Geoffrey Curran is a CFP®, CFA®, and Series 66-licensed advisor with 13 years of industry experience. He joined Focus Partners Wealth, LLC in 2025 after nine years at Merriman Wealth Management, LLC. Outside of his advisory role, he volunteers on the investment advisory committees for the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the Tacoma Employees Retirement System and also writes and self-publishes fiction as a hobby. Focus Partners Wealth serves a diverse client base, including individuals, families, corporate and institutional clients, offering investment management, financial counseling, family office, and retirement plan fiduciary services. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach featuring enhanced open architecture, combining fundamental and quantitative analysis along with consultant input and third-party managers when appropriate.

Luther Haugan is a CFP® with 33 years of industry experience and has been with Oppenheimer since 2003. Based in Seattle, WA, he holds Series 63 and Series 65 registrations. Outside of his financial advisory role, he operates LHAUGAN PHOTOGRAPHY, specializing in underwater photography. Oppenheimer serves a diverse client base including individuals, corporations, pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm provides a broad range of advisory and brokerage services, employing strategic and tactical asset allocation and manager selection to build client portfolios, while also acting as a qualified custodian.

David Pigott is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Mariner since 2026. His prior experience includes roles at PNC Investments, Merrill, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Colonial Life. Mariner serves a diverse client base, including individuals, pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations, offering investment management, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and tax services. The firm utilizes discretionary, customized portfolios supported by internal and third-party managers and integrates tax and accounting services uncommon in firms of its scale.

Nicholas Wolejsza is a CFP® professional currently with Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC, based in Seattle, WA, with 13 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, he worked at Fisher Investments and Fisher Retirement Solutions. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services provides financial planning, asset management, and retirement-plan consulting to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm manages over $122 billion in assets through a large advisor network, employing a diversified investment approach that blends passive and active strategies overseen by an internal Investment Committee.

Jacob Wham is a financial advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC with 12 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Merriman Wealth Management, where he spent 18 years. Focus Partners Wealth, LLC provides wealth advisory and investment management services to individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, retirement plans, institutions, and businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment approach that emphasizes tax- and fee-sensitivity within an enhanced open architecture framework combining active and passive strategies, separate account managers, private funds, mutual funds, and ETFs.

Nathaniel Haskell is a CFA® charterholder with 10 years of industry experience. He currently serves as an advisor at Corient in Seattle, WA, having previously worked at Columbia Pacific Wealth Management, Cresset Asset Management, and The Ayco Company. Corient provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, trusts, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate entities. The firm uses a goals-based, team investment approach that integrates in-house strategies with third-party managers and employs comprehensive risk management tools.

Sean Lakey is a financial advisor with Goldman Sachs Wealth Services, holding a Series 66 credential and having one year of industry experience. His prior work includes roles at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and the University of Washington. Goldman Sachs Wealth Services advises a diverse client base including individual investors, corporate participants, executives, and institutional clients. The firm offers financial planning and portfolio management supported by specialized programs and access to alternative investments, leveraging strategic allocation models and a broad range of affiliated resources within the Goldman Sachs ecosystem.

Yali Sheneman is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 14 years of industry experience. She has worked at firms including HSBC Securities (USA) Inc, Cetera Investment Advisers LLC, East West Bank, and Cathay Bank. She also serves as a Bank Officer for HSBC Bank (USA) N.A., selling bank-related products alongside her advisory role. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a broad client base including individual investors, high-net-worth clients, and institutional accounts, offering a range of advisory and broker-dealer services with proprietary and third-party model portfolios.

Jeffrey Morelan is a financial advisor at Centaurus Financial, Inc. in Bellevue, WA, with 24 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 credential and has been with Centaurus Financial and Allen Capital Management & Planning, LLC since 2002. In addition to his advisory work, he owns and operates a tax preparation service focused on individual tax returns. Centaurus Financial, Inc. serves a diverse client base including individuals, families, businesses, trusts, and foundations, offering financial planning, portfolio management via the CLASSIC Plus platform, retirement-plan consulting, and specialized advisory services. The firm manages assets under both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements and employs a variety of analytical approaches, including fundamental and technical analysis, with options for model overlay programs and approved third-party managers.

James Edwards is a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC in Seattle, WA, holding a Series 65 credential. He has 13 years of industry experience, including a 12-year tenure at Bank of America Private Bank before joining Beacon Pointe Advisors in 2026. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides wealth advisory, consulting, financial planning, retirement-plan services, and outsourced chief investment officer solutions to individual investors, corporations, and institutional clients. The firm combines asset-allocation modeling with third-party independent managers, employing both active and passive strategies across public and private asset classes.

Annika Brown is a CFP® professional affiliated with Focus Partners Wealth, LLC in Seattle, WA, with one year of industry experience. She previously worked at Merriman Wealth Management, LLC and LPL Financial, LLC, and spent two years at Brigham Young University - Idaho. Focus Partners Wealth serves a diverse client base including individual, high-net-worth, family office, corporate, and institutional clients. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach utilizing enhanced open architecture and integrates a broad range of investment strategies alongside affiliated insurance, lending, and real-estate private fund solutions.

Alexa Willis is a financial advisor at Mercer Global Advisors Inc. in Bellevue, WA, holding CFP® and Series 65 credentials with 10 years of industry experience. Her career has been exclusively with Mercer Global Advisors since 2016. Mercer Global Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to individuals, high-net-worth families, small business owners, corporate plan sponsors, foundations, and nonprofit organizations. The firm follows a Modern Portfolio Theory-based investment approach focused on globally diversified, risk-appropriate portfolios and offers a range of portfolio management and financial planning services.

Matthew Severs is a financial advisor at Key Investment Services LLC with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has been with Key Investment Services and Key Bank NA since 2013. Key Investment Services LLC serves individuals, trusts, estates, small businesses, and corporate clients through a variety of wrap-fee advisory programs, model portfolios, and managed accounts. The firm emphasizes client direction in investment strategy selection and provides ongoing monitoring and third-party manager due diligence within the KeyCorp group.

Riley Noonan is a financial advisor at Corient with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at several firms including Ethic, Inc., Freestone Capital Management, and RUSSELL Investments. Prior to his advisory career, he spent four years at the University of Washington. Corient provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporate entities. The firm uses a goals-based, team investment approach that combines in-house strategies with third-party managers and employs continuous portfolio monitoring and risk management tools.

Christine Stensland is a financial advisor at D.A. Davidson & Co. in Seattle, WA, with 25 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63, Series 65, and Series 66 licenses and has been with D.A. Davidson since 2013. D.A. Davidson & Co. provides investment advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including retirement plans, individual investors, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers a range of services such as ERISA retirement plan advisory, wrap fee programs, equity research, and comprehensive financial planning, operating under the Advisers Act fiduciary standard and ERISA fiduciary duties.

Jamie Wieferich is a financial advisor with D.A. Davidson & Co. in Seattle, WA, holding a Series 66 designation and possessing 22 years of industry experience. He has been with D.A. Davidson & Co. since 2004. D.A. Davidson & Co. provides investment advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including retirement plans, individual and high-net-worth investors, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm offers ERISA retirement plan advisory, wrap fee programs, equity research, and comprehensive financial planning, operating under fiduciary standards and utilizing qualitative and quantitative analysis to recommend and monitor investments.

Stephanie Roberts is a CFP® with six years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services, LLC in Bellevue, WA. She previously worked at The H Group Washington, Inc. and Harvest Capital Advisors. From 2018 to 2020, she was involved with When in Travel Series LLC. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services provides financial planning, asset management, and retirement-plan consulting to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm manages over $122 billion in assets and employs a diversified investment approach blending passive and active managers with quantitative, momentum, and fundamental analysis.

Evan Wirkkala is a financial advisor at Hightower Advisors with four years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has previously worked at Clear Coast Partners, 30 North Group, Pathstone, and Cornerstone Advisors, Inc. Outside of his advisory role, he is the owner of Whiteline Advisory, where he serves as a consultant to private family operating businesses, and is a majority partner in Clear Coast Partners, LLC, a firm focused on healthcare-related investments. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse range of individual and institutional clients. The firm’s approach emphasizes manager selection and multi-manager solutions, utilizing a combination of affiliated and third-party managers alongside proprietary research and a variety of investment vehicles.

Judith Wildes is a financial advisor at Valic Financial Advisors with 42 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has been with Valic Financial Advisors since 2000. In addition to her advisory role, she is an agent for non-securities insurance products with Agia. Valic Financial Advisors primarily serves U.S.-domiciled individual investors, including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, as well as corporate and retirement-plan participants. The firm offers discretionary managed-account programs, financial planning, consulting, and brokerage services through its broker-dealer operations.

Qiang Lu is a financial advisor at HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. with four years of industry experience. He holds Series 66, Series 63, and Series 65 designations and has worked previously at firms including Merrill, Transamerica Financial Advisors LLC, and Howbuy Corporation. Outside of advisory roles, he has provided administrative support in business consulting. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. offers managed account programs to individuals, retirement accounts, charitable organizations, and corporations, featuring both client-directed and discretionary investment options. The firm combines strategic and tactical asset allocation with global fund due diligence and monitoring, and serves a broad client base through a variety of program types including its Offshore Spectrum program for qualified non-resident aliens.