Charles Mason is a CFP® with 54 years of industry experience, currently serving at Mason & Associates, Inc., a firm he has been with since 2006. His prior experience includes six years at Mutual Securities, Inc. He is also involved in insurance-related businesses as a sole proprietor and member of multiple insurance agencies. Mason & Associates serves individuals, retirement and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses, providing financial planning, investment management, and limited-scope planning services. The firm’s investment approach is based on Modern Portfolio Theory and emphasizes strategic asset allocation, sector rotation, and global diversification.

Steven Cooper is a financial advisor at Dew Point Capital with 15 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at Steel Peak Wealth Management and UBS Financial Services. He is also a licensed insurance agent and occasionally offers insurance products to clients. Dew Point Capital provides fee-based discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, retirement plan sponsors, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm uses a custom, strategic allocation approach focused on long-term purchase strategies while allowing short-term trades in unusual market conditions.

Simon Holford is a financial advisor at Pasadena Private Wealth, LLC with 25 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and Pensionmark Securities. Holford is also involved as a general partner in a real estate investment fund and serves as a trustee managing assets for an irrevocable trust. Pasadena Private Wealth serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, pension plans, and various business entities, providing asset management, financial planning, and retirement consulting. The firm employs a fundamental, long-term investment approach with flexibility for shorter-term trading, utilizing model-driven portfolios, third-party managers, and a range of asset classes including ETFs, mutual funds, and alternative strategies.

Grant Colin is a financial advisor at Monarch Wealth Strategies with seven years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. and SES Inc. Monarch Wealth Strategies provides discretionary wealth management, financial planning, and investment consulting primarily to affluent individuals, families, trusts, and pension plans. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and technical research to manage portfolios using mutual funds, ETFs, individual securities, and alternative investments on a case-by-case basis.

Catherine Henning is a financial advisor at Pacific Global Investment Management Company with 22 years of industry experience. She holds the Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has been with Pacific Global in various capacities since 2001. Pacific Global serves individual investors, including high-net-worth and non-HNW clients, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, and other entities through discretionary separately managed accounts and related services. The firm uses fundamental research and a proprietary screening process for investment decisions, emphasizing value-oriented or core equity styles and total return fixed-income management.

Nicholas Welsh is a CFA® charterholder with 31 years of industry experience. He has been with LK&A Investment Counsel since 2013. The firm provides discretionary investment management primarily to high net-worth individuals, trusts, foundations, and limited liability companies. LK&A focuses on larger-capitalization equities with long-term earnings growth, maintaining relatively concentrated portfolios and a long-term holding strategy, while also constructing bond ladders for fixed-income allocations based on fundamental research and macroeconomic analysis.

Michael Fang is a financial advisor at Globalink Wealth Management, LLC with 29 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has previously worked at TransGlobal Advisory, LLC and Globalink Securities, Inc. Fang is also a licensed insurance agent with Transpacific Financial Services. Globalink Wealth Management provides hourly and fixed-fee financial planning as well as discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management for individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a diverse investment approach that includes charting, cyclical, fundamental and technical analysis, offering strategies ranging from long-term holdings to active trading and option writing.

Jae Lee is a financial advisor at Stonemark Wealth Management with two years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 credential and has worked in various roles including at Clever Care Health Plan and American Golf Co. Outside of his advisory role, Jae Lee owns and operates JML Golf Instruction, LLC, where he provides golf lessons. Stonemark Wealth Management is a team-based investment adviser serving individuals, trusts, and retirement plans. The firm uses customized model portfolios and a combination of fundamental and technical analysis, incorporating option strategies and selective use of leveraged or inverse ETFs to manage client portfolios.

Thomas Hanson is a financial advisor at First Wilshire Securities Management, Inc. with 39 years of industry experience. He has been with First Wilshire since 2010 and also serves as Chairman and President of Trivest Capital Management, Inc., where he has worked since 1993. Hanson holds a Series 63 designation. First Wilshire provides discretionary investment management to individuals, corporations, and charitable entities, focusing on a value-oriented, small- and micro-cap equity investment style. The firm manages both separately managed accounts and affiliated private funds, employing fundamental research and tactical portfolio allocation.

Jason Kolker is a financial advisor at Mapleton Capital Management, LLC with 24 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Mapleton Capital Management since 2000 and Ocean Park Capital Management since 1999. Mapleton Capital Management serves as the general partner and investment adviser to three privately offered pooled funds and provides subadvisory portfolio management to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and trusts. The firm’s investment approach is based on fundamental research to identify early inflection points in company value and often employs an aggressive, relatively short-term trading style including short selling, options, and leverage.

Andrew Edstrom is a financial advisor with WESCAP Group in Glendale, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations and possessing 13 years of industry experience. He has been with WESCAP Group since 2012. WESCAP Group provides discretionary and non-discretionary wealth management and financial planning services to a range of clients including individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm’s investment approach combines strategic and tactical asset allocation with global diversification and a contrarian, value-oriented emphasis, utilizing mutual funds, ETFs, and for certain clients, options-based strategies and leverage.

Sterling Louviere is a financial advisor at Cabin Advisors, LLC with 34 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked previously at Cabin Securities, Inc., Claraphi Advisory Network, LLC, and Newbridge Securities. Outside of advising, he is president of Financial Architects, Inc., a firm providing consulting on tax and retirement planning strategies, and serves on the board of directors for Altadena Rotary Charities. Cabin Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, corporations, and retirement plans, managing approximately $220 million across 368 client relationships. The firm provides financial planning, portfolio management, and sub-advisory services using fundamental, technical, cyclical, and asset-allocation analysis, and conducts due diligence on illiquid alternative investments.

Edward Ternan is a financial advisor at SFE Investment Counsel Inc. in Los Angeles, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations with 21 years of industry experience. He has been with SFE since 2007. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Ternan is a 50% owner of SilverWise LLC, a business focused on assisting families with aging-related issues. SFE Investment Counsel serves individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, retirement plans, businesses, and institutional clients, providing investment supervisory services through customized portfolios and model strategies. The firm emphasizes asset allocation, a long-term total-return approach, and risk management through concentrated equity positions combined with fixed-income laddering.

Calvin Lo is a CFA® charterholder with 11 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Keystone Global Partners LLC since 2010. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved with SPE LBG, LLC, which operates residential solar panels for leaseback to homeowners. Keystone Global Partners provides wealth and investment management, financial planning, family office, and personal exit advisory services for affluent individuals, families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The firm employs a diversified, multi-asset investment approach overseen by an internal Investment Committee.

Anthony Hunt is a financial advisor at Pasadena Private Wealth, LLC with five years at the firm and a total of one year of industry experience. He holds the Series 65 and Series 66 designations. Prior to his advisory role, Hunt worked for CJ Entertainment for 20 years. Pasadena Private Wealth is a multi-team registered investment adviser managing approximately $1.61 billion in regulatory assets as of December 2025. The firm serves individuals, families, trusts, pension plans, and corporate clients using a fundamentally driven, long-term investment approach across various asset classes while also providing financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and due diligence on third-party managers.

Lee Goss is a financial advisor with Cabin Advisors, LLC in South Pasadena, CA, holding eight years of industry experience. He is also a CPA and the owner of Goss & Company, An Accountancy Corporation, an accountancy firm operating since 2005. Prior to joining Cabin Advisors, he worked at Claraphi Advisory Network, LLC for six years. Cabin Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, corporations, and retirement plans, managing approximately $220 million across 368 client relationships with a team of 14 advisors. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, unified managed accounts, and sub-advisory services, employing a range of investment analyses and due diligence on alternative investments.

Kyle Douthit is a financial advisor with K2 Financial Inc. in Glendora, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with three years of industry experience. He previously worked at Lincoln Investment and has experience in various other roles outside of finance. Outside of his advisory role, Kyle creates and edits video content for JMK Ride, a skating company. K2 Financial is a team-based registered investment adviser managing approximately $191.6 million for around 393 clients. The firm offers wealth and investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services for individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and retirement plans, using a primarily long-term, discretionary portfolio approach with a range of investment vehicles.

Stephen Dutka is a CFA® charterholder affiliated with Skylar Wealth Management, LLC. He has 23 years of industry experience, having previously worked at Fiduciary Trust International of California before joining Skylar Wealth Management in 2026. Skylar Wealth Management provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services, financial planning, and family office services to individuals, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporate entities. The firm combines in-house portfolio management with oversight of third-party money managers and offers specialized services including wrap-fee programs and custody-sensitive family-office operations.

Fatemeh Ashouri is a financial advisor at Monarch Wealth Strategies in Los Angeles, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials with one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Monarch Wealth Strategies, she held roles at Wells Fargo Clearing and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. She has also worked in academic and innovation settings, including at UCLA Extension and the Techno Tejarat Innovation Center. Monarch Wealth Strategies provides discretionary wealth management, financial planning, and investment consulting to affluent individuals, families, trusts, pension plans, and broker-dealers. The firm manages approximately $463 million across about 390 client relationships, employing a mix of fundamental, technical, and third-party analysis alongside tax-aware and strategic asset allocation practices.

Lawrence Steinberg Jr. is a financial advisor with Cabin Advisors, LLC in Pasadena, CA, holding Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and bringing 33 years of industry experience. His prior work includes roles at firms such as Claraphi Advisory Network, Berthel, Fisher & Company Financial Services, and LPL Financial. Outside of advising, he is involved in various business activities including ownership interests in a professional sports agency and a law firm specializing in tax optimization and estate planning. Cabin Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, corporations, and retirement plans, managing approximately $220 million across more than 350 client relationships. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, and sub-advisory services using both discretionary and non-discretionary approaches, incorporating fundamental, technical, and asset-allocation analysis.