Lisa Felicia Akorli is a financial advisor at Just Futures with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. Her prior roles include positions at the U.S. Department of State and Pinnacle Prevention. Just Futures serves nonprofit organizations, foundations, family offices, small- and mid-sized businesses, retirement plans, and individual investors, managing approximately $46.7 million in assets. The firm uses a values-aligned investment approach informed by social justice movements, integrating ESG considerations and community-focused market solutions into client portfolios.

Brandon Yee is a financial advisor with Versant Capital Management, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 11 years of industry experience. He has been with Versant Capital Management since 2015. Versant Capital Management serves high-net-worth individuals, families, institutional clients, and charitable organizations, providing portfolio management, wealth planning, and family office services. The firm emphasizes client-specific investment policies and employs diversified portfolios including equities, fixed income, mutual funds, ETFs, alternative vehicles, and third-party managers tailored to client objectives and liquidity needs.

Paul Phillips Jr. is a financial advisor with Synergy Asset Management, LLC, holding Series 63, 65, and 66 licenses and over 30 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at TD Ameritrade Inc., FINRA, and several other financial firms. He serves as a FINRA arbitrator and is involved in leasing intellectual property to nonprofit organizations. Synergy Asset Management provides comprehensive wealth management and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, high-net-worth investors, business owners, and retirement plans. The firm employs an active investment approach that integrates tactical asset allocation with fundamental and quantitative analysis, offering a range of customized portfolio strategies.

Clinton Carpenter is a financial advisor at Eckman Wealth Management, LLC in Phoenix, AZ, with 15 years at the firm and 10 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 credential. Outside of his advisory role, Mr. Carpenter owns and operates CLC Tax, LLC, through which he prepares individual tax returns. He also occasionally provides AML audits for unaffiliated firms. Eckman Wealth Management is a small team adviser serving individual and high-net-worth clients, charitable organizations, and estates. The firm offers discretionary investment management and financial planning, employing a top-down, macro-driven approach that emphasizes asset allocation, primarily using ETFs, mutual funds, and select individual securities.

Joshua Becker is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with 10 years of industry experience. He is currently with Fullerton Financial, LLC and Fullerton Financial Planning, where he has worked since 2019. Becker is also the owner and Managing Partner of Impele Holdings LLC, an investment company focused on acquiring and managing private companies in Southern and Eastern Africa. Fullerton Financial, LLC provides investment management and financial planning services to individual clients, including both non-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals. The firm uses model portfolios, third-party managers, and technology tools to manage client accounts, and offers additional services such as written financial plans, consulting, newsletters, and educational seminars.

Steven Fullerton Sr. is a financial advisor at Fullerton Financial, LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and has worked at Fullerton Financial Planning since 2011 and Kingdom Financial Group, LLC since 2010. Outside of his advisory role, he is a shareholder in Sparty Marketing Inc. and a member of the Fullerton Foundation, a charitable nonprofit organization. Fullerton Financial, LLC provides investment management and financial planning primarily to individual clients, including both non-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals. The firm offers written financial plans, consulting, model portfolios, newsletters, and educational seminars, and delivers advisory services through a sub-advisory relationship with AE Wealth Management, utilizing third-party money managers and model strategies.

Kurtis Knobbe is a financial advisor at Bledsoe Asset Management, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 credential and has worked in various roles with the City of Phoenix since 2011, including serving as a Fire Captain in the Phoenix Fire Department. Bledsoe Asset Management serves members of the public safety community, their families, and a range of individual clients, offering asset management, financial planning, and consulting services. The firm uses strategic model portfolios tailored to client needs and employs both long-term and active trading strategies, including options and derivatives, with a focus on optimizing retirement benefits for public safety employees.

Thomas Dupree is a Series 65 licensed financial advisor with five years of industry experience. He currently works at Dupree Financial Group, LLC and has prior experience at Strategy Financial Group as well as brief roles outside the financial sector. Dupree Financial Group is a team-based firm managing approximately $404 million in client assets, focusing on discretionary portfolio and asset management for individuals, including high-net-worth clients, and institutional accounts. The firm emphasizes a modified value-focused, bottom-up investment approach tailored to retirees and those planning for retirement.

Bryan Snapp is a Series 65-licensed advisor with SLP Wealth in Phoenix, AZ. He joined the firm in 2025 and previously worked at PetSmart Inc. for 17 years. Bryan has no prior advisory industry experience. SLP Wealth is an SEC-registered advisory firm serving individual clients and small-business owners with discretionary investment management, financial planning, and 401(k) services. The firm uses diversified, risk-based portfolios with no-load mutual funds and ETFs, and it maintains a large office network relative to its size.

Nadyne Abubo is a financial advisor at Fortem Financial Group, LLC with one year of industry experience and holds a Series 65 designation. Prior to joining Fortem Financial Group, she has worked at several organizations including Transact Campus Inc., YUMBAR Restaurant & Bar, and Socially Acceptable. She is also employed by CalvaryPHX Non-denominational Christian Church in a non-investment related role. Fortem Financial Group serves high-net-worth individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and trusts with financial planning, investment management, retirement plan consulting, and wealth management services. The firm emphasizes starting client relationships with a financial plan and investment policy statement, offering diversified portfolio solutions and ongoing account monitoring.

Gregory Smith is a CFA® charterholder at L. Roy Papp & Associates, LLP with four years of industry experience. He has been with the firm since 2005, which operates as a multi-advisor team. L. Roy Papp & Associates provides customized investment management and advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, pension plans, foundations, corporations, and investment companies. The firm employs a fundamentally driven, growth-oriented approach focusing on domestic equities, fixed income, ETFs, and mutual funds, and it manages roughly $1.5 billion in client assets.

Kristofer Venezia is a financial advisor at Eckman Wealth Management, LLC with seven years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked in media and broadcasting roles, including as a per diem host at WNYC and freelance writer. Venezia also produces podcasts at Fordham University. Eckman Wealth Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients, charitable organizations, and estates, managing approximately tens of millions of dollars across several hundred relationships. The firm uses a top-down, macro-driven investment approach focused on asset allocation and generally implements portfolios with ETFs, mutual funds, and select individual securities.

Robert Korljan is a financial advisor at Eaton-Cambridge Inc. with 27 years of industry experience. He holds the PFS™ designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. His prior roles include positions at 724 Capital, LLC, Johnson Wealth Management, LLC, and Eaton-Cambridge CPA PC. Outside of financial advising, he serves on the boards of Solid Rock, which provides vocational training to teens, Scalpel at the Cross, a medical services provider in Peru, and Bone Foam Inc., a privately-held company. Eaton-Cambridge serves individual and high-net-worth clients with wealth management, portfolio management, and comprehensive financial planning services, supported by affiliated tax and accounting practices. The firm combines in-house tax expertise with tailored portfolio management and integrates insurance solutions through licensed professionals.

Cody Ashton is a financial advisor at Triton Wealth Management, PLLC with 18 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 credential and has worked at several firms, including Leigh Baldwin & Co., Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Kingsview Asset Management, Raymond James Financial, and Edward Jones. In addition to his advisory role, he is involved in fixed insurance sales as an agent. Triton Wealth Management is a team-based registered investment adviser managing approximately $405 million for around 853 clients. The firm offers comprehensive portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, as well as pension and profit-sharing plans.

Harry Papp is a CFA® charterholder with 25 years of industry experience based in Phoenix, AZ. He has worked at L. Roy Papp & Associates, LLP since 1981. L. Roy Papp & Associates, LLP provides customized investment management and advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, trusts, pension plans, foundations, corporations, and other entities. The firm follows a fundamentally driven, growth-oriented approach focused on domestic equities and fixed income, and it serves as adviser to a registered mutual fund while managing approximately $1.5 billion in client assets through a multi-advisor team structure.

Anders Engbretson is a financial advisor at MD Financial Advisors, operating under Vestment Financial. He holds a Series 65 designation and has two years of industry experience. Prior to joining MD Financial Advisors, he worked at North Oaks Financial Group and has experience in both educational and municipal roles. MD Financial Advisors is a team-based SEC-registered firm serving individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, retirement plans, foundations, and businesses. The firm employs a market-efficient, long-term investment philosophy focused on asset allocation, diversification, rebalancing, and tax-aware portfolio design using low-cost mutual funds and ETFs.

Jennifer Smiljanich is a CFP®-certified financial advisor with 18 years of industry experience. She has been with SJS Investment Services since 2017 and previously worked at SJS Investment Consulting, Inc. from 2010 to 2017. SJS Investment Services serves individuals, families, high-net-worth clients, retirement plans, institutional investors, and public entities, offering discretionary investment management, financial planning, retirement-plan fiduciary services, and consulting. The firm’s investment process features diversified model portfolios monitored by an internal Investment Committee and includes a specialized public-funds practice with tailored cash-flow analysis and detailed reporting.

Elizabeth Shabaker is a CFP® with 22 years of industry experience and has been with Versant Capital Management, Inc. since 2010. She holds a Series 65 license and works out of Phoenix, AZ. Versant Capital Management provides investment management, financial planning, and family office services to high-net-worth individuals, families, institutional, and charitable clients. The firm offers both high-touch wealth management and an automated ETF-based portfolio program, managing approximately $1.24 billion in client assets.

Matthew Baum is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 63 license with 12 years of industry experience. He has been with L. Roy Papp & Associates, LLP since 2016. The firm provides investment management services to individual clients, trusts, estates, pension and profit sharing plans, and other entities, managing both discretionary and nondiscretionary accounts with approximately $1.62 billion in assets. L. Roy Papp & Associates employs a fundamentally driven, growth-oriented investment approach supported by an in-house research team and serves both high-net-worth individuals and investment company clients, including acting as adviser to a registered mutual fund.

Justin Smiley is a CFP® at Versant Capital Management, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ, with one year of experience in financial advising. Prior to joining Versant, he worked in various roles at PNC Corporate & Institutional Bank, MidFirst Bank, and Great American Insurance Company. Versant Capital Management serves high-net-worth individuals, families, institutions, and charitable clients with portfolio management, wealth planning, family office services, and consulting. The firm focuses on client-specific investment policies and builds diversified portfolios across multiple asset classes, including equity, fixed income, mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments.