Rocco Santomenno is the sole advisor at Rocco R. Santomenno, an independent firm based in Fair Lawn, NJ. He holds over 14 years of industry experience and has been practicing as a sole practitioner since 1975. In addition to his advisory work, he serves as president of Gold Ring Investments, Inc., a mortgage placement business. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management focused on publicly traded equities for individuals, trusts, and pension or profit-sharing plans. It emphasizes fundamental equity analysis and manages approximately eighty client accounts with just over $50 million in assets under management.

Charles Carmona is a financial advisor at Westmore Asset Management with 25 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at Torino Capital LLC and Rena Advisors LLC. Westmore Asset Management serves a small, primarily high-net-worth client base, managing approximately $54.5 million across seven accounts. The firm provides investment supervisory services alongside limited business strategy consulting and employs multiple methods of analysis, including charting, fundamental, technical, and cyclical approaches.

I am a fee-only, advice-only investment advisor and financial planner. My mission is to provide great advice at a fair price to support each client’s purpose in life. I am a CFP® Practitioner and CFA® Charterholder. As Founder and Principal Advisor at IndiePlan™, I am committed to our fiduciary duty by providing independent holistic advice and education that puts clients’ interests first. I entered the advisory business after a thirty-year career in financial services. I am a former Head of Index Governance and Chairman of the US Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, where my job was to oversee major benchmarks like the S&P 500®. Prior to that, I held a variety of positions - from designing indexes and assisting leading asset management firms to working on a portfolio management team that served institutional clients. My interest in investing and financial planning is long standing. I enjoy helping others as they save, invest, and plan for their future, or as they prepare for transitions like retirement, a health challenge, a second career, starting a new business, furthering their education, or taking extended leave. At IndiePlan™ we strive to meet clients where they are in their journey. We provide independent, holistic, tailored advice at a fair price.

Neil Murphy is a financial advisor with NPM Consulting, LLC in Ridgewood, NJ, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and 12 years of industry experience. He has worked at Rose Wealth Advisors LLC since 2024 and has been with NPM Consulting since 2012. NPM Consulting provides financial planning, tax preparation, and investment management services primarily to high-net-worth individuals, related trusts, and select pension plans and business entities. The firm builds customized portfolios using fundamental and technical analysis, asset allocation, and active management, incorporating a range of securities and derivatives, and also offers a managed futures program for accredited investors.

Steven Hecht is the sole advisor at Steven Hecht Investments, Inc., an independent firm based in Teaneck, NJ. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 18 years of industry experience, having led his firm since 2007. Steven Hecht Investments, Inc. provides portfolio management services to individuals and a variety of institutional clients, including small businesses, pension plans, trusts, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a combination of securities and uses fundamental, technical, and charting analysis to tailor and monitor portfolios on an ongoing basis, often managing accounts on a discretionary basis.

Lloyd Stabiner is a financial advisor with Fulcire Wealth Management, LLC, holding a Series 65 designation and 15 years of industry experience. He has worked as a CPA since 2010. Fulcire Wealth Management serves well-to-do individuals and families, focusing on portfolio management combined with tax and wealth-transfer guidance. The firm emphasizes managing assets designated for short-term investments and income generation through dividend-paying equities and covered-call writing, with a tax-aware, options-focused investment approach.

Matthew Morano is a CFA® charterholder and financial advisor with 11 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Curbstone Advisors LLC, an independent firm he has been with since 2015. Prior to this, he held a senior director position in business analysis at CME Group, Inc., where he worked full-time supporting front-office trading systems for futures, options, and swaps. Curbstone Advisors provides personalized portfolio management and ongoing investment supervision to individual clients on a fee-only basis. The firm emphasizes a strategic, cyclical, and contrarian asset allocation approach using low-cost ETFs, individual stocks, fixed income, and alternatives, while employing automated rebalancing and maintaining liquidity for opportunistic buying.

Youwei Jing is an advisor at Alterra with a Series 65 designation and no prior industry experience. Before joining Alterra, Jing worked at several companies including DevelopIntelligence, Bubble, and Correlation One. Alterra Group LLC is an independent investment adviser specializing in managing short box spread options strategies using exchange-traded, European-style S&P 500 index options. The firm serves individuals, other advisers, and small businesses, focusing exclusively on these strategies without providing comprehensive financial planning.

Humberto Portillo is a financial advisor at Financial Freedom Management LLC with nine years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with his current firm since 2015. Financial Freedom Management LLC is a fee-only registered investment adviser serving individuals, trusts, estates, and pension plans with approximately $8.1 million in assets under management. The firm uses a rules-based quantitative approach to asset allocation, incorporating low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, tax-loss harvesting, and leverage strategies, with a focus on special-needs planning and community education through seminars and workshops.

Thomas Faranda is a financial advisor with Hudson View Advisors, LLC, holding the ChFC® and Series 63 designations and bringing 40 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Mass Mutual Investors Services and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. In addition to his advisory work, he is an independent insurance agent specializing in disability, fixed annuities, life/accident/health, and long-term care insurance. Hudson View Advisors provides portfolio management, pension consulting, and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a variety of analytical approaches and offers both long- and short-term trading strategies, with a notable focus on pension consulting uncommon among independent single-advisor firms.

Shawn O’Brien is a financial advisor at Cois Dara Investing with Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Cois Dara Investing, he worked at Diageo and Loudpack. Cois Dara Investing provides ongoing portfolio management to individual and high-net-worth clients, emphasizing a long-term trading strategy supported by charting, fundamental, quantitative, and technical analysis. The firm prepares Investment Policy Statements for clients and seeks discretionary authority to implement portfolio decisions, primarily recommending equities along with mutual funds, ETFs, commodities, non-U.S. securities, and venture capital funds to diversify portfolios.

Mark Mcnally is the sole advisor at Megstar Financial Management Inc. in Montvale, NJ, with 31 years of industry experience. He has worked at Megstar since 1992 and concurrently serves as a television production technician at WNYW-TV since 1977. Megstar Financial Management provides discretionary portfolio management and general financial advice to a select individual client base. The firm utilizes Modern Portfolio Theory to build diversified, low-turnover portfolios and emphasizes transparent reporting and conflict reduction through specific trading practices.

Alexander Selem is the principal at Archedia Capital LLC, an independent advisory firm, and holds a Series 65 credential with six years of industry experience. He also works as Director of Data and Research at The Travelers Companies, where he conducts predictive modeling and data science related to workers compensation claims. Archedia Capital LLC provides discretionary investment management and portfolio advisory services to a small client base that includes individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, retirement plans, and certain business entities. The firm combines passive ETF-based allocations with active, systematic strategies driven by quantitative models and statistical arbitrage, employing risk controls such as position limits and diversification.

Ralph Condis is the principal of Executive Business Financial Planning in Dumont, NJ, with 22 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63, 65, and 66 designations and has been with his current firm and Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments since 2004. Outside of his financial advisory role, Mr. Condis is involved in religious missions as a Deacon of Humanity, produces original music and educational content, and works with Public Partnerships for NJ, supporting care for autistic and disabled individuals. Executive Business Financial Planning provides investment management and financial planning services to individuals, retirement plans, non-profits, trusts, and institutional clients. The firm employs a combination of proprietary technical and fundamental models alongside third-party asset allocation, utilizing tactical diversification, periodic rebalancing, and tax-aware strategies, including options collars, to manage client portfolios.

Jonathan Durant is a CFP® professional with 26 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Durant Financial Planning LLC, an independent firm he has led since 2019. Prior to founding his firm, he worked at Fidelity Personal and Workplace Advisors and Strategic Advisers. Durant Financial Planning LLC serves individual clients, including both non-high-net-worth and high-net-worth households, managing approximately $22.2 million across about 54 accounts. The firm provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management along with comprehensive financial planning, primarily focusing on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds through firm-developed model portfolios and a range of investment strategies.

Frank Avena is a financial advisor at 191 Godwin Associates, Inc. d/b/a Godwin Capital Management, holding a Series 65 credential with 21 years of industry experience. He has been with Godwin Capital Management since 2001 and also operates Warsaw & Avena CPA's PC, a certified public accounting firm. 191 Godwin Associates provides discretionary portfolio management to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, and non-profit organizations. The firm integrates fundamental and technical analysis in its investment process and offers services including Investment Policy Statement development, asset allocation, and wrap-fee program sponsorship.

Steven Kampschmidt is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional dedicated to assisting individuals and families in their pursuit of financial freedom. After establishing a practice within Merrill Lynch, he had an increasing desire to service his clients in a way that was unavailable at almost all other firms within the industry. It was at this point that he opted to create something new, and thus Freedom Found Financial was born. Steven also has his MBA in finance and economics from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He currently resides in Boonton, NJ with his wife Jessica, his two daughters Adeline and Evelyn, as well as his two dogs Meadow and Summer. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He also uses his free time training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, playing beach volleyball down the shore, and snowboarding during the winter months.

Patrick Keane is a financial advisor at Nevis Equity Advisors LLC in New York, NY, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with one year of industry experience. He has worked at several firms including Bank of America and Envoy Mortgage, and is involved in entrepreneurial ventures such as co-founding a parking information app and operating a guided-tour business. He is also a licensed mortgage loan originator. Nevis Equity Advisors LLC provides discretionary investment management, wealth management, and financial planning services to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm’s investment process is based on fundamental analysis with a long-term focus, incorporating individual stocks, bonds, alternative investments, and cryptocurrency when appropriate, and frequently selects and oversees unaffiliated independent managers as part of its strategy.

Seaver Wang is a financial advisor at Karagosian Financial Services, Inc. with 22 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been associated with Karagosian Financial Services since 2010. Wang is also affiliated with NPA Asset Management, Inc. and Npa Financial Services, Inc., where he has worked since 2011. Karagosian Financial Services provides personalized financial planning and portfolio management primarily for individual clients, while also serving corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, endowments, and certain foreign funds. The firm customizes portfolios based on client age, risk tolerance, and financial circumstances, utilizing both fundamental and technical analysis across various strategies including growth, value, and event-driven special situations.

Jordan Hod is a financial advisor at Revel Wealth Management with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Revel Wealth Management, he worked at Ellkay for eight years and held positions at LeagueApps and Yeshiva University. Revel Wealth Management provides discretionary wealth management and financial consulting services to individuals, families, business owners, trusts, estates, nonprofits, and other entities. The firm manages portfolios using a broad range of securities and employs both quantitative and qualitative analysis, serving a small client base with a high assets-under-management per client ratio.