Virtual Family Office Team

Aleksander stands out in the financial landscape for his deep expertise in complex Qualified Plan models and innovative Financed Charitable Gifting techniques. Catering to a sophisticated clientele of business leaders, high-wage earners and high-net-worth individuals, Aleksander has masterfully orchestrated tax savings exceeding $60 million.

With a career spanning over a decade as a wealth creation strategist, Aleksander is on a mission to empower his clients to safeguard and enhance their wealth using Advanced Pension Plans and Charitable Gift Financing strategies. As a dynamic serial entrepreneur, seasoned venture investor, and trusted advisor, Aleksander applies his extensive firsthand experience to offer practical, impactful wealth-building strategies.

Aleksander is the mastermind behind the Pre-Tax Wealth Creation Blueprint—a comprehensive, step-by-step framework designed to significantly boost tax savings, reinforce asset protection, and accelerate personal wealth growth.

His fluency in English, Russian, and Korean allows him to serve a diverse range of clients effectively. Aleksander is known for his straightforward personality, results-driven focus, and out-of-the-box thinking. These qualities have cemented his reputation as a “financial surgeon” of creative solutions for wealth creation, making him a sought-after strategist in the financial domain.

Ami Kassar, is the founder and CEO of MultiFunding LLC, and author of The Growth Dilemma. He is a nationally renowned expert on access to capital for entrepreneurs. He’s committed to ensuring that business owners have the best possible access to the capital structures to help grow and manage their businesses. Kassar is regularly featured in the national press and writes a regular column for Inc.com. He has advised the White House, the Federal Reserve Bank and The Treasury Department on the business credit markets. In addition, Kassar is a regular speaker at universities and business events across the country on topics including entrepreneurship and access to capital.

Ami is the 2015, 2014, and 2013 recipient of the Small Business Influencer Award as well as the 2012 Small Business Advocate Award. Kassar earned his MBA from the University of Southern California and graduated with a B.A. in American Studies from Brandeis University.

Ben started early as an entrepreneur. In 2003 at the early age of 27 he bought his first company. It wasn’t very long that he opened his second and ran them side-by-side for 10 years. His primary focus was income taxes, tax planning, asset protection and tax resolution. After he sold both of those companies, he decided to move in a different direction and moved into railroad construction as well as opening another tax resolution business.

Today Ben is a Tax Resolution Specialist that helps companies and individuals out of dire situations. He has saved clients millions of dollars and helped companies and individuals become financially free from the IRS past problems. He also helps his clients create a future by helping his clients reduce taxes in the future.

Highlights from Ben’s business activities include National Speaker for Tax Planning, helped clients receive over 40M in BP Funding, helped clients save millions from the IRS, received construction contracts of over $10M, and increased sustained profitability in the construction field of over 75% in first year of ownership.

Mr. Stone is the principal and president of Stone Law Offices, Ltd. He has been practicing in the State of Nevada since 1993 and provides legal counsel and services to affluent clients and families in the areas of wealth transfer and preservation strategies, including advanced estate planning, sophisticated tax planning (federal income and estate taxes), charitable planning, and planned giving, multi-generational family governance, business law, including business exit planning (aka business succession planning), and domestic and international asset protection planning

Damayanti Weese is a seasoned leader in professional services, currently leading operations and business development at Incentives Credit Advocate in partnership with DST Advisory Group. She is also serving as the CEO of SDBizPros Inc. She has an extensive background spanning roles in taxation, human resources, and recruitment. Damayanti is committed to empowering small and medium-sized enterprises, advocating for transparent and comprehensive services in payroll, tax credits, and beyond to foster business efficiency and growth.

I am a proven certified Business Coach that helps business owners make more money and work less. I do this by asking the right questions, leading you to think differently and inspire action that generates desired results. I will help you with improving sales, implementing effective marketing and advertising, manage cash flow, team and leadership training

Derek Spitzer began his career at a global tax consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas. As a consultant in the transaction tax practice, Derek worked directly with several Fortune 500 companies in the retail, healthcare, storage, and manufacturing industries.

Derek joined Captive Insurance Group, LLC in March 2014 as Director of Operations and helped grow the firm until it was acquired by Higginbotham Insurance Agency in February 2020. Higginbotham is the largest independent insurance broker in Texas, and a top 15 insurance broker in the United States. Derek as a Managing Director, along with former management continue to run the captive insurance operations.

Derek graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Brigham Young University. He is married with three children and lives in Colleyville, Texas.

Donald S. Feldman, CExP™, CPA, CVA, MBA founded Keystone Business Transitions, LLC in 2009, a firm based in Lancaster, PA devoted to exit and succession planning for business owners. He has been a CPA for 30 years and a valuation professional for 25 years. For the last 20 years, Don’s practice has focused exclusively on succession and exit planning for business owners, including transfers of business interests to family members and key employees, as well as sales to outsiders. KBT also provides Business Valuation services in connection with Exit Planning transactions. Don has been awarded the designation Certified Exit Planner™ by the Business Enterprise Institute and is a member of the CExP™ Board of Standards. Don holds a joint M.S. in Accounting / M.B.A. degree from Northeastern University. He has been a regular columnist for Business2Business Magazine (Central PA) and is a frequent speaker for trade associations and continuing education programs for accountants, attorneys and financial advisors.

Jacob Fleming holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management. He started his career working in staffing. He was responsible for a $13 million dollar increase with a 22% EBITDA. Subsequently he took an opportunity to help create a new staffing company. In only two years it grew to over $15M in sales and 5 offices. In this positions Jacob was responsible for the sales, operations, and the training and managing of the staff. Jacob then created a new company recruiting CDL A drivers nationwide. This new adventure quickly became the #1 3rd party recruiting company for some of the largest trucking companies in the nation.

On the side Jacob loves to invest in real estate and has purchased many homes, and multifamily properties. He has also developed properties and financed construction projects.
Through the experience of selling businesses and properties Jacob understood the impact that taxes have on individual and company growth. This fueled the desire to help companies maximize growth opportunities and minimize tax implications.

His love for real estate and building has helped with the latest endeavor Ascendancy; helping building contractors capitalize on their appraisals and tax credits. Ascendancy is a consulting firm that helps construction companies participate in programs to increase profits and decrease tax liabilities. Ascendancy’s team of certified energy star and HERS (Home Energy Rating System) raters provide certifications to their customers, ensuring that each property meets each program’s standards.

James M. Duggan is a founding principal of DUGGAN BERTSCH, LLC, a Chicago-based business, tax, estate and wealth planning firm comprised of attorneys and accountants. Jim’s practice has concentrated principally on business and corporate law, and estate and wealth planning, primarily as they relate to closely held business interests and high net worth families. Jim’s experience in the structuring and implementation of Family Offices, sophisticated tax planning, and asset protection planning strategies is nationally recognized, as is his role in the firm’s development of a leading multidisciplinary planning protocol. In addition to giving frequent lectures and authoring articles in his areas of concentration, Jim also serves as a director on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Jim’s educational background includes attaining a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Magna Cum Laude), a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from the DePaul University Graduate School of Business (Summa Cum Laude), and a Juris Doctor from the DePaul University College of Law, where he was awarded positions on both the DePaul Law Review and DePaul Business Law Journal.

John Frazier is a native Texan who spent several years in Northern Virginia before moving to Nashville. John has over 10 years experience as a top producer in the financial services industry and has earned numerous awards. Coupled with his strong desire to help the less fortunate and support worthy causes, he is a perfect fit for the charitable planning industry, bringing both knowledge and heart to the organization.

As an advocate for research, treatment and prevention of childhood cancer, John volunteers for the Live 4 Tay Foundation and Hope Nation Radio. Over the past 25 years he has also been involved with numerous other charities including the Nashville Humane Society and March of Dimes.

Jon Randall is a Certified Master Coach® and Premier Franchise Consultant who hit #1 in GDC Growth on the FC Scorecard for the advisors he works with all over the country. He was named Franchise Consultant of the Year in 2015 at his broker-dealer. With more than 15 years experience as a practicing advisor, he knows how to help financial advisors get to where they want to go with their life and practice.

Jon works with some of the top financial professionals in the industry – the average GDC for the advisors he coaches is more than $1.2 MM. He is a national presenter at financial service industry conventions and workshops around the country. Financial advisors coached by Jon consistently grow at a significantly higher rate than the average advisor.
His specialties in consulting include marketing, investments, financial planning and practice management.
Jon is also a published author – his book Attract More Clients, Better Clients is on sale now. Jon has a master’s degree in Psychology and Coaching and is working on his doctorate degree in Performance Psychology.

Jon and his wife, Kathleen, live in Winterville, North Carolina, with their two boys, James and William

Mark is a managing member of Life Insurance Settlements Inc. which is the nation's most experienced life settlement brokerage. Our sole focus is in representing our clients to obtain the highest market price possible for the sale of the client’s life insurance policy in the secondary marketplace.

Mark began his career with LIS in 2001 and has consistently remained in the top 1% of sales in the nation. His specialty is in working with and educating senior clients, estate planners, insurance advisors, attorneys, and other financial professionals about the benefits of the Life Settlement industry.

He has presented to groups such as NAIFA, Top of the Table, InsMark, Society for Financial Service Professionals, National Association of Philanthropic Planners, local estate planning councils, various Broker Dealers, Insurance carriers and professional groups about Life Settlements.

Mark has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Nebraska and is a member of the Life Insurance Settlement Association. He met his wife Deborah while working in Australia and they have two sons Jack & Sam.

Matt Miller is an international tax specialist, specializing in the U.S. taxation of foreign source income, as well as planning and reporting for businesses and individuals with cross-border transactions. A graduate of the Master of Science in Taxation, with a post-graduate Certificate Degree in International Taxation from Golden Gate University, Matt has worked with hundreds of IC-DISC’s since 2012 and has managed the IC-DISC practices of two of the largest service providers in the U.S. Additional areas of U.S. international tax specialization include tax incentives on foreign sales available to C-Corporations (known as Foreign Derived Intangible Income (“FDII”)), Global Intangible Low-Taxable Income (“GILTI”), Subpart F Income, and Transfer Pricing.

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management. He started his career at KPMG working in International Tax Consulting as part of the Transactions & Cross Border Services division (M&A, International Tax, and Transfer Pricing) where he earned his CPA credential. Michael started Apex Business Partners in late 2020 with a focus on tax and business advisory for startups and got into cryptocurrencies as a niche practice area in 2021. Michael has advised on over $100,000,000 in cryptocurrency transaction volume for his business and individual clients since.

Mitch Nelson has assisted advisors in the design and placement of insurance solutions since 2004. He specialized in working with financial advisors and their clients to review, consult and secure personal disability insurance solutions. He has served on the Minnesota Financial Planning Association Next Gen Committee and has been published in the NAPFA Advisors Magazine and The Journal of Financial Services Professionals. He provides educational presentations to financial advisors across the country.

Founded on the principles of honesty, integrity, and outstanding service. Card Group International is able to offer merchants the ability to process credit cards safely and securely, meeting all PCI-DSS & EMV-Chip industry standards.

Card Group International delivers their customers overall savings, and virtually unlimited solution options without compromising the highest quality service your business deserves.

They have strategically aligned themselves with industry leaders by partnering with a variety of top-notch companies such as CardConnect, NPC, Elavon, Chase Paymentech, First Data, Global Payments, and WorldPay to provide excellent service and individualized products. These alliances allow impact to customize front end, and back end solutions for each customer’s unique needs allowing them to process on any processing platform, in the US and Canada. Their merchants do not have to settle for meeting half their service needs.

Mr. Fox is a nationally known wealth strategist, philanthropic estate planner, educator and speaker. He has dedicated his career to helping individuals, professional advisors, charitable institutions and planned giving organizations, “do well while doing good.” Randy has authored hundreds of articles and presentations for attorneys, financial advisors, CPAs and HNW families. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Planned Giving Design Center, a national newsletter and website for philanthropic advisors, and has the following designations: CFP® and AEP®.

My Partner, Ralph Head, and I are the Owners/ President & CEO of Strategic Benefits Alliance, LLC. SBA is the National Master Marketing and Sales Channel of Pearl Logic, Inc.

Ralph and I have been business owners in several industries, including trucking/transportation, auto/truck leasing, residential/light commercial construction, property management, and health & life agencies.

In searching for a way to differentiate ourselves from the murky water of Group Health Insurance, we were led to Pearl Logic and the eye-opening “Benefits of an Employer Controlled Environment” as opposed to the current Carrier Controlled Environment.”

Roger Roundy is the Owner/CEO of Strategic Associates, LLC. Strategic Associates is a Risk Mitigation firm focused primarily on the education and implementation of various tax code strategies, including tax code 831(b), Captive, and Private Re-Insurance.

Throughout his years of risk management and tax mitigation services, Roger has helped 100’s of business owners and individuals find solutions to protect their incomes from the wealth-eroding factors of risk and taxes. As the CEO and Director of Operations for 831(b) solutions with Strategic Associates, Roger thrives on providing value using innovative but sound insurance and planning solutions. "Work hard, play harder; and provide opportunities for others to do the same" has been his M.O. during his business life. Roger has been married for 23 years and is the father to 5 wonderful children. He is an avid outdoorsman and loves to spend any spare time he can find either biking, skiing, snowmobiling, or hunting. Life is busy, and a passion for working with other successful business owners has directed his path to tax mitigation, including 831(b) private reinsurance and the extreme value and opportunity it provides to his clients.

Roger owns and sits on the board of 3 successful insurance and consulting firms and is often referred to as the ‘visionary’ within those firms. Growing up in the small town of Paradise, Utah created a foundation of working hard and playing harder, dedication to service and family, all along with finding innovative ways to provide value to those he connects with.

Sean Rogers launched Digital Financial Officers in February 2022. Previously, Sean spent 7 years in the wealth management space providing family office accounting services to top clients and businesses as well as handling the internal finances of the wealth management business.

Steve DeTray started his career in 2004 in wealth management, helping business owners plan for the sale and exit of their business. Steve’s main focus was on income and estate planning that came after the sale of the business. He also helped with the transition to retirement and the challenges of this new unknown season of life ahead. As a lifelong learner and reader, Steve was ideally suited to remain current with the quickly changing, emotional, and complicated environment in which the business owner had to navigate to be successful.

In 2019, Steve sold his extremely successful wealth management practice for below the industry average. He learned from this experience and became very motivated to help others sell their businesses for significantly above the industry averages, and at high multiples. Now as a certified Value Builder Advisor, Steve is an expert at building value and developing a plan for a successful exit using Value Builder’s systematic approach to measure and grow the value of a business. Steve adds extra value by helping businesses take advantage of specialized tax credits and find many types of cost savings. This “hidden money” has provided an average savings of $200,000 for his clients. More than that, he is a skilled facilitator who helps enable businesses to thrive without their owners, thus enabling them to gain back control of their lives or exit their business.

Ted Jenkin is a serial entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of oXYGen Financial (a fully exited 2.2 billion dollar AUM firm) and President of Exit Stage Left Advisors, a sell side M&A firm. Ted is a national television expert and one of the opinion editorial writers for Fox News regularly appearing on Varney & Co. He also appears on News Nation, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Ted has a nationally syndicated entrepreneur television show called The Roadmap on America’s Small Business Network. He is an Amazon best-selling author and has six advanced designations from the College for Financial Planning (CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, AWMA®, AAMS®, CMFC®). Today, Ted owns more than 10 companies and is the proud graduate of The Leadership Atlanta class of 2023.

Mr. Landgraf is an experienced global leader empowering, motivating, and producing lasting change for individuals and organizations. His international experience empowering and changing the lives of many executives, leaders, and organizations in more than 150 nations has increased profits, improved capital, and reduced costs in the tens of billions of dollars with sustainable outcomes.

Mr. Landgraf is a committed and an initiative-taking executive with more than 30 years of global Business, Training, Strategic, Procurement, Finance / Funding, and Leadership experience in many different industries, from minor to Fortune MNCs.

Tim Goering is currently the President of MakingLuck Inc.,. At BNY Mellon, Wealth Management, Tim was Managing Director of Sales for the State of Florida. Nationally, they had over $190 Billion in private client assets and nearly two centuries of experience and perspective. From 2010 – 2014 his Florida team was able to double the assets under management from $2.5 Billion to over $5 Billion.

Tim joined BNY Mellon, the oldest private bank in the country, from what was the newest private bank in the country. As the President of Seaside National Bank & Trust, South Florida Region, his team was able to build 5 branches, hire over 30 people and raise the balance sheet to over $100 million in assets all during the worst banking crisis in recent time. Prior to joining Seaside, Tim worked for GenSpring Family Offices, coordinating new relationships with ultra high net worth families seeking guidance and advice relating to investment management, estate and tax planning and multi-generational wealth planning. During his tenure Tim was instrumental in branding and growing the firm to over 10 times its original size as 1 of 10 sales professionals.

His initial training in Wealth Management came as a Financial Advisor with Bernstein Investment Research and Management, where he developed new high net worth client relationships. Tim also worked in sales with Cordis, Johnson & Johnson selling coronary heart stents.

After earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Oceanography from the United States Naval Academy, Tim began his professional life as an aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps attaining the rank of Major before beginning his civilian career.

Tim is the proud father of two young professionals and the husband of one terrific lady.

To become an accounting expert, Trever completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and received an MBA. Though never interested in the tax and auditing professions of accounting, he began his career in corporate accounting. His accounting career has made him an expert in accounting principles for industry, accounting systems, software training, reconciliation, and financial statements. Trever has mastered accurate accounting reporting for many respective industries. Accounting reporting includes: general ledgers, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, expenses, and chart of accounts. Sub-par accounting, Trever BUCKs THE TREND.