Samantha Hengen is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with 11 years of industry experience. She has been with Robert W. Baird & Company since 2014. She is part of The DDK Group within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice, which serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The group offers a range of consulting and portfolio services, tailoring strategies to client goals and risk tolerances through in-house and third-party managers, with options including discretionary management, separately managed accounts, and overlay services.

Michael Witous is a financial advisor at Stifel with 38 years of industry experience. He has held positions at Stifel Nicolaus & Co Inc since 2018 and previously worked at Oppenheimer & Co from 2010 to 2017. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as a board member and trustee for the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana. Stifel serves a broad range of clients, including individual, institutional, and charitable organizations, offering brokerage and investment advisory services. The firm employs a proprietary methodology developed by its Investment Strategy Group for asset allocation and planning, providing clients with guidance to inform their investment decisions.

Faiz Khoja is a financial advisor with Stifel, holding a Series 66 designation and 19 years of industry experience. He has been with Stifel Nicolaus & Co Inc since 2013. Outside of his advisory role, Khoja volunteers as a Technical Steward performing technical inspections for motor racing events with the SCCA South Bend Region. Stifel serves a broad range of clients, including individuals, institutional investors, and charitable organizations, offering brokerage and investment advisory services. The firm’s investment approach is based on a proprietary methodology developed by its Investment Strategy Group, utilizing forward-looking capital market assumptions and probabilistic modeling for asset allocation and planning analyses.

Ryan Hale is a financial advisor with LPL Financial in South Bend, Indiana. He holds the Series 63 and Series 66 securities licenses and has 22 years of industry experience, including ten years at Edward Jones prior to joining LPL Financial in 2012. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in a home-based loan business unrelated to investments. LPL Financial is a national broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, retirement plans, banks, trust companies, and institutions. The firm offers a range of advisory services and platforms, including financial planning, model portfolios, and institutional programs, with investment management delivered by its network of advisors through discretionary and non-discretionary strategies.

Taylor Fervida is a Series 66-licensed financial advisor with 12 years of industry experience, currently affiliated with OSAIC since 2018. He previously worked at Signator Investors, Inc. and has been involved with Fervida Financial Strategies LLC, where he provides sales and marketing for securities, investment advisory services, and insurance products. Outside of advising, he operates Narrow Road Adventures, a sole proprietorship focused on creating travel-related content and product recommendations through social media. OSAIC serves a broad mix of retail and institutional clients through a large network of affiliated advisers and multiple advisory platforms. The firm offers integrated brokerage and investment advisory services, financial planning, retirement consulting, and access to third-party money managers, utilizing various asset-allocation tools and investment strategies.

Edward Pilarski is a financial advisor with Ameriprise in Niles, MI, holding CFP®, ChFC®, and Series 63 designations and bringing 40 years of industry experience. He has worked at Ameriprise and its affiliate Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. since 2005. Ameriprise offers a retirement-income planning service focused on individuals approaching or in retirement who meet certain asset criteria, providing written Recommendation Reports that cover income sources, Social Security options, and tax-smart withdrawal strategies. The firm combines research, modeling, and tax-efficiency analysis delivered by a centralized consulting team and offers a broad range of advisory, brokerage, and insurance solutions typical of a large institutional firm.

Richard Mock is a financial advisor at Pennfield Capital Corp with 23 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 63 designation and has been with Pennfield Capital Corp since 1990. Pennfield Capital Corp is a small firm with two advisors, providing supported firm services.

Jeffrey Scott is a financial advisor with Pennfield Capital Corp in South Bend, IN. He holds a Series 65 designation and has nine years of industry experience. Prior to joining Pennfield Capital Corporation in 2017, he worked at Rational Systems LLC for ten years. He is also a board member and partial owner of Buffalo Bayou Brewing Company, a brewery based in Houston, TX. Pennfield Capital Corp is a supported firm with two advisors.