Xianjunliang Kong is a CFP® with one year of industry experience, currently affiliated with Eagle Strategies (NY Life) in Irvine, CA. His career includes roles at Nylife Securities LLC and Benson Liao Insurance & Financial Center. Eagle Strategies serves a diverse client base, including individuals and institutions, providing financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services through a large network of affiliated advisors. The firm emphasizes tailored recommendations and manages the majority of its assets on a non-discretionary basis.

Ginnie Chen is a financial advisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors who holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has nine years of industry experience. She has also practiced dentistry since 2001 as the managing dentist and owner of her own dental office. Outside of financial advising, she is involved in sales of insurance and non-insurance products affiliated with her firm. Transamerica Financial Advisors serves a diverse client base including individual investors, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and corporations, offering both advisory and broker-dealer services through proprietary and third-party investment programs.

Brian Vosberg is a financial advisor with Centaurus Financial, Inc., holding CFP® and ChFC® designations and over 24 years of industry experience. He has worked at Centaurus since 2009 and has operated Vosberg & Associates since 2005. Outside of his advisory work, Vosberg serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Finance, Real Estate, and Law Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona and is involved in retirement education through various media formats. He also serves on the Citrus College Foundation Board and the Foothill Unity Center board. Centaurus Financial, Inc. provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse range of clients, including individuals, families, small businesses, and institutions. The firm offers financial planning, portfolio management, retirement-plan consulting, and specialized advisory services with both discretionary and non-discretionary arrangements, employing a combination of fundamental, technical, bottom-up, and top-down investment analyses.

David Hopkins is a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC with 24 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been affiliated with Beacon Pointe Advisors since 2010. In addition to his advisory role, he is a licensed insurance agent involved in the sale of life and accident/health insurance products through Beacon Pointe Insurance Services, LLC. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides investment advisory and consulting services to a diverse client base, including individuals, institutions, and retirement plans. The firm employs a manager-of-managers approach, utilizing a proprietary Focus List and quantitative and qualitative due diligence to select third-party investment managers.

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.

William Blanke Jr. is a financial advisor at Hightower Advisors with 11 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has been with Hightower Securities, LLC since 2014. Hightower Advisors provides investment advisory and planning services to a diverse range of individual and institutional clients, including pension plans, charitable organizations, corporations, and trusts. The firm’s approach incorporates manager selection and multi-manager solutions, utilizing both affiliated and third-party managers, with services that include discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting.

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.

David Le is a CFP® with 10 years of industry experience, currently serving as a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC in Newport Beach, CA. He has been with Beacon Pointe Advisors continuously since 2014. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides wealth advisory, consulting, financial planning, retirement-plan services, and outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) solutions to individual investors, corporations, and institutional clients. The firm utilizes a combination of proprietary asset-allocation modeling and third-party independent managers across active and passive strategies in public and private markets.

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.

Charles Duncan is a CFP®, ChFC®, and holds a Series 66 license with 37 years of industry experience. He is currently a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC in Newport Beach, CA, having previously worked at Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Securities America Advisors, and operated his own firms including Duncan Investment Advisors, Inc. and Duncan Financial. In addition to advising, he serves as an insurance agent with Beacon Pointe Insurance Services, LLC. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides investment advisory and consulting services to a diverse client base including individuals, institutions, and charitable organizations. The firm focuses on discretionary wealth management and outsourced CIO solutions, implementing strategies through third-party independent managers selected via a formal due-diligence process.

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.

Connor Mc Guire is a financial advisor at Beacon Pointe Advisors, LLC with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. His prior work includes positions at the University of California Irvine and Nekter Juice Bar. Beacon Pointe Advisors provides wealth advisory, financial planning, retirement-plan services, and outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) services to individual investors, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and other institutional clients. The firm’s investment approach combines asset-allocation modeling with third-party independent managers, employing both active and passive strategies across public and private asset classes.

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.