James Bearden is a financial advisor with Citigroup Global Markets where he has worked since 2022. He holds a Series 66 designation and has eight years of industry experience, including prior roles at Edward Jones and Lew Fruend State Farm Insurance Agency. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering multi-asset investment advisory programs alongside broker-dealer execution and custody services. The firm combines large institutional scale with specialized market roles, implementing multi-manager strategies and providing bespoke discretionary solutions.

Luke Gilliam is a financial advisor at Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC with two years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has worked at Ameritas in various capacities since 2022, including roles at Ameritas Investment Company and Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation. Prior to entering the financial industry, he spent nine years in full-time education. Ameritas Advisory Services provides fee-based investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, corporations, and institutional clients. The firm offers both discretionary and non-discretionary programs through a combination of in-house and third-party managers and integrates its services with affiliated broker-dealer and investment adviser entities.

David Fingerhut is a financial advisor at Commonwealth Financial Network with 34 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and previously worked at Financial Legacy Associates, LLC and OSAIC for over two decades. Fingerhut is also the owner of Compliance Company, LLC, a private entity facilitating securities, advisory, and insurance business, and provides tax preparation services. 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 managing roughly $212.7 billion in client assets. The firm offers a broad adviser-support platform including managed-account programs, access to third-party asset managers, retirement consulting, and custody services.

Klinton Silvey is a financial advisor at Money Concepts Capital Corp with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked in financial services since 2020. In addition to his advisory role, Silvey serves as an associate pastor and is a certified personality trainer with Ntrinsx. Money Concepts Advisory Service provides portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting to a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, and corporations. The firm employs a variety of managed programs and combines fundamental and technical analysis with modern portfolio theory to manage approximately $3.33 billion across 14,700 clients.

Alexander Dugan is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with seven years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and previously worked at TD Ameritrade and Club Fitness. He has been with Citigroup Global Markets since 2020. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering multi-asset, multi-manager investment strategies through discretionary and non-discretionary programs. The firm combines large institutional scale with unique market roles, including in-house research and derivatives services.

Joann Kirchhofer is a financial advisor with Money Concepts Capital Corp, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 24 years of industry experience. She has worked at Money Concepts since 2002 and has operated her own CPA practice since 1990. Kirchhofer serves as a trustee and participates in an investment club, reflecting involvement in both financial and community activities. Money Concepts Advisory Service provides portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting to individuals, retirement plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm offers multiple managed programs using a combination of model portfolios, adviser-designed portfolios, and third-party sub-advisers, applying fundamental and technical analysis alongside modern portfolio theory.

Seyda Holekamp is a financial advisor at Hightower Advisors with nine years of industry experience. She holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Wells Fargo Clearing Services since 2014. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse range of individual and institutional clients. The firm’s approach includes manager selection, multi-manager solutions, and access to both affiliated and third-party managers, with offerings spanning mutual funds, ETFs, alternative investments, and custom indexing.

Krisha Kozlowski is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with Creative Planning and has three years of industry experience. Her prior roles include positions at Paradigm Financial Advisors, Wipfli, Mueller Prost PC, and Brian Toennies & Associates. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, foundations, and corporations. The firm manages approximately $295.6 billion in client assets and employs a financial-planning-led investment approach that emphasizes low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies complemented by tax-loss harvesting and selective private market exposure.

Kevin Rosenthal is a financial advisor with Citigroup Global Markets and holds a Series 66 designation. He has two years of industry experience and has previously worked at Merrill, Stifel, and Edward Jones. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering multi-asset, multi-manager investment advisory programs alongside broker-dealer execution and custody services. The firm’s approach includes discretionary and non-discretionary strategies utilizing internal standards and oversight committees to select managers, and it operates notable market roles such as security-based swap dealing and futures commission merchant services.

Timothy Grisby is a financial advisor with Schwab Wealth Advisory, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and four years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Charles Schwab Bank SSB, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., TD Ameritrade, and MineSense Technologies Ltd. Schwab Wealth Advisory, Inc. provides non-discretionary fiduciary investment advice within the Schwab Wealth Advisory program, offering financial reviews, retirement planning, and investment recommendations using Schwab’s asset allocation models and research tools. The firm operates as an internal advisory unit within the Schwab ecosystem, focusing on client-directed investment decisions without discretionary trading authority.

Mick Keeven is a financial advisor at Creative Planning with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at Fisher Investments and Axius Financial, as well as serving at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, pension plans, and corporations. The firm employs a financial-planning-led investment approach that emphasizes low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies, supplemented by other actively managed strategies and private market exposure.

Shane Hurst is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in St. Louis, MO, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 24 years of industry experience. He has been with Valic Financial Advisors since 2009 and also holds a position with Agia. Hurst receives trail income from prior insurance business with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri but does not write new business. 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, wrap programs, financial planning, and brokerage services, utilizing Envestnet-developed models and National Financial Services as custodian.

John Blest is a CFP® with nine years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Schwab Wealth Advisory in St. Louis, MO. He has held roles at Charles Schwab & Co., TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, Cognosante, and Best Buy. Outside of advising, he is involved in construction-related labor through General Contracting Services Inc. Schwab Wealth Advisory provides non-discretionary fiduciary investment advice to clients enrolled in the Schwab Wealth Advisory program, delivering services such as annual financial reviews and investment recommendations guided by Schwab’s proprietary research tools and asset allocation models.

James Muccigrosso is a financial advisor with Principal Financial Services, holding Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and bringing 39 years of industry experience. He has worked at Principal Securities Inc. since 2016 and with Principal Life Insurance Company since 1998. He also occasionally sells group insurance to existing clients. Principal Securities provides brokerage and registered investment advisory services to a diverse client base, including individual investors, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm offers direct advisory programs, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and access to third-party money manager solutions.

Alexander Norath is a CFP® and Series 65-licensed advisor at Rockefeller Financial LLC with four years of industry experience. He has previously worked at The Colony Group, Buckingham Strategic Wealth, RFG Advisory, and Moneta. Rockefeller Financial LLC serves high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, institutional clients, retirement plans, foundations, and corporations. The firm offers a range of portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services, operating both discretionary and non-discretionary strategies through its Private Advisor model and Rockefeller Global Investment Management platform.

Christopher Halpin is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and bringing 25 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at Empower Financial Services, The Standard, Paychex Inc, Stifel Nicolaus & Co Inc, and Lincoln Financial Distributors. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily for employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and participants, as well as for Empower Premier IRA and retail brokerage clients. The firm’s integrated model emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and annual rebalancing within plan lineups selected by plan sponsors.

Joanne Welker is a CFA charterholder with 18 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Benjamin F. Edwards & Company, Inc. since 2008. She is also a board member and investment committee member for Our Lady's Inn in St. Louis. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company is an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer that serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of investment management and financial planning services through consolidated discretionary and non-discretionary wrap programs incorporating both internal and third-party managed strategies.

Marc Kessler is a financial advisor at Benjamin F. Edwards & Company, Inc. with 32 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 66 designations and has been with Benjamin F. Edwards since 2012. Benjamin F. Edwards & Company is an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer serving a broad range of clients, including individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm offers fee-based wrap programs, financial planning, and investment management consulting, utilizing a variety of strategies monitored by an Investment Strategy Committee.

Jianmin Zhao is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors in St. Louis, MO, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and having seven years of industry experience. He has worked at Transamerica Financial Advisors since 2017 and is involved with multiple business entities, including AIMA International LLC. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a diverse client base, including individual investors, pension plans, trusts, and corporations, offering both advisory and broker-dealer services through proprietary and third-party investment programs.

Sherri Henry is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with nine years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 designations. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2019, she worked at Wells Fargo Clearing for three years. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering investment advisory programs, broker-dealer execution, and custody services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies through discretionary and non-discretionary programs and maintains unique market roles, including acting as a swap dealer and futures commission merchant.