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Blaine Dunn is a CFP® with 27 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been the principal advisor at Dunn Financial Advisors, LLC since 1999. The firm provides personalized financial planning and investment management to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, small businesses, and certain pension and profit-sharing plans. Dunn Financial Advisors operates on a fee-only basis with an emphasis on strategic asset allocation and global diversification, serving both individual and institutional-type clients.

Timothy Taylor is a financial advisor with Taylor Capital Management in Martinsburg, WV, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 25 years of industry experience. He has led TCM Advisors, LLC since 2006. Taylor serves on the finance committee of Highland View Academy, a nonprofit Christian high school. Taylor Capital Management provides discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to individuals, charitable organizations, corporate entities, retirement plans, and institutional mandates. The firm focuses on individualized account supervision, employs a broad range of investment instruments including derivatives, and manages a relatively large client base through a wrap fee program administered on two account platforms.

Diane Case is the principal of Shenandoah Financial, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 20 years of industry experience. She has operated as a sole proprietor since 1993 and worked at Gradient Advisors, LLC from 2015 to 2016. In addition to her financial advisory work, she is a licensed insurance agent and dedicates approximately 25% of her time to that practice. Shenandoah Financial provides financial planning and consulting services to individuals and small businesses, referring clients to third-party money managers for investment management. The firm assists clients with tailored financial plans, monitors third-party manager performance, and handles related administrative tasks.

Thomas Maiden is a CFP® with eight years of industry experience and is the sole advisor at Mission: Advice, an independent firm based in Shepherdstown, WV. He has worked with Investment Outfitters, LLC since 2019 and Insurance Outfitters, Inc. since 2000. Outside of his advisory work, Maiden serves as a Commanding Officer in the Navy Reserve with the United States Africa Command J2, leading a 70-member Naval Intelligence unit. Mission: Advice serves individuals, high-net-worth clients, and pension and profit-sharing plans, offering financial planning, discretionary investment management, and retirement plan consulting. The firm emphasizes tax-efficient portfolio construction, using low-cost, passive ETF allocations combined with long-term fundamental analysis, and provides institutional retirement plan consulting alongside individual wealth management.

Michael Trainor is a financial advisor with Trainor Consulting in Winchester, VA, holding a Series 65 designation and nine years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at BNY Mellon, Kulak Design Associates, and Anacomp. He also owns a tax preparation business that provides seasonal tax services for individuals and small businesses. Trainor Consulting offers investment management services primarily to individual and joint accounts, managing client portfolios on a non-discretionary basis without custody of assets. The firm emphasizes disciplined active management based on fundamental research and maintains a structured approach that excludes short-selling, market timing, margin accounts, and cryptocurrency.

Brian Davet is a financial advisor at R & J Financial Partners, LLC with 15 years of industry experience. He holds the PFS™ designation and Series 65 license. In addition to his advisory role, Davet is a 10% owner of Rutherford & Johnson, P.C., an unaffiliated CPA firm specializing in tax preparation and planning for individuals and corporations. R & J Financial Partners provides investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, trusts, qualified plans, charitable organizations, corporations, and small businesses. The firm employs a modern portfolio theory approach emphasizing asset-class diversification and buy-and-hold strategies, utilizing written investment policy statements and third-party sub-advisers for fixed-income management.