Alexander Faber is a financial advisor at Cerity Partners LLC with eight years of industry experience. He holds the CFP®, CFA®, and Series 66 designations. His previous roles include positions at Maryland Capital Management, TIAA, and Wake Forest University. Cerity Partners advises a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, institutions, and business entities, managing approximately $166.2 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025. The firm offers customized wealth management services with an investment approach focused on client-specific profiles, quantitative screening, and access to alternative and private market solutions.

Sean Anderson is a Series 65-registered financial advisor with three years of industry experience. He is currently with HB Wealth Management, LLC and previously worked at WMS Partners, LLC and Greenspring Advisors, LLC. Prior to his financial career, he attended Kenyon College. HB Wealth Management is a registered investment adviser serving individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, corporate entities, foundations, family offices, institutional clients, and investment companies. The firm employs a discretionary investment approach that integrates quantitative and qualitative due diligence across a range of public and private strategies and provides consolidated quarterly reporting aligned with clients’ objectives and risk tolerance.

Rachel Sarecky is a financial advisor with T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc., holding a Series 66 credential. She has one year of industry experience and previously worked at firms including Hospitality Asset Management Services, Leidos, and The Health Management Academy. T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. offers a retirement-focused advisory service combining goals-based financial planning, retirement income planning, and discretionary investment management primarily using T. Rowe Price mutual funds and ETFs. The firm serves individual investors and households with investable assets generally starting around $250,000 and employs strategies such as tax-aware rebalancing and Monte Carlo simulations for financial planning.

Patricia Almony is a financial advisor with Equity Services, Inc. and Worthington Financial Partners, holding Series 63 and Series 65 designations with 36 years of industry experience. Her career includes roles at SunTrust Advisory Services, M&T Securities, LPL Financial, and Uvest Financial Services. Outside of advising, she is involved in running a small business selling craft items and scrapbooking supplies and is a brand partner for a skincare and wellness company. Equity Services, Inc., operating as ESI Financial Advisors, provides financial planning, consulting, and asset management to individuals, corporations, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer retirement plans. The firm offers multiple advisory platforms, often using third-party managers and model portfolios, and combines long-term strategies with options for shorter-term trading and specialized instruments.

Nancy Briguglio is a financial advisor with Creative Planning, holding the CFP® and ChFC® designations and the Series 66 license. She has 42 years of industry experience, including prior roles at Private Advisor Group, LLC and LPL Financial, LLC. Ms. Briguglio serves on the advisory board of Allen & Shariff. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. The firm employs a financial-planning-led investment approach that combines low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies with selective private market exposure and offers a range of advisory and non-investment services.

Harold Lowe is a CFP® with 24 years of industry experience, currently serving at MAI Capital Management, LLC since 2025. Prior to joining MAI, he led Lowe Wealth Advisors, LLC for 14 years. MAI Capital Management, LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management, wealth management, retirement plan consulting, and family-office services to individuals, families, sports professionals, trusts, and institutional clients. The firm manages $72.3 billion in assets and offers a range of customized portfolio strategies alongside integrated financial planning and advisory services.

Heather Follis is a financial advisor with PNC Wealth Management in Ellicott City, MD. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 designations and has 23 years of industry experience, including 19 years with PNC Investments. PNC Wealth Management offers retail brokerage and advisory services through model-based programs, including a digital discretionary model account available as an invitation-only pilot for employees. The firm’s investment approach uses approved model strategies with mutual funds and ETFs, annual rebalancing, and algorithm-driven risk assessment.

Brendan Mullally is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group in Baltimore, MD, holding a Series 66 designation and five years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Bank of America, Merrill, and Equitable Advisors. Outside of his advisory work, he is involved as a lacrosse coach. 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, using an integrated model tied to Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms.

Joel Albert is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) based in Timonium, MD. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has 14 years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he was involved with Happy Paws Inc. for eight years. Eagle Strategies serves a diverse client base including individual investors, institutional clients, and plan sponsors. The firm offers financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services through a large network of affiliated advisors, focusing primarily on non-discretionary asset management and tailored solutions aligned with client objectives.

Andrew Riehl is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 65 license with eight years of industry experience. He is currently an advisor at Cerity Partners LLC, where he has worked since 2023. Prior to this, he was with Maryland Capital Management from 2018 to 2022 and Croft Leominster Investment Management from 2016 to 2017. Cerity Partners advises a broad client base that includes individuals, families, trusts, estates, business entities, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, private funds, and other institutional investors. The firm provides customized wealth management services using a client-specific investment framework that combines quantitative screening, manager selection, and direct security selection, with access to alternative and private market solutions for qualified clients.

Michele Peele is a financial advisor at Janney Montgomery Scott with 24 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 63 designation and has previously worked at Wells Fargo Clearing and Merrill. Michele is also a commissioned Notary Public for the State of Maryland, providing notary services to clients on a volunteer basis. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC is a large, dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $110 billion in client assets. The firm serves a wide range of clients, including individuals, families, trusts, and institutional sponsors, offering brokerage services, financial planning, and multiple advisory programs.

Brian Graney is a CFA® charterholder with 19 years of industry experience. He has been with Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Company since 2008. Brown Advisory provides investment management and advisory services to a diverse client base, including high net worth individuals, endowments, foundations, pension plans, and corporations. The firm employs a bottom-up, fundamental research process to construct concentrated portfolios and offers a range of strategies including sustainable-investment research, model portfolios, and private-fund and venture programs.

Matthew Grayson is a financial advisor with T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc., holding Series 66 and Series 63 credentials and 10 years of industry experience. He has been with T. Rowe Price since 2015. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as a swimming official for the Maryland Officials Club. T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. offers a retirement-focused advisory program combining nondiscretionary financial planning, retirement income planning, and discretionary investment management using proprietary mutual funds and ETFs. The firm serves individual investors and households with an emphasis on retirement goals, using model portfolios and an online planning tool supported by telephone access to advisors.

Vijay Dev is a financial advisor with Voya Financial Advisors, Inc., holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and having three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Voya Financial Advisors, he worked at Jacob William Advisory, CWM, LLC, and T. Rowe Price. Outside of finance, he coaches parkour, freerunning, gymnastics, and related activities at Bolt Parkour and Freerunning Academy. Voya Financial Advisors is an enterprise-scale firm serving individuals, retirement plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients through financial planning, portfolio management, and retirement advisory services. The firm uses a combination of in-house and external strategists alongside technology-driven tools to offer both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management.

Hugh Palmer is a Series 65 credentialed advisor at HB Wealth with six years of industry experience. His prior work includes six years at WMS Partners and two years of service in the United States Army. Outside of advising, he leads a project reviewing and updating several family partnerships through FWP LLC. HB Wealth Management provides wealth management, investment management, and financial planning to a wide range of clients, including individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, corporate entities, and institutional clients. The firm combines quantitative and qualitative due diligence across diverse public and private strategies and offers services such as outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) and institutional advisory solutions.

Bryan Kelly is a financial advisor at HB Wealth with a Series 65 designation and two years of industry experience. He has worked at several firms including WMS Partners, LLC and Stifel, and has coached boys club lacrosse with FCA Maryland since 2018. HB Wealth Management is a registered investment adviser serving individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, corporate entities, foundations, family offices, institutional clients, and investment companies. The firm offers wealth management, investment management, and financial planning services, employing a disciplined investment process that combines quantitative and qualitative due diligence across a range of public and private strategies.

Ian Sotir is a financial advisor at T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at Lower.com D.B.A. Homeside Financial for seven years. T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. provides retirement-focused financial planning and investment management to individual investors and households, using model portfolios exclusively invested in T. Rowe Price mutual funds and ETFs. The firm combines nondiscretionary planning with discretionary account management and offers financial plans with Monte Carlo simulations through an interactive online tool.

John Fazzini Jr. is a CFP®-credentialed financial advisor with nine years of industry experience, currently with T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. since 2017. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price, he was affiliated with the University of Alabama for four years. Outside of his advisory role, he owns and operates a gardening design business called Commander in Leaf LLC. T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc. provides retirement-focused financial planning and investment management to individual investors and households, using proprietary mutual funds and ETFs. The firm combines nondiscretionary goals-based planning with discretionary portfolio management and employs tax-aware strategies and Monte Carlo simulations in its planning process.

Olivia Mc Dermott is a financial advisor with Truist Advisory Services, holding a Series 66 designation and two years of industry experience. Prior to her current role, she worked in education with Baltimore County Public Schools and held various positions at the University of Maryland and McDonogh Summer Programs. Truist Advisory Services offers investment consulting and advisory services to individuals, businesses, retirement plan sponsors, and charitable organizations. The firm combines discretionary and non-discretionary management strategies, utilizing third-party platforms and AI-enabled research tools to support investment decisions and manager selection.

Paul Speargas is a CFA® charterholder with 17 years of industry experience. He has worked at HB Wealth Management since 2025 and previously spent 17 years at WMS Partners. He serves as a board member and chair of the Investment Committee for Odyssey School, which focuses on language learning differences. HB Wealth Management is a registered investment adviser that provides wealth management, investment management, and financial planning to a diverse client base including individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, corporate entities, foundations, and family offices. The firm also offers institutional advisory services and combines quantitative and qualitative due diligence across a broad range of public and private investment strategies.