Michael Oconitrillo is a financial advisor with Secure Investment Management, LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and eight years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Cetera and Strategic Fortune Wealth Management. Secure Investment Management serves individuals, business entities, trusts, and estates, offering financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and separately managed account solutions. The firm employs a quantitative, factor-based investment approach centered on Modern Portfolio Theory, utilizing low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, third-party managers, and direct indexing tailored to client objectives.

Justin Mccurdy is a financial advisor at Manhattan West Asset Management, LLC with 12 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Manhattan West since 2017, previously working at AdvicePeriod, LLC. Outside of his advisory role, he is president of a summer basketball camp program called ProSkills. Manhattan West Asset Management serves individual and institutional clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts, and retirement plans, offering discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and a Digital Asset Advisory Program. The firm employs a fiduciary, client-tailored approach that integrates fundamental, quantitative, and technical analysis across various investment strategies, managing over $1 billion in assets.

Kevin Lum is a CFP®-credentialed financial advisor with seven years of industry experience. He has worked at Foundry Financial LLC since 2019 and previously spent six years at The Table. Outside of his advisory role, he dedicates time weekly to managing insurance sales. Foundry Financial LLC offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, and pension consulting to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm uses a risk-based, diversified investment approach with adviser-held discretion to manage long-term client portfolios.

Clete Albitz is a financial advisor with Cetera, holding the CFP® and CFA® designations and over 19 years of industry experience. He has been associated with various Cetera entities since 2005 and is also co-senior vice president of Albitz/Miloe & Associates Inc., an advisory business he has been involved with since 2006. Cetera Investment Advisers serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth, institutional, and retirement-plan clients, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and fiduciary solutions through a network of independent advisors. The firm combines advisor-managed accounts, firm-sponsored model portfolios, and third-party managed solutions with unique retirement and fiduciary services integrated into its broader institutional platform.

Kevin Sacre is a financial advisor with Atlantic Investments a Registered Investment Advisor, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA, holding a Series 65 designation and 11 years of industry experience. He has worked at Atlantic Investments since 2015 and Atlantic Financial Services, Inc. since 2017. Outside of financial services, Sacre owns Sacre Images, a photography business established in 2010. Atlantic Investments serves individuals and high-net-worth clients by providing personalized financial planning and coordinating implementation through third-party money managers. The firm does not manage client assets directly but offers services including retirement planning, cash-flow and tax reviews, estate planning modules, and referrals to other professionals.

Ryan Balderian is a financial advisor at Quantum Financial Advisors, LLC with nine years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Abacus Wealth Partners and C2 Education. Outside of his advisory role, he teaches math, science, and finance through Lightsquared Education and is a shareholder and video editor at Wormburners Media, Inc. Quantum Financial Advisors serves individuals, high net worth families, trusts, estates, employer retirement plans, and other business entities with comprehensive portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm employs an asset-class, rules-based investment process emphasizing mutual funds, ETFs, and separately managed accounts, with strategies including a Total Market approach and a Sustainable approach using environmental rankings.

Brent Donovan is a financial advisor at Grant Tani Barash & Altman, LLC with 24 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 designations and has previously worked at Geneos Wealth Management, Inc. and Hightower Securities. Outside of his advisory role, he is president of MAD Donovan Inc. Grant Tani Barash & Altman, LLC is an SEC-registered business management and investment advisory firm serving ultra-high-net-worth individuals and various institutions. The firm offers bundled business-management services alongside customized asset allocation and acts as a multi-family office liaison, providing both investment recommendations and due diligence on third-party managers.

Kevin Kiely is a financial advisor at Checchi Capital Advisers, LLC with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation. His prior work experience includes positions at Deloitte and Berry Global, as well as a period studying at Southern Methodist University. Checchi Capital Advisers provides discretionary portfolio management primarily for high-net-worth individuals and a variety of institutional and pooled clients. The firm uses quantitatively driven investment strategies employing proprietary models, ETFs, and tax-optimization techniques across globally diversified equity and fixed-income portfolios.

Zev Fried is a financial advisor at JSF Financial, LLC in Los Angeles, CA, with 16 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Mid Atlantic Capital Corporation since 2010, alongside his tenure at JSF Financial beginning in 2008. Fried is also president of AJLH Inc., a pass-through entity established for commission management. JSF Financial provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and wealth management services to individuals, trusts, charitable organizations, pension plans, and businesses. The firm employs dynamic asset allocation, model portfolios, and quantitative analysis to customize investment strategies and manages approximately $1.73 billion in client assets.

Riley Maher is a financial advisor at Elwood & Goetz Wealth Advisory Group, LLC with 23 years of industry experience. He held a position at Penta Investment Counsel LLC from 2003 until 2026 before joining his current firm. Maher holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations. Elwood & Goetz provides fee-only investment management and comprehensive financial planning services to affluent and emerging-affluent individuals, families, trusts, estates, business owners, and sponsors of corporate retirement plans. The firm emphasizes Modern Portfolio Theory, global diversification, and predominantly passive implementation using index funds and ETFs, combining this approach with institutional retirement-plan fiduciary services and operational practices such as account aggregation through held-away platforms.

Brandon Tesar is a financial advisor at One Wealth Capital Management, LLC with 13 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has worked in various roles at firms including Guardian Life Insurance Company and Park Avenue Securities. Outside of finance, Tesar is a freelance actor, writer, director, and producer in the entertainment industry. One Wealth Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered advisory firm managing approximately $307 million for individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as foundations, trusts, corporations, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a macro-environmental approach to tactical asset allocation, combining growth and fixed-income strategies across various investment vehicles.

Roberto Santos is a financial advisor at Arrowroot Family Office, LLC with 22 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at J.P. Morgan Securities from 2004 to 2011. Outside of his advisory role, Santos serves as Managing Partner of Vitreous Partners Holdings, LLC, providing business consulting on non-investment related M&A activities, and is a board member of GL Concepts. Arrowroot Family Office offers advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, families, and a variety of institutional clients. The firm focuses on asset allocation using analytical tools and manages portfolios primarily composed of ETFs and mutual funds, while also sponsoring private funds and providing multi-family office services including tax efficiency and M&A advisory.

Turkessa Ferrer Babich is a financial advisor at Westside Financial Advisors LLC with four years of industry experience. She has been with Westside Financial since 2021 and also runs an entertainment company. Westside Financial Advisors LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning services to individuals, including high net worth clients, as well as corporations and other businesses. The firm employs a primarily passive, asset-class-based investment approach using index mutual funds and ETFs, supplemented by fundamental and technical analysis.

David Thomsen is a financial advisor at SFE Investment Counsel Inc. in Los Angeles, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 22 years of industry experience. He has been with SFE Investment Counsel since 2007. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Thomsen volunteers with the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a school for mental health professionals, dedicating about 10% of his time since 2009. SFE Investment Counsel serves individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, retirement plans, businesses, and institutional clients with a focus on individualized investment supervisory services. The firm emphasizes asset allocation and a total-return approach, managing concentrated portfolios through a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis along with fixed-income laddering to manage risk.

Christian Sessing is a CFA® charterholder with 21 years of industry experience, currently serving at AMI Asset Management Corp since 2005. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and works from the firm's Los Angeles office as part of a nine-advisor team. AMI Asset Management provides discretionary portfolio management to a diverse client base, including high net worth individuals, institutions, and private pooled funds. The firm employs a fundamental, bottom-up research approach across multiple equity and fixed-income strategies and is notable for its role as a private fund adviser and manager of pooled vehicles.

Barbara Abundiz is a CFP® with 17 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Horizon Wealth Management. She has previously worked at The Heymont Group and Heymont & Company, Inc., and has been associated with LPL Financial since 2008. In addition to her advisory role, she is involved with BABS MICHAEL, LLC, a non-investment-related business entity. Horizon Wealth Management is an SEC-registered firm that serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, businesses, charitable organizations, and retirement plans. The firm focuses on long-term, fiduciary investment management using diversified portfolios and provides financial planning and retirement-plan advisory services.

Daniel Hart is a Series 65-licensed advisor with Advanced Portfolio Strategies in Torrance, CA, where he has worked for six years. His prior experience includes roles at APS Management Group, Inc. from 2018 to the present, with a period as a student from 2016 to 2018. Advanced Portfolio Strategies serves individuals—including high-net-worth clients—pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities with portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting. The firm employs a diversified, multi-strategy investment approach that includes fundamental, quantitative, and technical analysis, as well as both long- and short-term trading techniques.

Cassidy Plair is a financial advisor at Sustainable Advisors Alliance LLC with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Cassidy worked at Bunkley Investment & Management Company and has academic experience from the University of Houston and the University of Southern California. Sustainable Advisors Alliance, LLC provides portfolio management, financial planning, annuity management, and employee benefit plan services to individuals, retirement plans, corporations, and nonprofit entities. The firm focuses on sustainable, responsible, and impact investing using ESG criteria, combining active and passive strategies, direct indexing, and sub-advisors to tailor portfolios to client goals and preferences.

Scott Swanson is a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP®) with 10 years of industry experience. He has been with Quantum Financial Advisors, LLC since 2022 and previously worked at Abacus Wealth Partners, LLC for seven years. Quantum Financial Advisors serves individuals, high net worth families, trusts and estates, employer retirement plans, and other business entities with comprehensive portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm employs an asset-class, rules-based investment process that emphasizes mutual funds, ETFs, and separately managed accounts, offering both a Total Market and a Sustainable strategy using institutional-class funds and active transparent ETFs.

Nick Nejad is a CFA® charterholder with eight years of industry experience. He has worked at Beverly Hills Private Wealth, LLC since 2023 and previously held roles at KCS Wealth Advisory and Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management. Beverly Hills Private Wealth, LLC provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, pension plans, and business entities. The firm manages discretionary portfolios using asset-allocation frameworks and a combination of fundamental, technical, quantitative, and sector analyses, employing strategies across public and private securities.