Michael Driver is a financial advisor with Vindex Capital Management, LLC, holding a Series 65 credential and beginning his industry experience in 2026. His prior work history includes roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Alvarez & Marsal, Walmart, and Kiewit Corporation. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved with Vindex Accounting, PC and Vindex Holdings, LLC. Vindex Capital Management, LLC is a state-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm employs an asset-allocation approach combined with fundamental and technical analysis, offering tax-aware portfolio construction and coordinating with tax and legal professionals, alongside financial planning and integrated accounting services under common ownership.

At Astra Wealth Management, we provide personalized financial planning and investment management for individuals and families navigating financial complexity. We serve high-net-worth families and high-income professionals, including retirees, sales professionals, business owners, and multi-generational families who value thoughtful guidance and a long-term partnership. AWM is located in San Diego, California and serves clients across the nation. Our clients often come to us during pivotal moments—retirement, equity compensation events, business transitions, job changes, inheritance, or major lifestyle shifts. We specialize in helping clients make confident, informed decisions during these life-defining transitions. Our services include: • Comprehensive financial planning • Portfolio management • Tax planning • Estate and legacy planning • Equity compensation and business transition planning • Insurance & Risk Management As an independent, fiduciary firm, we focus on helping clients align their wealth with what matters most—offering clarity, confidence, and a plan built for the long term.

Aleksandra Vasilyeva is the principal of North County Financial Planning, LLC in Carlsbad, CA. She holds a Series 65 designation and has one year of industry experience. Prior to founding her firm, she worked at Shell Energy North America and studied at Wharton Business School. Her firm provides investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals, including high-net-worth clients. It offers educational seminars, speaking engagements, and a separate premarital financial coaching service. The firm uses a fee-only model with customized investment policies that blend passive and active strategies and emphasizes public education and behavioral coaching.

Matthew Kather is the sole advisor at MK Investment Advisors, LLC, an independent firm based in Carlsbad, CA. He holds the CFA® designation and a Series 63 license, with nine years of industry experience, including six years self-employed prior to founding his current firm in 2017. MK Investment Advisors, LLC provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to a small client base that includes individuals, trusts, estates, and pension/profit-sharing plans. The firm employs a tailored asset allocation framework using both fundamental and technical analysis, incorporating strategies such as margin borrowing, option contracts, single-stock futures, and short sales, with portfolios managed through separately managed accounts.

Michael Harnett is a financial advisor at Harnett Investment Advisers LLC in Carlsbad, CA, with 19 years of industry experience. He has held his current position since 2008 and holds the Series 63 and Series 66 designations. Harnett Investment Advisers provides discretionary investment management and optional financial planning to individuals, families, trusts, non-profit organizations, and institutional clients. The firm uses fundamental analysis to identify undervalued opportunities and actively manages portfolios that may include concentrated positions and exposures to small- and mid-cap and international securities.

Nicholas Iammarino is a financial advisor at LPL Financial with 38 years of industry experience. He holds the CFP® designation and has been associated with LPL Financial since 1992. In addition to his role at LPL, he provides financial planning and consulting services through his independent registered investment advisor firm, Nicholas J. Iammarino. LPL Financial offers advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individual investors, retirement plan sponsors, institutions, and high-net-worth households. The firm supports its advisors with an in-house research team that develops model portfolios and provides a range of investment solutions tailored to client needs.

Richard Bell is the sole advisor at Bell Strategic Investments, Inc. in Escondido, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 25 years of industry experience. He has led Bell Strategic Investments since 2003. Outside of his advisory work, Bell serves as a volunteer reserve police officer. Bell Strategic Investments provides discretionary investment supervisory services to individual and high-net-worth clients, managing approximately $61 million in assets. The firm employs a client-specific investment process incorporating charting, fundamental, and technical analysis, using both long- and short-term trading techniques along with higher-complexity strategies when appropriate.

James O'Brien is a financial advisor at JMO Financial with 30 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 63 designation and has worked as an independent insurance agent since 1996. In addition to his advisory role, he is a licensed real estate broker and insurance agent in Carlsbad, CA. JMO Financial is a sole-advisor independent firm that provides financial planning, portfolio management, and third-party adviser selection for individual clients. The firm manages approximately $8.27 million across five client relationships, focusing on asset allocation and fundamental analysis with regular account reviews and client meetings.

Steven Tardiff is a financial advisor with Advisory Financial Services LLC in Oceanside, CA, holding a Series 63 designation and 39 years of industry experience. He has been with Advisory Financial Services since 1999. In addition to his advisory work, he is involved in tax consulting, insurance, and has served as a CFO. Advisory Financial Services LLC is a small, independent registered investment adviser serving primarily individual clients as well as pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, and other business entities. The firm offers comprehensive financial planning, investment management, and in-house income tax planning and preparation, tailoring portfolios to client risk tolerance and time horizons with ongoing monitoring and quarterly reviews.

Justin Irving is a CFP® professional with 26 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is the principal advisor at Irving Advisory Group, LLC, an independent firm he founded in 2012. In addition to his advisory work, he owns and operates an insurance agency and a tax preparation and planning business. Irving Advisory Group, LLC provides financial advice to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities. The firm primarily directs clients to third-party investment managers and focuses on mutual funds, bonds, ETFs, and insurance products, maintaining co-advisory relationships without exercising investment discretion or taking custody of client accounts.

Dean Hunter is the principal of Hunter VIP Investments, LLC, an independent investment advisory firm. He holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has one year of experience in financial advising. Prior to founding his firm, Hunter worked at People 2.0 Global, LLC and Thrivent Investment Management and spent 35 years with Boeing. Hunter VIP Investments serves individual and high-net-worth clients, providing discretionary investment management and retirement account advice using diversified portfolios primarily composed of low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, with additional use of stocks, bonds, options, and certificates of deposit. The firm utilizes a fiduciary, long-term investment approach augmented by fundamental and technical analysis, offering portfolio customization and oversight, including allocations to independent managers.

Rhonda Farrar is the sole advisor at Farrar Financials, an independent firm based in Escondido, CA. She holds a Series 65 designation and has 16 years of industry experience, having founded Farrar Financials in 2009. Farrar Financials provides comprehensive financial planning, wealth management consulting, and fiduciary services primarily to high-net-worth individuals and trusts. The firm emphasizes client-led, non-discretionary implementation and delivers quantitative reporting and tax-aware financial plans tailored to tech-savvy clients.

Marvin Mills is the sole advisor at Strategic Income Advisors and holds a Series 63 designation with 25 years of industry experience. He has been with Strategic Income Advisors since 2011 and has worked in benefits advisory and consulting roles since 1985. In addition to his advisory work, Mills conducts insurance agent activities as part of his business. Strategic Income Advisors provides discretionary investment management primarily to individual clients and financial professionals, focusing on portfolio management through mutual funds. The firm employs a proprietary daily market-timing strategy applied consistently across accounts, often using leveraged and inverse mutual funds with relatively frequent trading.

Gary Antone is the principal of Antone Asset Management, Inc., an independent advisory firm based in Carlsbad, California. He holds a Series 63 designation and has 29 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Antone Asset Management in 2006, he was involved with The Antone Financial Group since 1999 and H.D. Vest Investment Securities since 1989. Outside of advisory services, he owns Gary Antone Insurance Services, where he provides life insurance and annuity sales and servicing. Antone Asset Management manages approximately $17.4 million across 43 client relationships, serving individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, and corporations. The firm employs a three-step service model involving client discovery, implementation, and continuous monitoring, utilizing fundamental and technical analysis to build diversified portfolios with a focus on longer-term holdings and periodic rebalancing.

Matthew Higbie is a CFA® charterholder with one year of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Birchwood Capital. His prior roles include positions at Balyasny Asset Management L.P., Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC, and Carlson Capital, L.P. Birchwood Capital serves individual and high-net-worth clients by providing comprehensive financial planning and discretionary investment management. The firm employs a passive, asset-allocation-driven approach focused on tax-aware implementation and primarily utilizes mutual funds and ETFs.

Donna Gebhart is a financial advisor at Gebhart & Associates, Inc. in Fallbrook, CA, holding a Series 63 designation with 30 years of industry experience. She has been with Gebhart & Associates since 1998. Outside of her advisory role, she is also licensed as an insurance agent offering life, health, disability, long-term care, and fixed annuities. Gebhart & Associates is a small registered advisory firm providing financial planning, modular consulting, and related services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm focuses on written financial plans and asset-class or diversified-portfolio recommendations rather than ongoing portfolio management.

Linda Halleran is a financial advisor at Frank Financial Advisors with 10 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at United Capital Financial Advisers, LLC for seven years before joining her current firm. Outside of her advisory role, she is licensed as a health and life insurance agent and manages a small insurance business. Frank Financial Advisors provides discretionary asset management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm employs a mix of fundamental and technical analysis, using primarily no-load or low-load mutual funds and ETFs, and offers retirement-plan advisory services under ERISA and the Pension Protection Act.

J Everhart is a financial advisor at Vector Financial Solutions, Inc. with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at firms including LPL Enterprise, Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Pruco Securities, LLC. Outside of his advisory role, he is a partner in Everhart Hospitality. Vector Financial Solutions serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, charities, and pension and profit-sharing plans with comprehensive financial planning, portfolio management, and retirement-plan consulting. The firm uses modern portfolio theory and model portfolios tailored to client needs, providing ongoing monitoring, rebalancing, and written financial plans.

Nicholas Gardner is a CFP® with 14 years of industry experience and is currently with The Financial Team, Inc. He has previously worked at Great Point Capital, LLC and Jrl Capital Corporation. In addition to his advisory role, he is a licensed insurance agent involved in insurance sales since 2011. The Financial Team, Inc. provides financial planning, consulting, and referral services to a range of clients including individuals, trusts, and retirement plans. The firm does not manage assets directly but connects clients with independent third-party managers who implement discretionary portfolio strategies, often using diversified ETFs and institutional mutual funds.

James Patterson is a financial advisor at Premier Financial Planning, Inc. in Valley Center, CA, holding a Series 65 credential with four years of industry experience. He has been with Premier Financial Planning since 2011. Premier Financial Planning, Inc. is a small, state-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, pension plans, and business entities. The firm provides financial planning and discretionary portfolio management using a strategic asset allocation approach guided by Modern Portfolio Theory, with services tailored to clients’ time horizons and risk tolerances.