CFA® charterholder with 12 years of industry experience. He is currently with Cadia Private Client LLC and previously worked at Private Advisor Group, LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated. Maffucci is also a licensed insurance agent involved in insurance sales and implementation through Cadia Benefits LLC. Cadia Private Client LLC provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm manages approximately $187 million in assets across about 123 client relationships, offering customized, primarily long-term portfolios that may include ETFs, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, options, alternative investments, and digital-asset ETFs.

David Rappa is a financial advisor at Adalta Capital Management LLC with five years of industry experience. He serves as a board member of R.W. Pressprich & Co., a FINRA-registered broker-dealer based in New York. Rappa has worked at both Adalta Capital Management and R.W. Pressprich & Co. since 2016 and 2020, respectively. Adalta Capital Management LLC provides asset management primarily through customized separately managed accounts and advises private investment funds. The firm serves high-net-worth and non-HNW individuals, trusts, estates, family offices, and institutional clients, employing a long-only, value-based investment approach that includes due diligence on third-party managers and customized portfolio construction.

Mitchell Heller is a financial advisor at Hemisphere Partners LLC with 21 years at the firm and five years of industry experience. He is based in New York, NY. Hemisphere Partners primarily advises high net worth individuals and their estate-planning vehicles and personal holding companies, providing ongoing investment advice, discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, and consulting services. The firm emphasizes individually tailored, diversified portfolios and utilizes established SMA platforms and custodian due diligence, focusing investment monitoring and advice within its small team of two principals.

Gregory Mastrandrea is a financial advisor at East Coast Wealth Management, Inc. with 12 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with East Coast Wealth Management since 2010. Outside of his advisory role, he owns Procast Analytics, LLC, a New Jersey–based software development and IT consulting firm. East Coast Wealth Management provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as trusts, business entities, and participant-directed 401(k) plans. The firm constructs portfolios using ETFs, mutual funds, and individual securities, employing a combination of fundamental and technical analysis with a long-term orientation.

Roberto Schwartz is a financial advisor at LifeCapital Partners LLC in New York, NY, with 19 years of industry experience. He held a position at Equitable Advisors for 18 years before joining LifeCapital Partners in 2025. He holds the Series 66 designation and is also a licensed insurance agent, spending a portion of his time implementing insurance recommendations. LifeCapital Partners advises individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and businesses, offering discretionary wealth management, retirement account guidance, and financial planning services. The firm emphasizes fundamental analysis with a long-term investment approach, utilizing low-cost mutual funds and ETFs alongside other investment vehicles, and provides access to digital asset accounts through Fidelity Digital Asset Services.

Michael Raimondi is a financial advisor with Clarus Group LLC in New York, NY, holding a Series 65 designation and four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Clarus Group in 2021, he worked at NYLIFE Securities LLC and New York Life Insurance Company. Outside of his advisory role, Raimondi is active in the arts and nonprofit sectors, serving on the board of a charitable organization, managing finances for a theater conglomerate, coordinating reservations for the Dramatists Guild Foundation, and teaching Arts & Entertainment Management as an adjunct professor. Clarus Group LLC provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, and retirement plan participants. The firm manages approximately $158 million across 182 clients, employing a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to construct primarily long-term portfolios with flexibility for tax management and market opportunities.

Timothy Mcfadden is a CFP® with 20 years of industry experience and currently serves as an advisor at Value Investment Professionals, LLC. Prior to joining his current firm in 2025, he spent 16 years at TJT Capital Group, LLC. Value Investment Professionals, LLC provides discretionary portfolio management, financial consulting, and retirement-plan advisory services to individual and institutional clients. The firm combines fundamental analysis with modern portfolio theory and offers unique features such as performance-based fees and borrowing within separately managed accounts.

Shaun La Fleur is a financial advisor at Avrio Wealth LLC with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. His prior work includes six years at Eagle Review and roles at Cambridge Clean Energy and periods of unemployment. Avrio Wealth is an SEC-registered adviser serving individuals, including many high-net-worth clients, as well as corporations and institutions. The firm offers financial planning, investment advisory services, and portfolio management with a globally diversified, total-return approach that incorporates low-cost ETFs, individual equities, fixed income, real estate, private placements, and other alternatives.

William Villafranco is the principal advisor at Villafranco Wealth Management in Cresskill, NJ, with 30 years of industry experience. He has held Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Apb Financial Group, Inc. He is involved in several nonprofit organizations, serving as a trustee for the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation III and the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction, and is the founder of Footprints in the Sand as well as owner of Humble Yoga LLC. Villafranco Wealth Management provides personalized investment management services to wealthy individuals, high net worth families, trusts, private foundations, and internal private investment vehicles. The firm offers both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, sponsors and advises private pooled investment vehicles, and manages related private funds, with a focus on customized portfolios using model allocations, fundamental analysis, and a mix of mutual funds, ETFs, equities, and third-party managers.

Justin Hod is a financial advisor with Revel Wealth Management, holding a Series 66 designation and seven years of industry experience. His career includes roles at May Capital Group, L.L.C., Strategic Wealth Management Group, Bank of America, and Merrill. Revel Wealth Management provides discretionary wealth management and financial consulting to a range of clients, including individuals, families, and business entities. The firm employs a diverse investment approach that incorporates quantitative and qualitative analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, and charting, typically managing accounts on a discretionary basis with a focus on a high asset-to-client ratio.

Walter Vester is a financial advisor with Huygens Capital LLC in New York, NY, holding a Series 65 credential and 5 years of industry experience. He has been with Huygens Capital since 2012. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Vester serves as Director of Operations Services Excellence at Boston Consulting Group, where he manages internal change programs. Huygens Capital provides discretionary portfolio management and a web-based robo-adviser serving individuals, family offices, registered investment advisers, corporations, hedge fund-of-funds, and nonprofit endowments. The firm employs systematic, low-frequency strategies using proprietary market-stress indicators across multiple asset classes and implements portfolios with broad index-based ETFs and ETNs.

Henry Beck is a financial advisor at UAS Asset Management with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at the State of Maine, McKee Law, and Jabar LaLiberty Dubord LLC. UAS Asset Management provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management to individual and institutional clients, including high net worth individuals, trusts, foundations, corporations, and public pension plans. The firm emphasizes fundamental security analysis and concentrated equity positions for long-term value, while also managing a private pooled investment vehicle that employs a more speculative strategy.

James Korzik is a financial advisor with First Light Wealth Advisors, LLC and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has 20 years of industry experience, including seven years at Ameriprise Financial Services prior to joining First Light Wealth Advisors in 2018. Outside of his advisory work, he is a licensed private marine captain. First Light Wealth Advisors provides advisory services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, and business entities. The firm combines fundamental and cyclical analysis with a derivative of Modern Portfolio Theory to construct discretionary client portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, equities, debt securities, and real estate investment trusts.

Louis Berger is a financial advisor at Washington Square Capital Management LLC with 17 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has been with Washington Square Capital Management since 2009. Washington Square Capital Management provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, trusts, and corporate entities. The firm’s investment approach focuses on fundamental value analysis supported by technical and macroeconomic factors, and it offers distinct strategies including Capital Core Fixed Income, Global Allocation, and Global Balanced.

Patrick Stadelhofer is a CFA® charterholder with three years of industry experience. He is currently with Kahn Brothers Advisors LLC, where he has worked since 2023, following roles at Atlantic Lion Investments and VGI Partners. Kahn Brothers Advisors LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to individual, high-net-worth, and institutional clients. The firm uses a modified value investing approach focused on bottom-up fundamental analysis of U.S. equities, typically holding investments for three to five years or longer with an emphasis on downside protection.

Brigitte Brombergklein is a CFP® professional with 18 years of industry experience, currently serving at East Coast Wealth Management, Inc. since 2014. She is also the owner and president of Winning Strategies Group, LLC, a firm that markets various insurance and annuity products. East Coast Wealth Management provides investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, and participant-directed retirement plans. The firm employs a client-specific approach using risk tolerance assessments and combines in-house management with selected third-party managers to implement diversified portfolios.

Christian Carrillo is a financial advisor at Blue Ox Capital Management, Inc. in Tenafly, NJ, holding a Series 66 designation with 17 years of industry experience. He has been with Blue Ox Capital Management since 2015. Blue Ox Capital Management provides advisory services primarily to individuals and high-net-worth clients by selecting and directing them to third-party investment advisers and funds. The firm operates on a consultative, referral-oriented model without discretionary trading or custody of client assets.

Stephen Leeb is a Series 65-licensed advisor with Leeb Capital Management, Inc. in New York, NY, bringing 19 years of industry experience. He has held roles at Leeb Index Trader, Emerging Advisory, Tci Enterprises, Leeb Brokerage Services, and Leeb Research Consultants. Outside his advisory work, he serves as editor of investment newsletters The Complete Investor and Real World Investor, writing on general stock investing topics for Capitol Information Group. Leeb Capital Management provides discretionary portfolio management services to individuals, institutions, trusts, pensions, and profit-sharing plans, managing approximately $112 million across about 60 accounts. The firm employs a top-down macroeconomic approach combined with bottom-up security selection across three core strategies, incorporating explicit sell disciplines and position-weight limits.

Jennifer Kerr is a financial advisor at Podell Financial Group LLC with eight years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Slavic401k and Hollywood Firefighters Pension. In addition to her advisory role, she is a licensed realtor in Bayville, New Jersey. Podell Financial Group LLC provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and plan sponsors, offering tailored portfolios that incorporate various strategies and regular account reviews.