Shamya Ullah

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.

Brooke Dornbach

Fixed Income Business Development Professional

Brooke is a member of the Fixed Income Business Development team based in Minneapolis, where they help market taxable and tax-exempt bonds to both the Transactional and Advisory platforms. She works closely with advisors to assist with portfolio evaluation and construction, generate proposals, provide tax loss swap ideas, along with giving branch presentations featuring our best trade ideas across the fixed income market.

Thad Beller

Alternative Investments Consultant

As an alternative investments’ consultant, Thad is skilled across the alternatives landscape, including private markets, real assets, hedge funds and select tax-considerate investment strategies. Thad partners with financial advisors in identifying and implementing alternative investment solutions to help clients achieve their goals. He offers education, portfolio construction advice and fund selection guidance to financial advisors and their clients.

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 multidisciplinary 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 to present at client seminars.

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.

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.

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