Kyle La Sella is a Series 65-registered advisor with Rise North Capital Investment Advisors and has one year of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he worked at Foundations Investment Advisors LLC and has experience as an insurance and annuities agent reviewing and proposing client solutions. He has also worked in the hospitality industry and was a full-time student for eight years. Rise North Capital Investment Advisors provides discretionary asset management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and business entities, with a unique co-advisor operating model and a focus on ongoing portfolio reviews and educational workshops.

Alexa Darbe is a CFP® professional with 18 years of industry experience, currently serving at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2020. Prior to this, she worked at Northstar Financial Planning, Inc. for 13 years. Northstar Financial Planning advises individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides advisory and consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation approach that combines passive ETFs with selected active managers and integrates technology solutions such as Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting.

Olivia Lima is a CFP® professional with three years of industry experience, currently serving at Abundo Wealth in Sioux Falls, SD. Her background includes roles at The Vanguard Group, Randstad, and Lutheran Social Services of SD, as well as a long tenure at Augustana University. Olivia holds a minority interest ownership in NeuralStudio SEZC, an investment-related business based in the Cayman Islands. Abundo Wealth offers comprehensive financial planning and non-discretionary investment advisory services to individual clients without an asset minimum. The firm emphasizes passive, low-cost index fund strategies and provides advice through a client portal, operating multiple offices and structuring fees on a subscription basis rather than as a percentage of assets.

Sarah Brookes Governo is a financial advisor at Summit Wealth Group LLC in Exeter, NH, with 12 years of industry experience. She holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has been with Summit Wealth Group since 2015. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides personalized Financial Life Planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm integrates portfolio management with ongoing financial planning and offers tax preparation and tax-planning services on a subscription basis.

I was hanging on every word… It was a beautiful spring day in Palo Alto in 1996. My Modern Portfolio Theory professor – Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe – was explaining the “illusion of stock picking skill” and the idea that stock pickers as a group lose big to the stock market as a whole. I remember closing my eyes and taking it all in. Was it possible that a several hundred billion dollar industry was just harming investors? That the whole thing was built on an illusion? Even a lie? I was just entranced. (It turns out I caught a brief glimpse of my true calling that day, but it would be another 17 years before I actually took concrete steps to become a financial advisor.) But then the class ended, and I went back to the business of graduating from Stanford Business School. I headed back to consulting for a couple years, and then co-founded a dot com. But in 2003, I ended up in awkward position. An awkward position that ultimately lead me to my true calling. I had accepted the position of Publisher & Chief Marketing Officer at The Motley Fool, the personal finance website. I loved the people, and rocked the job. But something was wrong. You see, one of my responsibilities was to convince millions of investors that we had superior stock picking skills. There was just one problem with this – I didn’t believe it. Beliefs are a funny thing. I came to believe back in 1996 that stock picking skills are an illusion, and that belief had just stuck. And I couldn’t unstick it. I eventually left The Fool with mixed feelings. I was proud of our commercial success, and my role in that. But I also felt like I had betrayed my beliefs. It wasn’t a good feeling. I tried jobs in other industries, but something kept pulling me back to investing and personal finance. And then it finally hit me. I knew what I was meant to do, and I set out to form my financial advisory firm, Clark Asset Management, LLC. Now I get to help people directly, and do it in a way that’s 100% consistent with my beliefs. I get to leverage a career’s worth of skills in financial planning and analysis, problem solving and client communication. And I get to do my part to help transform an often shady industry into a helping profession. It’s awesome. …if you’d like to learn more, I encourage you to download one of my complimentary guides or schedule a complimentary phone consultation.

Erik Potts is a CFP® with 23 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Summit Wealth Group LLC since 2021. His prior work includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments and Panorama Wealth Strategies, among others. Outside of financial advising, he is involved in managing an auto dealership and aviation-related businesses. Summit Wealth Group LLC provides financial life planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm combines portfolio management with ongoing financial and tax planning, employing client-specific investment strategies and third-party managers, and integrates in-house tax preparation alongside investment advice.

Lucas Gagne is a Series 65-licensed advisor with Affinity Investment Group, LLC, where he has worked for three years. His prior experience includes roles at Channel Building Company, Inc., and the University of Vermont. He is also an independent insurance agent, dedicating a portion of his time to this activity outside of his advisory work. Affinity Investment Group serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities by providing investment management and financial planning. The firm employs a strategic asset-allocation, core-and-satellite approach using no-load or load-waived mutual funds and passive ETFs as the core, supplemented with actively managed funds.

Natalie Marin is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license with six years of industry experience. She has worked at Northstar Financial Planning, LLC since 2022 and was previously with Paladin Advisors LLC and Sun Life Financial. Her background also includes roles at Northeastern University. Northstar Financial Planning serves individual clients, including high-net-worth households, and provides advisory and consulting services to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm uses a strategic asset-allocation approach combining passive ETFs with active managers and integrates technology like Betterment Advisor Solutions to support automated portfolio management and reporting.

Erik Randall is a financial advisor at Summit Wealth Group LLC in Exeter, NH, holding a Series 66 designation with 11 years of industry experience. He has been with Summit Wealth Group since 2016. Summit Wealth Group provides personalized Financial Life Planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm integrates portfolio management with ongoing financial planning, tax preparation, and consulting services, employing client-specific investment policies and occasionally using tactical strategies and artificial intelligence tools.

Andrew Schwarz is a financial advisor with Summit Wealth Group LLC in Exeter, NH, holding a Series 66 designation and 11 years of industry experience. He has been with Summit Wealth Group since 2016, working as part of a seven-advisor team. Summit Wealth Group LLC offers personalized Financial Life Planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm provides portfolio management and ongoing financial planning, as well as tax preparation and planning on a subscription basis and fixed-fee consulting, employing customized investment strategies and tactical tools tailored to client goals and risk tolerance.

Heather Meeks is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 18 years of industry experience, currently serving at Summit Wealth Group LLC since 2016. She holds a Series 66 license and has served as a Trustee of the Trust Funds for the Town of Cornish, NH since 2006. Additionally, she works as an independent insurance agent for various companies. Summit Wealth Group LLC offers personalized Financial Life Planning and wealth management services to individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, foundations, pensions, and corporations. The firm combines portfolio management with tax preparation and planning, employing written Investment Policy Statements and asset-allocation strategies tailored to clients’ goals and risk tolerance.

Dennis Butterfield is a financial advisor at LifeMark Securities Corp. with 49 years of industry experience. He holds the ChFC® and Series 63 designations. Prior to joining LifeMark in 2018, he worked at Foresters Equity Services, Inc. from 2010 to 2018 and has been an independent insurance agent since 1974. LifeMark Securities Corp. provides fee-based investment advisory services and financial planning primarily to individual investors and sponsors of participant-directed retirement plans, offering various managed account programs and consulting services tailored through risk assessments.

Wendell Stewart is a financial advisor with Compass Financial Management LLC, holding a Series 63 designation and bringing 34 years of industry experience. He has worked at Executive Financial Services, Inc. since 1988. Stewart also engages in limited insurance sales as a sole proprietor, conducting these activities alongside his financial planning services. Compass Financial Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a multi-disciplinary investment approach combining fundamental, technical, charting, and cyclical analysis, managing approximately $519 million in discretionary assets across a team of 27 advisors.

James Healy is a financial advisor at Gateway Wealth Partners, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Main Street Financial Advisory LLC, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Dunkin' Brands, Inc. Gateway Wealth Partners is a registered investment adviser offering financial planning, wealth management, and retirement plan consulting to individuals, corporations, and qualified employee benefit plans. The firm emphasizes strategic asset allocation using low-cost, diversified mutual funds and ETFs, supplemented by individual securities or Independent Managers, and manages approximately $1.25 billion in assets.

Jason Irwin is a financial advisor at St. Germain Investment Management with two years of industry experience. He previously worked at Equitable Advisors, NYLIFE Securities LLC, and New York Life. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as an administrator and co-executor of a family trust. St. Germain Investment Management provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to a diverse client base, including individuals, high net worth clients, pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a model-based asset allocation approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, offering customized investment strategies and integrating personalized financial planning.

Joel Silloway is a financial advisor at Kinetic Investment Management, Inc. in Manchester, NH. He holds the Series 66 designation and has two years of industry experience. Prior to joining Kinetic, he worked at several firms including Terra Firma Financial Advisory, Arcadia Wealth Management, and Commonwealth Financial Network. Outside of his advising role, Joel performs as a musician and DJ at concerts and weddings. Kinetic Investment Management serves individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, and business entities with portfolio management, financial planning, and sub-advisory services. The firm employs a primarily long-term trading approach using various analytical methods and may allocate client portfolios to higher-risk, potentially illiquid investments when appropriate.

Curtis Porter is a financial advisor at First Heartland Consultants, Inc. with 26 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with First Heartland Capital, Inc. since 2009. Outside of his advisory role, he operates Porter Tax Preparation Services, LLC, which provides tax preparation services. First Heartland Consultants offers investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, businesses, and employer-sponsored retirement plan participants. The firm delivers personalized asset management through various programs and employs both strategic and tactical asset allocation techniques.

Paul Elkind is a CFA® charterholder with 23 years of industry experience. He has worked at O.N. Investment Management Company and its affiliated entities since 2014 and has been associated with Ohio National Financial Services since 2013. In addition to his advisory role, he is engaged in insurance sales, including life, health, disability, and long-term care insurance, as well as fixed and equity-indexed annuities. O.N. Investment Management Company is a SEC-registered adviser that provides financial planning, portfolio management, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including individuals, families, trusts, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm utilizes a dual-registration model and offers both discretionary and non-discretionary investment programs.

Molly Talty is a ChFC® affiliated with Mariner Independent, with experience in the financial services industry since 2019. She has worked at multiple firms, including Crescent Wealth Partners, Logarus Wealth Solutions, and Mariner Platform Solutions. Mariner Independent serves individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business entities through a network of investment adviser representatives. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, retirement plan consulting, and access to alternative investments, utilizing both firm-built model portfolios and customized discretionary management.