Stephen Chen is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with eight years of industry experience. He is currently affiliated with Boldin Advisors and has held roles at Newretirement Advisors, LLC since 2018 and Newretirement, Inc. since 2004. Chen serves as CEO of NewRetirement, Inc., an educational website focused on retirement planning. Boldin Advisors offers financial planning and consulting services to individuals, trusts, estates, and small businesses, emphasizing a fiduciary approach with investment strategies based on Modern Portfolio Theory and low-cost indexed funds. The firm provides planning through written reports and fixed or hourly engagements without managing client assets directly.

Gregory Syler is a financial advisor at Eastsound Capital Advisors, LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 designations and has worked at multiple firms including Pacific Fortune Management and Sowell Management Services. Syler also owns Align Advisor Services, a compliance consulting business serving Registered Investment Advisers. Eastsound Capital Advisors is an SEC-registered firm offering discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm utilizes a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis alongside strategic and tactical asset allocation to build client portfolios.

Samaya Patel is a financial advisor at Blume Capital Management, Inc. with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Blume Capital, she worked at Cisco Systems and has academic experience from the University of California, Berkeley. Blume Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, pension plans, charitable foundations, and private investment funds. The firm emphasizes long-term investing with a value-oriented equity allocation and broad diversification, using mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments for qualified clients.

Peter Reidenbach is a financial advisor at Blume Capital Management, Inc. in Berkeley, CA, with 14 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 credential and has been with Blume Capital Management since 2011. Blume Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable foundations, and private investment funds. The firm emphasizes long-term investing with a value-oriented equity allocation and broad diversification, utilizing mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments for qualified clients.

Henry Luong is a financial advisor at CSP Financial Group LLC with 13 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at CSP Financial Group since 2021, alongside operating as a sole proprietor. Luong has also been a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 2010. CSP Financial Group provides discretionary asset management, financial planning, and retirement-plan services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and business entities. The firm emphasizes portfolio construction and monitoring based on Modern Portfolio Theory and employs third-party managers such as Matson Money to implement model allocations.

Yukun Wang is a financial advisor at Chequers Financial Management LLC with seven years of industry experience. He has worked at Chequers since 2018 and previously was with Behring Global Educational Foundation and Aflac. Wang holds a Series 65 credential and is based in San Francisco, CA. Chequers Financial Management LLC serves ultra-high-net-worth individuals and complex multi-generational families, offering tailored advisory services including Personal CFO and Multi-Family Office service tracks. The firm combines customized financial planning with discretionary investment management, emphasizing passive asset-class funds alongside alternative investments for qualified clients.

Declan Lynch is a CFP® affiliated with Assembly Wealth in Mill Valley, CA, with two years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he worked across various sectors including architecture and environmental technology. He also served in escort and safety services at Brandeis University for several years. Assembly Wealth is a team-based SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $336.7 million as of year-end 2025. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and third-party manager services to a diverse client base, utilizing individualized investment policies and a combination of in-house and third-party strategies.

Edward Smith is a financial advisor at Caldwell Sutter Capital, Inc. with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has been with Caldwell Sutter Capital since 2018. Caldwell Sutter Capital primarily serves high-net-worth individuals, families, and related entities, as well as corporate and municipal clients. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamental value investment approach with a long-term, buy-and-hold orientation, managing approximately $606 million across customized portfolio management and financial planning strategies.

Kathryn Gilje is a financial advisor at Just Futures with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. She previously worked at Juniper Roots and Ceres Trust, accumulating a decade of experience before joining Just Futures. Just Futures serves nonprofits, foundations, family offices, small- and mid-sized businesses, retirement plans, and individual investors, managing about $46.7 million in assets. The firm follows a values-aligned investment approach informed by social justice movements, integrating ESG factors and a range of public and private market solutions tailored to mission-aligned, non-high-net-worth, and institutional clients.

Scott Hampton is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with 12 years of industry experience. He has worked at Moment Partners, LLC since 2024 and previously spent eight years at Wells Fargo Clearing Services and three years at Wells Fargo Advisors. Hampton serves as co-trustee for a family trust. Moment Partners, LLC provides investment and wealth management, financial planning, and fiduciary services to individuals, high-net-worth families, trusts, estates, foundations, and institutional clients. The firm uses a combination of active and passive strategies, risk-adjusted and tax-aware asset allocation, and incorporates independent managers and options strategies where appropriate.

James Machinchick is a CFP® with 16 years of industry experience currently serving as Chief Planning Officer at Inflection Capital Management, LLC. His prior roles include positions at Fidelity Personal and Workplace Advisors and Lake Street Advisors. He is also involved with The Oglethorpe Collective, LLC, a firm affiliated with Inflection Capital, where he dedicates significant time during trading hours. Inflection Capital Management serves family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional-style family clients, offering comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management. The firm employs an IPS-driven, manager-of-managers approach with a broad investment toolkit, focusing on detailed family assessments and ongoing oversight.

Bryce Brown is a financial advisor at Penserra Wealth Management with 10 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has prior experience at Perigon Wealth Management and Burleson & Company. Outside of finance, he serves as a commander in the California Army National Guard, where he is involved in personnel management, equipment management, and engineering design/build. Penserra Wealth Management provides discretionary portfolio management, pension consulting, and financial planning services. The firm employs a variety of analytical approaches and investment strategies, managing roughly $15 million in discretionary client assets as of 2026.

Sam's professional goal is simple: help families stretch their dollars and stop second-guessing financial decisions. This work is his passion. Families come to our firm looking for answers, and we're dedicated to providing clarity. Sam's clients come in asking an array of questions: When can I retire? How can I be confident it will last? What am I missing? Is there anything else I should be doing than what I'm doing now? This is much deeper than managing a portfolio. Our job is to answer your questions and use our expertise to guide you, so you know what pitfalls and opportunities may be on the horizon. Over time, clients start to feel like family, and it's our goal to treat their financial decisions with the same care we'd give our own. Sam believes this process starts with a financial plan. Not just a retirement projection, but an in-depth analysis of everything in your life with a number on it, paired with a real understanding of what matters most to you. Sam specializes in helping clients who are retired or within 10 years of retirement turn a lifetime of savings into dependable, tax-efficient income that doesn't depend on guessing what the market does next. For young families, he builds that same discipline in early: a coordinated plan bringing scattered accounts, tax strategy, and investments under one roof, so nothing gets left to chance later. He also works closely with small business owners and self-employed professionals, whose retirement planning rarely fits the typical employer-plan playbook. The right guidance, and the costly mistakes to avoid, require a different kind of expertise than most advisors bring to the table. For clients thinking beyond their own retirement, Sam helps families plan the thoughtful, tax-efficient transfer of wealth across generations, so what's been built is preserved and passed on with intention rather than lost to poor timing or an unnecessary tax bill. As a fee-only fiduciary, Sam doesn't sell products or earn commissions. His only job is to build a plan that works in your best interest, full stop. Sam is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, practitioner and a summa cum laude graduate of Mississippi State University. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Sam is deeply rooted in the community Branning Wealth Management has served for decades. Outside the office, he's active in his local church in downtown Jackson. He and his wife, Chloe, live in Jackson and enjoy having friends over for Mahjong, gr

Randall Maycock is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) with 29 years of industry experience. He has been with Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC since 2009, where he is part of a five-advisor team based in San Francisco, CA. Roof Eidam Maycock Peralta LLC provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to individual investors, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The firm manages client assets in-house, using customized portfolios that incorporate fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis, and operates a wrap-fee program covering trading costs for its clients.

Jonathan Maier is a financial advisor at Fort Point Capital Partners LLC in San Francisco, holding a Series 66 designation with four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Fort Point in 2024, he worked at Equitable Advisors, LLC from 2021 to 2023. Outside of finance, he has been involved with the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation. Fort Point Capital Partners serves family offices and high net worth individuals, offering financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and supervisory services for individually managed accounts. The firm employs a risk-focused investment approach emphasizing global diversification, active risk management, and systematic tax-loss harvesting using ETFs.

Jon Goshay is a financial advisor at Caldwell Sutter Capital, Inc. with two years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at firms including Cetera Investment Services LLC and Foresters Financial Services, Inc. Outside of financial advising, he composes and produces music under a label. Caldwell Sutter Capital serves primarily high-net-worth individuals, their families, corporations, and municipal clients. The firm offers portfolio management and financial planning with a focus on customized equity and fixed-income portfolios constructed through a bottom-up, fundamental value approach emphasizing long-term, buy-and-hold investing.

Kim Berger is a financial advisor at North Berkeley Wealth Management, LLC with a Series 65 designation and three years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Kim worked for ten years at Grifols Diagnostics. Outside of financial advising, Kim serves as Secretary for pHionics, Inc., a company that manufactures and sells water equipment. North Berkeley Wealth Management serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm manages approximately $710.6 million in assets, offering comprehensive financial planning and investment management with a focus on long-term, total-return portfolios that blend passive and active strategies and include options for ESG and carbon-screened investments.

Brian Duvall is a CFP® with 11 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Asset Dedication, LLC since 2019. Prior to that, he worked at Sensible Money, LLC from 2012 to 2019. Outside of his advisory role, he teaches snowboard instruction during the winter months. Asset Dedication provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small institutions. The firm employs its Asset Dedication strategy, which aligns equity allocations with investment-grade fixed-income securities through a cash-matching approach, and serves a large client base with a focus on scalable, standardized sub-advisory arrangements.

Nickolas Bowers is a financial advisor at Liberty Wealth Management, LLC in Oakland, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Liberty Wealth Management, he worked at New York Life Insurance Company. Liberty Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, retirement plans, corporations, and other entities, offering investment management, financial planning, and employee-benefit plan services among others. The firm employs a combination of centrally developed models and advisor-developed strategies, utilizing quantitative and fundamental analysis to construct diversified portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, real estate, and private market investments.

Wahidah Aziz is a Series 65 licensed financial advisor at Frec with one year of industry experience. Her prior roles include positions at Kikoff, Brio Financial Group, and Litman Gregory Wealth Management, alongside experience in academic settings at New York University and Indiana Tech. Frec Advisers is an SEC-registered investment adviser that provides automated, software-based portfolio management through its web and mobile platform to retail and entity clients. The firm’s model-driven approach offers personalized direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting, hedging, and customizable portfolio allocations, requiring clients to maintain margin brokerage accounts with its affiliated broker-dealer.