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Douglas Newport is a CFP® with 21 years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Our Investment Guy, an independent wealth management firm he established in 2018. His prior experience includes roles at Commonwealth Financial Network and Fifth Third Securities. Our Investment Guy provides wealth management and investment services to individuals, charitable organizations, corporations, and retirement plans. The firm combines passive and active investment strategies based on individualized policies and offers ongoing retirement plan consulting with a focus on advising plan sponsors and fiduciaries under ERISA.

Kenneth Simmons is the owner and president of Simmons Financial Services, Inc. in Richmond, MI, with 15 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been practicing law since 1994, operating an estate planning practice under the d/b/a Heritage Estate Planning. Simmons’s background includes over two decades at Horwitz & Associates, Inc., and he continues to provide estate planning services alongside his financial advisory work. Simmons Financial Services, Inc. offers discretionary investment supervisory services to individual investors, trusts, and estates, managing approximately $1.3 million in discretionary assets. The firm uses a combination of charting, fundamental, and technical analysis to implement portfolios primarily composed of publicly traded equities, bonds, and ETFs, while coordinating estate planning and insurance services through its attorney-led practice.

Michael Shanku is the sole advisor at MJS Capital Inc., an independent registered investment adviser based in Chesterfield, MI. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 23 years of industry experience. Since 2010, he has been managing portfolios through MJS Capital Inc. MJS Capital Inc. provides individualized portfolio management services to individual clients, overseeing approximately $2.52 million in assets across 11 accounts. The firm emphasizes documented analysis methods, ongoing monitoring, and security selection as part of its investment approach.

Jonathan Phelan is a CFP® and CFA® with 15 years of experience in financial advising. He has been with Waterford Financial Management, LLC, an independent firm based in New Baltimore, MI, since 2007. Outside of financial advising, he serves as a director of Thompson-Phelan Group, Inc., a general contracting business. Waterford Financial Management provides fiduciary investment management and financial planning primarily for private individuals with tax-qualified and fully taxable accounts. The firm also offers employer consulting, including defined-contribution plan services, and uses a structured investment approach combining modern portfolio theory with intrinsic stock valuation.

Jeffrey Bruss is a financial advisor at Legacy Wealth Advisors, LLC with 10 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at Legacy Wealth Advisors since 2015. In addition to his advisory role, he is an attorney specializing in estate planning, estate administration, and real estate law at Stewart and Bruss, PC, and he is active as a real estate broker through Bruss Realty, LLC. He also serves on the board of directors for FreeStar Financial Credit Union. Legacy Wealth Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients with discretionary asset management, financial planning, and management of variable annuity and variable life products. The firm builds portfolios tailored to client goals, using various analytical methods and provides additional services including estate-document work and personal tax planning for clients with $500,000 or more invested.

Reno Frazzitta is a CFP® professional with 13 years of experience in financial advising, currently serving as the sole advisor at Smart Money Financial Advisors, LLC since 2015. He has over 30 years of experience as an independent insurance agent. Frazzitta is the managing member and founder of Retirement Learning Academy, which provides educational workshops on retirement planning, tax planning, Social Security, and Medicare. He also serves as Chapter President of the American Financial Education Alliance in the Oakland/Macomb area of Michigan, conducting financial literacy seminars. Smart Money Financial Advisors, LLC offers portfolio management and financial planning services primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, utilizing a long-term investment approach based on Modern Portfolio Theory. The firm emphasizes documented client goals and risk tolerance, discretionary management, and ongoing portfolio monitoring.