Joel Braschler
Founder
Joel Braschler, originally from Chicago Illinois is a Certified Medicare Insurance Professional & Social Security Advisor who specializes in wealth & retirement preservation. After graduating from the University of South Florida. Joel, decided to call the Tampa Bay Area home. He was the first independent agent to work directly with one of the largest companies, Walmart, to reduce employees’ group disability costs for them and their families. With over 20 years experience in Financial Industry.
Working closely with accountants, attorneys, and other Financial Planners to ensure that each client not only has a comprehensive financial and estate plan, but one that is specified and tailored to each client. Joel has earned the IRMMA Certified Planner designation.
Outside of work, Joel enjoys his Chicago Cubs and Tampa Bay Lightning, and spending time with his family. Joel and his wife Marisa and their dog Griffey reside in Wesley Chapel Florida and are members of the local Presbyterian church where in the past they have worked closely in church planting.
Our Team of Strategic Partners
Andrew Victor
Vice President | Director of Planning Strategies
Andrew Auchincloss Victor has more than 24 years of experience in financial services. He specializes in strategies for Tax-efficient Income Planning, Wealth Transfer, Estate Planning, Business Succession and Insurance Planning. Victor supports advisors by presenting to their clients (and clients’ attorneys and accountants) complex and comprehensive solutions through succinct yet actionable guidance.
- Harvard graduate
- 24 years of experience in financial services
- Consults on risk and tax mitigation strategies with a focus on lifetime income
Noell Holmberg
Director of Life Insurance
Noell’s experience as a medical surgery nurse, specializing in cardiology and neurology, gives her invaluable credibility when working with underwriters. Her persuasive advocacy results in insurers green-lighting client cases they may have otherwise denied. And her experience in handling jumbo life cases, whether $65 million or $450 million, adds even greater value to advisors and their high-net-worth clients.
Stacy Pearson
Universal Guardian Trust
Stacy brings an incredible background where she has legislated and advocates for individuals who have no voice. She has also spoken multiple times at the United Nations which brings a very unique perspective to our team approach. Stacy wears many hats at any given time and works directly with our Advisor Partners on training and mentoring them with amazing success to grow their business. Her personal style and professionalism stand apart from what most Advisors have experienced in this competitive industry.
Veronica Hill
Financial Planning & Tax Mitigation
In 1999 Veronica began her career in the financial sector on the securities side of the industry where she was Series 7 and Series 65 licensed. She moved to the life insurance side of the industry in 2005, working for a brokerage agency. Her journey on the life insurance side began in underwriting, assisting agents and their clients with obtaining the best possible offers by working hand in hand with the underwriters throughout the underwriting process. She then moved to the marketing side of the business, where she has been assisting agents by helping them to determine what is best suited for their clients based on both financial and medical information on hand.
Greg Agnos
Tactical Tax and Estate Planning
Greg started his financial services career in 1987 as a floor broker at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
He’s a former speaker and trainer for hundreds of companies throughout the country, working with advisors from Primerica Financial Services, New York Life, and Prudential to name a few.
He now specializes in Estate Planning and Business Development for ePIC Services Company. He was a member of the 1984 Rose Bowl team for University of Illinois Fighting Illini. As an athlete, Greg spends his free time staying fit, enjoying the outdoors, and traveling.
Ciara Lister, Esq.
Network Attorney
As a network attorney for eStatePlan™ Ciara Lister believes in three key pillars: planning, preparation, and prevention. A full-scholarship graduate of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Fla., Lister began her law career as a Commercial Insurance Litigator in Boca Raton. She began seeing clients and her close friends struggle with the negative effects of probate proceedings, from dwindling inheritances to families destroyed by battles over money. This motivated her to change her focus to Estate Planning so she could help people avoid these issues before it was too late, rather than perform legal triage when the damage to families and their legacies had already been done.
Holly Halweg
Onboarding Specialist
Holly Halweg is the Onboarding Specialist at ePIC Services Company. Married to a financial advisor, she understands the needs of individuals and families planning for retirement, dealing with tax matters, and estate planning. As parents of a child with special needs, Holly and her husband engaged in volunteer work at their son’s preschool, designed for children with physical and developmental issues, including those on the autism spectrum.
Originally from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Holly attended the University of TX in Austin, initiating her career in the group medical insurance sector. Following marriage, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay area in California, and her family now resides in Boise, Idaho.