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$6.9 trn
UBS Group invested assets
As of 10/29/2025
Administering a successful retirement plan means balancing compliance, fiduciary oversight, and employee engagement. We help retirement plan sponsors navigate regulatory complexity while empowering participants to make informed decisions. As trusted 401(k) advisors and retirement plan consultants, we deliver tailored solutions that improve plan performance, participation, and long-term financial wellness.
Vice President–Wealth Management
Senior Retirement Plan Consultant
Dave is a retirement plan consultant and 401(k) advisor dedicated to helping organizations build compliant, high-performing retirement plans that deliver real value to both employers and employees. His mission is simple: empower clients to make confident decisions and achieve long-term retirement success.
With over 15 years of experience in the technology and software sectors, including senior leadership roles in product management and business development at Fortune 500 companies, Dave brings a strategic, business-owner perspective to corporate retirement plan consulting. As a former founder and operator of a technology services firm, he understands the complex challenges facing executives, entrepreneurs, and growing organizations—and applies that insight to every retirement plan strategy he designs.
Dave specializes in the design, management, and optimization of qualified retirement plans, including 401(k), DB Cash Balance, NQ Deferred Comp and profit-sharing plans. His expertise spans fiduciary governance, plan benchmarking, investment oversight, fee analysis, and participant outcomes, ensuring retirement plans remain compliant, competitive, and aligned with organizational goals. His disciplined, research-driven approach leverages institutional-level resources to deliver customized retirement plan solutions built for long-term success.
A strong advocate for education and transparency, Dave works closely with plan sponsors, leadership teams, and employees to simplify complex regulations and provide clear, actionable guidance. He ensures employers stay ahead of regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities while helping participants improve financial literacy and make informed retirement decisions—driving higher engagement and stronger employee financial wellness.
Dave joined Merrill Wealth Management in 2011 following a personal recruitment, continuing a multigenerational relationship founded on trust and results, where he built a retirement plan practice from scratch. In 2022, Dave decided it was time to further his career and joined UBS Financial Services, Inc. where he has expanded his role in partnering with numerous advisors at the firm in support of their retirement plan practice. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Oregon State University and is a native of Portland, Oregon. Outside of work, Dave enjoys golf, volleyball, and spending time outdoors with family and friends.
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Vice President–Wealth Management
Senior Retirement Plan Consultant
Dave is a retirement plan consultant and 401(k) advisor dedicated to helping organizations build compliant, high-performing retirement plans that deliver real value to both employers and employees. His mission is simple: empower clients to make confident decisions and achieve long-term retirement success.
With over 15 years of experience in the technology and software sectors, including senior leadership roles in product management and business development at Fortune 500 companies, Dave brings a strategic, business-owner perspective to corporate retirement plan consulting. As a former founder and operator of a technology services firm, he understands the complex challenges facing executives, entrepreneurs, and growing organizations—and applies that insight to every retirement plan strategy he designs.
Dave specializes in the design, management, and optimization of qualified retirement plans, including 401(k), DB Cash Balance, NQ Deferred Comp and profit-sharing plans. His expertise spans fiduciary governance, plan benchmarking, investment oversight, fee analysis, and participant outcomes, ensuring retirement plans remain compliant, competitive, and aligned with organizational goals. His disciplined, research-driven approach leverages institutional-level resources to deliver customized retirement plan solutions built for long-term success.
A strong advocate for education and transparency, Dave works closely with plan sponsors, leadership teams, and employees to simplify complex regulations and provide clear, actionable guidance. He ensures employers stay ahead of regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities while helping participants improve financial literacy and make informed retirement decisions—driving higher engagement and stronger employee financial wellness.
Dave joined Merrill Wealth Management in 2011 following a personal recruitment, continuing a multigenerational relationship founded on trust and results, where he built a retirement plan practice from scratch. In 2022, Dave decided it was time to further his career and joined UBS Financial Services, Inc. where he has expanded his role in partnering with numerous advisors at the firm in support of their retirement plan practice. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Oregon State University and is a native of Portland, Oregon. Outside of work, Dave enjoys golf, volleyball, and spending time outdoors with family and friends.
*CPFA® Designation does not imply assumption of fiduciary responsibility
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Our experience and structured planning process drives a comprehensive financial plan and customized investment strategies. Depending on where you are in your life and the priorities that matter most, our planning conversations may focus on liquidity management, your cash flow needs, asset replacement solutions such as insurance, estate planning strategies, or tax and legal structures such as trusts and philanthropic vehicles.
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At UBS, excellence comes from nurturing the best of our heritage, mastering the details and delivering the expertise you need to turn your financial vision into a reality. The result? Financial advice that is finely crafted for what matters most to you.
Guidelines for finding the right balance
What is the right amount to leave to your children and other loved ones? How much is too much? The answers lie in evaluating your vision for the use of your wealth and your family‘s ability to manage financial resources responsibly, rather than focusing on a specific amount.
Insights from UBS family office clients around the globe. Thanks to our unique client base, it provides the world’s largest and most comprehensive study of single family offices.
When advising financially successful families, we often get asked, “How can we ensure our family is successful?” The particulars of desired success can be refined differently from family to family, but what our clients are really asking is how they can sustain and grow their resources over time— for generations to come.
Quality of life in retirement can be largely determined by how well individuals plan and save during their working years. There are a number of ways for business owners and professionals as well as their employees to save for the future—with many retirement plan alternatives from which to choose.
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Enabling the transfer of all you hold valuable
What defines family success? A business, property, or is it more elusive: traditions, values, ethics? And how will you pass it on to the next generation with forethought, clear goals and careful execution?
Too often, before sharing assets, we neglect the actual communication of wishes, plans and expectations. Let’s change that.
$6.9 trn
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As of 10/29/2025
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