Financial Gravity Companies, Inc.
A publicly traded company—ticker symbol: (OTCQB: FGCO)
Elevating Financial Services Through Common Ownership of Brands That Leverage Symbiotic Advantages
ABOUT Financial Gravity (OTCQB: FGCO)
Founded in 2005, Financial Gravity (OTCQB: FGCO) has evolved into the innovative financial company it is today. Financial Gravity is a parent company that aims to bring together best of breed financial services companies including brokerage, wealth management, estate planning, family office services, risk management, business and personal tax planning, business consulting and financial advisor services. Financial Gravity’s mission is to synergistically bring together companies that create symbiotic advantages.
Pending Transaction
Forta Financial Group, Inc. is a dually registered broker dealer and registered investment advisor with the vast resources necessary to help advisors compete and win. Forta helps advisors achieve their goals and grow their business utilizing four key differentiators — Entrepreneurship, Practice Management, Marketing/Leads, and Financial Innovation.
Sofos is a turnkey asset management program (TAMP) that specializes in providing financial advisors, RIAs and BDs access to institutional managed money through separate account management. Sofos also offers Risk Pilot, a sophisticated hedging strategy for the mass affluent marketplace, typically only available to the ultra-high net worth.
The Tax Master Network is a proprietary SaaS based subscription tool for sophisticated tax planning. It equips CPAs and EAs with the tools, training, knowledge, and network of skilled resources to successfully deliver comprehensive strategic tax services to your clients and become a true tax advisor.
MPath Advisor Services, Inc., is an insurance marketing organization (IMO) dedicated to helping financial advisors and insurance agents access life insurance and annuity offerings. MPath provides tools and resources to help advisors differentiate themselves in a crowded market. In addition, MPath also offers specialized tax planning techniques utilizing insurance products.
FA Mentor is a high-end consulting service licensed to Financial Gravity, dedicated to helping financial institutions and financial advisors achieve massive and sustainable growth. Most Financial Advisors fail to run their practice like a business and consequently never live up to their full potential. FA Mentor helps you apply the proprietary Quantum Leap Success Model to achieve massive and sustainable growth in your business.
Pending Transaction
Forta Financial Group, Inc. is a dually registered broker dealer and registered investment advisor with the vast resources necessary to help advisors compete and win. Forta helps advisors achieve their goals and grow their business utilizing four key differentiators — Entrepreneurship, Practice Management, Marketing/Leads, and Financial Innovation.
Sofos is a turnkey asset management program (TAMP) that specializes in providing financial advisors, RIAs and BDs access to institutional managed money through separate account management. Sofos also offers Risk Pilot, a sophisticated hedging strategy for the mass affluent marketplace, typically only available to the ultra-high net worth.
The Tax Master Network is a proprietary SaaS based subscription tool for sophisticated tax planning. It equips CPAs and EAs with the tools, training, knowledge, and network of skilled resources to successfully deliver comprehensive strategic tax services to your clients and become a true tax advisor.
MPath Advisor Services, Inc is an insurance marketing organization (IMO) dedicated to helping financial advisors and insurance agents access life insurance and annuity offerings. MPath provides tools and resources to help advisors differentiate themselves in a crowded market. In addition, MPath also offers specialized tax planning techniques utilizing insurance products.
FA Mentor is a high-end consulting service licensed to Financial Gravity, dedicated to helping financial institutions and financial advisors achieve massive and sustainable growth. Most Financial Advisors fail to run their practice like a business and consequently never live up to their full potential. FA Mentor helps you apply the proprietary Quantum Leap Success Model to achieve massive and sustainable growth in your business.
Leadership Team
Scott winters
CEO – FGCO
Co-Chairman, Board of Directors
Scott Winters has had a successful multi-decade career in the financial services industry as a top financial advisor, manager and executive. Notable accomplishments are that he built a wealth management business from zero to over two billion in assets managed across over 20,000 clients. He co-founded, built and sold one of the fastest growing wealth management businesses in America (according to Forbes). As a CEO he has managed and inspired hundreds of employees. Scott is a widely recognized speaker, author, entrepreneur, and leader. He has mentored, managed, or trained thousands of financial advisors and helped them achieve greater success. Scott has continuously rewritten the book on the use of technology and practice management disciplines to help achieve massive and sustainable business growth. He is an active board member for several companies and an angel investor. Scott has a BA in Business Economics from San Diego State University. Scott holds the following licenses, series 7, 24, 63, 65 and Texas life & Health. He is also a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, CRPC®.
Paul Williams
CFO – FGCO
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors
Paul Williams is CFO of Financial Gravity and has over 30 years of business experience primarily in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Williams has served as the Chairman, CEO or CFO of numerous companies operating in various industries, both domestic and international, including two publicly traded companies. Mr. Williams is heavily involved in local, state and national civic affairs and was appointed to three terms on the Board of Texas Economic Development Council in Austin. In 2009, he was awarded the CFO of the Year Award by the Dallas Business Journal. In 2007, he served as the Chairman of the Board for the Frisco Chamber of Commerce and still serves on their Board and Executive Committee. Mr. Williams graduated from Austin College in Sherman with a double major in Economics and Business Administration and graduated from the Institute of Organization Management.
Jennifer Winters
Executive Vice President – FGCO
Board of Directors
Jennifer Winters is an Executive Vice President at Financial Gravity (OTCQB: FGCO). She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Financial Gravity. In addition, she holds EVP roles at several Financial Gravity companies including Forta Financial Group, Sofos Investments, MPath Advisor Services, Tax Master Network and FA-Mentor.
She was previously a Co-Founder and Board Member of one of the fastest growing Turnkey Asset Management Platforms in America. She was instrumental in helping improve the advisor experience on all levels, including nine years as Chief Compliance Officer working with the SEC, FINRA, in addition to hundreds of BDs and RIAs. She has over 25 years of experience in financial services compliance, operations, and technology. She holds a BA degree from Lewis University. Jennifer is currently a member of the American Business Women’s Association (ABWA), the International Association of Women (IAW), the Network of Executive Women (NEW) and the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE).
William R. Nelson, Ph.D
CEO – Sofos Investments
Board of Directors
Dr. William R. Nelson is an expert in asset management and the associated technology. As the Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of EQIS Capital Management, Inc. for over a decade, he was instrumental in the development of technology including their proposal generation system, reporting system, and Mutual Fund Stress test. He also oversaw the due diligence of outside money managers and was the primary manager of the EQIS portfolios.
Dr. Nelson’s acclaimed original research has been published in the American Economic Review, De Paul Journal of Health Care Law, The International Conference on Information Technology ITCC 2004 Proceedings, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Latin American Finance and Capital Markets, the Latin American Law and Business Report, and Public Choice, among others. He also co-authored Mutual Funds Exposed, an Amazon Best Seller, with Dr. Kenneth A. Kim.
Dr. Nelson’s broad range of academic excellence and industry experience set him apart from most investment professionals. Few have like him started at a wirehouse, floor traded futures on the Chicago Board of Trade, earned a Ph.D. (economics from George Mason University), published in top economics journals, founded a company, designed software, performed due diligence on hundreds of money managers, simultaneously managed several dozen separately managed account strategies, and overseen over $2 billion in assets. These experiences along with an inherently critical yet creative mind allow him to provide a divergent and often useful perspective.
JOhn Pollock
CEO – mpath Advisor Resources
Co-Chairman, Board of Directors
John Pollock doesn’t just talk about entrepreneurship – he lives it. John is also disrupting industry standards – for the better. After seeing the lack of integrated advice for business owners across tax planning, financial services and business strategy, he created the first national tax firm specifically designed to help entrepreneurs reduce their personal tax liability by an average of $21,000.
He is a frequent contributor to various media outlets, including Fox Radio Network, Forbes, Amex OPEN Forum, and WFAA Channel 8. He’s also the host of Financial Gravity Radio Show, a weekly show on AM 660 in Dallas, Texas, focused on proactive tax planning and growth strategies for small business owners.
As an author and speaker, John has delivered keynotes and workshops to over 500 organizations and conferences for small business owners and financial advisors.
Ed Lyon, J.D.
CEO – Tax Master Network
Board of Directors
Ed Lyon earned his Bachelor’s from Hamilton College and his JD from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. He has nearly three decades experience in the tax and financial services industries, where he focuses on helping business owners take advantage of the tax code’s legal “green lights” to pay less. He’s the founder and CEO of the Tax Master Network (previously TaxCoach Software) and currently serves as Chief Tax Strategist for Financial Gravity companies and Presidential Wealth Management.
Ed is the author of nearly a dozen books on taxes and tax planning. Ed writes two weekly tax columns for over 100,000 tax professionals and their clients, making him the most widely-read tax strategist in the country. He’s the creator of the Certified Tax Master® program and the Green Light Academy, and speaks regularly to audiences of tax professionals and business owners. He’s appeared on over 500 television and radio broadcasts, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and even The Roseanne Barr Show, which dubbed him “the funniest tax guy in America.”
Brandon Stuerke
Chief Marketing Officer — FCGO
Brandon Stuerke is a visionary in the financial services industry and the creator of Automated Advisor, the modern marketing solution revolutionizing the marketing process for financial advisors. A successful author, sought-after speaker and top-tier advisor, Brandon knows what it takes to dramatically grow an advisory practice.
Brandon got his start in the financial services industry in 2000 when he worked for a property and casualty firm before taking a position with MetLife, where he learned the mechanics of the financial services profession. In early 2006 he started his own firm, Golden Financial Group, LLC, to bring comprehensive financial services to pre-retirees and retirees in his home state of Missouri. As an independent advisor with great drive and tenacity to graow his firm, Brandon quickly became frustrated with the lack of results that standard marketing practices yielded, and began experimenting with innovative strategies that brought him unprecedented success.
After experiencing first hand the growth that could be achieved through these cutting-edge strategies, Brandon decided to share his new approaches with his fellow advisors. The first marketing program he developed, Winning With CPAs, set a new industry standard for center-of-influence referral marketing. Brandon then decided to tackle the Achilles’ heel of the average financial advisor: digital marketing. Through Automated Advisor, Brandon has revolutionized lead generation, lead nurturing, content marketing and more, giving the average advisor access to a state-of-the-art turnkey program that combines the industry’s best practices into one headache-free, time-saving business tool.
Brandon Stuerke is a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor℠, life and health insurance licensed and is president of Golden Financial Group and Advisors Edge Marketing. He has been invited to present at a number of premier industry events, including Ed Slott conferences and the Senior Market Advisor Expo. Brandon and his marketing solutions have been featured in numerous national and industry publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Life Insurance Selling, Senior Market Advisor and NAIFA’s Advisor Today, and he writes a weekly blog for financial advisors on LifeHealthPro.com.
Gary Nemer
Chief Legal Council — FCGO
Gary Nemer was the Chief Financial Officer of Buchalter Nemer and served on the executive committee from 1990 to 2000. While there he had a broad commercial practice in all aspects of corporate finance law, including credit restructuring, dispute resolution, settlement structuring, and transactional corporate and real estate matters. His representative matters included the restructuring of a $50 million real estate obligation, participation in long term lease renegotiations, structuring multi-borrower/multi-state credit facilities, consulting on business issues regarding bank operations issues, supervising litigation in connection with a multi-million dollar scheme and the recovery of $20 million diverted from a financial institution. He is an investor in EQIS and from 2013 until 2017 held various administrative positions within the company. He has also served as corporate counsel and acting CEO of a high-tech telecommunications company. Gary is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Gary holds a BA from University of California Los Angeles and a JD from the University of Southern California.