Charles Music is a financial advisor at Raymond James & Associates with 25 years of industry experience. He has been with Raymond James since 2013 and holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials. Raymond James & Associates is a large dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $501 billion in assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, and municipal entities, offering financial planning, investment consulting, and municipal advisory services through a broad network of advisers and affiliated specialists.

Joseph George is a financial advisor at Merrill with 44 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 63 designation and has worked at Merrill since 1981. He has also been associated with Bank of America, N.A. since 2011. Merrill, along with its affiliate Managed Account Advisors LLC, provides managed account services to Bank of America fiduciary clients through the Select Portfolio Solutions Program. The firm offers model-based and discretionary investment strategies for individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, and charitable organizations.

Steven Simmerman is a financial advisor at Raymond James & Associates with 31 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has been with Raymond James for 19 years. Outside of his advisory role, Simmerman is a partner at Lightning Properties LLC, where he participates in real estate leasing decisions. Raymond James & Associates is a large, dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that manages approximately $501 billion in assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, and municipal entities, providing financial planning, non-discretionary investment consulting, and institutional fiduciary services.

Leigh Villers is a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Huntington, West Virginia, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 39 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at Morgan Stanley Private Bank since 2015, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since 2009, and Citigroup Global Markets from 1993 to 2009. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer that provides advisory programs and tailored financial planning to both individual and institutional clients, managing approximately $2.74 trillion in client assets. The firm’s financial planning emphasizes structured discovery and firm-approved tools, with a broad range of retail and institutional offerings.

Carla Adkins is a financial advisor at OSAIC with 23 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Woodbury Financial Services, Mass Mutual Investors Services, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and MetLife Securities. Outside of her advisory work, she serves as Treasurer on the Board of the Kings Daughters Medical Center volunteer organization in Ashland, KY. OSAIC serves a wide range of retail and institutional clients through a large network of affiliated advisers, offering integrated brokerage and advisory services, financial planning, retirement consulting, and access to third-party money managers and managed-account solutions. The firm employs asset-allocation tools and automated rebalancing to construct diversified portfolios that may include stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments.

Gary Mcalister is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley with 39 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has worked at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association since 2015, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since 2009, and Citigroup Global Markets from 1993 to 2009. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management serves individual and institutional clients by offering a variety of advisory programs, including tailored financial planning. The firm manages approximately $2.74 trillion in client assets and employs structured planning tools and modeling techniques as part of its process.

Jonda Lowe is a financial advisor at Jondaknows Financial Group, Inc. in Huntington, WV, with five years of industry experience. She holds Series 63, 65, and 66 designations and has previously worked at Federal Benefit Consulting, LLC, Freedom Financial Insurance Group, J. W. Cole Advisors, Inc., and VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. In addition to her advisory role, she is the managing partner of Federal Benefit Consulting LLC, an education company focused on federal employee benefits. Jondaknows Financial Group, Inc. is an independent firm serving clients with personalized financial advice.