Sarah Keys is a financial advisor with Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC, holding a Series 66 designation and 18 years of industry experience. She previously worked at Cardan Capital Partners, LLC and Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC is an SEC-registered enterprise advisory firm serving individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm offers financial planning, asset management, and specialized retirement plan consulting, utilizing a strategic investment approach that combines passive and active management guided by an internal Investment Committee.

Erik Brandt is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) based in Lakewood, CO, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses with seven years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at High Point Financial Group, Ethos Wealth Strategies, and Noble Capital Group, among others. Outside of finance, Brandt coaches and leads fitness classes at CrossFit Cherry Creek and owns an e-commerce store specializing in office supplies. Eagle Strategies serves a diverse client base including individuals and institutions, providing financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services. The firm offers multiple program types and emphasizes tailored solutions, with a significant portion of its assets managed on a non-discretionary basis within an integrated New York Life affiliate structure.

Heidi Halus is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) and holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses. She has 24 years of industry experience and has been with Eagle Strategies since 2014 and New York Life since 2001. Halus serves as an instructor at Colorado Free University, teaching courses on Women & Finance and positive thinking. She is also a board member of the UCCS Accounting & Finance Advisory Board and engages in speaking engagements for various community and business groups. Eagle Strategies provides financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base including individual investors, defined contribution and defined benefit plans, and charitable and corporate clients. The firm offers multiple advisory program types and emphasizes tailored recommendations, with the majority of assets managed on a non-discretionary basis.

Jose Castaneda is a CFP® with six years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Mercer Global Advisors Inc. in Denver, CO. His prior work includes roles at Foothills Moving & Storage, LLC, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Mercer Global Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth families, small business owners, corporate plan sponsors, foundations, and nonprofits. The firm’s investment approach focuses on globally diversified, risk-appropriate portfolios using Modern Portfolio Theory principles and emphasizes multi-factor tilts, tax management, and a variety of implementation options.

Tess Bosley is a financial advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC in Denver, CO, holding a Series 65 credential with one year of industry experience. Her work history includes roles at The Colony Group, LLC, Buckingham Strategic Wealth, LLC, and University of Vermont. Outside of financial advisory, she has experience in the hospitality sector with positions at Spot on the Dock and BV's Grill. Focus Partners serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, and institutional clients, offering a wide range of wealth management and advisory services. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach that combines active and passive strategies within an enhanced open architecture framework.

Erica Hinrichs is a financial advisor at Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC in Westminster, CO, with 13 years of industry experience. She holds the Series 66 designation and previously worked at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. and Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC for a combined 27 years. Integrated Wealth Concepts serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans through a network of independent financial advisors. The firm offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, family office, and retirement plan advisory services, employing a long-term investment approach and customized portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, equities, and fixed income.

Jesse Melville is a financial advisor with TIAA-CREF in Westminster, CO, holding Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and having 10 years of industry experience. He has been with TIAA and TIAA-CREF since 2015. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC provides financial planning and discretionary managed account programs to individuals, trusts, estates, partnerships, corporate entities, and small retirement plans, often serving clients connected through TIAA-administered employer retirement plans. The firm’s advisory model distinguishes between one-time planning services and ongoing discretionary management, offering both model portfolios and customized portfolio management.

Amie Toyama is a financial advisor at Cetera Planning Partners in Denver, CO, holding the PFS™ designation. She has been in the industry since 2026 and previously worked at Watson Coon Ryan LLC and related firms for a combined nine years. Cetera Planning Partners serves individual and high-net-worth clients, with a focus on pre-retirees and retirees, offering investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and retirement-related advice. The firm also provides tax planning, bookkeeping, payroll support, and estate-planning services through a third-party provider, using a diversified investment process tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance.

Alexander Boyd is a financial advisor at VALIC Financial Advisors with nine years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at the University of Missouri Curators Office. In addition to his advisory role, he is involved as an agent with Agia, offering non-securities insurance products. VALIC Financial Advisors primarily serves U.S. individuals, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients, as well as employer-sponsored retirement participants. The firm provides portfolio management, financial planning, and discretionary unified managed accounts using Envestnet’s platform, managing roughly $29.2 billion and serving close to 300,000 clients through over 1,200 advisors.

Seth Jefferies is a financial advisor at TIAA-CREF with 16 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 66 designations and has been with TIAA-CREF since 2011. Jefferies serves as a member of the RMA Commission for the Investments and Wealth Institute, which provides strategic guidance on retirement industry trends and education initiatives. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC offers financial planning and discretionary managed account programs primarily to individuals with existing retirement plan relationships, as well as trusts, estates, and corporate entities. The firm separates one-time planning services from ongoing portfolio management and acts as adviser to a donor-advised fund, operating within a vertically integrated group that discloses potential conflicts related to affiliated funds.

Sarah Burney is a financial advisor at Cresset Asset Management, LLC with 18 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and previously worked at J.P. Morgan for 11 years before joining Cresset in 2021. Burney serves as a foundation board member for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Cresset Asset Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $71.9 billion in client assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, and charitable organizations, and employs a diversified, asset-allocation-driven investment approach that combines active and passive strategies along with third-party manager allocations.

David Shuler is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) based in Thornton, CO, holding Series 65 and Series 63 licenses with 18 years of industry experience. He has been affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company and its related entities since 2007. Outside of his advisory work, Shuler serves as Vice Chairman of Finance for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and is a board member of the USMC Memorial Foundation. Eagle Strategies serves individual and institutional clients by providing financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services. The firm offers multiple program types tailored to client objectives, with a significant focus on non-discretionary asset management and specialized relationships with institutional plan sponsors.

Jonathan Swofford is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 11 years of industry experience. He is currently with Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC and has previously worked at Personal Capital Advisors Corporation and Empower Financial Services, Inc. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services provides financial planning and asset management services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm manages over $122 billion in regulatory assets under management and employs a diversified investment approach combining passive and active management overseen by an internal Investment Committee.

Alexander Hock is a CFA® charterholder with 10 years of industry experience. He currently works at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC and previously held roles at The Colony Group, LLC and Jones Barclay Boston. Focus Partners serves individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, corporate and institutional clients with comprehensive wealth management and advisory services. The firm employs an enhanced open architecture approach that combines active and passive strategies, third-party managers, and private funds, focusing on long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive portfolio construction.

Addison Colgrove is a financial advisor with TIAA-CREF in Denver, CO, holding a Series 66 designation and 16 years of industry experience. He has been with TIAA-CREF since 2015. Outside of advising, he is the owner of Natural Medicinals LLC, a company focused on cultivating and selling Lion's Mane mushrooms, which are used for gourmet cooking and potential medicinal benefits. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC provides financial planning, managed account programs, and broker-dealer services primarily to individuals connected to TIAA-administered employer retirement plans, as well as trusts, estates, and small retirement plans. The firm offers both point-in-time planning and ongoing discretionary management using model and customized portfolios, operating within a vertically integrated group that includes affiliated funds.

Zachary Gregory is a financial advisor at Empower Advisory Group with four years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked previously at firms including JPMorgan Chase Bank, J.P. Morgan Securities, Bank of America/Merrill, Bankers Life, USAA, and Medtronic. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, as well as to Empower Premier IRA and certain retail brokerage account holders. The firm’s approach integrates proprietary and third-party methodologies focused on long-term portfolio returns and rebalancing, with services delivered through Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms.

Christopher Fox is a financial advisor with Guardian Life and Park Avenue Securities, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 15 years of industry experience. His prior firms include RBC Capital Markets, Empower Retirement, Prudential, and MassMutual. Park Avenue Securities LLC, operating as Park Avenue® Wealth Management, is a dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients with brokerage, financial planning, retirement consulting, and a range of investment advisory programs.

Edward Smith is a financial advisor with Private Advisor Group, LLC, holding a Series 66 designation and 22 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Merrill, LPL Financial, Western Wealth Management, and A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. He also operates under the DBA Integrity Wealth Partners, providing investment advisory services through Private Advisor Group. Private Advisor Group serves individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, businesses, and retirement plans with portfolio management, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and access to various advisory programs. The firm employs a fiduciary-based advisory model and integrates proprietary and third-party investment solutions.

John Hostak is a financial advisor with OSAIC Institutions, Inc. holding a Series 66 designation and three years of industry experience. He has worked at OSAIC Institutions since 2023 and has prior roles at Bellco Credit Union and CUSO Financial Services. Outside of finance, he is a Guest Experience Representative for the Colorado Rockies baseball team. OSAIC Institutions, Inc. serves individuals, ERISA retirement plans, trusts, estates, and corporate clients through a network of investment adviser representatives. The firm offers customized advisory services, financial planning, ERISA plan services, and access to alternative investments, operating a hybrid adviser/broker-dealer model that combines discretionary and non-discretionary account management.

Thomas Green is a Series 66 licensed financial advisor with five years of industry experience, currently affiliated with Osaic Institutions, Inc. He has held roles at Bellco Credit Union and CUSO Financial Services, Inc., among others. Outside of his advisory work, he is a co-owner of an Orangetheory Fitness franchise. Osaic Institutions, Inc. is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, retirement plans, trusts, estates, and corporate clients through a large network of investment adviser representatives. The firm offers customized advisory services, financial planning, ERISA plan services, and access to alternative investments, operating a hybrid adviser/broker-dealer model with both discretionary and non-discretionary assets.