Michael Parris

Walter Ebner is the principal of Echo Prudent Capital LLC and holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 26 years of industry experience. He previously worked at BMO Capital Markets Corp., BMO Nesbitt Burns Corp., and Bank of Montreal for 24 years. He is the founder and a board member of Cancer Calculus NFP, a nonprofit organization that assists cancer patients with economic decision-making. Echo Prudent Capital LLC provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services and financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and nonprofit organizations. The firm utilizes a range of analytical methods to build tailored portfolios and serves a concentrated client base, including charitable organizations.

David Meehan is a CFA® charterholder with seven years of industry experience. He has been the sole advisor at Maple Street Capital Advisors, LLC since 2018 and previously worked as a self-employed investor for three years. Maple Street Capital Advisors provides investment management and financial planning services to individuals and families, including high-net-worth clients. The firm employs a fundamental, long-term investment approach focused on diversified, low-cost core equity and fixed-income funds, complemented by selected individual equities, with an emphasis on asset allocation, rebalancing, and strategic cash management including a near-constant allocation to gold via ETFs.

Edgardo Navarro is a financial advisor at Navarro Asset Management, LLC with three years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has been managing investments at Navarro Asset Management since 2022. Navarro is also the Managing Director of Kocoon Investments, LLC, a family investment entity he has been involved with since 2014. Navarro Asset Management serves individuals, including high net worth clients, as well as trusts and estates, providing discretionary and non-discretionary investment management along with financial planning and consulting. The firm employs a diversified investment approach using mutual funds, ETFs, equities, bonds, options strategies, and private funds, and incorporates fundamental, technical, and charting analysis methods.

Michael Akinosho is the principal advisor at MOA Advisory & Financial Services Co. He holds a Series 65 designation and has five years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, he held positions at Engooden Health Inc. and Global View Capital Management, Ltd. In addition to his advisory work, he serves as Manager of Technical Accounting for the American Medical Association, overseeing financial reporting and budgeting for over 240 physicians and medical students. MOA Advisory & Financial Services Co is a state-registered investment adviser that provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning to individuals, families, trusts, estates, pension and profit-sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, and small businesses. The firm integrates a long-term core asset-allocation approach with technically based, rule-driven strategies, and maintains an in-house tax and accounting practice offering tax preparation and planning services alongside its advisory work.

Joseph Vu is a CFA charterholder and the sole advisor at VU Financial Services, Inc., with 17 years of industry experience. He has been a full-time associate professor of finance at DePaul University since 1988, teaching MBA and undergraduate courses and conducting academic research. Additionally, he teaches CFA review classes at Becker, a division of DeVry Corporation. VU Financial Services is a single-advisor registered investment adviser that manages customized portfolios for a limited number of clients, including individuals and a broad range of institutional and corporate clients. The firm uses academically informed, quantitative methods and routinely incorporates stock options overlays to tailor portfolios to clients' specific needs.

Curtis Bergquist is a CFP® with 49 years of industry experience and is the sole advisor at Ameribanc Corporation in Hoffman Estates, IL. He has been associated with Ausdal Financial Partners, Inc. since 2009. Outside of his advisory role, he is the owner of Ameribanc, where he engages in asset management. Ameribanc provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals and families, primarily through its Capital Management Service (CMS), which incorporates market-timing signals and a combination of fundamental and technical analysis to manage risk and adjust portfolio exposure.