Madison West, WI Office

Joseph Goldfine is a financial advisor with Robert W. Baird & Co. in Janesville, WI. He holds a Series 66 designation and has three years of industry experience. Prior to joining Baird in 2023, he was involved with SP3 LLC dba Peqoud Distribution and Octopi Brewing Company. He is part of The DDK Group, a team within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice that serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and institutional clients. The group offers a range of consulting and portfolio management services tailored to client goals, utilizing both in-house and third-party managers across various investment strategies.

Thomas Carroll is a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. with 42 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. since 2008. He works within The DDK Group, a team in Baird’s Private Wealth Management practice that serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and institutional clients. The group provides consulting and portfolio services tailored to client goals and risk tolerances, utilizing a range of traditional and non-traditional investment strategies along with discretionary and non-discretionary management options.

Raymond Cisneros is a financial advisor with Robert W. Baird & Co. and holds a Series 66 designation. He has four years of industry experience, including roles at BMO Harris Bank, Northwestern Mutual, and Associated Bank. His background also includes work with the Space Science and Engineering Center and Nike. The DDK Group, a team within Baird’s Private Wealth Management department, serves individuals, corporate clients, pensions, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of services including financial planning, portfolio management, and brokerage services, employing a combination of manager- and model-traded strategies, tax management, and internal research tools.

Sean Mahlik is a financial advisor at Robert Baird & Co. with seven years of industry experience. He holds the Series 63 and Series 66 designations. His prior work includes positions at U.S. Bancorp Investments and U.S. Bank. Robert Baird & Co. serves a diverse client base, including high net worth individuals, corporate clients, pension plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a variety of financial planning and portfolio management services, employing both manager-traded and model-traded strategies along with tax-management and direct-indexing capabilities.

James Hodge is a financial advisor with Robert Baird & Co., holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and with 30 years of industry experience. He has worked at Robert Baird & Co. since 1996 and has also been affiliated with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC since 2005. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as a board member for Cargill Methodist Church and Wellntel, Inc., and is a 50% owner of The Good Acres, LLC farmland. He is part of The DDK Group within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management department, which serves individuals, corporate clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of financial planning, portfolio management, and advisory services supported by in-house research and a variety of manager-traded and model-traded strategies.

Megan Mitby is a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. with 23 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has been with Robert W. Baird & Co. since 2011. She is also associated with the Princeton Club. Megan is part of The DDK Group, a team within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice that serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and institutional clients. The group offers customized financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing a range of investment strategies and overlay services tailored to client goals and risk tolerances.

Charles Nemeckay is a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. with 20 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 66 designation and has worked at Morgan Stanley in various capacities from 2005 to 2017 before joining Baird in 2017. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as Treasurer at St Ann's School, an educational institution in Stoughton, WI. He is part of The DDK Group within Baird’s Private Wealth Management practice, which serves individuals, families, pension plans, corporations, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The group offers customized consulting and portfolio management services using a combination of in-house and third-party managers, covering a range of traditional and non-traditional investment strategies.

Deborah West is a financial advisor with Robert W. Baird & Co. in De Forest, WI, holding a Series 63 designation and 22 years of industry experience. She has been with Robert W. Baird & Co. since 1984. She is part of The DDK Group, a team within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice that serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, charitable organizations, and institutional clients. The group provides customized consulting and portfolio services, including financial planning and discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, utilizing a range of strategies and manager options.

Nicholas Palm is a financial advisor at Robert Baird & Co. with 10 years of industry experience. He holds the Series 66 designation and previously worked at UBS Financial Services from 2016 to 2024. Outside of his advisory role, he serves on the board of the Endres Manufacturing Foundation, a charitable organization focused on community giving in areas such as education, technology, business, environmental issues, the arts, and human services. He is part of The DDK Group within Baird’s Private Wealth Management practice, which advises individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and charitable organizations. The group offers customized financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing a range of investment strategies including traditional and non-traditional allocations.

Benjamin Falk is a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. with 10 years of industry experience. He holds Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and has been with Robert W. Baird & Co. since 2015. He is part of The DDK Group within Baird’s Private Wealth Management department, which serves individuals, corporate and business clients, pensions and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of services including financial planning, portfolio management, and separately managed account programs, utilizing manager-traded and model-traded strategies alongside internal research and tools to support client advice.

Sandra Gehler is a financial advisor with Robert Baird & Co. in Verona, WI, holding Series 63 and Series 66 designations and bringing 32 years of industry experience. She has been with Robert Baird & Co. since 1994 and has also worked with The Gray Companies since 1993. She is part of The DDK Group, a team within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management practice that advises a diverse client base, including high-net-worth individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and charitable organizations. The group offers tailored financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing a mix of in-house and third-party managers to implement a range of investment strategies.

Viktoria Nielsen is a financial advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. with three years of industry experience. She holds the Series 66 designation and has worked at Robert W. Baird & Co. since 2019. Outside of her financial advisory role, she is also a fitness instructor at Princeton Club East in Madison, Wisconsin. Robert W. Baird & Co.'s DDK Group serves a diverse client base including individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and charitable organizations. The group provides tailored financial planning and portfolio management services, utilizing a combination of in-house and third-party managers across a range of traditional and non-traditional investment strategies.

Kirk Hager is a CFP® professional with 27 years of industry experience, currently serving as an advisor at Robert W. Baird & Co. since 2024. He previously worked at UBS Financial Services Inc. for 11 years. Outside of his advisory role, Hager serves as Treasurer for West Athletic Boosters, Inc. in Madison, WI. He is part of the DDK Group within Baird’s Private Wealth Management department, which offers a range of financial planning and portfolio management services to individual, corporate, pension, and charitable clients. The firm employs manager-traded and model-traded SMA strategies, tax-management, direct indexing, and ongoing manager monitoring supported by internal research and AI tools.

Brook Brindley is a financial advisor with Robert W. Baird & Co. in Waunakee, Wisconsin, holding a Series 63 designation and 24 years of industry experience. He has been with Robert W. Baird since 2009. He is part of The DDK Group, a team within Robert W. Baird’s Private Wealth Management practice that serves individuals, families, pensions, corporations, and charitable organizations. The group provides a range of consulting and portfolio services tailored to client goals, employing a combination of in-house and third-party managers across traditional and non-traditional investment strategies.

Mac Kenzie Wessell is a financial advisor at Robert Baird & Co. with Series 63 and Series 66 registrations and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining Baird in 2024, Wessell worked at Johnson Bank from 2015 to 2023 and spent a year as an unemployed homemaker in 2023. The DDK Group is a team within Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Private Wealth Management department that serves individuals, corporate and business clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm offers a range of services including financial planning, portfolio management, separately managed accounts, and custody and brokerage services, employing both manager-traded and model-traded strategies supported by internal research and technology.