Experience: Public Accounting since 2022 

Education: Degree in Economics and Business from Hampden-Sydney College 

Jackson has always enjoyed helping people and he saw the chance to do exactly that at Modern Wealth. Since joining the team in July 2025, Jackson has helped with the preparation of tax returns and tax planning.  

Jackson has spent the entirety of his career working in public accounting, specifically focusing on taxation. Prior to joining Modern Wealth, he worked as a tax associate at a firm based in Danville, Virginia for three years. 

Jackson and his wife live in a small town in southern Virginia with their French bulldog, Remy. He enjoys spending time with family, especially on the family farm and while attending sporting events. Jackson played football at Hampden-Sydney College and is an avid football fan. He and his wife frequently return to their alma mater for football games and tailgates. Jackson also enjoys playing golf, cooking, grilling, and smoking barbecue.  

Experience: Started career in 2009

Education: B.S. Finance

Kyle is committed to ensuring that his clients are holistically cared for and thriving. He feels blessed and fortunate to work with great people and team members.

Kyle lives in the country and is happily married with four children. One of his favorite activities is helping his kids raise pigs, chickens, and turkeys. God, family, and clients are the three most important things in his life. He enjoys an active lifestyle that includes hunting, fishing, golfing, and coaching his children’s sports teams.

When it comes to giving to charitable causes, Kyle is a proud supporter of his church, three different missionaries, and Oakland Family Services.

Experience: Financial services since 1992 

Education: Associate of Arts from Moorpark College  

Sandy joined the team in April 2025 when Planned Asset Management became Modern Wealth. She places trades, prepares documents for new accounts, prepares monthly investment research, and assists with client money movements. Joining Modern Wealth gave Sandy the opportunity to serve clients more efficiently with updated technology and resources.  

Sandy has gained valuable knowledge and customer service skills throughout her career, which she believes is essential for providing exceptional support to clients. She approaches all aspects of her job with a positive, hard-working mindset, and is passionate about helping find solutions to any challenges. With her diverse background in various roles within the industry, she is confident in her ability to contribute as a resourceful member of the team.   

Sandy was born and raised in Thousand Oaks, California. She is a proud mother to her son, Justin, and daughter, Olivia. Sandy enjoys cooking, drawing, hiking, and traveling. 

Experience: Finance since 2019

Education: Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Colorado State University

Julia has assisted advisors and clients with a wide range of tasks since joining the Modern Wealth team in June 2025. Her primary job duties consist of client onboarding, account maintenance, and coordination between teams to deliver exceptional client service.

She enjoys building relationships with clients—helping them through the fun/happy times in their lives as well as the challenging times. Julia finds it very rewarding to helping clients work towards their goals. She started her career in the financial industry at TD Ameritrade as a client service associate before spending four years as an associate advisor at Narrow Path Financial.

Julia and her husband, Brandon, have two children, Taylor and Ava. They enjoy being outdoors together, snow skiing, camping, and hiking when not cheering on their kids at their sporting events! Julia also enjoys trail running and planning new adventures. A fun fact about Julia is that she used to own a women’s boutique.

Experience: Started career in 2005.
Education: Bachelors of Business Management – Purdue University

Carrie joined the team in October 2023 when Martin James Investment & Tax Management became a part of Modern Wealth. She plays a big role within our tax department through internal accounting/bookkeeping, client communications, first and last touch of client tax documents (SurePrep & then E-file), project management, and serving as a technology consultant.

Carrie and her husband, Andy, have two daughters, Lottie and Doria. Their kids’ activities keep them busy, as Lottie plays travel soccer and Doria is on the robotics team (been to World’s twice in Dallas). She loves to vacation at the beach and spends free times with friends and family.

Experience: Retirement Plan Services since 2016 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in education from SUNY Brockport 

Nicole has developed and maintained relationships with plan sponsors and participants for small to mid-size clients since arriving at Modern Wealth in January 2026. She hosts plan review meetings and provides legislative updates, fiduciary training, plan expense analysis, communication, and education. 

Nicole facilitates the plan set up and conversion process as well as ongoing administration. Additionally, she assists with client fiduciary responsibilities, which include coordinating annual compliance notifications. 

Prior to joining the Modern Wealth team, Nicole worked at Paychex for 18 years. She spent 10 of those years as a Relationship Manager, servicing an assigned client base in the retirement industry. Joining Modern Wealth presented an opportunity for Nicole to work with clients at a different level within the retirement industry. 

Nicole and her partner, Travis, have a dog, Bogey, and nephew, Luca. She enjoys visiting and spending quality time with her mom, dad, and brother in Florida. Some of Nicole’s favorite hobbies include weightlifting, yoga, hiking, traveling, cooking, and trying new restaurants with her family. A fun fact about Nicole is that she loves to learn new languages. She is currently learning on Spanish.  

Cydney has a wide range of responsibilities, including answering technology questions, processing deposits and withdrawals, updating any account paperwork, processing charitable donations, and answering client questions.

Before Modern Wealth Management, she worked in service to U.S. veterans who were looking to obtain or increase their disability benefits. Her favorite thing about Modern Wealth is the firm’s community and family feel. She’s thankful that every person in the organization has the clients’ best interest at heart and are always looking on how they can make the client experience better.

Cydney loves going to Table Rock Lake with her family, traveling, hiking, surfing, and reading. She moved to the Pacific Northwest to be able to do my favorite hobbies when she’s not working.

Host of America’s Wealth Management Show and The Guided Retirement Show

Dean Barber is a managing director at Modern Wealth Management. After serving as the CEO and founder of Barber Financial Group, he was thrilled to team up with Modern Wealth co-founders Jason Gordo, Mike Capelle, and Gary Roth in effort to provide a full scope of wealth management services to people nationwide. 

Dean has always had the goal to help as many people as possible with getting them to and through retirement. He accomplished that and more with the team of CFP® Professionals, CPAs, estate planning specialists, insurance experts, and other professionals he built at Barber Financial Group.  

Under Barber’s leadership, the Barber Financial Group brand became a staple of the financial services industry in the Kansas City area. In 2009, Barber Financial Group took a big step forward Bud Kasper’s Lee’s Summit, Missouri-based team from Kasper Steck Wealth Management came aboard. Kasper and former Osiwala Financial Group President and CEO Ken Osiwala joined Barber as managing directors of Modern Wealth.  

Dean enjoys that his work quite literally has a family feel to it at Modern Wealth. His brother, Shane, is an executive advisor, two of his five children, Nic and Cydney, are on the client services team, and his nephew by marriage, Chad Webb, is the head of growth operations. One last fun act about Dean is that his career began with Waddell & Reed on October 19, 1987, also known as Black Monday, which marked the worst stock market crash in Wall Street’s history.