Allan Kaplan is a financial advisor with M HOLDINGS SECURITIES, Inc., holding the ChFC® designation and a Series 63 license, with 39 years of industry experience. He has worked at M. Holdings Securities since 2001 and The Robinson Financial Group, Inc. since 2017, following a 32-year tenure at New Century Planners. Kaplan serves as a trustee for Lake Forest Academy, a nonprofit high school board position. M Holdings Securities, Inc. serves a diverse client base including individuals, retirement plans, charitable organizations, and corporations through a nationwide network of independent firms and financial professionals. The firm offers a broad range of advisory and brokerage services, including discretionary investment management, retirement plan consulting, financial planning, and insurance advisory, utilizing both in-house portfolio management and third-party sub-advisors.

Brian Rippel is a financial advisor with Northern Trust Securities, Inc. in Chicago, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and with 14 years of industry experience. He has been with Northern Trust Securities since 2015 and is also involved as a bartender at The Globe Pub in Chicago. Northern Trust Securities, Inc. is a multi-team firm that provides discretionary portfolio management primarily for high-net-worth individuals, retail investors, and institutional clients through model-driven, wrap fee programs delivered on the Fidelity Managed Account Xchange platform.

Bradley Underwood is a financial advisor with World Equity Group, Inc. in Schaumburg, IL, holding a Series 66 credential and over 23 years of industry experience. He has been with World Equity Group since 2015. Outside of his advisory role, Underwood is involved in several entrepreneurial and consulting activities, including providing payroll, benefits, and HR services through Professional Employer Organizations as an independent contractor and offering prepaid legal and identity protection services. World Equity Group, Inc. provides fee-based investment advisory and financial planning services to a broad client base, including individuals, high-net-worth clients, pensions, trusts, and business entities. The firm employs risk-tolerance questionnaires to guide asset allocation and offers managed portfolios with discretionary authority granted to third-party money managers and investment adviser representatives.

Colin Kelty is a financial advisor at Belpointe Asset Management LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked previously at Cetera and MB Financial Bank. Outside of his advisory role, he is involved in a tax planning business and participates in theatre production and venue management. Belpointe serves a diverse client base including individual investors, retirement plans, corporations, and other advisers. The firm offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting with a customizable approach that includes passive, active, tactical, and blended strategies tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance.

Sean Conway is a financial advisor with Curi Capital, LLC in Chicago, IL, holding a Series 66 designation and 19 years of industry experience. He has worked at RMB Capital Management since 2008. Curi Capital serves individuals, families, institutional and corporate clients, retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm employs a long-term, fundamental bottom-up approach for equity strategies and a fundamental relative-value orientation for fixed income, combining in-house strategies with external managers and proprietary risk analysis tools.

Randall Cohen is a financial advisor with IHT Wealth Management LLC in Skokie, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 32 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Bank of America, Merrill, and LPL Financial. IHT Wealth Management serves a diverse client base including individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, trusts, and corporations. The firm employs a blended investment approach combining fundamental stock selection with quantitative tools and offers discretionary asset management, financial planning, and ERISA plan consulting through a network of approximately 153 advisors.

Ann Gunst is a CFP® with 17 years of industry experience, currently with Trustmont Advisory Group, Inc. She has previously worked at firms including Halo Securities LLC and Sentinus, LLC. Outside of her advisory role, she is a partner in an accounting and bookkeeping business. Trustmont Advisory Group serves a diverse client base, including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a long-term investment approach, utilizing broad public research sources and discretionary management to tailor solutions that may include third-party managers and technical analysis.

Joel Kendall is a financial advisor with Composition Wealth, LLC in Chicago, IL. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has 38 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at UBS Financial Services and Advisory Partners, LLC. Composition Wealth provides investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services to a broad client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, businesses, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a primarily long-term investment approach centered on low-cost, diversified mutual funds and ETFs, supplemented by individual securities and alternative investments, and manages approximately $9.47 billion in discretionary assets as of the end of 2025.

James Tilley is a financial advisor with Foundations Investment Advisors LLC, holding a Series 65 credential and six years of industry experience. He has worked at multiple firms, including AE Wealth Management and CreativeOne Wealth, and currently serves as managing partner at Liberty Hill Financial Planners. Foundations Investment Advisors, LLC provides financial planning and ongoing portfolio management to a diverse client base, including individuals, high-net-worth clients, retirement plans, and registered investment companies. The firm uses a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis, employs model portfolios with asymmetric rebalancing, and offers access to third-party sub-advisers and custodians.

Constantine Quintas is a Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. He joined the Thorndyke Group at Merrill in 2020 and brings over two decades of experience in the financial services industry. He specializes in constructing and managing personalized, goal-based portfolios for clients and business owners to help them achieve their essential and aspirational financial goals while meeting their responsibilities and priorities. Constantine's expertise includes investment management, retirement and college planning, home financing, securities lending, banking, estate planning, and wealth transfer strategies. He utilizes a team of professionals to support clients in these areas. His client focus encompasses college education planning, divorce transition planning, family wealth management strategies, employee financial health, liquidity management, managing new wealth, personal retirement planning, portfolio management services, individual and corporate investment strategy, and retirement income. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from DePaul University. Constantine has earned the Personal Investment Advisor (PIA) designation. Outside of his professional work, he is involved with the No Bats Baseball Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting charity and goodwill through baseball.

Christopher Kuipers is a financial advisor at Arete Wealth Advisors, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been with Arete Wealth Advisors since 2023. Outside of his advisory role, Kuipers is a math teacher and middle school football coach at Holland Christian Schools. Arete Wealth Advisors provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, and charitable organizations. The firm primarily manages assets on a discretionary basis using a combination of advisor-driven and proprietary model allocations, and it integrates services across affiliated financial businesses and product channels.

Derrick Watts is a financial advisor with Packerland Brokerage Services, Inc. in Chicago, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 32 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Packerland in 2020, he worked at Wunderlich Securities, Inc. from 2016 to 2019. Outside of his advisory role, he provides business development coaching and consulting to startups and small business owners, focusing on growth strategies, financial statements, projections, capital needs, and budgeting. Packerland Brokerage Services, Inc. serves individual and institutional clients—including high-net-worth individuals, trusts, corporations, and retirement plan sponsors—through a network of 176 advisors managing over $1.35 billion in assets. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, wrap-fee and unified managed account programs, and retirement-plan consulting, delivering investment solutions both directly and via third-party managers on the Hilltop/Hilltop-cleared Envestnet platform.

Arvin Weindruch is a financial advisor at Forum Financial Management, LP with 28 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and previously worked at Harris Weindruch & Co. Ltd. for over four decades. Outside of his advisory role, he operates an accounting and consulting business as a sole proprietor. Forum Financial Management, LP provides fee-based wealth management, financial planning, and qualified plan services to individual and institutional clients. The firm also offers sub-advisory services and a turnkey asset management platform to independent RIAs, utilizing model portfolios primarily invested in DFA institutional mutual funds and ETFs following a Modern Portfolio Theory approach.

David Lennon is a financial advisor with Forum Financial Management, LP in Joliet, IL, holding the PFS™ designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has 31 years of industry experience and has been with Forum Financial Management and Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments since 2013. Lennon is also the owner of Senesac & Lennon, Ltd., an accounting and tax services firm. Forum Financial Management, LP provides fee-based wealth management, financial planning, qualified plan services, and educational workshops to individual and institutional clients. The firm also serves as a sub-advisor and turnkey asset management platform for other independent RIAs, utilizing model portfolios primarily implemented with DFA mutual funds and ETFs following a Modern Portfolio Theory approach.

Andrew Baker is a CFA® charterholder with nine years of industry experience. He is currently with Curi Capital, LLC and has worked at RMB Capital Management LLC since 2008. Curi Capital serves individuals and families, institutional and corporate clients, retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm employs a long-term, fundamental, bottom-up approach to equity and a relative-value orientation to fixed income, combining in-house strategies with external managers and proprietary risk analysis tools.

Levi Palomo is a financial advisor at LaSalle St. Investment Advisors, L.L.C. with five years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has worked at several firms, including Osaic Advisory Services, Arbor Point Advisors, and Securities America. Palomo is also a financial planner with Pillar Financial Advisors, LLC. LaSalle St. Investment Advisors provides personalized, fee-based financial planning and investment supervisory services to individuals, trusts, pension plans, charitable organizations, and small businesses. The firm offers both non-discretionary and discretionary management programs, utilizing a diversified asset mix and a range of investment vehicles.

Ian Doll is a CFP® certificant and Series 65 licensee with 13 years of industry experience. He is currently associated with RMB Capital Management, where he has worked since 2012. Doll operates out of Chicago, IL. Curi Capital, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $11.6 billion in assets, serving individuals, retirement plans, institutions, mutual funds, private funds, and family offices. The firm employs a long-term, fundamental investment approach with a bottom-up process for equities and a relative-value focus for fixed income, using a combination of proprietary strategies, third-party managers, mutual funds, and private funds.

Mark Rodgers is a financial advisor with Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC based in Chicago, IL, holding Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and bringing 29 years of industry experience. His work history includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, BMR Retirement Group, and Raymond James Financial Services, among others. Outside of his advisory work, Rodgers is a 50% owner of Drai's 1512 LLC, which owns the office property leased to BMR Retirement Group. Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC is a multi-team SEC-registered advisory firm serving individuals, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans. The firm focuses on customized, primarily long-term investment portfolios using ETFs, mutual funds, and other securities, supported by extensive due diligence, strategic asset allocation, and a range of operational tools and third-party services.

Claire Davis is a financial advisor at The Mather Group, LLC in Chicago, IL, with four years of industry experience. Prior to joining The Mather Group, she worked at Kautex Textron and Miami University. The Mather Group primarily serves high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, corporations, and other entities by providing combined financial planning, investment management, tax and estate planning guidance, and family office services. The firm uses an evidence-based investment approach with tax-synchronized portfolio construction and offers customization options such as direct indexing and ESG factor portfolios.

David Chase is a financial advisor with NewEdge Wealth in Chicago, holding a Series 66 designation and 17 years of industry experience. Prior to joining NewEdge Wealth and NewEdge Securities LLC in 2025, he worked at Wells Fargo Clearing and Wells Fargo Advisors from 2015 to 2025. He serves as a board member and finance committee member at Hinsdale Community House, where he advises on financial and investment matters. NewEdge Wealth primarily serves ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, as well as foundations, endowments, and other institutional clients. The firm offers comprehensive advisory services with an investment process that emphasizes asset allocation, investor behavior, and a combination of model strategies, separately managed accounts, and alternative investments.