Tina Tsao is a financial advisor at Transamerica Financial Advisors with 15 years of industry experience. She holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at firms including Deutsche Bank and Citi Private Bank. Tsao has also been involved in sales of insurance and non-insurance products affiliated with Transamerica Financial Advisors. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a broad client base including individual investors, retirement plans, trusts, and charitable organizations. The firm utilizes model portfolios and third-party managers to implement its advisory services through multiple program platforms.

Jeffrey Tong is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with seven years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Citigroup since 2017. Prior to that, he spent a year at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was associated with the University of San Francisco for six years. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering a broad range of investment advisory programs and execution services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies and operates with large institutional scale, providing bespoke discretionary solutions and maintaining in-house research and security-pricing functions.

Tracie Glaros is a financial advisor with Creative Planning, holding a Series 66 designation and four years of industry experience. Prior to joining Creative Planning, she worked at Maxwell Wealth Strategies Inc., Raymond James Financial Services, and Edward Jones. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, foundations, and corporations. The firm employs a financial-planning-led investment approach that emphasizes low-cost indexing, buy-and-hold strategies, and access to private market investments.

Luke Seiderman is a CFP® professional with nine years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Creative Planning since 2019. Prior to joining Creative Planning, he worked at Vista Wealth Management and Vista Wealth Management Group, LLC from 2015 to 2019. He is based in Walnut Creek, CA. Creative Planning provides investment advisory and financial planning services to a diverse client base, including individuals, corporations, foundations, trusts, and retirement plans. The firm manages approximately $217 billion in assets and employs a financial planning–led investment approach that incorporates low-cost indexing, buy-and-hold strategies, and supplemental tactics such as direct indexing and tax-loss harvesting.

Alexis Howard is a CFP® and Series 65-licensed advisor with five years of industry experience, currently affiliated with Mariner Wealth Advisors. Prior to joining Mariner, Alexis worked at Savant Investment Group and has been involved with Financially Brave, LLC since 2019, a personal finance education business focused on teaching beginners about saving, debt elimination, and passive stock market investing. At Financially Brave, Alexis engages in speaking, coaching, and content creation related to personal finance. Mariner Wealth Advisors serves a diverse client base including individuals, pension plans, trusts, and charitable organizations, offering investment management, financial planning, retirement consulting, and tax services. The firm employs a discretionary, customized portfolio approach supported by an internal team and external managers, with notable integration of tax and accounting services uncommon for an enterprise of its size.

Andrew Fisher is a CFA® charterholder with 23 years of industry experience. He has worked at Cerity Partners LLC since 2020 and previously spent 15 years at Worldview Wealth Advisors. Fisher is based in San Francisco, CA, and holds a Series 63 license. Cerity Partners LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $126.9 billion in client assets. The firm serves a diverse client base including individuals, families, trusts, corporations, and institutional investors, offering a range of services such as investment management, financial planning, tax and insurance support, and access to alternative and private-market investments. Cerity emphasizes diversified asset allocation and utilizes both proprietary quantitative screening and third-party managers.

Barry Kaiman is a financial advisor at Schwab Wealth Advisory with 20 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has previously worked at Fidelity Investments and Vanguard. Schwab Wealth Advisory, Inc. provides non-discretionary fiduciary investment advice to clients enrolled in the Schwab Wealth Advisory program, utilizing standard asset allocation models and Schwab research tools. The firm advises on a range of investments while leaving final trading decisions to clients and generally does not exercise discretionary trading authority.

Christopher Chase is a financial advisor at Cresset Asset Management, LLC with 26 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has worked at First Republic Investment Management, J.P. Morgan Securities, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, among others. He is based in San Francisco, CA. Cresset Asset Management is a multi-disciplinary investment adviser managing approximately $78.9 billion in client assets. The firm serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, retirement plans, corporations, and pooled investment vehicles through a disciplined, risk-aware approach that incorporates strategic asset allocation, active and passive management, and a variety of alternative investments.

Jay Wirig is a financial advisor at Focus Partners Wealth, LLC with 21 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at firms including The Colony Group, Buckingham Asset Management, and PensionOne Advisors. Jay’s background also includes experience with CPA firms and payroll services. Focus Partners Wealth serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth families, family offices, corporate, retirement plan, and institutional clients. The firm employs a long-term, tax- and fee-sensitive investment approach using enhanced open architecture and integrates a broad range of asset classes and strategies, with an extensive network of affiliated service companies and product relationships.

David Carey is a financial advisor at Oppenheimer with 41 years of industry experience. He has been with Oppenheimer since 2003 and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as a trustee for several family-related trusts and is a trustee for The Compassionate Friends Foundation, a nonprofit supporting families who have lost loved ones. Oppenheimer serves a broad client base including individuals, corporations, pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a variety of advisory and brokerage services, employing strategic and tactical asset allocation, manager selection, and a range of investment strategies to meet client objectives.

Paramjeet Singh is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and eight years of industry experience. His background includes roles in automotive sales and management at Fremont Toyota, Swickard Auto Group, and Dubin Toyota, alongside part-time involvement in insurance sales through Matrix Insurance Agency. Transamerica Financial Advisors provides investment advisory, brokerage, and retirement-plan services to a diverse client base, utilizing model portfolios and third-party managers across multiple program platforms, with regulatory assets under management totaling approximately $1.7 billion.

Earl Valencia is a financial advisor at Transamerica Financial Advisors with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. His work history includes roles at Microsoft, Plentina Financial Inc., Charles Schwab, Dell Technologies, and Bridgewater Associates. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a broad client base including individual investors, employer-sponsored retirement plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm utilizes model portfolios and third-party managers through multiple advisory programs and platforms, managing approximately $1.7 billion in regulatory assets under management.

Prachi Chittora is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with eight years of industry experience. She has held her current role at Citigroup since 2015 and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various wealth segments, offering a range of investment advisory programs, broker-dealer execution, and custody services. The firm employs multi-asset, multi-manager strategies through discretionary and non-discretionary programs, supported by internal standards and oversight committees.

Romania Lee is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group in Dublin, CA, holding a Series 66 designation and 19 years of industry experience. Her career includes roles at Advised Assets Group, LLC, GWFS Equities, Inc., Fidelity Investments, and TIAA-CREF. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and participants, delivering services through an integrated model tied to Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative platforms. The firm’s approach emphasizes long-term portfolio returns and client savings rates, serving a large participant base relative to its advisor headcount.

Justin Amen is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in Oakland, CA, holding a Series 66 designation and two years of industry experience. Prior to joining Valic Financial Advisors in 2025, he worked at RBC Capital Markets LLC from 2022 to 2024. Amen is also appointed as an agent to sell non-securities insurance products for 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, and brokerage services, utilizing Envestnet-developed UMA models for portfolio construction.

Nathan Dashiell is a financial advisor at Cerity Partners LLC with two years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Cerity Partners since 2023. Prior to joining Cerity, he was employed at EXTENDED Travel and The Mather Group, and he has an academic background at Indiana University. Cerity Partners is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving a diverse client base that includes individuals, families, trusts, corporations, and institutional investors. The firm provides a range of services including investment management, financial planning, tax and insurance support, and access to alternative and private-market investments, with an emphasis on diversified asset allocation and customized portfolio solutions.

Michael Solis is a financial advisor at Citizens Securities, Inc. with 21 years of industry experience and holds the Series 66 designation. He has worked at First Republic Investment Management and J.P. Morgan Securities prior to joining Citizens Securities. Outside of his advisory role, Solis is involved as an umpire with the Bollinger Canyon Little League and San Ramon Baseball Umpires Association. Citizens Securities serves a broad retail client base, including individual and high-net-worth investors, offering investment advisory programs as well as brokerage and insurance services. The firm operates both discretionary and commission-based business lines and is wholly owned by Citizens Bank, N.A.

John Estes is a financial advisor at Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked in various roles including at Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., Ameritas Investment Company, LLC, and David White & Associates. Outside of his advisory work, he has served as a basketball referee for AAU since 2015. Ameritas Advisory Services, LLC provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, charitable and corporate entities, and retirement plans. The firm offers fee-based asset management, retirement-plan advisory, and fiduciary services through a range of strategies and affiliated professionals.

Kolbe Bachman is a financial advisor at Cerity Partners LLC with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Cerity Partners, he worked at StepStone Group and General Atomics, and he has an academic background including four years at the University of San Diego. Cerity Partners is an SEC-registered investment adviser serving a diverse client base that includes individuals, families, trusts, corporations, charitable institutions, and other investors. The firm offers a range of services such as investment management, financial planning, tax and insurance support, and access to alternative and private-market investments, emphasizing diversified asset allocation and customized portfolios.

David Coles is a ChFC® credentialed financial advisor with 42 years of industry experience. He is currently with Farther and has previously worked at OSAIC, Triad Advisors, Inc., Wealth Management & Business Concepts, and Colwin Financial Insurance Services, Inc., which he also owns. Outside of advisory work, he manages business affairs for an actor/director and founded Human Wealth, a financial planning process aligning clients’ wellbeing with their financial goals. Farther serves individual investors, trusts, and estates through a technology-driven advisory platform and direct meetings. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory-based investment approach using bespoke and algorithmic model portfolios, primarily allocating among ETFs, mutual funds, equities, and fixed income.