FPA Announces Award Winners

Hartman has led school projects, military programs and Newark/Elizabeth Financial Planning Days. Her ability to conceptualize and implement financial literacy programs has helped her chapter be recognized as a leader in financial literacy throughout the state. She serves on FPA's national Pro Bono Advisory Council, is an ongoing mentor to future chapter leaders and has provided tools to FPA committees allowing them to be more effective in their efforts. Hartman is the founder and principal of Omega Financial Management.

Luesink has been instrumental in FPA of New York committees since 2005, and chaired the Pro Bono program for 2 years. As pro bono director, she has been leading a team of 60 volunteers who provide financial literary and financial counseling to selective low-income groups in New York City. She is a member of the FPA Pro Bono Advisory Committee and the FPA Community Advisory Council at the national level, and was an instructor of retirement planning at New York's University's Certificate of Financial Planning Program. She is the president of Luesink Financial Planning.

Lytton works with the Financial Planning Program at Virginia Tech, serves as the University's director for its Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards registered program and has coauthored two financial planning textbooks. An academic member of FPA, she serves as faculty adviser to the FPA of Virginia Tech. She has served several volunteer roles for the FPA, including current service on the FPA Academic Advisory Council and accompanying Student Volunteers to the national conference for 12 years.

Muldoon mentors fellow professionals and students to help them acquire and hone the necessary skills to achieve career goals. She has been with Carter Financial Management since 1979 and currently serves in the role of senior vice president. She also serves on several not-for-profit boards in leadership positions and chairs two investment committees.

Power is a retired Army colonel and has spent the past 10 years assisting men and women serving in the U.S. military in Massachusetts. Through his leadership, FPA of Massachusetts developed the pro bono FPAMA Military Initiative, which trains volunteers to provide financial coaching, including assistance with tax returns, to military members and their families. Power was also instrumental in organizing the FPA nationwide program supporting Homes for Our Troops, which raises funds and builds homes that are designed specifically for severely wounded veterans.

Solomon was the key organizer of a 2008 FPA/People to People trip that brought American FPA member financial planning professionals to Russia. He has worked in government relations and regulatory areas, having served as chairman of several FPA committees and on FPA task forces focusing on regulation and fiduciary standards. He is currently the managing director and CCO at WealthPro, is a shareholder and serves on the board of eirectors of SFA Holdings, the parent company of The Strategic Financial Alliance, and is the chief financial officer at Hearing Care Resources. Vodra is a founding member of the Nazrudin Project, and his work over the years has led to developments linking behavioral finance to the practice of financial planning. Additionally, he was the first person to present at FPA Retreat regarding the implications of the world's finite energy resources and is an authority on financial planning implications of peak oil and global climate change. After a long career with Spire Investment Partners, Vodra founded Worldview Two Planning to help clients and other professionals better understand how peak oil, climate change and related resource issues impact financial plans.

Yeske has taught almost every course offered in the financial planning program at Golden Gate University (GGU), where he is a distinguished adjunct professor in its school of business.He created GGU's "Practicum in Financial Planning," an opportunity for students to work with real clients creating functional financial plans. He currently chairs FPA's Academic Advisory Council, and served as the organization's national president in 2003. Yeske is currently the managing director at Yeske Buie.