Jason Chuang is a CFP® with one year of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Creative Planning. He previously worked at BNY Wealth for four years and Globalink Securities, Inc. for one year. His background also includes roles outside the financial industry at the University of California, Riverside and Arcadia High School. Creative Planning provides wealth management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. The firm employs a financial-planning-led investment approach that incorporates low-cost indexing, tax-loss harvesting, and selective private market investments, managing approximately $295.6 billion in client assets.

Alexander Montesinos Teran is a financial advisor at Centaurus Financial, Inc. with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. He has one year of industry experience, joining Centaurus Financial in 2025 after three years at Bank of America. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, trusts, and foundations. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, retirement-plan consulting, and specialized advisory services, employing a mix of fundamental and technical analysis with both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements.

James Peters is a ChFC® with 30 years of industry experience and has been with Centaurus Financial, Inc. since 2012. In addition to his advisory role, he serves as president of Victory Financial Education, a nonprofit focused on financial education. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base including individuals, families, and institutions. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management through its CLASSIC Plus platform, retirement-plan consulting, and specialized advisory services with both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements.

Timothy Thompson is a financial advisor at Centaurus Financial, Inc. with 37 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Centaurus Financial since 2011. Outside of his advisory role, he works as an insurance agent specializing in group and individual health, disability, and term life policies. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base including individuals, families, businesses, and institutions. The firm offers financial planning and portfolio management through its CLASSIC Plus platform, employing a combination of fundamental and technical analysis across discretionary and non-discretionary accounts.

Daniel Bickel is a financial advisor at Corient with a Series 65 credential and three years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Cost Segregation Authority and Captrust, as well as service with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Bickel is based in Newport Beach, California. Corient provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporate entities. The firm employs a goals-based, team investment approach combining in-house strategies with third-party manager solutions and uses risk management tools and stress testing to align portfolio exposures with client objectives.

Michael Hollar is a financial advisor with Centaurus Financial, Inc. in Anaheim, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 registrations and 8 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Clark & Associates Financial Services and TCFG Wealth Management. Outside of his advisory role, Hollar serves as a referee for youth soccer games through the Arizona Interscholastic Association. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individuals, families, businesses, corporations, trusts, and foundations. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, and retirement-plan consulting through a variety of discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements, utilizing multiple analytical approaches and specialized advisory services.

John Conners is a financial advisor at Goldman Sachs Wealth Services with 10 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC since 2021, following a seven-year tenure at The AYCO Company, L.P./Mercer Allied. Goldman Sachs Wealth Services provides financial planning, investment management, and advisory support to a diverse client base, including individuals, high-net-worth households, corporations, and institutional clients. The firm utilizes centralized investment resources and offers tailored services such as Executive Wealth and Private Family Office support, leveraging integrated capabilities across its affiliated entities.

Jasmita Patel is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) in Tustin, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing 18 years of industry experience. She has concurrently worked with multiple firms, including JJP Insurance Services and Axiom Financial & Insurance Solutions, both of which operate broker-dealer activities related to insurance products. Eagle Strategies serves a broad range of individual and institutional clients by providing financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services through a large network of affiliated representatives. The firm emphasizes tailored recommendations and manages a significant portion of assets on a non-discretionary basis, primarily working with defined contribution and defined benefit plans as well as charitable and corporate clients.

Roger Shaar is a financial advisor at Goldman Sachs Wealth Services with 28 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and previously worked for The AYCO Company, L.P./Mercer Allied for 24 years before joining Goldman Sachs in 2021. Outside of his advisory role, he performs as a band member with Pacific Fallout, a music group based in Irvine, CA. Goldman Sachs Wealth Services offers financial planning, investment management, and advisory support to a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, corporate participants, and institutional clients. The firm uses centralized investment resources and tailored strategies, providing services through both direct and partner programs within a large integrated financial group.

Keith Halabuda is a financial advisor at Goldman Sachs Wealth Services with nine years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC since 2021, following seven years at The Ayco Company, L.P./Mercer Allied. Goldman Sachs Wealth Services provides financial planning, investment management, and advisory support to a broad range of clients, including individuals, high-net-worth households, corporate participants, and institutional clients. The firm leverages centralized investment resources and affiliated teams to deliver tailored offerings such as Executive Wealth, Personal Wealth, and Private Family Office support.

Gary Hutto is a financial advisor with GWN Securities Inc. in Orange, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 36 years of industry experience. He has worked with Millennium Advisory Group, LLC since 2008 and has been associated with GWN Securities and Hutto/Dean & Co for over two decades and three decades respectively. Outside of his advisory roles, he provides fixed annuities to select clients. GWN Securities is an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer serving individual and business clients through discretionary managed accounts, financial planning, and access to third-party sub-advisers and model portfolios. The firm features a broad network of approximately 423 advisors and manages about $3.65 billion across 37,000 client accounts, offering a range of investment programs that include traditional asset allocation and legacy momentum-based strategies.

Renu Sidgal is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors in Irvine, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and four years of industry experience. Her prior work includes roles at Synoptek and First American Title Insurance Co., and she has experience in business intelligence architecture and insurance product sales. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a diverse client base ranging from individual investors to charitable organizations, offering a mix of advisory and broker-dealer services through proprietary and third-party model portfolios with both discretionary and non-discretionary options.

Kevin Wiest is a financial advisor with Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC in Irvine, CA, holding two years of industry experience. Prior to joining Integrated Wealth Concepts, he worked for Windes Inc., a CPA firm where he is a partner, and spent 20 years at Wright, Ford, Young & Co. Integrated Wealth Concepts serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, families, trusts, estates, businesses, and retirement plans through a network of independent financial advisors. The firm offers discretionary investment management, financial planning, family office, and retirement plan advisory services, employing customized portfolio construction primarily using mutual funds, ETFs, individual equities, and fixed income with a primarily long-term investment approach.

Jonathan Reilly is a financial advisor with VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. in Irvine, CA, holding Series 63 and 66 licenses and has 34 years of industry experience. He has been with VOYA Financial Advisors since 2014 and also serves on the finance committee of the California Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit focused on personal finance and economics education. VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, retirement plan sponsors, and high-net-worth clients, offering financial planning, portfolio management, and plan-sponsor consulting through various program structures. The firm primarily provides non-discretionary advice and operates as both an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer.

Eleanor Mar is a financial advisor at Citigroup Global Markets with 22 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has been with Citigroup Global Markets since 2015. Based in Yorba Linda, CA, her career has focused on serving a diverse client base within a large enterprise firm. Citigroup Global Markets serves individual and institutional clients across various segments, including workplace, high-net-worth, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. The firm offers a broad range of investment advisory programs and execution services, utilizing multi-asset, multi-manager strategies and maintaining unique market roles such as acting as a security-based swap dealer and futures commission merchant.

Mark Woodfield is a financial advisor at Centaurus Financial, Inc. in Anaheim, CA, with 21 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Centaurus Financial since 2008. Outside of his advisory role, he manages a business entity focused on income and expense management and is involved in sales and marketing of insurance products, including life insurance and annuities. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individuals, families, businesses, trusts, and foundations. The firm offers financial planning and portfolio management through its CLASSIC Plus platform, employing various analytical approaches and both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements.

Winston Ventura is a financial advisor at Creative Planning with 12 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and has previously worked at firms including Cetera Wealth Services, Sageview Advisory Group, Triad Advisors, Resources Investment Advisors, Independent Financial Partners, and LPL Financial. Creative Planning offers 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 client assets, employing a financial planning–led investment process that emphasizes low-cost indexing and buy-and-hold strategies, supplemented by advanced portfolio management techniques and comprehensive retirement plan services.

Edward Zwickl is associated with Centaurus Financial, Inc. and holds the Series 66 designation. He has no prior industry experience. Outside of his professional affiliations, he has been involved with Crossline Community Church since 2017. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base that includes individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, trusts, and foundations. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management through the CLASSIC Plus platform, retirement-plan consulting, and specialized services such as advisory management of annuity and variable life sub-accounts.

Erica Berger is a financial advisor at Cresset Asset Management, LLC with six years of industry experience. She holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at Knightsbridge Wealth Management and Buffalo Capital Corporation. Cresset Asset Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $71.9 billion in client assets for a diverse client base, including individuals, families, trusts, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm employs a diversified, asset-allocation-driven investment approach using both active and passive strategies, supported by a structured due-diligence program and a range of affiliated entities offering specialized advisory and family office services.

Paul Apodaca is a financial advisor with Money Concepts Capital Corp in Brea, CA, holding a Series 66 designation and 10 years of industry experience. He has worked with Money Concepts Capital Corp since 2015 and also serves as a tax advisor and preparer at NorthPoint Tax, Wealth & Business Advisory, LLP. Money Concepts Advisory Service provides portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting to individuals, pension plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm offers multiple managed programs utilizing model portfolios, third-party sub-advisers, and a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to manage assets for approximately 14,700 clients.