Prospero Roda is the sole advisor at Roda Investment Management, LLC in Burtonsville, MD, holding Series 63 and Series 66 credentials with 21 years of industry experience. He has led Roda Investment Management since its founding in 2006. Roda Investment Management provides personalized, fee-only investment management services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities. The firm manages client assets on a discretionary basis using a strategic asset-allocation framework focused on individual equities, fixed income, and exchange-traded funds, incorporating fundamental analysis and global diversification to manage risk.

Koby Clark is a financial advisor at Beckett Clark Private Wealth, LLC in Bethesda, MD, holding a Series 65 designation with four years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he worked at Archer Investment Corporation and Orion Consulting INC. Beckett Clark Private Wealth, LLC provides investment advisory services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities. The firm offers asset management and comprehensive portfolio management, utilizing various analysis methods and may employ active trading and alternative strategies tailored to client goals.

Stephen Cromwell is a financial advisor with Cromwell Investment Advisory, LLC, where he has worked since 2011. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 17 years of industry experience. In addition to his advisory role, he owns and operates Cromwell & Associates, LLC, a tax preparation and accounting business. Cromwell Investment Advisory, LLC provides investment supervisory services and financial planning primarily to individual clients. The firm combines portfolio management with integrated tax and accounting services, utilizing both charting and fundamental analysis to manage client assets directly through discretionary trading strategies.

Justin Moorhead is a financial advisor with Seslia Securities in Takoma Park, MD, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 38 years of industry experience. He has worked with Seslia Securities since 1992 and has operated related entities since 1990. Moorhead is also a licensed insurance producer with the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Seslia Securities provides investment management services to individual and institutional clients, including educational institutions, endowments, nonprofits, trusts, and corporations. The firm typically uses diversified portfolios with a 60% equity and 40% income allocation and offers portfolio monitoring under limited discretionary agreements, along with insurance products through licensed brokers.

Urenna Okoye is a financial advisor at Izuchi LLC in Beltsville, MD, holding a Series 65 designation with two years of industry experience. Prior to joining Izuchi, Okoye worked at CSP Financial Group LLC and has been involved with The Wealth Building CPA since 2018. Outside of advisory work, Okoye provides financial education through courses, speaking engagements, social media, and writing. Izuchi LLC offers financial planning and non-discretionary investment monitoring and consulting services to individuals, trusts, and estates. The firm emphasizes educational workshops and supports clients in managing self-directed brokerage accounts using fundamental and technical analysis without accepting performance-based fees.

Edward Tuvin is the principal of Tuvin & Tuvin, Ltd., an independent advisory firm based in Bethesda, MD. He has over 30 years of experience with the firm and holds additional roles outside of investment advising, including serving as CEO of a mortgage brokerage and managing partner of a private family partnership. Tuvin & Tuvin, Ltd. provides non-discretionary investment consulting and portfolio construction services to individuals, trusts, estates, retirement plans, and corporations. The firm tailors advice to client objectives and risk profiles, primarily recommending mutual funds and ETFs, while clients retain final decision authority.

Yuan He is a financial advisor at HY Financial LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at the General Services Administration since 2019 and the Food and Drug Administration from 2015 to 2019. Outside of his advisory role, he is a limited partner in two small businesses operating entertainment venues in Gaithersburg, Maryland. HY Financial is a small independent registered investment adviser serving individual clients with discretionary portfolio management and limited financial planning services. The firm combines fundamental and technical analysis with a focus on qualitative business evaluation and low turnover, and it monitors accounts regularly while providing written financial plans.

Dewayne Ellis is the principal advisor and founder of The Wealth Syndicate LLC, an independent firm based in Silver Spring, MD. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 19 years of industry experience. Prior to establishing his firm in 2015, Ellis developed expertise in financial planning and portfolio management. Outside of his advisory role, he is a licensed insurance producer affiliated with MassMutual and serves as a general agent for Ameritas, Ohio National, and Crump, offering various commissionable insurance products. The Wealth Syndicate LLC provides ongoing portfolio management and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, managing approximately $5.35 million in assets for about 75 clients. The firm employs a long-term investment approach combining fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory, prepares individualized Investment Policy Statements, delivers written financial plans, and offers a paid monthly newsletter along with periodic client webinars.

Sergio started his career with the most rigorous academic training. He earned the degree of Masters of Science and PhD (UCLA, 2007, 2011 respectively) and worked for the National Academies and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration creating and developing numerical models that are used to help advance understanding on topics that include hurricane prediction and stock market evolution. He has extensive experience creating and interpreting results of what is known as Monte Carlo simulations, that today are used at the core of comprehensive financial plans. Sergio obtained the Certified Financial Planner CFP® certification (industry standard) awarded to fiduciary financial advisors that abide by its Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and that meet its educational, knowledge and experience requirements. Sergio was recruited in the financial industry and worked for a Fortune 500 financial company where he lead a team that serviced hundreds of families and individual investors. He also served as part of leadership directly serving more than 60 financial advisory teams, aiming to improve the depth of their client service and support their career advancement. Sergio regularly lectures on Personal Finance topics with the National Institute of Transitional Planning. He has spoken on the topic at the Treasury department and at the World Bank. He has also been a speaker at dozens of professional organization meetings, nationally and internationally. With 25 years of experience blending rigorous objectivity and the subjective, Sergio founded Personal Financial Partners, a firm that provides financial planning and investment management services to individuals, families, and businesses. The firm operates as a fiduciary, helping clients apply high quality academic research, and leverage the latest technology and the most established financial institutions.

Philip Chauche is the principal of Chauche & Associates LLC, an independent advisory firm based in Germantown, MD. He holds the CFP® and CFA® designations and has 18 years of industry experience. Chauche has led his firm since 2003. Chauche & Associates LLC manages portfolios and provides financial planning for a limited number of individual clients, focusing on diversified, personalized asset allocation. The firm employs a top-down investment approach, primarily using no-load and low-load mutual funds, and maintains periodic client account reviews without taking custody of assets.

Andrew Meringoff is the sole advisor at Meringoff Wealth Management Group, LLC in Rockville, MD, with 26 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has led his independent firm since 2008. In addition to his advisory role, he is an independent insurance agent, though he is not actively selling insurance. Meringoff Wealth Management Group provides discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm constructs customized portfolios using primarily low-cost mutual funds and ETFs, with a long-term, fundamental investment approach complemented by technical analysis for trade timing and rebalancing.

Arturo Rodriguez is a CFA® charterholder and the sole advisor at Simplexity Investment Management, LLC, with 13 years of industry experience. He has been with Simplexity since its founding in 2013. Simplexity Investment Management provides discretionary investment supervisory services to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, other investment advisers, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm primarily uses mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, employing a mix of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis with both long- and short-term trading strategies.

Eugene Fisher is the sole advisor at Fisher Financial, P.A. in Rockville, MD, with 22 years of industry experience. He has been with Fisher Financial since 1986. Fisher Financial, P.A. is a CPA-based, state-registered investment adviser that provides investment manager selection, financial planning, and income and estate tax planning primarily for high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and tax-exempt organizations. The firm coordinates with third-party managers rather than directly managing client assets and incorporates tax considerations into its planning and recommendations.

We believe wealth should provide greater freedom, not greater complexity. Rule72 Financial helps individuals and families thoughtfully coordinate their investments, financial planning, and the important decisions that come with significant wealth. **A Personal and Family Approach** We begin with what matters to you—your family, priorities, concerns, and the life your wealth is intended to support. From there, we build a financial strategy around those priorities and help carry it forward over time. Many of the families we work with have accumulated wealth gradually through successful careers, disciplined saving and investing, business ownership, or an inheritance. They may have accounts spread across different institutions, tax considerations to manage, retirement decisions approaching, or simply more financial complexity than they want to manage alone. Our role is to bring those pieces together. **Thoughtful Investing. Coordinated Planning.** Investment management and financial planning should not operate separately. We manage portfolios in the context of your retirement income, taxes, cash flow, estate plan, charitable giving, family priorities, and other financial decisions. That means going beyond making recommendations. We help determine what should be done, explain the choices clearly, and implement and manage the strategies you choose. You remain in control of the destination; our job is to help navigate the financial decisions required to get there. **A Deliberate Approach to Markets** Good wealth management rarely requires reacting to every market move. We believe portfolios should have a purpose within the larger financial plan. Our approach emphasizes diversification, tax awareness, appropriate risk, disciplined portfolio management, and staying focused on the decisions that matter most. Rather than adding complexity for its own sake, we look for thoughtful strategies that can be understood, implemented, and maintained. **Working With the People You Trust** Wealth decisions often extend beyond investments. When appropriate, we work alongside your CPA, estate attorney, and other professionals so tax, estate, investment, and planning decisions can be considered together rather than in isolation. **Stewarding Wealth Across Generations** Whether your wealth was built over decades, inherited from someone important to you, or created through a business or career transition, eventually the question becomes larger than investment performa

I founded GuidePoint because I believe that fee-only financial planning is the road map to an amazing place – financial freedom. Financial freedom gives you the power to plan for endless possibilities. It is the power to retire early, send your kids to any college, or spend more of your precious time with the ones that matter most. For me, this all begins by working in a transparent, fee-only manner. This means every day we are working for you and your best interests. Together we will explore valuable planning opportunities, uncover financial blind spots, and achieve an even greater tomorrow. As a planner, one of my favorite quotes is, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago - the second best time is now." If you have never worked with a fee-only planner before, I am excited to share our distinct approach with you. I offer a free 30-minute call where you can ask me any financial questions you may have.

Most professionals, pre-retirees, and retirees have gaps in their financial plans that cost time, money, and peace of mind. These gaps often appear not because of poor planning, but because life itself keeps evolving. Careers change, families grow, tax laws shift, and priorities move. Over time, even the most well-intentioned plans can lose alignment with the lives they were built to support. With15+ years of working closely with individuals and families, I’ve seen firsthand how the right guidance and a truly collaborative relationship can make all the difference. At Addax Bridge Financial we believe every client’s story is unique, which is why every plan is too. Together, we look beyond numbers and portfolios to understand what matters most; your goals, values, and the life you’re building. From there we help close the gaps through a comprehensive approach that brings every part of your financial life into alignment by integrating: - Holistic or Goal-Based Financial Planning – aligning your finances with what matters most to you - Retirement Planning – creating a confident path to and through retirement - Investment Management – disciplined, research-driven portfolio construction and management - Tax Planning – strategies to help minimize taxes and maximize wealth - Estate Planning – preserving your legacy for the next generation - Insurance Planning – protecting what you’ve worked so hard to build - Education Planning - guiding families to fund futures with confidence As a Fiduciary and Fee-Only Wealth Management and Financial Planning firm, our mission is to simplify the complexities of finance, giving clients clarity, confidence, and a trusted partner at every stage of life. We focus on fewer relationships, that way we’re able to go deeper, understanding what matters most to you and staying involved every step of the way. It’s the kind of thoughtful, one-to-one partnership that larger firms simply can’t match.

Robert Tucker is the sole advisor at Professional Financial Services, Inc. in Venice, FL, holding a ChFC® designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has 47 years of industry experience and has worked at firms including LPL Financial and Grove Point Investments. Tucker has maintained his independent advisory business since 1983. Professional Financial Services, Inc. offers financial planning and advisory services to retirement plan sponsors, business entities, and individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals. The firm emphasizes long-term, after-tax strategies and asset-class diversification through a structured multi-meeting planning process and generally does not accept discretionary trading authority, often acting as a liaison when clients engage external money managers.

I'm the founder of Gilmore Financial Planning. I work with people building towards financial freedom, from visualizing possibilities, to mapping out what steps to take, to actually living it. I'm a fiduciary, paid only by the flat, transparent fee we agree on, and you keep full control of your own accounts. I'm a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® and an Enrolled Agent, an IRS credential reflecting demonstrated tax knowledge. I race regularly at US Masters rowing regattas and love going on adventures with my husband, four boys, and two dogs. Our family budget has categories for rowing and for camping equipment. I understand what it means to plan around the things that matter.

Andrew Omidvar is a financial advisor at Avesta Venture Advisors with three years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at Triad Advisors since 1999. Outside of his advisory role, he has been affiliated with the University of DC since 1988. Avesta Venture Advisors provides technology-focused research and advisory services to qualified investors and institutional clients, including pension plans and endowments. The firm specializes in evaluating future technologies in computer and electronics using public information and employs a project-based billing approach.

David Middleton is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 12 years of industry experience. He founded Middleton Advisory in 2010 and serves as its sole advisor. His credentials include Series 65 and Series 66 licenses. Middleton Advisory is a fee-only registered investment adviser providing financial planning and discretionary portfolio management for individuals, families, qualified retirement plans, and institutional clients such as foundations and trusts. The firm uses diversified, low-cost funds and may incorporate individual securities, commodities, and options, with options for socially and environmentally conscious strategies.