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<strong>Candura</strong> @ Group<br />
Dan <strong>Candura</strong>, CFp®provides financial advice and education to<br />
consumers and financial professionals. He is founder of his own<br />
education and consulting firm <strong>Candura</strong> Group, LLC.In that role he<br />
provides ethics training across the United States through in-person courses<br />
and webinars. As President of PennyTree Advisers. LLC,a Registered<br />
Investment Advisory firm in Massachusetts, Dan provides personal financial<br />
planning for consumers, financial education counseling to employees in<br />
workplace settings and litigation support and forensic financial analysis services<br />
for attorneys. Dan teaches financial planning, insurance planning and retirement<br />
planning in the Sawyer School of Business at Suffolk University in Boston and is<br />
also a FINRAarbitrator. In 2010, CFPBoard named Dan as the CFp®Ambassador for<br />
the Boston area - one of just seven ambassadors nationwide.<br />
Previously Dan provided leadership to the registered representatives of ING<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> Advisers LLCin New England. Earlier, he operated a professional<br />
financial planning practice south of Boston after serving as Vice President,<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> Quality, in the <strong>Financial</strong> Advisory Services Group of<br />
American Express <strong>Financial</strong> Advisors in Minneapolis, MN.<br />
Dan appeared as a featured expert on the 2008 PBSdocumentary<br />
Retirement Revolution airing nationally. He has been profiled in The<br />
Journal of <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong>, Wealth Manager and Ticker. He has<br />
been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, Investment<br />
News, TheJournal of <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong>, Wealth Manager and<br />
other publications. A dynamic and engaging speaker, he<br />
presented hundreds of seminars and workshops across the<br />
country on topics ranging from the basics of financial planning<br />
to the future of quality within the financial services industry.<br />
Dan served on the Board of Directors of The<br />
Certified <strong>Financial</strong> Planner Board of<br />
Standards, Inc. from 2004 through 2008<br />
and is a past Chair of the Board of<br />
Professional Review. He chaired the Task<br />
Force on CE& Competency for CFPBoard.<br />
He is a member of the <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> and a NAPFA-Registered<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> Advisor. He was a founding<br />
member and Co-Chair of the Sales and<br />
Marketing Quality Council of The Conference<br />
Board.<br />
A 1971 graduate of Stonehill College, Dan<br />
entered financial services after a career as an<br />
educator and administrator. He earned a<br />
Masters Degree from Bridgewater State College in 1975 and·<br />
received his certification as a CERTIFIEDFINANCIAL PLANNEW M in<br />
1987.
Don Blandin, President and CEO, Investor Protection Trust (lPT)<br />
Don Blandin, president and CEO of the Investor Protection Trust<br />
(IPT) and the Investor Protection Institute (IPI), has worked in and<br />
with a wide variety .of sectors, including business and industry;<br />
nonprofit; academia and philanthropic foundations; and federal, state<br />
and local government, both in the U.S. and globally. Don has been<br />
building coalitions and partnerships for more than three decades.<br />
Don Blandin was appointed president and CEO of the Investor<br />
Protection Trust (IPT), a nonprofit organization devoted to investor<br />
education, in 2004. Founded in 1993, The Investor Protection Trust<br />
works both nationwide and on a grassroots level to provide<br />
independent objective investor education needed by all Americans to make informed investment<br />
decisions.<br />
As president of IPT, Don works frequently with state securities regulators on programs to help<br />
Americans of all ages become wise and safe investors. Don's achievements at IPT over the past<br />
six years include: sponsorship ofthe "Personal Finance Guide for Military Families;" the recent<br />
Elder Investment Fraud and <strong>Financial</strong> Exploitation Prevention Program, in partnership with<br />
North American Securities Administrators <strong>Association</strong> (NASAA) and the <strong>National</strong> Adult<br />
Protective Services <strong>Association</strong> (NAPSA); the Investor Education in Your Community®<br />
program; the national MoneyTrack public television series; The Campaign for Wise and Safe<br />
Investing® in partnership with the AARP Foundation, and "The Basics of Saving and Investing:<br />
Investor Education 2020."<br />
Recent awards bestowed -on Don include the 2011 BBB International Torch Award for<br />
Consumer Leadership from the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the 2010 Heart of<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> Award from the <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
Prior to assuming his .current leadership role at IPT, Don was president of the American Savings<br />
Education Council (ASEC). While at ASEC from 1996 to 2004, he undertook multiple initiatives<br />
to raise public awareness regarding what it takes to instill long-term personal financial<br />
independence.<br />
Don was an appointed a delegate to both the 1998 and 2002 White House/Congressional<br />
<strong>National</strong> Summits on Retirement Savings, hosted by the President and Congressional leaders.<br />
Don is a founding member and the first national director of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national<br />
honorary society for public administration.<br />
Don Blandin holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from California State University, East<br />
Bay, and a Master of Public Administration degree from The American University in<br />
Washington, DC. Don and his wife, Nanette, reside in Washington, DC. They have a son,<br />
Devon, and daughter, Sara.<br />
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Shelly L. Jackson, Ph.D.<br />
Jackson 1<br />
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, P.O. Box 800660, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA<br />
22907-0660, phone: 434/924-8309, fax: 434/924-5788, email: slj4u@virginia.edu<br />
EMPLOYMENT<br />
2005 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of<br />
Virginia.<br />
2003 - Present: Director of Grants and Program Development, Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy,<br />
University of Virginia; Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia.<br />
2000 - 2003: Social Science Analyst, Violence and Victimization Division, Office of Research and Evaluation,<br />
<strong>National</strong> Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice.<br />
EDUCATION<br />
American <strong>Association</strong> for the Advancement of Science {AAAS Member, 1998-1999}.<br />
Society for Research in Child Development Executive Branch Policy Fellowship {1998-1999}, <strong>National</strong><br />
Institute of Justice. Funded by the <strong>National</strong> Institute of Justice.<br />
Masters of Legal Studies {M.L.S.} {1998}: Psychology and Law Program, University of Nebraska College of<br />
Law, University of Nebraska - Lincoln.<br />
<strong>National</strong> Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship {1996-1998}. Psychology and Law Program,<br />
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, in conjunction with the UNL Center on Children,<br />
Families and the Law.<br />
Ph.D. {1996}: Developmental/Experimental Psychology. Department of Psychology, University of Vermont.<br />
M.S. (1992): Applied Developmenta1Psychology. Department of Psychology, Portland State University.<br />
B.S. {1987}: Psychology Major/Business Minor. Rutgers University.<br />
REFEREED PUBLICA TlONS<br />
Jackson, S.L., & Hafemeister, T.L. {under review}. Elder financial exploitation vs. hybrid financial exploitation<br />
co-occurring with physical abuse and/or neglect. Submitted to Psychology of Violence.<br />
Komarovskaya, I., Loper, A.B., Jackson, S.L., & Warren, J.I. {under review}. Trauma, violence, and<br />
revictimization in a sample of incarcerated men and women. Submitted to Journal of Forensic Mental<br />
Health.<br />
Jackson, S. L., & Hafemeister, T. L. {under review}. APS investigation across four types of elder maltreatment.<br />
Submitted to the Journal of Adult Protection.<br />
Jackson, S. L., & Hafemeister, T. L. {in press}. Risk factors associated with the abuse of elderly persons: The<br />
importance of differentiating by type of elder maltreatment. Violence and Victims.
Jackson 2<br />
Jackson, S. L., & Hafemeister, T. L. (in press). How do elderly persons who have been abused and the APS<br />
caseworkers who handle their cases view law enforcement involvement and criminal prosecution and what<br />
impact do these views have on the processing of these cases? Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect.<br />
Komarovskaya, I., Loper, A.B., Warren,J.I., & Jackson, S.L., (in press). Exploring gender differences in trauma<br />
exposure and the emergence of symptoms of PTSDamong incarcerated men and women. Journal of<br />
Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology.<br />
Jackson, S.L., & Bonnie, R. J. (2011). A systematic examination of smoke-free policies in multiunit dwellings<br />
in Virginia as reported by property managers: Implications for prevention. American Journal of Health<br />
Promotion, 26(1l, 37-44.<br />
Jackson, S. L., & Hafemeister, T. L. (August, 2010). <strong>Financial</strong> abuse of elderly people vs. other forms of elder<br />
abuse: Assessing their dynamics; risk factors, and society'sresponse. Final-Report submittedto the <strong>National</strong><br />
Institute of Justice. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/233613.pdf<br />
Warren, J.I., Jackson, S.L., Loper, A.B., & Burnett, M.L. (May, 2010). Risk markers for sexual predation and<br />
victimization in prison. Final Report submitted to the <strong>National</strong> Institute of Justice.<br />
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/230522.pdf<br />
Jackson, S. (2004). A USA national survey of program services provided by Child Advocacy Centers. Child<br />
Abuse and Neglect, 28,411-421.<br />
Jackson, S. (July, 2004). A resource for evaluating Child Advocacy Centers. Washington, D.C.: <strong>National</strong><br />
Institute of Justice. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/192825.pdf<br />
Haferneister, Thomas L., &Jackson,S~ (2003). The effectiveness of sanctions and law enforcement practices<br />
targeted at youth alcohol possession and consumption. In Institute of Medicine's Developing A Strategy to<br />
Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Medicine.<br />
Fondacaro, M. R., Jackson, S. L., & Luescher, J. (2002). Toward the assessment of procedural and distributive<br />
justice in resolving family disputes. Social Justice Research, 15,341-371.<br />
Jackson, S., & Hafemeister, T. L. (2001). Parental consent and notification policies: The impact of policies on<br />
the decisions of adolescents to be HIV tested. Journal of Adolescent Health, 29(2), 81-93.<br />
Jackson, S., & Crockenberg, S. (1999). A comparison of suggestibility in four-year-old girls in response to<br />
parental or stranger misinformation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 19(4), 527-542.<br />
Jackson, S., & Fondacaro, M. (1999}.Procedural justice in resolving.farnilv conflict: Implications for youth<br />
violence prevention. Law & Policy Special issue: The legal and psychosocial context of family violence, 21(2)'<br />
101-127.<br />
Fondacaro, M., & Jackson, S. (1999). The legal and psychosocial context of family violence: Toward a social<br />
ecological analysis. Law & Policy Special Issue: The legal and psychosocial context of family violence, 21(2),<br />
91-100.
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Jackson, S., Thompson, R. A., Christiansen, E., Wyatt, J., Colman, R., Wilcox, B., Buchandahl, c., & Peterson,<br />
R. (1999). Predicting abuse-prone parental attitudes and discipline practices in a nationally representative<br />
sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 23(1),15-29.<br />
Thompson, R. A., Christiansen, E., Jackson, S., Colman, R., Wyatt, J., Wilcox, B., Buchandahl, c., & Peterson,<br />
R. (1999). Parent attitudes and discipline practices: Profiles and correlates in a nationally representative<br />
sample. Child Maltreatment. 4(4), 316-330.<br />
Thompson, R. A., & Jackson, S. (1998). Ethical dimensions of child memory research. Applied Cognitive<br />
Psychology, 12(3), 218-224.<br />
Crockenberg, S., Jackson, S., & Langrock, A. (1996). Autonomy and goal attainment: Parenting, gender, and<br />
children's social competence. In M. Killen (Ed.), New Directions in Child Development: Children=s autonomy,<br />
social competence, and interactions-with adults and otherchildren: Expioringronnections and<br />
consequences (Vol. 73) (pp. 41-55). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.<br />
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS<br />
Warren, J.I.,& Jackson, S.L.(undercontract, due February, 2012). Riskmarkers for sexual victimization and<br />
predation in prison. International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health series. New York, NY: Routledge.<br />
Warren, J.I., & Jackson, S.L. (under review). Personality Disorders.<br />
Brownstein, H.H._,Zahn, M.A., & Jackson, S.L.(2004). Introduction. In M.A. Zahn, H.H. Brownstein, & S.L.<br />
Jackson (eds.), Violence: From Theory to Research. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis/Anderson.<br />
Jackson, S.L., Zahn, M.A., & Brownstein, H.H. (2004). The need for a theory of violence. In M.A. Zahn, H.H.<br />
Brownstein, & S.L. Jackson (eds.), Violence: From Theory to Research. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis/Anderson.<br />
Zahn, M.A., Brownstein, H.H., & S.L. Jackson (eds.) (2004). Violence: From Theory to Research. Newark, NJ:<br />
LexisNexis/ Anderson.<br />
COURSES TAUGHT<br />
Family Violence Across the Lifespan, University of Virginia<br />
Personality Psychology, University of Virginia<br />
Psychology and Law as it Relates to Children and Adolescents. University of Nebraska-Lincoln<br />
Developmental Psychology. University of Vermont<br />
Cognitive-Development. University of Vermont
Theodore A. Miles<br />
Associate Commissioner, Securities<br />
D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking<br />
Mr. Miles has been the Associate Commissioner, Securities Bureau, in the Department of<br />
Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) since July of 2000. During Mr. Miles' tenure<br />
in that position, he has provided leadership in the field of securities regulation, both in<br />
Washington, DC and nationally. After enactment of the Securities Act of2000, Mr.<br />
Miles reorganized the Securities Bureau to include, for the first time, an Examinations<br />
Division and a Corporation Finance Division, to carry out the new legislation. From 2005<br />
to 2007, Mr. Miles was the Chair of the Investment Adviser Section Committee of<br />
NASAA. He has just rejoined that Committee. From 2007 to 2011, he was a member of<br />
NASAA's Investor Education Section Committee. Since 2008, he has been a member of<br />
NASAA's Legal Services Committee.<br />
Mr. Miles came to DISB from the <strong>National</strong> Science Foundation, where he was the<br />
Deputy General Counsel. Immediately prior to going to the <strong>National</strong> Science<br />
Foundation, he was Vice President for Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary of <strong>National</strong><br />
Public Radio. Mr. Miles has also held senior legal positions at the Securities and<br />
Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, Mr. Miles taught<br />
Corporations and other securities-related courses at Howard University School of Law<br />
for more than twenty years. Mr. Miles has been a speaker on Securities subjects at the<br />
ABA, the District of Columbia Bar, and other organizations. He is a former member of<br />
the Administrative Conference of the United States and has been a volunteer mediator<br />
with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.<br />
Mr. Miles is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and a graduate of Harvard<br />
College and Howard University School of Law. A lifelong resident of Washington, DC,<br />
Mr. Miles is married to Dr. Carlotta G. Miles; they have three grown children and four<br />
grandchildren.
Karen A. Roberto, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Center for Gerontology and the<br />
Institute for Society, Culture and Environment at Virginia Tech. She also holds adjunct<br />
appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and<br />
Behavioral Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Her research program<br />
focuses on the intersection of health and social support in late life and includes studies of the<br />
daily lives of rural older women with chronic health conditions, family relationships and<br />
care giving, and elder abuse. She is the author of over 150 scholarly articles and book chapters<br />
and the editor/author of ten books. Dr. Roberto has served as chair of the Behavioral and Social<br />
Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America, and is a fellow of the Gerontological<br />
Society of America, the <strong>Association</strong> for Gerontology in Higher Education, the <strong>National</strong> Council<br />
on Family Relations, and the World Demographic <strong>Association</strong>. She is a recipient of the Gordon<br />
Streib Academic Gerontologist Award from the Southern Gerontological Society and the<br />
Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Excellence in Research.
BETH SHAPIRO KAUFMAN<br />
Beth Shapiro Kaufman is a member in the Washington D.C. law firm of Caplin &<br />
Drysdale, practicing in the areas of estate planning, estate, gift and generation-skipping tax, and<br />
income taxation of trusts and estates. At Caplin & Drysdale, Ms. Kaufman assists wealthy<br />
individuals with their estate planning and tax controversies. She also advises lawyers and other<br />
professionals on complex issues regarding estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes in<br />
both planning and audit contexts. She is frequently retained by counsel to advocate a taxpayer's<br />
position before the Internal Revenue Service, and has been particularly active in obtaining relief<br />
for failed generation-skipping transfer tax exemption allocations. From 1995 to 2001, Ms.<br />
Kaufman was an Associate Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of<br />
Tax Policy. In that capacity, she was responsible for estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer<br />
tax issues, as well as income tax issues relating to trusts and estates. Ms. Kaufman is a Fellow of<br />
the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She was named the 2008 Top Washington<br />
Lawyer in Trusts and Estates by the Washington Business Journal, as well as appearing in the list<br />
of The Best Lawyers in America, SuperZawyers, and Washingtonian magazine's top lawyers. Ms.<br />
Kaufman received her B.A. from Pomona College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where<br />
she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.<br />
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Brent Burns is President and Founding Partner of Asset Dedication, LLC. Brent's deep<br />
background in empirical finance formed the basis for Asset Dedication's modeling and<br />
analysis. His work with Asset Dedication began more than a decade ago at the<br />
University of San Francisco, where he partnered with co-founder Professor Stephen<br />
Huxley to study portfolio performance and the impact of withdrawal rates, inflation, and<br />
market conditions.<br />
Brent is the co-author of Asset Dedication: How to Grow Wealthy with the Next<br />
Generation of Asset Allocation (McGraw-Hili, 2005). He holds an MBA from the<br />
University of San Francisco, and is also a former world-class track and field athlete. He<br />
was a member of the U.S. <strong>National</strong> Track and Field Team in 1994 and three-time finalist<br />
at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the pole vault.
Gregory R. Valliere - Chief Political Strategist<br />
With over 30 years of experience in covering Washington for institutional investors, Greg Valliere<br />
coordinates political and economic research. He focuses on how Congress and the White House shape<br />
fiscal policies and monitors the Federal Reserve Board's interest rate policies. Prior to joining Potomac<br />
Research, Mr. Valliere served as Chief Policy Strategist for Solei! Securities Corporation. He previously<br />
held key strategy roles at Charles Schwab's Wa~hington Research Group and The Washington Forum.<br />
Mr. Valliere co-founded The Washington Forum in 1974, serving as Chief Political Analyst and editor of<br />
the group's publications, and ultimately as Research Director. He began his career in 1972 at "F-D-C"<br />
reports, a trade publication monitoring the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Valliere earned his bachelors<br />
degree in Journalism from The George Washington University. He is an exclusive commentator for<br />
CNBC,appearing regularly on network programs such as "Squawk Box," "Power Lunch," "The Closing<br />
Bell," and "Kudlow & Company."
Paul H. Auslander, CFP@<br />
American <strong>Financial</strong> Advisors, Inc.<br />
Chairman &. CEO<br />
Orlando, Fla.<br />
Paul.Auslander@FPAnet.org<br />
Paul Auslander, CFp@,currently serves as volunteer president for the 24,000-<br />
member <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> Assoctatlon" (FPA@).<br />
Auslander is chairman and CEO of American <strong>Financial</strong> Advisors, Inc. in Orlando,<br />
Fla., as well as a registered representative with Foothills Securities.<br />
Auslander has been a FPAmember since 1996 and has held numerous leadership<br />
roles with FPAincluding serving as president of FPAof Central Florida, and board<br />
member and symposium chair of FPAof Florida. Auslander's other volunteer service<br />
includes being appointed by the state of Florida's Chief <strong>Financial</strong> Officer to serve on<br />
the nine-person <strong>Financial</strong> Literacy Council. Additionally, he was appointed to the<br />
Advisors Council of the Community Foundation of Central Florida.<br />
Auslander attended the University of Kentucky and Columbia University, and earned<br />
his Certified <strong>Financial</strong> Planner designation in 1987.
Retiree Income Management<br />
William Meyer<br />
Founder, Managing Principal<br />
Throughout his career, William Meyer has looked for new ways to deliver higher quality advice to people in<br />
retirement. He has a unique combination of experiences in leading the design and launch of innovative client centric<br />
services and products, as we" as leveraging technology in service offerings.<br />
Early in Bill's career, he learned financial planning techniques for the affluent, and has strived to apply those insights<br />
to a" households regardless of wealth. He has a track record of successfully developing products and services in<br />
executive leadership roles at H&R Block, Advisor Software, and Charles Schwab.<br />
He has an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School and is a Trustee of the Securities Industry Institute at Wharton.
John L. Olsen, CLU, ChFC, AEP is a financial advisor and estate planner practicing in St.<br />
Louis County, Missouri.<br />
John graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia, in 1968, with a B.A in<br />
history. He holds the Chartered Life Underwriter (1983) and the Chartered <strong>Financial</strong><br />
Consultant (1985)designations from the American College. John completed the two-year<br />
i.'t course in personal and business life insurance offered by the Life Underwriters Training<br />
Council (LUTC) in 1975, and the one-year Advanced Sales course in 1979. In 2004, he<br />
received the designation of" Accredited Estate Planner" (AEP) from the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
of Estate Planners & Councils.<br />
John joined the financial services industry in 1973. He has worked for several insurance<br />
. companies as an insurance agent, sales manager, Agency Director of Training; and<br />
Regional Marketing and Sales Consultant In 1987, he left management to form his own<br />
firm, Olsen <strong>Financial</strong> Group, of which he remains President. In 2010,John formed, with co-author Jack Marrion, Olsen<br />
& Marrion, LLC. This firm publishes and markets their book Index Annuities: A Suitable Approach.<br />
John has written and taught courses in insurance, financial, and estate planning and conducted seminars for agents,<br />
planners, and lay audiences. In addition to serving his own clients, John provides case consulting services to<br />
attorneys, accountants, insurance agents, and financial advisors, and provides expert witness services in litigation<br />
involving annuities and investment products. He is a Past President of the St. Louis chapter of the <strong>National</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> of Insurance and <strong>Financial</strong> Advisors (NAIFA), serves on the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Estate<br />
<strong>Planning</strong> Council, on the Continuing Education Advisory Board of the American Academy of Estate <strong>Planning</strong><br />
Attorneys, and is a former Director of the St. Louis chapter of the Society of <strong>Financial</strong> Services Professionals.<br />
John has written articles on life insurance, annuities, planning software, and financial & estate planning topics for<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong>, The Journal of <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong>, Investment Advisor, Life Insurance Selling, Broker World, On Wall<br />
Street Planned Giving Today, the Journal of the Society of FSP, <strong>National</strong> Undenariter, the quarterly newsletters for the<br />
Estate <strong>Planning</strong> and Retirement & Employee Benefit <strong>Planning</strong> Sections of the Society of <strong>Financial</strong> Services Professionals,<br />
and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,Investment Advisor, Money, Time, Barron's, Investment News,<br />
On Wall St., and other publications. John has appeared in several of the Society of <strong>Financial</strong> Service Professionals'<br />
nationally distributed video teleconferences (VTCs),audioconferences, and podcasts. In 2010,John was named to the<br />
Editorial Advisory Board of Tax Facts, a tax reference work widely respected and used in -the financial services<br />
industry. He edited the questions relating to annuities in the 2011 edition.<br />
In 2009, John completed, with co-author Michael E. Kitces, the second revised edition ofThe Annuity Advisor, a book<br />
for professional advisors published by The <strong>National</strong> Underwriter Company. His article, "Annuities and Suitability:<br />
Reflections on the State of the Debate", appearing in the Nov, 2006 issue of the Journal of <strong>Financial</strong> Service Professionals,<br />
won the First Place prize in the 2006 Kenneth Black, Jr. Journal Author Award Program. John is co-author, with Jack<br />
Marrion, of Index Annuities: A Suitable Approach, published in 2011 by their firm, Olsen & Marrion, LLC<br />
(www.indexannuitybook.com).In 2011, John was awarded the Paul S. Mills Scholarship by the Foundation for<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> Service Professionals, an award established to recognize the conferee's demonstrated commitment to<br />
lifelong education, volunteerism, and ethical practice. He is currently working on a new book, on taxation and<br />
suitability of annuities, for professional advisors.<br />
John is a sought-after speaker, having given presentations to chapters of the <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Association</strong>, the<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Association</strong> of Insurance and <strong>Financial</strong> Advisors, and the Society of <strong>Financial</strong> Services Professionals, to<br />
several Estate <strong>Planning</strong> Councils, the Missouri Society of CPAs, the Southern California Tax & Estate <strong>Planning</strong> Forum,<br />
the American Academy of Estate <strong>Planning</strong> Attorneys, several national conventions of the <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Association</strong>,<br />
and the national conventions and "Arizona Institute" of the Society of <strong>Financial</strong> Services Professionals.<br />
John lives in Kirkwood, Missouri with his wife, Katherine. He enjoys reading and playing guitar, arguing almost<br />
anything, is an adequate pistol shot, and a terrible golfer. John can be reached at: 131 Hollywood Lane / Kirkwood,<br />
MO 63122/ voice: 314-909-8818/ FAX:314-909-7912/ email: jolsen02@earthlink.net
Melissa Beck Hamidi<br />
Vice President, Field Operations<br />
Melissa Beck-Hamidi joined LivHOME in 2002 as a Care Manager in<br />
the Newport Beach office. Melissa first joined LivHOME as a<br />
professional Care Manager in the de novo Newport Beach, CA office.<br />
During her corporate tenure, Melissa has led the successful start-up<br />
and implementation of 8 locations, and continues to grow their<br />
nationwide presence through Franchise sales.<br />
Prior to joining LivHOME, Melissa spent 10 years working in the<br />
Continuous Care Retirement setting of southern California, where she<br />
earned her Nursing Home Administrator's license. During this time<br />
Melissa partnered with an elite team of Medical Director's building the<br />
facility's reputation for exceHence in orthopedic rehabilitation, and<br />
dementia care. This allowed her to gain a deep knowledge of the<br />
geriatric population, and fueled her continued passion for serving older<br />
adults.<br />
Prior to her role as Vice President, Melissa's career experience<br />
include positions held as Director of Social Services, Skilled Nursing<br />
Administrator and Geriatric Care Manager.<br />
Melissa earned her degree in Business Health Administration from the<br />
University of California, Riverside and is certified in the Eden<br />
Alternative.<br />
Melissa is active in a number of professional organizations including:<br />
• Alzheimer's <strong>Association</strong> Partnership<br />
• American Society on Aging<br />
Melissa can be reached at (781) 41 &-2000 or by email at<br />
mbhamidi@livhome.com.
STEVE STARNES<br />
Steve is a financial planner at the Monitor Group, Inc. in McLean VA. He is involved in all aspects of<br />
integrated wealth management, including estate planning, tax planning and preparation, investment<br />
management, philanthropic giving and other complex financial issues. Steve specializes in working with<br />
clients with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Steve has a professional contribution published in<br />
the Journal of <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> and speaks regularly about diminished financial capacity caused by<br />
dementia.<br />
Steve graduated with bachelor's degrees in Economics and Aerospace Engineering from the University of<br />
Michigan. In 2010 he received his MBA from University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.