Professional

Expert National Team: “We Are in the Idea Business.”

When it comes to being strategic financially, I strongly believe in a team approach and utilizing the best possible minds, no matter where those minds come from.  I have purposefully chosen a handful of the best specialists in the Northwestern Mutual System across the United States to coordinate and do joint work with.   

The joint work team’s experience, combined with their ability to strategically catch a glimpse of what is possible, allows us to bring the very best minds and the very best solutions to clients all over the United States. The goal is to collaboratively brainstorm to make clients aware of strategies, ideas, and foresights that enhance and add strength to their financial picture.

Who Finds the Most Value?

Our ideal clients have achieved or are in the process of achieving financial success but are mindful and appreciative of the opportunity to coordinate with a team of specialists to learn what’s possible. Very often our clients will have other high quality financial professionals that they have done work with.

This is a relative advantage, as the ideas we strategically integrate work to drive the efficiency of previous planning done. Our goal is not to disrupt in a competitive format, but to enhance and strengthen the work already done.  

Strategic Ideas and Brainstorming

We are obsessively focused on finding new opportunities for our clients to be strategic. Some of the largest opportunities lie with individuals and companies facing potentially high tax environments *(estate, income, capital gains, trusts).

We provide the platform to brainstorm with foresight. By taking a step forward and glancing backward to be strategic, we are able to help our clients find ideas that allow them to approach the future well-positioned, with well developed, ultra-practical strategies that can be used as financial climates evolve.

Personal

Brad is originally from Wisconsin but moved to Texas after marrying his wife, Jessica.  Together they have two sons, Tristan and Kieran, and live in San Antonio. 

"I became a financial adviser, because it's my belief that the financial world is unnecessarily overly noisy and complex.  Through my time learning from some of the best advisers in the country, I've come to the conclusion that a person has a greater chance of financial success if they can tune out the noise and focus their efforts into key decision-making principles."

Lending a hand in my community.

As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)

ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.

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Here are my areas of expertise

Financial Planning

Insurance Protection Strategies

Life Insurance Strategies

Retirement Planning & Income Strategies

Education Planning & Funding

Disability Planning

Multigenerational Planning

Estate Planning

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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