Mark Ragonese is a Series 65 licensed advisor with six years of industry experience. He is affiliated with Pelican Wealth Advisors, LLC and is also employed by Bausch Health US, LLC in a non-investment role as an international customer service export representative. He is the CEO and owner of MAR Financial LLC, a holding company formed for tax purposes. Pelican Wealth Advisors, LLC is a fee-based investment adviser managing approximately $71.4 million for over 220 clients, primarily individuals, high-net-worth individuals, and trusts. The firm offers discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning services, employing fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis to tailor investment programs to client objectives.

Francis Ragonese is a financial advisor at Pelican Wealth Advisors, LLC with 16 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been involved with Pelican Wealth Advisors since 2010. Ragonese is also president of Pelican Financial Group, Inc., where he spends a significant portion of his professional time. Pelican Wealth Advisors, LLC manages approximately $71.4 million primarily for individuals, high-net-worth clients, and trusts, offering discretionary portfolio management and comprehensive financial planning services. The firm provides tailored investment programs and conducts public educational seminars and workshops.

Ronald Degasperis is a financial advisor with Fieldstone Money Management, Inc. He holds a Series 65 designation and has two years of industry experience. Prior to his advisory role, he has worked as an accountant since 1990. Fieldstone Money Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients by providing discretionary asset management with a focus on fundamental and technical analysis, employing a range of investment strategies including long-term, short-term, and trading approaches. The firm is noted for its affiliation with accounting and tax services, with principals dedicating significant time to those activities.

Karim Mawji is a CFA® charterholder with three years of industry experience. He is currently the sole advisor at Eagle Talon Partners and has prior experience with Paragon Intel and Dentonia Park Capital Management. Eagle Talon Partners manages separately managed accounts for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors, employing an event-focused investment approach that combines fundamental and systematic analysis across global equities, derivatives, and ETFs. The firm offers a range of strategies and bespoke investment products, including concentrated long and short positions and thematic ETF overlays.

Jackson Lounsberry is a financial advisor at Lyons Wealth Management with 20 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63, Series 66, and Series 65 licenses. His prior roles include positions at MoneyBlock, Sia Capital Management LLC, and Great Lakes Advisors, among others. Lyons Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management to individuals, trusts and estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other legal entities. The firm offers customized portfolios and advisory services that combine fundamental and technical analysis with quantitative risk models and option-based strategies, serving both direct clients and third-party platforms.

Lawrence Lepard is a financial advisor with EMA SMA LLC, holding a Series 65 designation and five years of industry experience. He is the sole member and manager of Equity Management Associates, LLC, an exempt reporting adviser, and serves as a board member of Lavras and Rise Gold Corp. His career includes management roles at multiple investment entities and private funds. EMA SMA provides discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to qualified high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a combination of fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analysis, utilizing both long- and short-term strategies across a variety of instruments, with a particular emphasis on precious-metal equities.

Michael Pento is a financial advisor at Pento Portfolio Strategies, LLC with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has worked at his current firm since 2011. Pento Portfolio Strategies serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and other advisors by providing portfolio management, financial planning, tax, and accounting services. The firm employs an actively managed approach based on its Inflation/Deflation and Economic Cycle (IDEC) model and offers both growth- and income-oriented strategies, including services delivered through third-party platforms.

John Hummel is a financial advisor at AIS Capital Management L.P. with 32 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been involved with AIS Futures Management LLC and AIS Capital Management LLC since 1993. He is also the owner of Hummel Inc., a commodity pool operator. AIS Capital Management L.P. provides discretionary investment management to individuals, family offices, endowments, foundations, pension plans, trusts, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm focuses on absolute-return strategies through discretionary global macro, futures, and long-only tactical asset allocation approaches, utilizing futures, options, and leverage in some programs.

Justine Coleman is a financial advisor at Pento Portfolio Strategies, LLC with 12 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 credential and has been with the firm since 2013. Based in Naples, FL, she works alongside one other advisor at the firm. Pento Portfolio Strategies serves individual and high-net-worth clients as well as select investment companies by providing discretionary portfolio management, Investment Policy Statements, and tax and accounting services. The firm employs a proprietary Inflation/Deflation and Economic Cycle (IDEC) model that integrates macro analysis and technical screening to guide active portfolio positioning, complemented by subscription-based alerts and in-house tax capabilities.

Bertram Martin III is an Investment Advisor Representative with RiverGlades Family Offices, LLC, holding Series 65 and Series 66 credentials and bringing 10 years of industry experience. He has previously been involved with Robertson Stephens Wealth Management and Martin Capital Management LLC. Martin serves as a trustee for the Sister Margaret Freeman Foundation and volunteers on the finance committee of the St. Pete Free Clinic. RiverGlades Family Offices provides advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, multigenerational families, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm combines fundamental and technical analysis with modern portfolio theory, utilizing diversified ETF exposures and derivatives strategies within separately managed accounts, and offers external CIO and consulting services.

Christopher Vernon is a financial advisor with Andrew Hill Investment Advisors, Inc. in Naples, FL, holding a Series 65 credential and 10 years of industry experience. He has been with Andrew Hill Investment Advisors since 2016 and concurrently operates Vernon Litigation Group as an attorney since 2008. Outside of his advisory and legal work, he is involved with Griffon Force, LLC, a company focused on identity-theft protection and restoration, and Investor Life Guard LLC, an investor watchdog group. Andrew Hill Investment Advisors provides discretionary and non-discretionary asset management, modular financial planning, and pension consulting to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer-sponsored plans, including captive insurance companies. The firm customizes portfolios with a mix of fundamental, technical, cyclical, and behavioral analysis, incorporates ESG factors, and offers services that extend to legal referrals and administrative assistance uncommon among similar-sized firms.

Robert Gerstemeier is a CFP®-credentialed financial advisor with 22 years of industry experience. He is a principal at Gerstemeier Financial Group, LLC, where he has worked since 2009. The firm provides personalized financial planning and ongoing investment management to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses. Gerstemeier Financial Group employs a strategic asset-allocation approach using passive index funds and ETFs for core exposures combined with tactical satellite allocations, managing approximately $143 million in discretionary assets for around 70 clients.

Dawn Litchfield is a financial advisor with Naples Money Management LLC, holding a Series 63 designation and bringing 40 years of industry experience. She has worked at Naples Money Management since 2010 and has been associated with Litchfield & Nelson Partners since 1996, as well as Mutual Service Corporation since 1989. Naples Money Management provides investment management, financial planning, and wealth management services for individuals, high-net-worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm utilizes a top-down, sector-oriented investment approach combined with branded strategies that may include options and derivative tactics.

Michael Farr is a financial advisor with FarrCrest Capital LLC, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 30 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Hightower Advisors for five years and IA Farr, Miller & Washington, LLC for 25 years. He serves as an outside director for Goal Financial LLC, a student loan portfolio company. FarrCrest Capital is a family office managing portfolio and generational wealth exclusively for the founding family and affiliates. The firm focuses on long-term stewardship through fundamental research, managing concentrated, discretionary portfolios with an emphasis on legacy planning and governance.

Louis Lemos II is a CFA® charterholder and Series 63 licensee with three years of industry experience. He has worked at Navian Asset Management, LLC since 2025 and previously held roles at Luma Financial Technologies, Navian Capital LLC, and First Kentucky Trust. Navian Asset Management, LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management with integrated financial planning to individuals, including high net worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm uses a customized portfolio construction approach that incorporates various analytical methods and a broad range of investment instruments, including options and digital assets.

Paul Murphy is a CFA® charterholder with 17 years of industry experience. He is currently with Front Edge Capital Management, LLC, where he has worked since 2019. His prior experience includes roles at Ironbridge, Quasar Distributors, LLC, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC. Front Edge Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a proprietary research process focused on large U.S. companies with a blend of growth and value strategies and manages approximately $88.5 million in client assets across about a dozen relationships.

Christopher Covato is a financial advisor at Covato Capital Management, LLC with 10 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at CS Planning Corp and Covato Capital Management, LLC. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Covato is a Captain and Simulator Check Airman for Atlas Air Inc., where he has been employed since 1999, flying Boeing 747s. Covato Capital Management, LLC is a fee-based registered investment adviser serving individuals, trusts, and other entities, including high-net-worth clients. The firm offers customized portfolio management and financial planning, utilizing a range of investment vehicles and model portfolios, and is notable for its involvement with sponsored private investment vehicles and commodity trading activities.

Paul Marinelli is a CFA® charterholder with 21 years of industry experience and has been with RiverGlades Family Offices, LLC since 2014. He is also a principal of Arcus Family Office Services, LLC, which provides personal financial reporting, bill pay, and administrative services to high net-worth individuals and families. Additionally, Marinelli holds minority interests in Hestia Holdings, LLC and Hestia Management, LLC, both private companies involved with private funds. RiverGlades Family Offices serves high-net-worth individuals, multigenerational families, charitable organizations, and corporations with portfolio management, external Chief Investment Officer services, and consulting engagements. The firm combines fundamental and technical analysis with modern portfolio theory, using ETFs, publicly traded real estate funds, fixed income securities, and TIPS, and offers options strategies and derivatives in separately managed accounts.

Shakeel Dewji is a financial advisor at Aurora Investment Managers, LLC with 25 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has been with Aurora Investment Managers since 2008. Aurora Investment Managers is a fee-only registered investment adviser managing approximately $323 million across about 179 client accounts. The firm offers customized portfolio management and investment advice to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities, employing a strategy that integrates fundamental and technical analysis with both long- and short-term positions.

Robert Farr is a financial advisor at FarrCrest Capital LLC with a Series 65 designation and three years of industry experience. He previously worked at Hightower Advisors, Digital Management, LLC, and ECS Federal, LLC. FarrCrest Capital is a privately held family office that provides portfolio management and generational wealth counsel exclusively for the founding family and affiliated members. The firm focuses on long-term stewardship through fundamental research and manages concentrated family mandates with discretionary oversight, combining governance and legacy services with traditional asset management.