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Michael Perna is a CFA® charterholder and holds a Series 66 license with eight years of industry experience. He is the principal of Flying Point Advisors in Freeport, ME, where he has worked since 2021. In addition to his advisory role, Perna provides business consulting, accounting, and tax planning services as a CPA. Flying Point Advisors offers financial planning and portfolio management to individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals, focusing on retirement, tax, investment, and debt planning. The firm employs a long-term, low-cost, index-based investment approach combined with tax-aware strategies and also provides accounting and tax services alongside investment advice.

Bradley Mccurtain is a financial advisor at Maine Securities Corporation with 48 years of industry experience. He has been with Maine Securities Corporation since 1985. Outside of his advisory role, he is the sole owner of a coffee importing business that sells green and roasted coffee in the United States. Maine Securities Corporation provides investment advisory and portfolio management services primarily to individual clients, with a focus on quantitative value investing and the use of listed options for income and hedging. The firm operates a combined RIA and affiliated broker-dealer structure, offering discounted commission rates and occasional underwriting roles, along with an affiliated life and health insurance agency.

John Duffy is the sole advisor at Intent Advice, Inc. in Yarmouth, ME, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses with 27 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Broad Cove Capital, Cribstone Capital Management, and Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments. Intent Advice, Inc. provides consulting and investment-advisory services to a limited client base including high-net-worth individuals, small businesses, charities, endowments, trusts, and estates. The firm offers written financial plans and ongoing advice tailored to each client’s investment profile, typically reviewing clients quarterly, and operates with a fee structure based on negotiated fixed fees and hourly rates rather than assets under management.

Laurie Bachelder is a financial advisor at Freedom Wealth Advisors, LLC with 25 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has led her independent advisory firm since 2012. Outside of advisory services, she is a managing member involved in coordinating real estate development projects. Freedom Wealth Advisors is a single-advisor independent firm serving individuals, trusts, estates, corporations, and employer-sponsored retirement plans. The firm focuses on non-traditional assets and secured, short-term loans, especially to local real estate developers and alternative assets in self-directed IRAs, managing accounts primarily on a non-discretionary basis using a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis.

Alan Eskandari is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license, with 10 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. He has worked at Harvest Asset Group, LLC from 2015 to 2022 and has been with Able Money LLC since 2021. Able Money LLC provides integrated financial planning and discretionary investment management to individuals, families, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and small businesses on a fee-only basis. The firm emphasizes diversified, asset-allocation driven portfolios using passive ETFs and no-load mutual funds, values-based investing, and planning for retirement transitions.

Thomas Biegel is a financial advisor with Black Brook Financial Planning in Gorham, Maine, holding a Series 65 designation and 18 years of industry experience. He has managed Black Brook Financial Planning since 2007 and concurrently serves as CFO of Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc., a sitework construction firm where he has worked since 1988. Black Brook Financial Planning is an independent registered investment adviser providing advisory and discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm employs a conservative, long-term, value-oriented asset allocation approach tailored to client risk tolerance and is noted for advising charitable and corporate clients.