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Hardik Patel is the principal of Trusted Path Wealth Management, LLC in Santa Rosa, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and began his advisory career in 2025. Prior to founding his firm, he worked as a lead software engineer at Williams-Sonoma Inc., where he continues to hold that role. He also serves as a board member of Catholic Charities of Northwest California. Trusted Path Wealth Management provides discretionary investment management and comprehensive financial planning primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a blend of passive and active investment vehicles guided by modern portfolio theory and offers financial planning services on both a project and ongoing basis.

Robert Gemmer is a CFP® professional with 47 years of experience in financial and investment planning. He has operated as a self-employed advisor since 1979 and currently leads his independent firm, Gemmer, Robert Arden, based in Healdsburg, CA. He is also licensed as a life, health, and disability insurance agent. His firm provides financial planning and portfolio management primarily to individual clients, as well as trusts, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and self-employed business retirement accounts. Investment recommendations are tailored to each client’s objectives and risk profile, with diversified asset allocation and discretionary management implemented through third-party custodians.

Brian Corr is the principal of The Wheeler Corr Group, LLC in Santa Rosa, CA, holding a Series 65 credential and having entered the financial advisory industry in 2025. Prior to founding his firm, he worked in aerospace engineering roles at SpaceX and Blue Origin. He also partners in a tax preparation business, Wheeler/Corr Tax Solutions. The Wheeler Corr Group provides asset management, project-based financial planning, and in-house tax preparation services for individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm employs fundamental and technical analysis along with modern portfolio theory in managing accounts separately, with periodic reviews at least annually.

Thomas Drake is the sole advisor at Integritas Semper, LLC in Windsor, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses with 27 years of industry experience. He has led Integritas Semper since 2010 and is also involved in insurance sales as an agent. Outside of financial advising, he co-owns a home rental business with his spouse. Integritas Semper provides discretionary investment supervisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and municipal entities. The firm employs asset allocation, fundamental and technical analysis, and both long- and short-term trading strategies, with a diverse range of permissible investments including derivatives, which is uncommon among independent advisers.

James Hague is a financial advisor at Janian Investment Advisers, LLC in Santa Rosa, CA, holding a Series 65 designation with 13 years of industry experience. He has been with Janian Investment Advisers since 2012. Janian Investment Advisers provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning primarily for individual investors and related entities such as trusts and charitable or business-controlled accounts. The firm employs a bottom-up fundamental analysis approach combined with a portfolio-level risk framework, utilizing strategies that include third-party fund menus, bond-benchmarked allocations, and both hedged and unhedged equity selection, with the use of derivatives and hedging techniques as part of its investment process.

Michele Berson is the sole advisor at Berson Money Management in Santa Rosa, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 16 years of industry experience. She has led her independent firm since 2012, focusing on personalized investment management and financial planning. Berson Money Management serves primarily individual clients while also working with corporate and pension or profit-sharing plan sponsors. The firm offers tailored portfolios using a mix of fundamental and technical analysis, incorporates third-party sub-advisors, and provides specialized services such as pension consulting and employer plan sponsor support under ERISA fiduciary standards.