Newport Beach - About our team

David Thompson, AWM, CEPA®, CIMA®

Managing Director - Branch Director, Senior Portfolio Manager - Portfolio Focus

Client Strategies Team

The Client Strategies Team is a resource to help support you in your wealth planning goals, developing a strong understanding of your personal financial objectives, gathering valuable information and addressing complex financial and wealth strategies issues. Explore the bios below to learn more about the team.

Dana McDonald

Wealth Management Consultant

Dana spearheads the collaborative efforts of the Client Strategies Team support for your financial advisor. She is part of a multi-disciplinary group of professionals who provide guidance on investment management, estate planning services, credit solutions, insurance and annuity strategies, professional trustee services and trust consulting, retirement solutions, capital markets engagement, banking solutions and more. Called upon for support at various times throughout your wealth management journey, Dana works diligently to address clients’ unique situations.

Melissa Winn

Wealth Strategist

Melissa serves as a resource for your financial advisor in determining and developing wealth transfer strategies for high-net-worth clients in areas including estate strategies, lifetime giving, personal trust planning, charitable giving, concentrated equity position diversification and employee stock options. In this role, Melissa partners with financial advisors to meet with individual clients and their attorneys and/or accountants, as well as present at client seminars.

Robert Stern

Echelon Wealth Strategist

As an RBC Echelon wealth strategist, Robert partners with financial advisors and their ultra-high-net-worth clients to understand what is most important to them and to help develop appropriate strategies that address the client’s objectives and concerns. Robert serves as a knowledgeable resource in the area of complex wealth, including planning strategies for corporate executives, trust and estate planning services, concentrated stock options, business succession planning and philanthropic planning. He also coordinates solutions and external professional services tailored to RBC Echelon clients' needs.

Jordan Perschel

Wealth Management Banker

In the wealth management banker role, Jordan acts as the key contact for financial advisors and their clients to build awareness and understanding of the full cash management and lending options available.

Aaron Gallardo

Trust Consultant

As a trust consultant, Aaron specializes in personal trust planning and assists in the movement of client trust assets, provides educational and technical guidance relating to personal trusts and advises clients on opportunities with third-party professional trust partners.

Tim Yarbrough

Retirement Plan Consultant

Tim is a retirement planning consultant who is dedicated to providing guidance on retirement planning, as well as individual and employer-sponsored retirement plans for financial advisors and their clients.

Michelle Gilly

Insurance and Annuity Consultant

As an insurance and annuity consultant, Michelle specializes in helping financial advisors and their clients utilize insurance and annuity strategies as part of our holistic, goals-based wealth planning approach.

Disclosures

Investment and insurance products offered through RBC Wealth Management are not insured by the FDIC or any other federal government agency, are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, a bank or any bank affiliate, and are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of the principal amount invested.

RBC Wealth Management does not provide tax or legal advice. All decisions regarding the tax or legal implications of your investments should be made in connection with your independent tax or legal advisor. No information, including but not limited to written materials, provided by RBC WM should be construed as legal, accounting or tax advice.

Financial advisors may not be registered in all states. Each financial advisor is only licensed to conduct business with investors within the states of registration. Information about state registrations may be obtained from individual or team websites or by contacting the individual directly.