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Aaron Locker is the sole advisor at Ellis Financial Solutions LLC in Longmont, Colorado. He holds Series 65 and Series 66 licenses and has three years of industry experience. Prior to founding Ellis Financial Solutions in 2025, he worked at Summit Financial Planning and Edward Jones. Outside of his advisory role, he manages Ellis Bottom Line Bookkeeping, a tax management and preparation business. Ellis Financial Solutions provides investment management and retirement plan services primarily to employer plan sponsors, pooled vehicles, and other institutional clients. The firm’s investment approach combines passive and active strategies focused on asset allocation and long-term portfolio construction, with additional services including investment policy statement drafting, investment and fee reviews, vendor searches, participant education, and discretionary ERISA 3(38) investment management.

Bruce Fleet is the sole advisor at Fleet Capital Management, LLC, an independent firm based in Boulder, CO. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 37 years of industry experience. Fleet has led his firm since 2006. Fleet Capital Management, LLC is a fee-only investment adviser serving individuals, high-net-worth families, trusts, foundations, and charitable institutions. The firm focuses on discretionary portfolio management with an emphasis on downside protection and risk management, utilizing quantitative techniques grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory.

Kyle Sothers is the sole advisor at Kyso Financial, a state-registered independent investment advisory firm based in Superior, Colorado. He holds a Series 65 designation and has eight years of industry experience, having managed investments privately before founding Kyso Financial in 2016. Kyso Financial provides discretionary portfolio management to individuals, families, and businesses, offering three actively managed model portfolios and a customized ETF-based option. The firm employs a fundamentally driven approach combining growth and value strategies with a long-term orientation, alongside the explicit use of hedging techniques and derivatives for tactical downside protection in certain accounts.

Craig Thompson is a ChFC®-designated financial advisor with 26 years of industry experience. He has been the sole advisor at Asset Solutions since 2003. Asset Solutions is an independent registered investment adviser managing approximately $13.5 million for around 76 clients, mainly individual investors and small-business retirement accounts. The firm employs an active, market-timing investment approach using technical, cyclical, and fundamental analysis to rotate among sectors and asset classes, with portfolios that may be concentrated or moved fully to cash depending on market conditions.

James Kirk is a ChFC® credentialed financial advisor with nine years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Rocky Mountain Financial Solutions Inc. in Erie, CO, where he has worked since 2018, following prior roles at IFC and Marketforce Information. Kirk is also a licensed insurance agent involved in selling insurance products. Rocky Mountain Financial Solutions Inc. provides discretionary and non-discretionary asset management and financial consultation to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, business entities, and qualified retirement plans. The firm emphasizes long-term investment strategies using individual stocks and ETFs, supplemented by tactical solutions and covered-call option strategies, and offers ERISA 3(38) fiduciary plan management alongside limited insurance product sales.

Adam Barnai is the sole advisor at Barnai Asset Management in Boulder, CO, holding a Series 65 credential with 10 years of industry experience. He has managed Barnai Asset Management since 2014 and concurrently owns and operates a small construction company as a general contractor and builder. Barnai Asset Management provides discretionary portfolio management to individual and high-net-worth clients, focusing on equity and ETF-based strategies. The firm uses a top-down approach grounded in Modern Portfolio Theory with an emphasis on long-term market cycles, employing ETF-centric portfolios that include ESG options and, for suitable clients, tactical use of triple-leveraged ETFs with active monitoring and rebalancing.