Matthew Pederson is the sole advisor at MP3 Finance LLC in Cameron Park, CA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has one year of experience in financial advising. Prior to founding MP3 Finance, he worked at Life Time Fitness and Sutter Health. Outside of finance, he is involved with MP3 Fitness, a separate business he has operated since 2020. MP3 Finance primarily serves individual clients, focusing on pre-retirees and younger investors. The firm offers portfolio management, financial planning, coaching, and tax optimization with an investment approach that combines fundamental and technical analysis and emphasizes long-term allocations to stocks, bonds, and ETFs.

Kathleen Faulkner is the principal of Faulkner Financial Planning, LLC, an independent advisory firm, with 27 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has operated her firm since 2012. In addition to her advisory work, she owns Divorce Advisory Services, LLC, which provides financial analysis and mediation related to divorce, and serves on the board of directors for Summitview Child Treatment Center. Faulkner Financial Planning primarily serves individual and household clients, as well as high-net-worth and corporate clients, offering comprehensive financial planning. The firm employs a non-discretionary approach by creating individualized plans and selecting third-party asset managers to implement and adjust portfolios, while maintaining ongoing investment oversight and client reviews.

Blake Fischer is a financial advisor with Fiduciary Wealth Partners in Citrus Heights, CA. He holds a Series 65 designation and has six years of experience with Fiduciary Wealth Partners. Outside of his advisory role, he works as a financial program manager at Pacific Gas & Electric, providing financial analysis to Electric Operations leaders. Fiduciary Wealth Partners offers customized investment management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, small businesses, charitable organizations, and pension/profit-sharing plans. The firm employs an asset-allocation driven investment process informed by macroeconomic analysis and valuation, with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and ongoing portfolio monitoring.

Matthew Curtis is a financial advisor with Alpha Retirement Wealth, LLC in Gold River, CA, holding a Series 65 designation and 12 years of industry experience. He has worked with Alpha Retirement Wealth since 2015 and also serves as an area manager for Asurea Insurance Services, where he sells life insurance and annuities. Alpha Retirement Wealth, LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning primarily for individual clients, including high-net-worth individuals and business entities. The firm utilizes a risk-parity framework and Modern Portfolio Theory in its investment approach, primarily implementing strategies through exchange-traded funds and model portfolios.

Tiffani Sharp is the principal of T. Sharp Wealth Management and holds a Series 65 credential with two years of industry experience. She previously worked as an attorney for over 17 years and currently operates T. Sharp Legacy & Wealth Counsel, where she provides estate planning, probate, business formation, and real estate investment legal services. T. Sharp Wealth Management, LLC offers fee-only financial planning and investment consulting to individuals and families, focusing on long-term, globally diversified passive investment strategies utilizing low-cost ETFs and index funds. The firm emphasizes financial planning services such as cash-flow analysis and goals prioritization, delivering advice primarily through fixed-fee or hourly arrangements.

Kimberly Tucker Knotts is the sole advisor at Kim Knotts, RIA, an independent firm based in Folsom, California. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has 27 years of industry experience. Prior to founding her firm in 2017, she worked at several investment advisory and securities firms. Outside of her advisory role, she owns and operates businesses in real estate sales and mortgage lending, as well as income tax preparation and consulting. Kim Knotts, RIA provides investment advisory and portfolio management services primarily to individual clients, along with comprehensive financial planning and retirement plan consulting. The firm manages approximately $9.3 million in client assets using a multi-asset allocation approach tailored to client risk tolerance and time horizon, with all accounts managed on a non-discretionary basis. The firm also maintains affiliations with real estate and tax service businesses, allowing it to offer ancillary real estate, tax, and insurance services.

Dorete Ben David is a CFP® professional with 8 years of industry experience, operating Ben-David Financial Planning since 2003. She leads an independent firm based in Shingle Springs, CA, serving a small roster of clients. Ben-David Financial Planning provides financial planning and portfolio management to individuals, couples, families, and business owners, using primarily no-load mutual funds along with bonds and alternative investments tailored to client goals. The firm emphasizes a collaborative approach with quarterly reviews and a fee-only retainer billing model without third-party compensation.

Vikas Salgia is a financial advisor at Nuna Investments with a Series 65 credential and over a decade of combined experience. Prior to founding Nuna Investments in 2026, he held roles at Hinge Health since 2021 and Sutter Health from 2013 to 2021. He maintains full-time non-investment employment alongside his advisory work. Nuna Investments provides discretionary investment management primarily to pooled and institutional clients, including pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate entities, while also serving trusts, estates, and high-net-worth separately managed accounts. The firm employs a bottom-up fundamental analysis approach focused on undervalued common stocks, emphasizing long holding horizons, conservative valuation, and concentrated portfolios, and offers financial planning on an hourly or fixed-project basis.

Charles Ho is a CFP® with 17 years of industry experience. He has worked at Charles Schwab and Charles Schwab Bank before founding Legacy Builders Financial, LLC in 2017, where he currently serves as the sole advisor. Outside of his advisory work, he is the CEO of two corporations established for real estate investments. Legacy Builders Financial is an independent registered investment adviser serving individual clients across a range of wealth levels. The firm provides tailored investment management, comprehensive financial planning, and short-term financial coaching, typically constructing passive portfolios supplemented by various analytical approaches and collaborating with third-party managers.

Cliff Leiker is the principal of CJL Quantum Analytics, an independent advisory firm based in Fair Oaks, CA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has nine years of industry experience. In addition to his advisory role, he serves as a fraternal agent for the Catholic Order of Foresters, focusing on life insurance sales. CJL Quantum Analytics primarily serves small business owners seeking retirement-plan investment guidance and individual bank investors, offering non-discretionary, customized advice on stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. The firm provides pay-as-you-go online products including bank-specific research, educational webinars, and an economic newsletter, with an investment approach that combines fundamental dividend analysis and technical indicators tailored to each client’s risk tolerance and time horizon.

Kenneth Golden is a CFA® charterholder with over 40 years of experience in financial advisory services. He has been the principal of Sierra Financial Management Co. since 1983 and previously operated K.H. Golden & Associates for 33 years. Sierra Financial Management Co. provides discretionary separately managed account services to individuals, foundations, and trusts. The firm employs a top-down macroeconomic approach combined with bottom-up fundamental and technical security selection, focusing on a small client roster and the management of concentrated equity portfolios.

William Corley is a CFP®-designated financial advisor with 18 years of industry experience. He has been the principal at Corley Investment Management since 2012. In addition to his advisory role, Corley is a licensed independent insurance agent for various companies. Corley Investment Management provides advisory services primarily to individuals and high-net-worth clients by identifying and supervising unaffiliated third-party asset managers. The firm also offers standalone financial consulting and educational seminars, focusing on client objectives and risk tolerance without taking custody of client assets.

Scott has had an interest in finance and investing ever since his first job delivering newspapers when he was eleven years old. He grew up in the home of a physician and scientist, studied finance and accounting and worked in Silicon Valley for a few years. After all these experiences, he has settled into the profession he always envisioned. He works with individuals and families in the medical, scientific and technology fields to understand their financial goals and dreams and develop a uniquely tailored financial plan. He strives to remove the pain points in his clients' financial lives, increase their confidence about the future and reduce the costs associated with their financial decisions. He loves the opportunity to provide this service. Scott is married and has four children. He enjoys music, along with his wife and daughter, and can sometimes be found building LEGOs with his three sons. He has also lived and traveled various places in the world and loves learning about history and culture.

Robert Teel is a Series 65-licensed financial advisor with six years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Kingdom Capital Management, an independent firm he has led since 2019. Prior to founding his firm, Teel worked at Activision Blizzard, Amazon, and Microsoft, and spent two years as a stay-at-home parent. Kingdom Capital Management serves primarily working-class millennials, offering a tiered advisory model that ranges from one-time IRA setups to discretionary portfolio management. The firm uses a hybrid delivery model with digital subscription pricing and publishes educational content, managing client portfolios with an emphasis on long-term, low-turnover strategies.

Tadd Barraclough is a financial advisor with TCM Investment Advisers in Citrus Heights, CA, holding a Series 63 designation and 12 years of industry experience. He has worked with TCM since 2016 and maintains concurrent roles at Lyft, Inc. and United Parcel Service. TCM Investment Advisers serves individual investors focusing on retirement planning and estate/asset management, providing portfolio management and a wrap-fee program. The firm emphasizes a customized retirement-planning approach with various fee arrangements and operates trading and custody through a Fidelity platform.

Marios Gregoriou is a financial advisor with Elite Capital Services, LLC in Folsom, CA, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 27 years of industry experience. He has been with Elite Capital Services since 2008. Elite Capital Services provides wealth and portfolio management along with separate financial planning and consulting engagements on a fixed-fee or hourly basis. The firm serves individuals, trusts, estates, businesses, charitable organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and financial institutions, employing a mix of fundamental and technical analysis, proprietary models, and risk-management tools to build and monitor client portfolios.

Paul Rossi is the sole advisor at Rossi Financial Group in El Dorado Hills, CA, holding the CFA® designation and Series 63 license with 13 years of industry experience. He has led Rossi Financial Group since 2012. Outside of advisory services, Rossi is also a licensed real estate broker in California, an activity that occupies less than one percent of his time and is unrelated to his investment practice. Rossi Financial Group provides financial planning, investment consultation, and supervisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, businesses, and retirement plans. The firm employs a Core + Satellite investment approach combining index-based core holdings with actively managed satellite positions, primarily on a non-discretionary basis, and offers pension consulting and educational workshops on retirement, estate, and investment topics.

Melissa Yano is a CFP® professional with 12 years of industry experience. She has worked at Capital Wealth Planners, LLC since 2021 and previously spent nine years at Capital Region Financial Group, LLC. Yano holds an active life and health insurance license and sells various insurance products. Capital Wealth Planners, LLC serves individual investors, employer-sponsored retirement plans, trusts, estates, and charitable organizations. The firm offers model portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting, using model asset-allocation portfolios implemented through third-party money managers and focusing on ERISA-compliant retirement plan services.

Christopher Torchiana is a CFP® and ChFC® with 28 years of experience in financial advising. He is the principal and sole advisor at Continuum Financial Partners, LLC, where he has worked since 2012, following a tenure at Next Financial Group, Inc. In addition to financial advising, he owns and operates tax preparation businesses under Mainstreet Tax Advisory. Continuum Financial Partners serves select individual clients, including some high-net-worth households, and retirement plan sponsors by providing comprehensive financial planning, investment management, and retirement-plan advisory services. The firm employs a holistic planning process and offers ERISA-focused consulting for pension and profit-sharing plans, alongside tax preparation and insurance services through the principal’s other business activities.

David Joiner is the sole advisor at Joiner Financial, LLC, an independent firm based in El Dorado Hills, CA. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has 18 years of industry experience. Joiner has worked with Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. since 2009 and has been involved with Quantix Equity Management and Quantix Equity Partners, LP since 2008. Joiner Financial, LLC provides portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and investment companies. The firm uses a combination of charting, fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis to construct portfolios and offers ongoing monitoring with regular client reporting. It also manages a private investment vehicle and accepts performance-based fees for qualified investors.