Elizabeth Cody is a CFP® with 28 years of industry experience and has been with Sand Hill Global Advisors, LLC since 2016. She holds the Series 63 designation and is based in Palo Alto, CA. Sand Hill Global Advisors provides discretionary investment management, wealth management, and comprehensive financial planning to high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, nonprofits, and business entities. The firm emphasizes long-term fundamental research and strategic asset allocation, offering customized portfolios through a combination of active and passive investments managed under written investment policy statements.

Matthew De Pretis is affiliated with Legacy Wealth Management, LLC and holds over 27 years of experience at DePretis CPAs, Inc., a firm he has been with since 1999. He currently has no industry experience listed as a financial advisor. Legacy Wealth Management is a multi-advisor firm serving individuals, charitable organizations, and business entities with discretionary portfolio management and financial planning. The firm offers tailored strategies across a broad investment menu and utilizes affiliated service entities, including accounting and tax advisory firms, to support client needs.

Michael Lambrecht is a financial advisor at Savvy with 35 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has worked previously at Farther Finance Advisors, Iwc Asset Management, Integrated Wealth Counsel, and Charles Schwab. Savvy Advisors provides investment and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, ERISA plan sponsors, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm emphasizes diversified, index-based investment solutions augmented by quantitative models and tax-aware strategies, integrating proprietary technology and human oversight in managing client portfolios.

Saravanaraj Sathyaseelan is a financial advisor at Legacy Wealth Management, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at Bloom Global, Inc., GT Securities, Inc., and ArightCo. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a director of BloomSports, a youth basketball league. Legacy Wealth Management serves individual clients, charitable organizations, and business entities by providing discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and related services. The firm employs in-house model portfolios, sub-advisers, and a broad investment menu that includes alternative and illiquid investments.

Darrell Szymanski is a financial advisor with Advisors Capital Management, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 11 years of industry experience. He previously worked at The Pacific Financial Group, Inc. for 16 years before joining Advisors Capital Management in 2025. Advisors Capital Management serves a diverse client base, including individuals, employee benefit plans, and clients of unaffiliated broker-dealers and RIAs, providing discretionary portfolio management through customized private accounts, model strategies, and a self-directed brokerage solution for qualified retirement plans. The firm combines top-down macro analysis with bottom-up security selection across various asset classes and manages over $8 billion in discretionary assets, primarily acting as an outsourced sub-advisor.

Anthony Craun is a CFA® charterholder and holds the Series 66 designation, with 14 years of industry experience. He has been with Sand Hill Global Advisors, LLC since 2005. The firm provides discretionary investment management, wealth management, and comprehensive financial planning to high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, not-for-profit organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities. Sand Hill Global Advisors emphasizes long-term fundamental research and strategic asset allocation, offering customized portfolios through a combination of active and passive investments and oversight by an internal investment committee.

Catherine Mendoza is a financial advisor at Virtue Capital Management, LLC with 10 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at Horter Investment Management, LLC. Outside of her advisory role, she owns and operates a financial accounting and bookkeeping business and serves as director of a company that connects small business owners with capital lenders. Virtue Capital Management, LLC is a multi-team registered investment adviser serving individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, qualified retirement plans, and other advisers. The firm employs a mix of tactical, strategic, and dynamic investment approaches and offers portfolio management, financial planning, third-party due diligence, and sub-advisory services.

Caroline Curts is a CFP® professional with 16 years of industry experience, currently serving at Sand Hill Global Advisors, LLC since 2012. She holds the Series 66 designation and is based in Palo Alto, CA. Sand Hill Global Advisors provides investment and wealth management, as well as financial planning services to high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, nonprofit organizations, and various business entities. The firm employs an open-architecture, globally oriented investment approach focused on asset allocation and combines macro analysis with bottom-up research across a range of active and passive investment vehicles.

Nasser Ahmad is a CFP® and Series 66-licensed financial advisor with 17 years of industry experience. He is currently with Osaic Advisory Services, LLC, having joined in 2024, and previously worked at Arbor Point Advisors, Securities America, LPL Financial, Fidelity, and Bancwest Investment Services. His background includes roles in investment advisory and financial planning. Osaic Advisory Services, LLC is an SEC-registered enterprise adviser serving a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporate and charitable entities, retirement plan participants, and sovereign wealth funds. The firm offers a variety of programs and investment approaches, combining fundamental and technical analysis, tactical trading, and structured products, with access to alternative investments and donor-advised funds.

Maria Rogers is a Series 66-licensed financial advisor at Cresset Asset Management, LLC with four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Cresset in 2023, she worked at First Republic Securities Company and First Republic Investment Management. She has also been involved with the Cal Ripken Sr Foundation. Cresset Asset Management is a multi-disciplinary investment adviser managing approximately $78.9 billion in client assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, retirement plans, corporations, and pooled investment vehicles, utilizing a disciplined, risk-aware approach that combines strategic asset allocation, manager selection, and both active and passive strategies across public equities, fixed income, and various alternatives.

Chao Zheng is a CFP®, CFA®, and Series 65 credentialed advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC with eight years of industry experience. Prior to joining Focus Partners Wealth in 2025, he worked at Bordeaux Wealth Advisors for eight years and held roles at Calvert Research and Management and the University of Maryland. Focus Partners Wealth serves individuals, families, charitable organizations, corporations, and institutional retirement plans by providing investment management, financial planning, tax and compliance support, family office and business management, and employee benefit retirement plan services. The firm employs a long-term investment approach with attention to tax and fee sensitivity, utilizing a mix of active and passive strategies and offering customized portfolios based on client-specific factors.

David Mclaughlin is a CFA® charterholder with 16 years of industry experience. He is currently with Citigroup Global Markets and has previously worked at Bank of America, Merrill, and various Citi entities. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across multiple private banking and wealth management segments. The firm offers a range of investment advisory programs and broker-dealer services, implementing multi-asset, multi-manager strategies through both discretionary and non-discretionary approaches.

Nora Gasparyan is a financial advisor at Stratos Wealth Partners, Ltd with five years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has worked at firms including LPL Financial, Royal Alliance Associates, JPMorgan Chase Bank, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Wells Fargo Bank. Prior to her financial industry career, she was involved in the restaurant business. Stratos Wealth Partners, Ltd is an SEC-registered enterprise adviser with approximately 379 advisors and $18.6 billion in assets under management. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, retirement plans, corporations, nonprofits, and institutional clients, offering a range of services such as financial planning, advisor-managed programs, and outsourced CIO solutions through an open-architecture investment platform.

Sarah Buchardt is a financial advisor at Schwab Wealth Advisory with 12 years of industry experience. She holds the Series 66 designation and previously worked at Edward Jones before joining Charles Schwab entities in 2017. Schwab Wealth Advisory, Inc. provides non-discretionary fiduciary investment advice, financial planning, and wealth management consultations to clients enrolled in the Schwab Wealth Advisory program and certain referred clients. The firm’s advice is based on proprietary asset-allocation models and research tools, with recommendations tailored to clients’ goals and risk tolerance and trades executed only with client authorization.

Judy Fong is a financial advisor at Transamerica Financial Advisors with 11 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has worked at Transamerica Financial Advisors since 2014. Outside of her advisory role, she serves as board secretary for Blue Oaks Church, where she records meeting minutes and decisions. Transamerica Financial Advisors provides investment advisory, brokerage, and retirement-plan services to individual investors, employer-sponsored plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm utilizes model portfolios and third-party managers across multiple platforms, including Transamerica ONE and TFA365, managing regulatory assets of approximately $1.7 billion.

Langyu Wang is a financial advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Focus Partners Wealth, Wang held positions at the University of Chicago, Chenxi Capital, and Deloitte. Focus Partners Wealth serves individuals, families, charitable organizations, corporations, and institutional retirement plans by providing investment management, financial planning, tax and compliance support, family office and business management, and employee benefit retirement plan services. The firm employs a long-term investment approach utilizing a mix of active and passive strategies tailored to clients’ risk tolerance and financial circumstances.

Cornelius Dempsey III is a financial advisor with Independent Financial Group, LLC in Los Altos, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and with 37 years of industry experience. He has been with Independent Financial Group since 2011 and previously worked at QA3 Financial LLC and Securities America Advisors, Inc. He is also the sole owner of Dempsey & Associates, a marketing DBA. Independent Financial Group, LLC provides investment advisory and brokerage services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, corporate and pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers financial planning and portfolio management through various platforms and third-party asset managers, employing a combination of strategic asset allocation, multi-manager portfolios, and both passive and active investment exposures.

Andreja Dugacki is a financial advisor at TIAA-CREF with eight years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at JP Morgan Securities, Merrill, and Bank of America. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC provides financial planning and discretionary managed account programs to individuals, trusts, estates, partnerships, corporate entities, and small retirement plans, often serving clients with existing relationships through TIAA-administered employer retirement plans. The firm offers various portfolio management options and acts as adviser to the TIAA Donor Advised Fund sponsored by Charityvest.

Evelyn Liu is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors in Fremont, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and 15 years of industry experience. She has worked at Transamerica since 2012 and is also involved with Matrix Insurance Agency and Athenian Realty, where she conducts real estate sales. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a wide range of clients, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, and corporations, offering fee-based advisory programs and commission-based insurance and brokerage products. The firm utilizes proprietary and third-party model portfolios with discretionary and non-discretionary management options.

Hsueh Liu is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors in San Jose, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 15 years of industry experience. Liu’s career includes roles at Oaktree Funding Corp, Keller Williams, and TruDream Investments LLC, among others. Outside of advisory work, Liu is involved in real estate sales and mortgage loan origination. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a broad client base including individuals, retirement plans, trusts, and businesses, delivering services through a large advisor network and multiple program platforms that emphasize model portfolios and third-party managers.