Danika Korenek is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in Houston, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and having 11 years of industry experience. She has been with Valic Financial Advisors since 2015 and is also engaged as an agent for Agia and works as a food deliverer for Uber Eats. 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 UMA models and operating at scale with over 1,200 advisors.

Aurora Barcenas is a CFP® professional with 16 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Hightower Advisors since 2022. Her prior experience includes roles at Investec Wealth Strategies, PartnersInWealth, Inc., and Morgan Stanley, spanning a total of nine years. Outside of her advisory work, she is involved with YogaOne Houston, where she contributes as a yoga instructor and studio partner. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse range of individual and institutional clients, offering discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting. The firm’s approach emphasizes manager selection and multi-manager solutions, utilizing both affiliated and third-party managers supported by proprietary research and comprehensive portfolio construction strategies.

Ana Portillo is a financial advisor with VOYA Financial Advisors, Inc. in Houston, TX. She holds a Series 66 designation and has 19 years of industry experience, including 12 years at VOYA. Outside of her advisory role, she is also an independent insurance agent specializing in fixed insurance products. VOYA Financial Advisors serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutional investors, and retirement plan sponsors. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, and a variety of advisory programs, often providing non-discretionary recommendations within its multiple service structures.

Eduardo Segura is a financial advisor at Cresset Asset Management, LLC with one year of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and previously worked at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC, S&K Global Solutions LLC, and General Motors. Outside of his advisory role, he owns and manages a residential rental property business in Houston. Cresset Asset Management serves a diverse client base, including individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and institutional investors. The firm employs a disciplined, risk-aware investment approach combining strategic asset allocation, manager selection, and both active and passive strategies across various asset classes and alternatives.

Allen Lyttle is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in Houston, TX, holding Series 66, Series 63, and Series 65 credentials. He has 24 years of industry experience, having worked at Next Financial Group Inc for 22 years before joining Valic Financial Advisors in 2026. Valic Financial Advisors serves primarily U.S. individuals, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients, as well as employer-sponsored retirement participants. The firm offers portfolio management and financial planning services through a large network of advisors, utilizing discretionary unified managed accounts and centralized technology to manage approximately $29.2 billion across nearly 300,000 clients.

Daniel Scannell Jr. is a financial advisor at Oppenheimer with 34 years of industry experience. He has been with Oppenheimer since 2009 and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as trustee and executor for several family trusts and estates. Oppenheimer serves a wide range of clients including individuals, corporations, pension plans, and charitable organizations, offering advisory and brokerage services such as investment management, consulting, and financial planning. The firm employs strategic and tactical asset allocation with a mix of discretionary and non-discretionary programs and acts as a qualified custodian for client assets.

Andrei Prada is a financial advisor at &PARTNERS in Houston, TX, holding a Series 66 designation with 14 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Wells Fargo Clearing and Wells Fargo Advisors LLC, accumulating ten years at Wells Fargo Clearing and four years at Wells Fargo Advisors. &PARTNERS serves a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, retirement plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm offers investment management, financial and tax planning, and retirement plan consulting using a combination of fundamental, technical, and quantitative analysis alongside proprietary and third-party strategies.

Darryl Goolsby is a financial advisor with Empower Advisory Group, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and 20 years of industry experience. He previously worked at Valic Financial Advisors and Transamerica subsidiaries before joining Empower. Outside of his advisory role, he is a partner in Darstens, a business focused on public speaking, coaching, and creating educational materials aimed at helping couples improve their marriages, finances, and medical situations. Empower Advisory Group provides financial planning and investment management primarily to employer-sponsored retirement plan sponsors and participants, along with IRA and retail brokerage clients. The firm offers point-in-time financial plans and optional managed accounts through a platform integrated with Empower’s recordkeeping and administrative services.

Duane Hirsch is a financial advisor at Corient with 33 years of industry experience. He holds the CFP® designation along with Series 63 and Series 65 licenses. His prior experience includes roles at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, CIPW Service Company, FSC Securities Corporation, and Stavis & Cohen Private Wealth. Outside of his advisory work, he owns a rental property management business in Charlotte, NC. Corient provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, 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 risk management tools and alternative investment options where appropriate.

Duane Wagner is a financial advisor at AE Wealth Management, LLC with two years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has held roles at firms including TIP Group LLC and The Fitzpatrick Group. Outside of advisory work, Wagner is a passive investor in companies focused on leadership training and digital marketing. AE Wealth Management provides fee-based portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement-plan consulting to a diverse client base including individuals, corporations, and ERISA plan sponsors. The firm emphasizes model portfolio and direct asset management programs supported by fundamental, technical, and cyclical investment analysis.

William Newland is a CFP® with 10 years of experience at Principal Financial Services, where he has worked since 2016. He holds a Series 66 license and is based in Houston, TX. Outside of his advisory role, he teaches group fitness classes as a fitness instructor. Principal Securities provides brokerage and registered investment advisory services to a wide range of clients, including individual investors, retirement plans, trusts, charitable organizations, businesses, and active-duty military personnel. The firm offers direct advisory programs, financial planning, retirement plan consulting, and access to third-party money manager asset allocation and separately managed account solutions.

Donald Robertson is a financial advisor with Guardian Life and holds the Series 66 designation. He has two years of industry experience, including prior work at Edward Jones and Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC. Guardian Life’s subsidiary, Park Avenue Securities LLC, operates as both a broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser, serving individual, corporate, and nonprofit clients with a range of financial planning and investment advisory services.

Steven Jenkins is a financial advisor at Valic Financial Advisors with six years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has previously worked at Fidelity Investments, TIAA, and RE/MAX Commercial Advisors Group. Jenkins is based in Houston, TX. Valic Financial Advisors is an SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA-member broker-dealer serving primarily U.S. individuals, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients, as well as employer-sponsored retirement participants. The firm offers portfolio management, financial planning, and discretionary unified managed accounts through a large network of advisors and utilizes centralized technology and model solutions across its platform.

David Dziadziola is a financial advisor at Oppenheimer with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and has been with Oppenheimer since 2018, following five years at Intelligent Capital Reserve Group. Oppenheimer serves a diverse client base including individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations, offering a range of advisory and brokerage services such as investment management, consulting, retirement services, and financial planning. The firm employs strategic and tactical asset allocation, manager selection, and various investment strategies, with a notable role as a qualified custodian and a mix of discretionary and non-discretionary account management.

Michael Brown is a financial advisor with Valic Financial Advisors in Houston, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 33 years of industry experience. He has been with Valic Financial Advisors since 1998 and also has a role as an agent at Agia, focusing on non-securities insurance products. 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, wrap programs, financial planning, and brokerage services, utilizing Envestnet-developed UMA models for portfolio construction.

Robert Waddell Jr. is a financial advisor with Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. in Houston, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing 39 years of industry experience. He has been with Voya Financial Advisors since 2014. Outside of his advisory role, he is also an independent insurance agent specializing in the sale of fixed insurance products. Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. serves a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm offers services such as financial planning, portfolio management, wrap programs, and plan-sponsor consulting, primarily through recommendation-based, non-discretionary arrangements.

Matthew Bartula is a financial advisor at Valic Financial Advisors in Houston, TX, with one year of industry experience. He holds Series 66 and Series 63 licenses and previously worked at Sparrowhawk LLC from 2016 to 2023. In addition to his advisory role, he is appointed as an agent to sell non-securities insurance products. Valic Financial Advisors primarily serves U.S. individuals, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients, as well as employer-sponsored retirement participants. The firm offers portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services through a large network of advisors, using discretionary unified managed accounts and technology-driven model solutions.

Andrew Haftek is a financial advisor with TIAA-CREF in Houston, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 21 years of industry experience. He has been with TIAA-CREF and its affiliate since 2016. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC’s Advice & Planning Services division offers financial planning and discretionary managed account programs primarily to individuals connected to TIAA-administered employer retirement plans, as well as trusts, estates, partnerships, and small retirement plans. The firm combines point-in-time financial planning with ongoing portfolio management through model-driven and customized approaches.

Kristi Cain is a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) in Houston, TX, holding the ChFC® designation and Series 63 license. She has 17 years of industry experience, including roles at New York Life Insurance Co and NYLIFE Securities, LLC since 2009. Eagle Strategies serves individual and institutional clients by providing financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services through a large network of affiliated advisers. The firm offers tailored advice through multiple program types, emphasizing non-discretionary asset management and fiduciary responsibilities for retirement investors.

Jose Rodriguez is a financial advisor at Valic Financial Advisors in Houston, TX. He holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has been with the firm since 2026. Prior to his advisory role, he worked in various positions including at University of Houston-Downtown and several restaurant chains. Valic Financial Advisors is an SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA-member broker-dealer serving primarily U.S. individuals, including high net worth clients and employer-sponsored retirement participants. The firm offers portfolio management, financial planning, and discretionary unified managed accounts through a large network of advisors, leveraging technology and model solutions to serve a substantial client base.