Mark Ward is a CFP® and ChFC® with 25 years of industry experience, currently serving at Lucien, Stirling & Gray Advisory Group Inc since 2002. He previously worked at Lucien, Stirling & Gray Financial Corporation from 1999 to 2017. Outside of his advisory role, he is the owner and president of A-WARD ASSETS, LLC, a business involved in managing residential real estate properties. Lucien, Stirling & Gray Advisory Group provides investment advisory services to individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm employs mutual-fund-based asset allocation models with a buy-and-hold strategy and manages approximately $130.9 million in client assets.

Jared McBride is a CFP® and Series 66-licensed financial advisor with 10 years of industry experience. He is currently with GoalFusion Wealth Management and has prior experience at Ameriprise Financial Services. In addition to his advisory work, McBride owns and operates GoalFusion Tax Consulting LLC, providing tax planning and preparation services. GoalFusion Wealth Management serves individuals, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, and businesses with discretionary asset management and financial planning. The firm manages approximately $199 million and employs a blend of fundamental, quantitative, and technical analysis to create tailored investment portfolios.

Erik Anderson is a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) and Personal Financial Specialist™ (PFS™) with 17 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Atlasmark Financial, Inc., where he has worked since 2010. Prior to that, he was affiliated with Securities America, Inc. and has served as a consultant for Employee Incentive Plans, Inc. Anderson is also a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Serving Grace Foundation, a private charitable organization. Atlasmark Financial provides personalized asset and portfolio management services to individuals, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, and corporate entities. The firm’s investment approach is based on fundamental analysis and tailored to each client’s risk profile, with a focus on diversified mutual fund and ETF allocations executed through an institutional custody platform.

Jonathan Levy is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with 11 years of industry experience. He has worked at Brown Advisory for eight years before joining Outrunner Capital, LLC, where he has been since 2024. Outrunner Capital serves ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, and related entities with financial planning, consulting, and wealth and investment management. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis across a range of securities and manages special purpose pooled vehicles and private fund investments as part of its advisory services.

Adam Reinking is a CFP® and CFA® with 16 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Redbud Advisors since 2019. His prior experience includes roles at AdvicePeriod, LLC and Risk Paradigm Group Holdings, LLC. Outside of advisory work, he is involved in real estate development as a principal of Redbud Development Group LLC and holds a real estate broker license. Redbud Advisors is a team-based registered investment adviser managing approximately $368 million for individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a planning-first investment approach emphasizing low-cost, passive index exposures, tax efficiency, and proactive asset location, while integrating real estate activities through related brokerage and private real estate investments.

Megan Poore is a financial advisor with Watercolor Financial in Austin, TX, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and 23 years of industry experience. She previously worked at Northwest Asset Management and Lucien, Stirling & Gray Advisory Group, Inc. Poore serves as a congregational treasurer for Covenant Presbyterian Church and is a board member at a nonprofit organization, HopeAustin, where she engages with donors. Watercolor Financial provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services to individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and businesses. The firm manages approximately $185 million across about 142 client relationships using a strategic asset allocation framework and employs fundamental and cyclical analysis to monitor and rebalance portfolios.

Anthony Buzbee Jr. is a financial advisor with Somos Financial Partners LLC in Austin, TX. He holds a Series 65 designation and began his advisory career in 2026. Prior to joining Somos Financial Partners, he worked at Cresa and New Regional Planning. Somos Financial Partners LLC is a registered investment adviser serving individual and high-net-worth clients with discretionary portfolio management and selection-of-adviser services. The firm uses a combination of fundamental, quantitative, technical, and modern portfolio theory approaches, focusing on long-term trading strategies and maintaining client-specific investment policy statements.

Itay Vinik is the managing member of Vectis Capital and holds a Series 65 designation with 13 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Vectis Capital in 2026, he worked at Equilibrium Ventures, LLC and Ace of Swords, LP, among other firms. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Vinik holds a Texas real estate license and actively manages multi-family properties through various holding companies. Vectis Capital primarily serves ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, offering discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management along with financial planning. The firm employs a multi-faceted investment approach that includes quantitative, fundamental, technical, and economic analysis, and coordinates with clients’ tax, estate, and trust advisors to align investment decisions with broader wealth-transfer and after-tax goals.

Finance has been an interest and passion of mine as long as I can remember. As a child, my dad would teach me about investing and I was fascinated that I could earn a little bit of money and then it could grow on it’s own. Those simple principles were built on throughout my childhood and studying finance in college was a natural fit. I graduated from Texas A&M University with Bachelor degrees in both accounting and finance. Upon graduating, I limited my job search to my beloved hometown (Austin) where the woman I love (Kaimey) was living. I accepted an auditor position with the state government and traveled around Texas performing financial and compliance audits. Even though it wasn’t my dream job because everyone hates auditors, I took a lot of pride in working with my clients instead of against them. In those years while auditing, Kaimey and I were married, I obtained my CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) designations, and we added twins to our family, Hudson and Harper. When life settled down a bit after the twin infant/toddler years, I decided to shift careers and focus on my passion of personal financial planning. I was fortunate to join a fee-only financial planning company where I advised high net-worth clients and managed other planners. This was a good home to me for several years, and during that time I added my CFP® (CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™) and LHIC (Life and Health Insurance Counselor) designations to my other credentials. In 2018 we felt God calling us to something new for our family. I took a leap of faith to leave my comfortable job and start my own business. And Avant Financial Advisors was born! We are excited to use this company to help others and make our clients’ dreams become financially possible. Hudson and Harper are teenagers now and keep our family’s free-time full! We love supporting them in their activities and being involved in their school. We spend lots of time outside: hiking, biking, being on the lake, and exploring around Austin. We love to travel and discover new-to-us places in this big, beautiful world, but coming home always feels great too.

Cathryn Grange is a financial advisor at Watercolor Financial in Austin, TX, with 30 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has previously worked at Northwest Asset Management and Lucien, Stirling & Gray Financial Corporation. Watercolor Financial provides discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan advisory services to individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and businesses. The firm manages approximately $184.8 million across about 142 clients, using a strategic asset allocation framework with diversified mutual funds and ETFs, and offers ERISA 3(38) investment manager services for employer plans.

Scott Bussy is a financial advisor with Bearing Financial Advisors, LLC in Austin, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and possessing 38 years of industry experience. He has worked at Bearing Financial Advisors since 2002 and previously spent three years at Calton & Associates, Inc. Outside of his advisory role, he is an insurance agent involved in managing general agency activities. Bearing Financial Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth individuals, family partnerships, trusts, and small-business retirement plans. The firm employs multiple factor-driven equity models and integrates both fundamental and technical analysis in its diversified investment approach.

James Karnes is a financial advisor with Texas Asset Management in Lakeway, TX, holding the PFS™ designation and 24 years of industry experience. He is also a CPA at the accounting firm Brodnax & Karnes, P.C., where he has worked since 2000. Karnes has been with Texas Asset Management and its predecessor firms since 1999. Texas Asset Management is an independent, single-adviser registered investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, qualified retirement plans, and small businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory, focusing on diversified portfolios constructed mainly with institutional-class, passively managed mutual funds tailored to each client’s investment policy.

Mark Abraham is a financial advisor at II Technology, LLC in Austin, TX, with 11 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at II Technology since 2015. Prior to that, he was involved with Abraham Trading Company for over two decades. II Technology serves individuals, registered investment advisors, institutional investors, and investment companies by providing systematic asset management, discretionary sub-advisory services for the ARMOR Core Risk-Managed ETF, and subscription-based data licensing. The firm employs a proprietary research methodology called Inductive Inference Technology™ to support its quantitative, rules-based strategies focused on systematic risk management and diversification.

Sreekanth Nagarajan is a financial advisor at AyurAsset LLC in Austin, TX, holding a Series 65 credential and beginning his industry experience in 2025. He previously worked at Affinity Answers Corporation for 20 years. He is also involved with Ayur Impact LLC. AyurAsset LLC is a fee-only registered investment adviser serving individuals and high-net-worth clients with a discretionary investment management approach focused on a single, defined strategy called “Global Hidden Compounders,” which targets undervalued small- and micro-cap companies for long-term, concentrated portfolios.

Dallan Maas is a Series 66 licensed financial advisor with nine years of industry experience. He is currently with ATX Financial Planning, LLC and previously worked at U.S. Capital Wealth Advisors, LLC, Commonwealth Financial Network, and Austin Financial Partners. Maas is also involved in family farming through Maas Farming Corporation and operates a related sole proprietorship that manages agricultural leasing and marketing. ATX Financial Planning provides discretionary investment management and financial planning to individuals and high-net-worth clients, including ERISA plan services as fiduciary. The firm’s investment approach integrates fundamental and technical analysis and utilizes a range of strategies including structured-outcome ETFs, commodities, and selective use of leveraged and inverse funds for qualified clients.

Jennifer Failla is a CFP® professional with 19 years of industry experience. She has been with Strada Wealth Management, LLC in Austin, TX since 2008. Strada Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients by providing financial planning, discretionary portfolio management, and a specialized marital-matters practice. The firm employs a variety of investment strategies, combining charting, fundamental, and technical analysis, and emphasizes client education and flexible fee arrangements.

Hariharan Jayakumar is a financial advisor at Silo Financial LLC with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Silo Financial since 2022. Outside of financial advising, Jayakumar operates a YouTube channel called "Logically Answered," which features business and technology content and has garnered 500,000 subscribers. Silo Financial provides online, algorithm-driven portfolio management services to individual investors through a self-directed platform that offers suitability scores and allows clients to trade NASDAQ/NYSE equities, ETFs, and fixed income instruments. The firm supports a large client base with a non-discretionary robo-advisory model that does not rely on traditional percentage-of-assets fees.

Spencer Wright is a financial advisor at Halbert Wealth Management, Inc. in Austin, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials with 26 years of industry experience. He has worked at Halbert Wealth Management since 1999 and previously spent three years at Pensionmark Financial Group. Halbert Wealth Management provides investment management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, IRAs, trusts, retirement plans, and certain institutional entities, while also supporting other investment advisers through strategy evaluation and referrals. The firm emphasizes active money management and risk management, offering both discretionary and non-discretionary programs, including a proprietary long/short strategy known as HWM Alpha Advantage.

Andrew Rexroat is a financial advisor at Redbud Advisors in Austin, TX, holding a Series 65 license with three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Redbud Advisors, he worked five years at Zelis / Payer Compass and two years at EY LLP. He currently serves as a senior manager of accounting at a healthcare technology company. Redbud Advisors is a team-based registered investment adviser managing approximately $368 million for individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm emphasizes a planning-first approach with low-cost, passive index investments, tax efficiency, and integrated wealth advisory services that include financial planning, trust advisory, and philanthropy coordination.

Mark Tracy is a CFP® with 12 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at KM Capital Management, Ltd. in Austin, TX. He has been with the firm since 2005. KM Capital Management serves a select group of primarily high-net-worth individuals through discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, and also acts as sub-advisor to a private investment fund. The firm focuses on wealth preservation and risk management using diversified, cost-efficient strategies and provides additional administrative services such as bill-pay and bookkeeping.