Marisa Marshall is a CFP® professional at Capstone Financial Advisors Inc with six years of experience in the financial services industry. Her prior roles include positions at The Mather Group, Baroncini, Shorts, and Morton Private Wealth. Capstone Financial Advisors serves individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporate clients, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and supplementary services such as tax preparation and access to private fund investments. The firm emphasizes asset-class allocation, cost control, and tax positioning, managing approximately $2.44 billion in client assets across a multi-advisor team.

Hally Dunn is a financial advisor at 4 Wealth Advisors, Inc. with 32 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments for 10 years prior to her current role. Outside of advisory services, she is involved with 4Wealth Insurance Group, helping clients with life, disability, and long-term care insurance. 4 Wealth Advisors provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as pension plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm offers customized portfolio management and employs a range of analytical methods, with affiliations that create integrated service pathways uncommon among peers.

Samuel Gerry is a financial advisor at Goldstone Financial Group, LLC with two years of industry experience. He holds the Series 65 and Series 63 credentials. Prior to joining Goldstone, he worked at ALPS Distributors, Inc. and Performance Trust Asset Management. Goldstone Financial Group is a multi-team SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $1.05 billion for individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and access to various investment models, utilizing mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and alternative vehicles with ongoing account monitoring and formal annual reviews.

Alan Krause is a financial advisor at Clearwater Capital Partners with 17 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Clearwater Capital Partners since 2008. Krause also serves as Chief Operations Officer at Shodeen Group, a real estate development company, and is a director at Porte Brown, a certified public accounting firm. Clearwater Capital Partners advises high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional clients, providing services including private wealth management, institutional advisory, and retirement plan strategies. The firm manages portfolios based on written Investment Policy Statements and employs a range of analytical approaches, with access to alternative investments and private placements.

Priyadarshan Pradhan is a Series 66-licensed financial advisor with Unique Wealth Strategies in Burr Ridge, Illinois, bringing four years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Kingswood Capital Partners and several other financial firms since 2018. Unique Wealth Strategies serves individuals, small businesses, trusts, estates, and charitable clients with asset management, financial planning, and retirement plan services. The firm sponsors its own wrap-fee program and employs a range of investment approaches, including the use of derivatives and leverage, while also facilitating access to alternative managers.

James Chapman is a financial advisor at Clearwater Capital Partners with 12 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with Clearwater in various capacities since 2016. In addition to his advisory role, he is involved in the sale of life and long-term care insurance as part of a comprehensive financial plan. Clearwater Capital Partners provides family office services, private wealth management, institutional advisory, and retirement plan advising. The firm serves individual, high-net-worth, and several institutional clients, employing a range of investment strategies including asset allocation, fundamental and quantitative analysis, options strategies, and thematic exploration.

Brian Burkhart is a financial advisor at Wealth Effects with 12 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at firms including Bridgeway Wealth Partners, Avenir Private Advisors, Bank of America, Merrill, and Managed Account Advisors. Wealth Effects provides discretionary wealth management, financial planning, and investment management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, retirement plans, and businesses. The firm uses a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to build primarily long-term portfolios with individual stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, and options, managing accounts mostly on a discretionary basis with regular reviews.

Jeremy Reiland is a financial advisor at Vantage Point Financial, LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Prosperity Capital Advisors and The Chamberlin Group. Outside of his advisory role, he is a licensed insurance agent with Reiland Financial Group, offering life and health insurance products and Medicare planning. Vantage Point Financial serves individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, and business owners by providing investment management, financial planning, and wealth consulting. The firm employs a fiduciary, customized approach focused on long-term portfolio construction using low-cost funds and ETFs, with flexibility to include alternative investments and tax-sensitive strategies.

Michael Walschot is a financial advisor with Total Clarity Wealth Management, Inc. in Naperville, IL, holding a Series 66 designation and having 14 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at LPL Financial and CETERA Advisor Networks, and he served as an adjunct accounting instructor from 2004 to 2018. Outside of advising, he is involved in tax preparation and accounting through American Capital Tax Preparation and Accounting. Total Clarity Wealth Management is a multi-advisor firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer retirement plans. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management, financial and retirement planning, and specialized services using a range of investment strategies and products tailored to client needs.

Robert Wootton is a CFP® professional with 15 years of experience in financial advising, currently with Capstone Financial Advisors Inc. He has worked at USAA Financial Planning Services and USAA Financial Advisors, Inc. since 2011. Capstone Financial Advisors serves individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers portfolio management, financial planning, pension consulting, and tax preparation, with an investment approach that emphasizes asset-class allocation, cost control, and tax positioning.

Vanessa Croessmann is a financial advisor at Total Clarity Wealth Management, Inc. with three years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and has worked as a financial planner with Wall Street Financial Advisors and as an independent licensed insurance agent. Total Clarity Wealth Management is a multi-advisor firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer retirement plans. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management, financial and retirement planning, 401(k) advisory, and utilizes a range of investment strategies including model portfolios, third-party separately managed accounts, and an actively traded strategy for qualified investors.

John Smith IV is a financial advisor at Legacy Financial Advisors, Inc. with 20 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and has worked at several firms, including Arbor Financial Services, LLC and Alpha Cubed Investments, LLC. Since 2006, he has also served as Chief Investment Officer and Partner at Edge Financial Advisors, LLC, focusing on investment management and client services. Legacy Financial Advisors is a multi-advisor team managing approximately $1.5 billion in client assets for individuals, families, businesses, and charitable organizations. The firm provides financial planning and discretionary portfolio management with an investment approach centered on diversification and asset allocation across traditional and alternative investments.

Lauren Genuardi is a CFP® with 14 years of industry experience and is currently with Expressive Wealth LLC, where she has worked since 2024. Her prior experience includes positions at Telemus Capital, LLC and Barrington Strategic Wealth Management Group LLC. She is also an independent insurance agent. Expressive Wealth LLC serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and retirement plans, providing discretionary asset management, ERISA 3(38) plan services, modular financial planning, and consultation. The firm uses a multi-strategy investment approach tailored to client goals and is notable for its ERISA fiduciary services and management of defined-contribution participant accounts through aggregation platforms.

John Hillman is a CFP® and ChFC® with 41 years of experience in the financial industry. He has worked at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and Fiduciary Financial Partners, LLC since 2012. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a trustee managing investments for a family trust. Fiduciary Financial Partners serves individuals, including high-net-worth households, and employer-sponsored retirement plans by providing comprehensive wealth management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services. The firm employs a team-based approach, managing approximately $293 million in assets across five offices.

Jacob Clark is a financial advisor at Clearwater Capital Partners with two years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at Tesla Inc and Federated Bank. Clearwater Capital Partners provides family office services, private wealth management, institutional advisory, and retirement plan advising. The firm serves individual, high-net-worth, and institutional clients, employing a range of investment strategies including asset allocation, fundamental and quantitative analysis, and options strategies.

John McGrath is a financial advisor with Rothschild Wealth LLC, holding a Series 65 designation and bringing 10 years of industry experience. He has been involved with Sentinus, LLC since 2014. Rothschild Wealth serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporate executive groups, retirement plans, trusts, foundations, and other institutional clients, providing portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement and investment consulting through a combination of discretionary and non-discretionary asset management.

Ryan Kaczmarek is a CFP® and Series 65-licensed advisor with five years of industry experience. He is currently with Harvest Investment Services, LLC and Envoy Advisory Inc., having previously worked at Paulson Wealth Management Inc. from 2020 to 2024. He also serves as a co-trustee for a family trust managing his mother’s investment accounts. Harvest Investment Services, LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services to individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations, and other advisers. The firm employs an actively managed tactical strategy using fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analysis across a diverse client base through a multi-advisor team structure.

Richard Johnson is a financial advisor with PCG Wealth Management in Lombard, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 29 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at Waddell & Reed, Inc., various insurance carriers, and LPL Financial. Outside of his advisory work, he is involved with RKJ & Associates, a tax preparation and accounting firm. PCG Wealth Management serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, charitable organizations, corporations, and retirement plans, providing discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm employs a primarily long-term, customized investment approach using diversified mutual funds and ETFs, with flexibility to include other investment vehicles, and maintains a strong focus on retirement-plan fiduciary services.

Ethan Schmidt is a CFP® with nine years of industry experience, currently advising clients at Rothschild Wealth LLC. His prior roles include positions at AlphaCore Capital LLC, Catalyst Wealth Management, and Bank of America, N.A. He holds a Series 66 license. Rothschild Wealth LLC serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporate executive groups, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other institutional and tax-exempt entities. The firm offers comprehensive financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing asset-allocation models and quantitative tools to tailor investment strategies to client objectives and risk profiles.

Tyler Beachler is a CFA® charterholder with 14 years of industry experience. He is currently with Clearwater Capital Partners in Hoffman Estates, IL, where he has worked since 2012, including prior tenure at LPL Financial. Clearwater Capital Partners provides family office services, private wealth management, institutional advisory, and retirement plan advising. The firm serves a diverse client base that includes high-net-worth individuals as well as institutional clients such as sovereign wealth funds and government entities, utilizing a range of portfolio management strategies and offering specialized services like thematic investment approaches and participant education for retirement plans.