AJ Ayers, CFP®, EA, CEP
Co-Founder, Brooklyn FI
AJ Ayers is an Enrolled Agent, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, and Certified Equity Professional. She's the co-founder of Brooklyn FI. As a writer and editor with a strong background in communications, AJ builds frameworks for delivering complex tax advice around equity compensation to clients. She's one of the only CFPs in the country to also hold the Certified Equity Professional designation and brings an unparalleled understanding of company stock plans to Brooklyn FI. AJ's path to entrepreneurship began with a financial advice podcast and currently finds her at the helm of a young company experiencing explosive growth and making a huge impact on the lives of clients.
Beata Dragovics, MSFP®, CFP®, CEP
Founder, Freedom Trail Financial
Beata Dragovics is the founder of Freedom Trail Financial, an independent wealth management firm that offers comprehensive, holistic financial planning and investment management. Freedom Trail Financial works with biotech professionals, women clients and families and specializes in helping clients enhancing their equity compensation strategies as part of a comprehensive plan. As the principal and a financial advisor at Freedom Trail Financial, Beata is a continuous resource to her clients in times of change. She helps clients think differently about their future, clarify their goals, and see how financial planning can be in alignment with their personal values and lives. Beata holds the FINRA Series 7 and 66 securities registrations (through Commonwealth Financial Network) and she is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner. She earned her bachelor's degree in business management from the Budapest Business School and her master's degree in financial planning from the College of Financial Planning.
Arthur Meyers
Founder and Attorney, Meyers Law Firm PLLC
Art Meyers is an attorney and the founder of Meyers Law Firm PLLC. He focuses on the corporate, employment, tax and securities law aspects of executive employment, severance and change in control agreements as well on equity compensation and retirement plan matters. He brings decades of large law firm partner experience to an approachable small law firm setting. Art provides understandable, cost-effective, and bespoke solutions to complex executive compensation matters. Art acts as US counsel for many of London’s top law firms and their international clients to “Americanize” global share schemes. He authors the US Chapter of the Legal 500 Employee Incentives Comparative Guide. Art is a current member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP). He is also an advisory board member of myStockOptions.com and an advisory committee member of the Southeastern Chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance. Art is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA and Legal 500. He graduated from The University of Michigan Law School. Art’s speaking engagements include conferences for the Certified Equity Professional Institute, Charles Schwab, Computershare, Equilar, E*TRADE, Fidelity, Financial Executives International, the Global Equity Organization, Morgan Stanley, NASPP, and the Society for Corporate Governance.
Bruce Brumberg, JD
Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, myStockOptions
Bruce Brumberg has devoted most of his professional career to making complex legal and tax concepts understandable to people who do not enjoy reading the Internal Revenue Code and the securities laws. He is the editor-in-chief and a co-founder of myStockOptions.com, the premier provider of web-based educational content and tools on stock options, restricted stock, ESPPs, SARs, and performance shares. Bruce runs another website (myNQDC.com, on nonqualified deferred comp) and writes a popular blog at Forbes.com. He graduated from the University of Michigan and University of Virginia School of Law.