Nickolas Bowers is a financial advisor at Liberty Wealth Management, LLC in Oakland, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been in the industry since 2024. Prior to joining Liberty Wealth Management, he worked at New York Life Insurance Company and Sierra Central Credit Union, among other roles. Liberty Wealth Management is an SEC-registered advisory firm serving individuals, trusts, estates, and institutional clients with investment management, financial planning, retirement plan services, and access to third-party manager programs. The firm offers a combination of centrally developed and advisor-created strategies, including access to private market investments and affiliated alternative-asset management.

Wahidah Aziz is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with one year of industry experience. She is currently with Frec, where she has worked since 2026. Her prior experience includes roles at Kikoff, Brio Financial Group, and Litman Gregory Wealth Management, as well as academic positions at New York University and Indiana Tech. Frec Advisers provides automated, software-based discretionary portfolio management to retail individuals, trusts, and other U.S. resident entities through its web and mobile platform. The firm’s investment strategies are implemented electronically, featuring direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting, hedging, and portfolio allocation, with client accounts custodied at Apex.

Gabriel Burczyk is a financial advisor at Assembly Wealth in Mill Valley, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 40 years of industry experience. He has been with WrapManager since 2000. Outside of his advisory work, he is a general partner of NVBG, LLC, involved in property management activities. Assembly Wealth is an SEC-registered advisory team managing approximately $336.7 million as of 12/31/2025, serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, and institutional accounts. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and third-party manager services, utilizing a variety of investment strategies and operating a wrap fee program combined with access to third-party manager options.

Russell Silvestri is a financial advisor with Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. in San Francisco, CA, holding a Series 63 designation and 25 years of industry experience. He has worked at Arcadia Securities, LLC and is the managing partner of Boyden, an executive search firm in Sausalito, CA. Atlas Capital Advisors is an independent investment adviser serving individuals, families, family offices, pension plans, trusts, foundations, and institutions with discretionary wealth management, financial planning, and tax-aware portfolio management. The firm uses a combination of fundamental, technical, and quantitative analysis and employs various instruments including options and futures in separately managed accounts tailored to clients’ needs.

Max Pulitzer is a financial advisor at Colorado Capital Management with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 credential and has previously worked at Pulitzer Family Law and Colorado Wealth Group. Outside of finance, he was involved with Mentoring Through Movement, a nonprofit organization. Colorado Capital Management serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, corporations, foundations, and employer-sponsored retirement plans, managing approximately $638 million across 234 client households with a team of ten advisors. The firm emphasizes written investment policy statements, long-term fundamental analysis, and quarterly reporting, offering both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management along with ESG and alternative investment options.

Ian Fraley is a financial advisor with Mission Creek Capital Partners, Inc. in San Francisco, holding a Series 65 designation and 23 years of industry experience. He has been with Mission Creek since 2014. Mission Creek Capital Partners serves institutional and private clients, including pension plans, endowments, foundations, executives, entrepreneurs, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm employs a core-and-satellite investment approach combining bottom-up company analysis with a top-down economic overlay, and offers discretionary portfolio management, wealth planning, concentrated stock management, sub-advisory services, and specialized private equity distribution and post-venture management.

Stephen Bradley is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with 17 years of industry experience. He has been with Front Row Advisors LLC since 2015, which operates as GenCap Portfolio Management, a team firm based in Tiburon, CA. GenCap Portfolio Management provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and subadvisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and other investment advisers. The firm employs fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory to guide asset allocation and risk management, offering a range of investment strategies without a stated account minimum.

Daniel Young is a CFP® with 22 years of industry experience. He is currently with Delta Investment Management, LLC, where he has worked since 2022. Prior to that, he held positions at Lido Advisors and Quantum Capital Management. Delta Investment Management provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and investment consulting to individuals, institutions, trusts, and pension plans, often onboarding clients with a minimum account size of $50,000. The firm employs a combination of quantitative macro analysis, fundamental research, and technical indicators across multiple distinct strategies, including ETF-based tactical approaches and concentrated equity mandates, and serves as a subadvisor to other investment advisors.

Stuart Crandall is a CFP® and Series 66 licensed advisor with 21 years of industry experience. He is currently with HCM Wealth, where he has worked since 2026. His prior experience includes roles at Hutchinson Capital Management, Threadline Wealth, and Merrill. HCM Wealth is an independent investment adviser serving high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes capital preservation and a value-oriented investment approach using concentrated equity portfolios, laddered fixed income, and client-specific investment policies.

Robert Moses Jr. is a CFA® charterholder with 13 years of industry experience. He is a member of the team at Alpha Solutions Investment Advisors and has held roles there since 2013. Outside of his advisory work, he oversees inventory management at ShopRite, a non-investment related business. Alpha Solutions Investment Advisors is an SEC-registered, fee-only firm managing approximately $509 million in discretionary assets. The firm serves individual and high-net-worth investors as well as institutional clients, offering discretionary portfolio management and customized wealth planning with a focus on exchange-traded instruments and alternative assets.

Brian Kozel is a CFP® professional with 11 years of industry experience. He has been with North Berkeley Investment Partners, now part of North Berkeley Wealth Management, LLC, since 2011. North Berkeley Wealth Management provides comprehensive financial planning and investment management services to a diverse client base including individuals, families, business owners, and charitable organizations. The firm focuses on customized asset allocation and documented investment policies, utilizing a combination of passive and active strategies with options for ESG screening.

Rachel Shin is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license, with five years of experience in financial advising. She has worked at Brio Financial Group since 2023 and previously held roles at Yeske Buie Inc., FMB Wealth Management, and McCarthy Wealth Management. Outside of her advisory career, she was involved with Kickin' Crab from 2015 to 2019. Brio Financial Group serves individuals, trusts, retirement plans, and business entities by providing asset management, financial planning, and consulting services. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management through a wrap fee program and delivers a broad range of consulting, including estate and tax planning, mortgage and debt analysis, and corporate structuring.

Andrew Stout is a financial advisor with Tactivest, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 29 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Raymond James, Merrill, UBS Financial Services, and Citicorp Investment Services. He serves on multiple nonprofit boards, including the LAPD Hollywood Division Police Activity League and the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, and is president of the Leonard & Ilona Ling Family Foundation. Tactivest provides portfolio management and financial planning primarily for individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and pension or profit-sharing plans. The firm employs a range of investment strategies and operates through custodial and platform relationships without imposing an account minimum.

Richard Kuchen Jr. is a financial advisor at Private Wealth Partners, LLC with 13 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been with Private Wealth Partners since 2015. Private Wealth Partners provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts and estates, and corporations. The firm manages approximately $1.92 billion in client assets and employs a range of strategies, including equities, ETFs, fixed income, structured notes, private credit, and select covered-call option programs.

Sanjeev Rao is a financial advisor at Lavelle Capital with 19 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co., LLC for 15 years before joining Lavelle Capital and its predecessor. Lavelle Capital serves entrepreneurial families and their related entities, providing discretionary investment management of public market portfolios and access to private investments. The firm combines public-market allocations with selectively sourced private opportunities, emphasizing long-term capital appreciation, diversification, and risk management.

John Mcnertney is a CFP® with 19 years of industry experience, currently serving at Green Ocean Global Advisors LLC since 2022. He previously worked at Freestone Capital Management and Polaris Greystone Financial Group, LLC. Green Ocean Global Advisors LLC offers discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and referrals to third-party investment managers for individuals, high-net-worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm integrates fundamental, quantitative, modern portfolio theory, and technical analysis to construct portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, and non-U.S. securities, managing approximately $52.9 million across a three-advisor team.

John Burns is a financial advisor with Asset Dedication, LLC in San Francisco, CA, holding Series 65 and Series 66 designations and possessing 21 years of industry experience. He has been with Asset Dedication since 2009. Asset Dedication serves individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small institutions by providing investment management and financial planning. The firm employs an Asset Dedication strategy that aligns equity exposures with investment-grade fixed income to meet clients’ cash-flow needs, utilizing a long-term, asset-class based equity approach and a Critical Path Analysis process for financial scenario modeling.

David La Placa is a financial advisor at Intellectus Partners, LLC with 32 years of industry experience. He has worked at Intellectus Partners since 2015 and previously spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. La Placa holds a Series 63 designation. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in several business ventures, including managing software development projects and serving on advisory boards for various technology firms. Intellectus Partners provides wealth management, financial planning, investment consulting, and wealth coaching to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, and private funds. The firm combines fundamental and quantitative analysis with proprietary algorithms and alternative data to construct portfolios that include ETFs, mutual funds, privately placed securities, cryptocurrency exposure, and options.

Cagatay Koc is a financial advisor at North Berkeley Wealth Management, LLC with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Strategic Wealth Planning, LifePro Financial Services, and Faubourg Private Wealth, among others. North Berkeley Wealth Management serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities, managing approximately $710.6 million in assets. The firm focuses on long-term, total-return oriented portfolios using a combination of passive and active strategies, documented Investment Policy Statements, and systematic rebalancing, with options for ESG and carbon-screened investments.

Jeffrey St. Claire is a financial advisor at Blume Capital Management, Inc. in Berkeley, CA, holding a Series 65 designation with 12 years of industry experience. He has been with Blume Capital Management since 2004. Blume Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, pension plans, charitable foundations, and private investment funds. The firm emphasizes a long-term, value-oriented equity approach combined with diversified asset allocation and the treatment of cash as an asset class, using mutual funds, ETFs, individual securities, and alternative investments for qualified clients.