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Christopher Crenshaw is the sole advisor at Chris C Crenshaw Financial Services, LLC, an independent firm based in Durham, NC. He holds a Series 63 designation and has 16 years of industry experience. He has been with his firm since 1996. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities. It emphasizes strategic asset allocation, diversification, and both fundamental and technical analysis, serving a concentrated group of primarily high-net-worth clients alongside corporate and business clients.

Raymond Eustace is a financial advisor at Eustace Advisors in Cary, NC, holding a Series 65 designation with three years of industry experience. Prior to founding Eustace Advisors, he worked at ClearComm Technical Sales from 2003 to 2020 and operated Nadaje Holdings LLC from 2013 to 2022. Eustace Advisors is an independent, fee-only firm that provides advice-only financial planning and investment analysis to individuals and high-net-worth clients. The firm’s approach is based on Modern Portfolio Theory with a focus on long-term, passive investment strategies, and it offers services including financial plan development, project-based planning, ongoing planning, educational seminars, and optional tax return preparation.

Christopher Fauchier Nobles is the President and Chief Compliance Officer of Confiance Financial LLC and holds a Series 65 designation. He has prior experience at Mediant Communications Inc. and Betanxt, where he was involved in investor communications and back-office technology platforms. Nobles divides his time between his advisory role and his executive responsibilities at BetaNXT. Confiance Financial provides discretionary investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm uses a fundamentally driven, primarily long-term investment approach and may engage third-party independent managers to implement portfolio strategies.

Naveen Reddy Gollapally is the sole advisor at gnrfunds LLC, an independent registered investment adviser based in Morrisville, NC. He holds a Series 65 credential and has four years of industry experience, including over a decade at Epsilon Data Management LLC prior to founding gnrfunds in 2021. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as treasurer for several day care centers planned to open in 2026 and 2027, and he is president of a UPS store, as well as a database administrator for a technology consulting firm. gnrfunds LLC serves individual investors, high-net-worth clients, and small businesses with discretionary portfolio management and retirement plan advice. The firm focuses on concentrated equity portfolios through fundamental analysis and employs various strategies including long/short positions and derivatives, offering performance-based fee arrangements to qualified clients.

Joseph Stover is a financial advisor at Reliance Financial Group, Inc. in Durham, NC, holding the PFS™ designation and Series 65 license with 22 years of industry experience. He has been with Reliance Financial Group since 1999. Reliance Financial Group is an independent firm providing discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting to individual investors, retirement plans, and charitable organizations. The firm emphasizes asset allocation and model-based portfolios, combining fundamental security analysis with long-term investment strategies and periodic rebalancing.