Ashish Bordia is a financial advisor at Vihar Capital Management with nine years at the firm and a total of 18 years in the industry. He holds a Series 65 designation. Prior to Vihar Capital Management, he was with Progressive Capital Management for 16 years. Vihar Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and other entities. The firm employs a bottom-up value investing approach with concentrated portfolios and offers both asset management and hourly financial planning engagements.

Georg Wells is a CFP® and CFA® with six years of industry experience. He is currently the sole advisor at Growe Capital Advisors, LLC in New Canaan, CT. His prior experience includes roles at Bank of America, Merrill, Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, and TP ICAP. Growe Capital Advisors provides financial planning, discretionary investment, and wealth management services, primarily serving high-net-worth families and family offices. The firm employs a goals-based, tax-aware approach using independent third-party managers and exchange-traded funds, with a focus on separately managed accounts and tactical strategies.

John Evans is a CFP® with 22 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Hudson Capital Management Inc. He has worked at Leigh Baldwin & Co., LLC since 2016. Outside of advising, he works seasonally as a tax preparer and provides financial planning services including Medicare planning, long-term care, 401(k) plans, and life insurance. Hudson Capital Management Inc. is an independent registered investment adviser serving individual clients, small businesses, charitable organizations, and retirement plans. The firm offers fee-based financial planning, portfolio management, and qualified plan consulting, primarily managing client accounts on a non-discretionary basis.

Melissa Adams is a CFP® with 29 years of experience in the financial industry. She is the principal advisor at Achieve Retirement & Wealth Management, LLC, an independent firm she joined in 2025. Her prior experience includes roles at Merit Financial Partners LLC and Prudential Annuities Distributors. Outside of her advisory work, she is a co-owner of a family rental property with her husband. Achieve Retirement & Wealth Management provides comprehensive portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals as well as institutional and business clients. The firm employs a diverse investment approach combining fundamental, technical, quantitative, cyclical, and qualitative analysis, and serves a range of clients including pension plans, corporations, and charitable organizations.

Sunil Sharma is a CFP®, CFA®, and Series 66-registered financial advisor with 10 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Proyash Capital Management in Darien, CT. Prior to founding Proyash, he worked at Compiricus Inc and was self-employed in related roles. Outside of his advisory work, he has an IT-related business activity not connected to his financial firm. Proyash Capital Management offers discretionary portfolio management primarily for individuals, families, and retirement and trust accounts, with a focus on diversified, long-term investment strategies that emphasize principal protection and gradual value creation. The firm also provides limited hourly financial consulting and serves a client base oriented toward ordinary individual investors.

Albert Sebastian is a CFA charterholder and principal of Prospect Advisors, LLC in Stamford, CT, with 16 years of industry experience. He has worked at Prospect Advisors since 2008. Prospect Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management and tailored investment advice to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. The firm combines fundamental analysis with a diverse set of investment strategies, offering both individualized client services and investment research to other registered investment advisers and hedge fund managers.

Vincent Dagnese is a financial advisor at Westchester Wealth Management with eight years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at several firms, including Mass Mutual Investors Services, LPL Financial, and Principal Securities. Westchester Wealth Management serves individual investors, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporations. The firm employs a proprietary multi-bucket Model Portfolio Series focused on capital preservation and risk management, utilizing ETFs, mutual funds, and annuities, and also offers manager-of-managers programs, comprehensive financial planning, pension consulting, and public educational seminars.

Terence Kaufmann is the sole advisor at Rockhouse Capital, LLC, an independent firm based in Stamford, CT. He holds Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and has 16 years of industry experience. Kaufmann has worked at Rockhouse Capital since 2008. Rockhouse Capital provides individualized investment management to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a primarily long-term, fundamental analysis approach, using a combination of active and index funds to build customized portfolios managed on a discretionary basis.

Paul Padovani is the sole advisor at Padovani Asset Management in Somers, NY, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 14 years of industry experience. He also owns MGPC Agency, a licensed insurance agency, and works as a mortgage loan officer at Warshaw Capital. Padovani has held roles at MetLife Securities Inc. since 2012 and has been involved with both MGPC Agency and Warshaw Capital since 2018 and 2014, respectively. Padovani Asset Management is a registered investment adviser providing discretionary portfolio management and written financial planning services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other entities. The firm employs an individualized investment process utilizing fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analysis, offering a broad range of security types and continuous account monitoring with formal annual reviews.

Michael Casper is a CFA® charterholder affiliated with the independent firm Casper, Michael J. He has five years of industry experience, previously working at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc for three years. He operates Light Macro Capital, where he provides discretionary investment management. Light Macro Capital serves high-net-worth individuals and qualified entities through a quantitative and qualitative macro relative-value strategy focused on developed-market sovereign bond futures and foreign exchange. The firm manages concentrated portfolios with defined risk controls and emphasizes specialized data and a futures-only fixed-income derivatives approach.

Phillip McClain is the principal of McClain Value Management, LLC in New Canaan, CT, and holds the CFA® designation with 25 years of industry experience. He has led McClain Value Management since its founding in 2001. McClain Value Management provides discretionary portfolio management to high-net-worth individuals, institutional, and charitable clients. The firm emphasizes a concentrated, out-of-favor value investment approach based on bottom-up fundamental analysis and formal price targets, managing accounts with client-specific considerations across its primary strategies.

Nathaniel Prentice is a CFA® charterholder with 16 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Prentice Investment Management, LLC, an independent firm he founded in 2018. His prior experience includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Altium Wealth Management LLC, Oppenheimer, and Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. Prentice Investment Management provides discretionary portfolio management and periodic account reviews for a limited client base of individual investors and charitable organizations. The firm employs a long-only strategy combining fundamental and technical analysis with qualitative review and asset allocation, managing portfolios on a discretionary basis without margin, short sales, or most derivatives.

Julian Cash is a CFA® charterholder with seven years of industry experience. He has been with Savrin LLC since 2017, following two years at Troubh Partners, LP. Savrin is an independent firm that provides investment management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and other entities. The firm manages accounts on a discretionary basis and employs active allocation and periodic rebalancing, utilizing fundamental, technical, and economic analysis, including the use of derivatives and performance-based fee arrangements for qualified clients.

Ray Spano is a CFP® credentialed financial advisor with 13 years of industry experience. He is the principal of Spano Advisory Services Inc. and has been a partner at Spano & Treglia LLP, an accounting firm, since 1997. In addition to his advisory work, he is a licensed independent insurance agent. Spano Advisory Services, Inc. provides discretionary portfolio management and consultative financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and pension or profit-sharing plans. The firm uses fundamental analysis to select securities and manages accounts on a discretionary basis with daily monitoring, offering both investment management and hourly financial planning engagements.

William Knox is the sole advisor at Knox Capital with 37 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Kahn Brothers Advisors LLC and Kahn Brothers & Co. Inc. from 1996 through 2022. Knox Capital provides discretionary investment management services primarily to individual clients, focusing on value-oriented strategies that combine quantitative and qualitative analysis. The firm emphasizes long-term investment horizons, management quality, and tailors portfolios to clients’ risk tolerances and financial goals.

Michael Pappas is the sole advisor at Michael Pappas Advisor LLC in Bedford, NY. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 17 years of industry experience. He has operated his independent advisory firm since 2014. Michael Pappas Advisor LLC provides portfolio management services to individual and high-net-worth clients, advising on mutual funds, fixed income, equities, ETFs, and Treasury Inflation-Protected securities. The firm uses a combination of econometric and quantitative analysis with fundamental, technical, and cyclical methods, emphasizing large- and mid-cap value exposures and including options trading strategies.

Maria Lebron is a financial advisor with LeBron Financial Services, Inc. in Congers, NY, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 30 years of industry experience. Her career includes roles at Empower Advisory Group, GWFS Equities, Inc., and Prudential Insurance Company of America. LeBron Financial Services provides financial planning and portfolio management for individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals, as well as retirement plan advisory and education services to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations. The firm employs an investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory, using diversified asset allocation across institutional and no-load mutual funds, ETFs, and individual securities, and delivers both discretionary portfolio management and non-discretionary financial planning tailored to client objectives.

Thatcher Martin is a CFA® charterholder and Series 63 licensee with seven years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Spree Capital Advisers and previously worked at Wolf Hill Capital Management, Bishop Rock Capital, and as a consultant. Spree Capital Advisers is a single-advisor independent firm serving high-net-worth individuals with discretionary portfolio management. The firm emphasizes fundamental analysis, primarily recommending equities alongside fixed income, ETFs, and international securities, and offers both traditional and performance-based fee arrangements.

Michael Dymant is the sole advisor at The Eastrade Asset Management Corporation, holding a Series 63 designation with four years of industry experience. He has been with the firm since 1996. The Eastrade Asset Management Corporation provides investment advisory and portfolio management services to individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm uses fundamental analysis and combines long-term and short-term strategies to create customized portfolios, with a focus on serving charitable organizations and pension or profit-sharing plans.

Nicholas Susko is a CFA® charterholder and the sole advisor at Wavelet Capital, with a total of 10 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Verition Fund Management, Balyasny Asset Management, and Scopus Asset Management. Wavelet Capital is a state-registered investment adviser that provides discretionary investment management and non-discretionary consulting to qualified investors such as high-net-worth individuals, trusts, and institutions. The firm employs a long/short equity strategy focused on U.S. equities and related derivatives, utilizing bottom-up fundamental research, proprietary earnings models, and a high idea-velocity process to identify investment opportunities.