Alfred Nichols is the sole advisor at Nichols Wealth Advisors in Chicago, IL, holding CFP® and ChFC® designations with 38 years of industry experience. He founded Nichols Wealth Advisors in 2016 and serves as a trustee and finance committee member for St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in Aurora, IL, where he manages approved funds. Nichols Wealth Advisors serves individual and institutional clients with discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting. The firm employs three actively managed investment strategies focused on equity income, multi-cap equity, and intermediate fixed income, emphasizing disciplined portfolio construction and risk-adjusted performance.

Alvin Walker Jr. is a financial advisor at Lake Jericho, LLC with 17 years of industry experience. He holds the CFP® and CFA® designations and has worked at Lake Jericho since 2014, following six years at One Compass Advisors. Lake Jericho, LLC is an independent, fee-only registered investment adviser serving individuals, households, family offices, foundations, endowments, nonprofit organizations, plan sponsors, and businesses. The firm employs a disciplined investment approach based on modern portfolio theory and academic research, combining passive core exposures with selective active management, and also provides benefit-plan consulting and financial planning services.

Benjamin Henke is a financial advisor at Menominee Capital in Chicago, IL, holding Series 65 and Series 66 licenses with two years of industry experience. His background includes roles at Merrill, Kruse Asset Management, and Christian Tax Law. Outside of finance, he has been involved with Wendella Tour and Cruises and Glunz Tavern. Menominee Capital is a state-registered investment adviser offering portfolio management, third-party manager oversight, and financial planning services to individuals and institutional clients. The firm primarily uses passive investment management with index funds and ETFs, supplemented by active strategies when appropriate.

Edward Vanhecke is the sole advisor at Edvestment Solutions L.L.C. in Lemont, IL, holding a Series 65 designation with nine years of industry experience. He founded Edvestment Solutions in 2016 and has managed the firm since then. Edvestment Solutions provides fee-based portfolio management services primarily to individual clients and individual retirement accounts. The firm uses a top-down approach focusing on macroeconomic factors to guide asset allocation, combining passive index strategies with active equity and options positions tailored to client objectives.

Timothy Hammond is the sole advisor at Hammond Investment Management, LLC in Mokena, IL. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 28 years of industry experience. He has worked at Wall & Associates since 2000 and has been an investment advisor under his own name since 1997. Hammond Investment Management provides discretionary investment management and consulting services to pension plans, municipal clients, and individual investors. The firm follows a long-term, low-turnover investment philosophy emphasizing diversification and asset allocation, with a particular focus on institutional and state/municipal clients and fixed-income solutions.

Jonathon Bell is a financial advisor at Royalty Wealth Management, Inc. in Chicago, IL, with 20 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has held prior positions at Rudis Capital Management, Saxony Capital Management, Rothschild Investment LLC, and LaSalle Financial Services. Royalty Wealth Management is an independent firm serving individual and high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and business entities with discretionary asset management and investment consulting. The firm customizes portfolios using quantitative optimization, technical analysis, and a mix of investment instruments, offering model strategies and performance-based account programs uncommon among similarly sized firms.

Mauricio Ramirez Calvo is a financial advisor at Stratfinx Wealth in Chicago, holding a Series 65 designation with one year of industry experience. His prior roles include work at Kard Financial and Allstate Investments, and he has been involved with Plume Design since 2021. Stratfinx Wealth is an independent firm providing investment management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and corporate entities, including international clients. The firm employs an investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory, combining passive and active strategies and offering discretionary portfolio management alongside tailored financial planning.

Ginger Gorden is a CFP® professional with 12 years of experience in the financial industry. She is the principal advisor at GGCFO Advisors and also serves as president and accountant of GD Group, Inc., where she provides outsourced CFO and accounting services. GGCFO Advisors offers financial planning, investment supervisory services, and access to institutional sub-advisers primarily for individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a market-based, structured investment approach focused on diversification, cost awareness, and continuous market exposure, typically managing portfolios on a discretionary basis.

Robert Rowe Jr. is the founder of Rowe Consulting Group, LLC in Elmhurst, Illinois, with 27 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been involved with Enhanced Investment Partners, LLC and Rowe Decision Analytics LLC since the mid-1980s. Rowe is also the founder and sole owner of Rowpyn Investment Partners LLC, which owns the intellectual property for the proprietary Enhanced Dynamic® domestic equity rotation methodology. Rowe Consulting Group provides investment consulting and advisory services to mid-market retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and individual clients. The firm uses a fee-only, fiduciary approach with a focus on investment policy development, manager selection, and quantitative rotation strategies licensed through affiliated entities.

David Maley is a CFP®-certified financial advisor at 1102 Partners, LLC in Chicago, with five years of industry experience. He previously worked at Ariel Investments, LLC for twelve years. Outside of his advisory role, Maley serves as a board member of the Joseph Maley Foundation and ClearSign Technologies Corporation, and he participates on the Investment and Finance Committee for Thresholds. 1102 Partners provides wealth management and portfolio management services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and estates, offering family-office–style coordination in estate and tax planning, philanthropy, and multi-generational financial education. The firm’s investment approach emphasizes fundamental analysis and long-term strategies, using diversified mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, options, and alternative investments.

William Griffioen is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license with 17 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Elite Focus Private Wealth, LLC, where he has worked since 2014. Griffioen is also a licensed insurance professional, maintaining a side activity as an independent insurance broker. Elite Focus Private Wealth provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, businesses, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes fundamental analysis and a primarily long-term investment approach, offering customized portfolios that may include equities, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, and third-party managed accounts.

Scott Scherrer is a financial advisor at Scherrer Financial Services with 21 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has operated his independent practice since 2004. Scherrer Financial Services provides investment management and financial planning primarily for individual clients. The firm employs a bottom-up, buy-and-hold investment approach tailored to client-specific objectives, incorporating portfolio construction with stocks, bonds, annuities, and CDs, alongside retirement, tax, and estate planning advice.

John Maguire is the sole advisor at Maguire Asset Management, LLC, an independent firm based in Oak Brook, IL. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 24 years of industry experience. Maguire has been with Maguire Asset Management since 2004, overseeing both portfolio management and pension consulting services. Maguire Asset Management provides portfolio management for individual clients and pension consulting for plan sponsors, including 401(k), profit-sharing, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm combines fundamental, technical, quantitative, and qualitative analysis with asset allocation, trading strategies, and specialized pension consulting services such as Investment Policy Statement preparation and participant educational workshops.

Paul Tomchaney is the principal advisor at TomChaney Investment Services, Inc., an independent firm based in Orland Park, IL. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 27 years of industry experience, including 21 years with his current firm. TomChaney's background includes counseling psychology. TomChaney Investment Services provides discretionary asset and portfolio management to individual and high-net-worth clients, managing approximately $30.7 million across 39 accounts. The firm combines Modern Portfolio Theory with fundamental and technical analysis to create diversified portfolios that include mutual funds, ETFs, equities, fixed income, and options, while accommodating special client situations and restrictions.

Todt Marks is the sole advisor at Todt Investment Management LLC in Chicago, IL, holding CFP® and Series 65 credentials with 16 years of industry experience. He has also practiced law in Illinois for over 15 years through his independent legal practice. Todt integrates his legal background with financial advising, spending under 15% of his professional time practicing law alongside his advisory work. Todt Investment Management LLC serves individual investors by providing both investment supervisory services and consulting without active portfolio control. The firm combines economic and industry analysis to create customized portfolios with a focus on low trading frequency, offering ongoing monitoring, regular reviews, and personalized client engagement.

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Matthew Baldwin is a financial advisor at Wallace with a Series 65 designation and one year of experience in the industry. His prior roles include positions at Muddy Waters Capital and several law firms, as well as a service period in the United States Navy. He also spent three years affiliated with Chicago-Kent College of Law. Wallace is an SEC-registered firm operating a mobile platform that enables individual retail investors to construct and purchase fractional-share modified direct-indexing strategies. The platform is self-directed, using proprietary algorithms and AI tools to generate investment structuring and rebalancing recommendations without providing personalized advice or discretionary trading.

Daniel Henry is a financial advisor at Endeavor Capital Management, LLC with 18 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked at J.P. Morgan Securities from 2007 to 2019 before joining IHT Wealth Management LLC in 2020. Outside of investment management, he is involved in training and onboarding new hires at Vedder Price, PC. Endeavor Capital Management provides discretionary investment management and sub-advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, legal entities, corporations, and other registered investment advisers. The firm employs a combination of fundamental valuation, technical analysis, and dividend-growth assessments to manage concentrated, long-term equity portfolios alongside passive asset allocation strategies.

Jerry Sjostrom is the principal of Sjostrom Financial Planning Inc. in Oak Park, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 23 years of industry experience. He has been with Sjostrom Financial Planning since 2002 and also has a long tenure at THE O.N. Equity Sales Company beginning in 1995. Sjostrom Financial Planning Inc. offers comprehensive financial planning and investment advisory services to individual clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, charities, estates, and trusts. The firm follows a client-specific planning process emphasizing diversified asset allocation and incorporates pension consulting alongside individual wealth management.

Christine Everett Frantonius is the principal of Everett Wealth Solutions, Inc., an independent advisory firm. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to her current role, she has been affiliated with Abraham & Co., Inc. since 2020 and has managed Everett & Associates, Inc., an insurance brokerage, since 1998. She serves as president and independent insurance agent of Everett & Associates, offering life, disability, long-term care insurance, and fixed annuities. Everett Wealth Solutions provides retirement, financial, estate, and college planning along with discretionary portfolio management for a diverse client base including retirees, professionals, families, and small businesses. The firm follows a documented four-step review process to develop individualized financial plans and model portfolios, managing client accounts primarily through securities available on the client’s custodian platform.