Eric Conner is a financial advisor at Lido with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. He previously worked at Pegasus Partners Ltd, Tall Tree Foods, Inc., and Cortina Asset Management LLC. Lido advises a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, and institutional investors, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with a broad range of asset classes and active sub-advisory roles, including managing options-based strategies and affiliated investment companies.

Paul Knipping is a CFA® charterholder based in Los Angeles, CA, with 10 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. He has worked at Lido Advisors, LLC since 2024 and previously spent 11 years at Geneos Wealth Management Inc. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, charitable organizations, and institutional investors. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach that balances a variety of asset classes and utilizes tactical and defined-risk option strategies, and it is notable for its active roles as a sub-adviser and in-house affiliated services.

Alyssa Garcia is a financial advisor at Lido with a Series 65 credential and one year of industry experience. Her prior roles include legal work at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and various positions at Ohio University. She has also worked in the fitness sector at Club Pilates Queen Anne. Lido serves a broad range of clients, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, charitable organizations, and pension plans, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with diverse asset allocation and active sub-advisory roles, managing approximately $42.5 billion in assets.

Joseph Letrich is a financial advisor at Lido with a Series 65 credential and two years of industry experience. He has worked at Lido Advisors, LLC since 2023 and previously held roles at DePaul, The Mather Group, LLC, Olive Garden, WeatherTech, and NextMex. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional accounts, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with tactical option strategies and operates significant affiliated entities, overseeing approximately $42.5 billion in assets.

Howard Spielberg is a financial advisor at Lido with 26 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63, Series 66, and Series 65 designations. His prior roles include positions at Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Personal and Workplace Advisors, and FIDELITY Brokerage Services. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach featuring tactical and defined-risk option strategies and supports its offerings with affiliated entities in trust, tax, insurance, and brokerage services.

Brian Jun is a financial advisor with Equity Services, Inc. (ESI Financial Advisors) based in Los Angeles, CA. He holds the ChFC® designation and the Series 63 license, and has seven years of industry experience. His prior work includes roles with Nationallife Group, Farmers Insurance Group, and Farmers Financial Solutions. Outside of advising, he is involved in insurance agency operations through Golden Bells Insurance Agency and Worthington Financial Partners. Equity Services, Inc. provides financial planning, consulting, and asset management services to individuals, corporations, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and employer retirement plans. The firm offers multiple advisory platforms combining long-term strategies with options for shorter-term trading, serving clients through both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements.

Alexandra Papell is a CFP® and ChFC® with five years of industry experience. She is currently with Lido Advisors, LLC and has previously worked at UBS Financial, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, and Merrill. Prior to her financial career, she was involved with AmeriCorps and Abe & Louies. Lido advises a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional clients, offering investment management, financial planning, family office services, and affiliated trust, tax, insurance, and brokerage services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management model with a broad range of investment strategies and serves as a sub-adviser to investment funds such as the VanEck U.S. Equity Buffer ETF.

Simon Lu is a financial advisor at TIAA-CREF in Pasadena, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses with 13 years of industry experience. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in 2017, he worked at J.P. Morgan Securities and JPMorgan Chase Bank from 2011 to 2017. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services provides financial planning and discretionary managed account programs to individuals, trusts, estates, partnerships, corporate entities, and small retirement plans, often serving clients with existing relationships through TIAA-administered employer retirement plans. The firm offers planning and management services that range from model portfolio approaches to customized portfolios managed under client-approved investment policies.

Joseph Feinberg is a financial advisor with Hightower Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 33 years of industry experience. He has been with Hightower Advisors and its affiliated broker-dealer since 2015. Feinberg serves as an advisory board member for the Young Chicago Authors Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting youth through literary arts. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm’s approach incorporates manager selection and multi-manager solutions, utilizing both affiliated and third-party managers, and includes a range of investment vehicles such as mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments.

Thomas Connaghan is a financial advisor at Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management, LLC with 22 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Kayne Anderson Rudnick since 2011, following seven years at Fisher Investments. Kayne Anderson Rudnick provides discretionary investment management and sub-advisory services to institutional and individual clients, including pension plans, insurers, banks, family offices, endowments, RIAs, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm’s investment process focuses on fundamental, company-level research and integrates proprietary governance and sustainability assessments, offering a range of active equity and fixed-income strategies as well as modular wealth advisory services.

Isaac Le is a financial advisor at GWN Securities Inc. with a Series 66 designation and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining GWN Securities and LA Pension Planners, he held roles in education and the food service industry, including Teach For America and Half and Half Boba Co. GWN Securities provides investment advisory services to individual and corporate clients through a variety of managed account programs and financial planning offerings. The firm utilizes a combination of affiliated and unaffiliated sub-advisers and applies both asset allocation and tactical market-timing strategies in its portfolio management.

Maher Tayara is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with nine years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has worked at Citigroup Inc. since 2022, following six years at JP Morgan Chase Bank and JP Morgan Securities LLC. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across a range of wealth segments, offering investment advisory programs, broker-dealer execution, and custody services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies through both discretionary and non-discretionary programs, supported by internal standards and oversight committees to select and monitor managers.

Jaime Hernandez is a financial advisor with SPC, holding the CFP® and Series 63 designations and bringing 30 years of industry experience. He has worked at Parkland Securities since 2014 and has been president of Jardez Financial & Insurance Services Inc. since 1993. Hernandez also operates Hernandez Insurance Agency, which he founded in 1973. SPC serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, charitable organizations, corporations, and employer-sponsored retirement plans, managing approximately $5.66 billion in assets. The firm provides portfolio management, financial planning, and ERISA-related retirement plan services through a network of over 460 advisers.

Joseph Kuepper is a financial advisor at Lido with a Series 65 designation and three years of industry experience. He previously worked at Colorado Financial Management for six years and spent one year at the United States Geological Survey. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporate and pension plans. The firm offers integrated wealth management with a range of investment strategies and combines traditional advisory services with affiliated capabilities such as trust, tax, insurance, and brokerage services.

David Lundquist is a Series 65-registered advisor at Lido with 21 years of industry experience. He has worked at Lido Advisors, LLC since 2017 and previously held roles at Ken Stern & Associates, Churchill Management Group, Beta Wealth Group, Inc., and Fisher Investments. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, charitable organizations, corporations, and pension plans. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with active sub-advisory roles and in-house capabilities spanning trust, tax, insurance, and brokerage services, managing approximately $42.5 billion in assets.

Michael Rosenmayer is a financial advisor at Oppenheimer with 33 years of industry experience. He has held positions at Oppenheimer since 2007, following prior roles at RBC Capital Markets and Prudential Equity Group, LLC. He serves as trustee for the Michael H. Rosenmayer 2013 Trust. Oppenheimer is a registered investment adviser and broker-dealer serving individual clients, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and IRAs. The firm offers a variety of investment programs and advisory services across equity, balanced, and fixed-income portfolios, providing both discretionary and non-discretionary management tailored to client objectives.

Gretchen Zierolf is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 16 years of industry experience. She is currently with Lido Advisors, LLC, where she has worked since 2024. Her prior experience includes roles at Hightower Advisors, Farr Miller & Washington, LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott, and Wells Fargo Clearing. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, estates, and institutional clients, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with a range of investment strategies and is notable for its active sub-advisory roles and affiliated capabilities in trust, tax, insurance, and brokerage services.

Attaii Katayoun is a Senior Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Since 2003, she has worked in banking, investing, and wealth strategy, focusing on helping high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients manage and streamline various aspects of their financial lives. Katayoun provides personalized financial planning and investment advice across areas such as college education planning, divorce transition planning, legacy planning, retirement income strategies, and tax minimization. Katayoun holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Bou Ali Sina, a Master's degree from the University of Tehran, and an MBA with a concentration in finance from California Lutheran University. She has earned professional designations including CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor™ (CRPC), and Personal Investment Advisor (PIA). Fluent in English, Persian, and French, she combines technical expertise with empathy to build long-term client relationships. Outside of her professional work, Katayoun is involved in the Rotary Club Rancho Park. She enjoys biking, hiking, music, reading, traveling, and yoga, finding nature to be a source of serenity and balance that she values sharing with others.

Brooklyn Griffin is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience currently serving as an advisor at Lido. Prior to joining Lido, she worked at Hightower Advisors, Farr Miller & Washington, LLC, Clark Financial Advisors, and was involved with Real Estate in Auburn, LLC. Lido advises a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, trusts, charitable organizations, corporations, and pension plans. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with a focus on tactical and defined-risk option strategies and offers a range of affiliated services such as trust, tax, and insurance.

Brian Leadley is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 65 license with nine years of industry experience. He has worked at Lido Advisors, LLC since 2024, previously spending seven years at Pegasus Partners Ltd. and one year at Ernst & Young LLP. Lido serves a diverse client base including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, charitable organizations, and institutional investors, offering investment management, financial planning, and family office services. The firm employs an integrated wealth-management approach with a focus on tactical and defined-risk option strategies, managing approximately $42.5 billion in assets.