Karan Dang is a financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Network, holding a Series 66 designation and nine years of industry experience. He previously worked at Bank of America and Merrill from 2015 to 2021 before joining Commonwealth and Longwave Financial, LLC in 2021. Outside of finance, he owns and operates the Unimpressed Club, a music recording and production business based in Yorba Linda, CA. Commonwealth Financial Network is a registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,950 advisors and their clients. The firm provides a range of advisory programs and support services, including discretionary model portfolios and personalized investment solutions, while enabling advisors to manage client portfolios using a broad selection of securities and insurance products.

Gregory De Palma is a CFP® with 12 years of industry experience, currently serving at Empower Advisory Group. He has previously worked at Personal Capital Advisors and joined Empower in 2023. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, offering integrated services tied to Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms. The firm emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and annual rebalancing through proprietary and third-party methodologies.

Isabel Quinn is a financial advisor at Cerity Partners LLC with one year of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Private Wealth Partners, LLC. Outside of her advisory role, she has experience with Some Like It Hot Yoga & Boutique and has a background connected to Marin Country Club and the University of Oregon. Cerity Partners provides customized wealth management and related services to a broad national client base, including high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, business entities, and institutional investors. The firm employs tailored asset-allocation, manager selection, and proprietary quantitative screens to build client portfolios, alongside offering private-markets investments and affiliated pension consulting and insurance services.

Nancy Rhew is a CFP® professional with 33 years of industry experience, currently serving at Independent Financial Group, LLC since 2007. She previously worked at Kingsroad Financial Insurance Services Inc. and Mass Mutual Investors Services. In addition to her advisory role, she owns a marketing DBA called Financial Chapters and is a licensed insurance agent offering various insurance products. Independent Financial Group, LLC provides investment advisory and brokerage services to a diverse clientele, including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and institutional plans. The firm employs both proprietary and third-party models to develop customized investment strategies, combining active and passive management across a range of risk profiles.

Michael Acio is a financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Network, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing 25 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at LPL Financial LLC and Independent Financial Group, among others. Commonwealth Financial Network is a dual-registered broker/dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,900 advisors and managing about $212.7 billion in client assets. The firm offers a broad platform of managed-account programs, third-party asset manager access, and custody services, supporting advisors with both internally managed and outsourced investment solutions.

Steven Honeyfield is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in San Diego, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 25 years of industry experience. He has been with Valic Financial Advisors since 2003. Valic Financial Advisors primarily serves U.S.-domiciled individual investors, including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, as well as corporate and retirement-plan participants. The firm offers discretionary managed-account programs, financial planning, consulting, and brokerage services, utilizing Envestnet-developed UMA models to construct client portfolios.

Jake Cohen is a financial advisor at Creative Planning with eight years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Highcrest Capital, BANK of AMERICA, Merrill, and Permanent Value Inc. prior to joining Creative Planning. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. The firm employs a financial-planning-led approach that emphasizes low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies for long-term goals, supplemented by tax-loss harvesting, individually managed strategies, and selective private market exposure.

Christopher Barber is a financial advisor at Commonwealth Financial Network with 14 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has been with Commonwealth Financial Network since 2007, with a brief tenure at Unidine Corporation from 2017 to 2018. Barber is based in San Diego, CA. Commonwealth Financial Network is a dual-registered broker/dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,900 advisors and hundreds of thousands of clients. The firm offers a broad adviser-support platform including managed-account programs, third-party asset manager access, and retirement consulting, managing roughly $212.7 billion in client assets.

Fermin Mesina is a financial advisor at OSAIC Institutions, Inc. with 23 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Infinex Investments, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Wells Fargo Investments. In addition to his advisory role, he serves as a senior consultant at USMX Financial Group, providing property and casualty insurance and estate planning coordination. OSAIC Institutions, Inc. is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, ERISA retirement plans, trusts, estates, and corporate clients through a large network of investment adviser representatives. The firm offers customized advisory services, financial planning, and access to alternative investments while operating a hybrid adviser/broker-dealer model with both discretionary and non-discretionary account management.

Paul Gugger is a financial advisor with United Planners Financial Services of America, holding a Series 66 designation and 25 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Securities America, and Arbor Point Advisors. United Planners Financial Services is a national wealth-management enterprise serving a diverse client base that includes individual investors, retirement plans, corporations, trusts, estates, and institutional clients. The firm offers advisory and brokerage services through independent representatives and uses a variety of custodians and third-party managers, with a large portion of assets managed on a non-discretionary basis.

David Vallerga is a financial advisor at Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. with 21 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Voya since 2018. Prior to joining Voya, he spent five years with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and MML Distributors, LLC. Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. serves a diverse range of individual and institutional clients, including retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm provides financial planning, portfolio management, wrap programs, third-party money manager access, and plan-sponsor consulting through multiple program structures, often delivering non-discretionary recommendations.

Anthony Gonzalez is a financial advisor at Empower Advisory Group with four years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked previously in mortgage lending and financial services roles at firms including KBHS Home Loans, Lennar Mortgage, Mass Mutual, and Voya. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, as well as to certain retail brokerage clients. The firm’s model integrates with Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms and emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and savings rates over short-term forecasts.

Carrie Foote is a financial advisor with Primerica Advisors in San Diego, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and 26 years of industry experience. She has worked at Park Avenue Securities and Guardian Life since 2023 and spent 17 years at CUSO Financial Services, LP. Park Avenue Securities LLC serves a broad retail client base with brokerage and advisory services, including financial planning and retirement-plan consulting. The firm offers various proprietary and third-party investment programs and supports discretionary and non-discretionary account management across multiple asset types.

Nicholas Bialecki is a financial advisor with Citigroup Global Markets, holding a Series 66 credential and 17 years of industry experience. He has been with Citi Smith Barney since 2008. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering a range of investment advisory programs alongside broker-dealer execution and custody services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies and operates with significant institutional scale and specialized market roles.

Susan Pillen Levine is a financial advisor with Commonwealth Financial Network in San Diego, CA. She holds a Series 66 designation and has 13 years of industry experience, including nine years at LPL Financial before joining Commonwealth in 2022. Commonwealth Financial Network is a dual-registered broker/dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving a national network of approximately 2,900 affiliated advisors and hundreds of thousands of clients. The firm offers a broad adviser-support platform with discretionary and nondiscretionary managed-account programs, access to third-party asset managers, retirement consulting, and custody services.

Gregory Chachas Jr. is a financial advisor with Independent Financial Group, LLC, holding a Series 63 designation and with 40 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Wedbush Securities Inc., Wells Fargo Clearing, Wells Fargo Advisors LLC, and A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. He serves as a board member or officer for Chachas Land Co Inc. and Comstock Land and Mining LLC. Independent Financial Group, LLC provides investment advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individuals, trusts, corporate and pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers financial planning and portfolio management through various platforms, employing a combination of passive and active strategies tailored to client risk profiles.

Cecilia De La Cruz is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. since 2020. Her prior experience includes roles at KeyBank and Key Investment Services. She is part of The DDK Group within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice, which advises a diverse client base including individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and charitable organizations. The group offers tailored financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing a combination of in-house and third-party managers across traditional and non-traditional investment strategies.

Luis Saucedo is a financial advisor with MassMutual Investors Services who holds a Series 66 designation and has 25 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at MassMutual since 2016 and Capstone Partners Financial and Insurance Services from 2016 to 2021. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as secretary for a home-based language services consultancy. MassMutual Investors Services is a broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that provides financial planning and asset management to individuals, business owners, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employers. The firm offers a range of planning services including estate settlement and employer-sponsored programs, utilizing firm-approved tools to deliver collaborative, written recommendations.

Hayden Miller is a financial advisor at Merrill with a Series 66 designation and less than one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Merrill, Miller held various roles including positions at Sopris Wealth Advisors and Brinkman Real Estate. Merrill, together with its affiliate Managed Account Advisors LLC, provides managed account services to Bank of America fiduciary clients through the Select Portfolio Solutions Program, offering model-based and discretionary investment strategies for individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension plans, corporations, and charitable organizations.

John Ulshafer is a financial advisor at LPL Financial with 34 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has previously worked at Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Morgan Keegan & Company, A. G. Edwards & Sons, and Prudential Equity Group. LPL Financial is a national broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that provides advisory and brokerage services to individuals, retirement plan participants, banks, trust companies, and other institutions. The firm offers a range of financial planning and investment management solutions, utilizing both proprietary and third-party strategies, supported by advisors through technology and research tools.