Joseph Palumbo is a financial advisor at Farther with five years of industry experience. He has previously worked with Truvium Capital Partners, LLC and Truvium Financial. Palumbo is a partner in three separate special purpose vehicles (SPVs): AP Strategies, Jupiter Entertainment, and Saturn Flux. Farther provides discretionary investment management and advisory services primarily to individual investors, trusts, and estates through both digital platforms and in-person meetings. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory-based investment approach using proprietary model portfolios, algorithmic rebalancing, and a range of investment vehicles including ETFs and mutual funds.

Richard Moorhead is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with 35 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has worked at Citibank since 2021. His prior roles include positions at NYLIFE Securities LLC, New York Life Insurance Company, and Sterling Aircraft Materials. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering multi-asset, multi-manager investment programs and broker-dealer services. The firm combines large institutional scale with specialized market roles, including in-house research, swap dealing, and futures commission merchant activities.

Brian Dragotto is a financial advisor with Guardian Life, holding a Series 66 designation and nine years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Park Avenue Securities, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Bank of America, and Merrill. Outside of advising, he contributes articles for the International Planning Alliance. Brian is part of Park Avenue® Wealth Management, a subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, which serves individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients with a combination of brokerage services, financial planning, and advisory programs featuring both proprietary and third-party investment models.

Joseph Long is a financial advisor with Guardian Life, holding a Series 66 designation and 12 years of industry experience. He has been with Guardian Life Insurance Co and its affiliated firms since 2011. Outside of his advisory role, he serves on the Union College NYC Alumni Club Board of Directors. He is part of Park Avenue Wealth Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, which provides brokerage services, financial planning, and investment advisory programs to individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients.

Gary Blum is a financial advisor with Guardian Life and Park Avenue Securities, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and 18 years of industry experience. He has been with Guardian Life since 2015 and with Park Avenue Securities since 2022. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in selling outside insurance products and serves as a contingent trustee for family trust services. Park Avenue Securities LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, provides brokerage services, financial planning, and investment advisory programs to individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers both discretionary and non-discretionary advisory relationships and incorporates a mix of proprietary and third-party investment models.

Steven Arietta is a financial advisor with Hightower Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 38 years of industry experience. He previously worked at CMG Financial Planning Ltd and Equitable Advisors, with overlapping time at AXA Advisors, LLC. Arietta serves as a Reserve Deputy with the Rockland County Sheriff's Reserve, an all-volunteer force supporting full-time law enforcement. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm’s model emphasizes manager selection and multi-manager solutions, utilizing affiliated and third-party managers along with proprietary research and a range of investment vehicles.

Matthew Stack is a financial advisor with Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC in Ramsey, NJ. He holds the CFP® designation and has five years of industry experience. Prior to joining Integrated Wealth Concepts in 2022, he worked at Evercore Group LLC and Modera Wealth Management, LLC. Integrated Wealth Concepts serves individuals, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans through a network of independent advisors, offering discretionary investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs a long-term investment approach using customized portfolios of mutual funds, ETFs, equities, and fixed income, and sponsors various wrap-fee and model-based programs.

Michael Tanney is a financial advisor with Schwab Wealth Advisory who holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 13 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 2013 to 2024 before joining Charles Schwab and Schwab Wealth Advisory. Outside of his advisory role, he owns and manages a condominium rental property. Schwab Wealth Advisory, Inc. provides non-discretionary fiduciary investment advice and financial planning services primarily to clients enrolled in the Schwab Wealth Advisory program and certain Charles Schwab & Co.-referred clients. The firm’s guidance is based on proprietary asset-allocation models and research tools, with client-tailored recommendations and executed trades authorized by clients.

Neil Westerduin is a financial advisor at Kestra Advisory with 16 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Kestra Advisory since 2020, following an 11-year tenure at Chadwick Wealth Management, LLC. In addition, he has operated Neil Westerduin CPA LLC since 1989. Kestra Advisory Services provides investment advisory and retirement-plan consulting to plan sponsors and a broad mix of institutional and individual clients, offering services such as fiduciary consulting, plan design, and employee education. The firm manages approximately $79.8 billion in assets and serves a diverse client base that includes large institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Scott Tasch is a financial advisor at Hightower Advisors with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. His prior work includes roles at Mass Mutual Insurance Company and Altium Wealth Management. Hightower Advisors serves a diverse range of individual and institutional clients, offering investment advisory and planning services through a multi-manager approach that incorporates affiliated and third-party managers, proprietary research, and a variety of investment vehicles.

Lorely Machin is a CFA® charterholder with four years of industry experience, currently serving at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. She has been with the firm since 2003. Wells Fargo Investment Institute provides institutional research, manager due diligence, model portfolio construction, and asset-allocation guidance primarily to Wells Fargo wealth and fiduciary businesses and select external clients. The firm operates through specialized divisions that deliver equity and fixed-income analysis, long-term capital market assumptions, and model portfolio solutions without exercising investment discretion or holding client assets.

Eric Banson is a financial advisor with Guardian Life and Park Avenue Securities, holding Series 63 and 66 licenses and 22 years of industry experience. His prior experience includes nine years at Wells Fargo Securities. He serves as trustee of The Norma L. Banson Living Trust, a role unrelated to his investment activities. Park Avenue Securities LLC, a subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, serves individual, corporate, and institutional clients with brokerage services, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and a range of investment advisory programs, including model portfolios and a hybrid digital advisory solution.

Dominique Vitalis is a financial advisor with CWM, LLC, holding a Series 66 designation and six years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at Carson Wealth, Taylor Financial, Royal Alliance, Bank of America, Merrill, and Monumental Sports and Entertainment. Outside of advisory work, he has been involved in residential property flipping. CWM, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth families, foundations, endowments, corporations, and institutional clients through a nationwide network of over 600 advisors. The firm employs discretionary management using model portfolios overseen by an Investment Committee and integrates fundamental and technical analysis, third-party sub-advisors, and customization tools.

Robert Hashim is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 credentials and 14 years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at GWFS Equities, INC, New York Life Investments, and entrepreneurial experience running Hashim Design NYC. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily for employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and their participants, as well as Empower Premier IRA and certain retail brokerage clients, delivering services integrated with Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms.

Eileen Suppo is a financial advisor at Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. with 28 years of industry experience. She holds the Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Voya since 2014. Outside of her advisory role, she operates as an independent insurance agent, focusing on the sale of fixed insurance products. Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. is an enterprise-scale advisory and broker-dealer affiliate of Voya Financial that serves individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, and various advisory services through a large network of representatives, utilizing a combination of in-house and third-party strategies and technology-enabled tools.

Robert Pruett is a financial advisor at Guardian Life with 22 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Park Avenue Securities and Guardian Life Insurance Company since 2004. Outside of his advisory role, he markets non-Guardian insurance products when appropriate to clients’ financial needs. Park Avenue Securities LLC, doing business as Park Avenue® Wealth Management, is a dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser affiliated with Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. The firm provides brokerage services, financial planning, and investment advisory programs to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients.

Anthony Pirro is a financial advisor with Money Concepts Capital Corp in Scarsdale, NY, holding a Series 66 designation and over 14 years of industry experience. He also operates Anthony G. Pirro CPA PC, providing accounting and bookkeeping services since 2011. Pirro has been affiliated with Money Concepts Capital Corp since 2006 and has offered accounting and tax services through his own practice since 1981. Money Concepts Advisory Service (MCAS) serves individual and institutional clients, including high-net-worth individuals, pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a variety of managed programs and portfolio strategies, combining model portfolios, advisor-designed portfolios, and third-party sub-advisers, using fundamental and technical analysis alongside modern portfolio theory.

Anthony Marotti is a CFP® with 17 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC since 2020. Prior to this, he worked for 13 years at Berson & Corrado Investment Advisors, LLC. He is president of the Anthony Marotti Memorial Scholarship Foundation, which supports youth sports through scholarships and donations, and serves on the board of the Union College Fighting Dutchmen Gridiron Club, a booster organization for the college football team. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC 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 services, and retirement plan advisory, using customized portfolios with a mix of mutual funds, ETFs, individual equities, and fixed income, and combines its enterprise scale with a broad selection of model and wrap-fee options.

Kenneth Fliegel is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with 38 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has worked at Citigroup Global Markets since 2019. Prior to that, he was with Legg Mason & Co., ClearBridge Investments, and Legg Mason Investor Services from 2005 to 2018. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across multiple wealth segments, offering a range of investment advisory programs and execution services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies and combines large institutional scale with unique market roles, including in-house research and security pricing, swap dealer and futures commission merchant operations, and specialized lending and discretionary solutions for very large clients.

John Ross is a financial advisor with Primerica Advisors in Rye Brook, NY, holding CFP® and ChFC® designations and over 33 years of industry experience. He has been with Primerica Advisors since 1999 and also maintains a long-standing association with The Guardian Life Insurance Company since 1995. Outside of his advisory role, Ross is licensed as a health insurance consultant by the New York Department of Financial Services. Primerica Advisors operates as part of Park Avenue Securities LLC, serving a broad retail client base including individual and high-net-worth investors, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers a range of brokerage and advisory services supported by proprietary and third-party investment programs, and it manages approximately $15 billion in regulatory assets under management.