Meet Our Team

Over 70 Years of Combined Financial Expertise.

Roger Sousa

Founder/Director and Financial Planner

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Master of Financial Planning

  • Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning

  • Diploma Financial Services

  • FASEA – Exam Standard Certification

  • Practitioner Member of the Association of financial Planner’s (AFA)

  • Tax (Financial) Adviser

  • Top Ranked Adviser 2018 – Advisor Ratings

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

I am passionate about placing clients in a better position than when we first met, this is one of the most rewarding feelings I get along with delivering a sense of satisfaction on client’s faces when they have reached their ultimate goal.

I do not take lightly what clients have entrusted my team and I with, their objectives, needs and goals!

What you like about financial planning?

Being able to utilise my expertise and knowledge to help clients is something special. The trust that clients place on me is a trust I do not waiver on.

Financial advice is a people business. Empowering myself with the appropriate expertise and knowledge gives me a sense of helping the community.

What you like doing in your spare time?

Do I have any spare time (haha)? Spending time with family.

I like the relaxing down time feeling away from the business of visiting my extended family, my broodmares, foals and yearlings that I breed at the farm. I love watching European football.

Watching the Formula 1. (I am not a rev head). Do not mind a red, with an espatada! (Portuguese style barbequed meat on a skewer).

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Ferdy Utan

Director and Financial Planner

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Master of Financial Planning
  • Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning
  • Member of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)
  • FASEA – Exam Standard Certification
  • Tax (Financial) Adviser

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

As a financial adviser, my passion lies in empowering clients to achieve financial independence and security. Here are some key aspects that drive my enthusiasm in this field:

  • Seeing clients achieve their goals
  • Providing clarity and confidence
  • Building long term relationships
  • Educating and empowering clients
  • Customise solutions
  • Navigating complex Financial landscapes
  • Protecting clients’ futures

What you like about financial planning?

Knowing that my work has a direct, positive impact on people’s lives is incredibly motivating. Helping clients reduce financial stress, achieve their dreams, and secure their futures makes my career in financial planning meaningful and fulfilling.

What you like doing in your spare time?

Spending time doing anything with family, keeping active and watching the EPL.

Koreen Govender

Financial Planner

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Master of Financial Planning

  • Advance Diploma Financial Planning

  • Member of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)

  • FASEA – Exam Standard Certification

  • Tax (Financial) Adviser

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

I am passionate about my role for various reasons:

  • Helping people make sound financial decisions.

  • Putting them on a path they never knew existed.

  • Re-directing their future is empowering to me.

  • When I feel empowered I feel a sense of belonging and satisfaction.

  • I am very passionate about seeking positive outcomes for my clients.

What you like about financial planning?

Financial planning gives me the ability to engage, and help people develop financial goals by providing strategies tailored to their situation.

Financial Planning gives the ability to build different skill sets which are essential to a client’s financial success.

Being knowledgeable technically and being skilled with people and handling their emotions isn’t easy, but it’s so rewarding

What you like doing in your spare time?

My best times spent are at the beach with my loved ones, practicing yoga and unlocking my creativity by learning how to paint!

Averylle Rocio Zelko

Client Service Manager

Qualifications and Membership Associations.  

  • Bachelor of Commerce, Major in Business Management – Entrepreneurship Thrust

  • Advance Diploma in Financial Planning

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

I am passionate about giving clients comfort when they ring that they are in good hands. Uncovering Services and benefits they may be entitled to such as Age Pension, Concessions etc.

Being able to place Client’s mind at ease about investing and the financial markets – translating the industry in language they understand.

What you like about financial planning?

I like the abundance of expertise and knowledge that is available to help clients to navigate the financial planning maze.

Financial planning can change lives. It can save lives, it can protect lives.

What you like doing in your spare time?

Anything to do with food and dining! Eating, Baking, and Cooking for Family.   

Gaylene Johnson

Client Service Officer

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Certificate 2 Business Services

  • Advanced Certificate Urban Horticulture

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

I like to build rapport with clients which will give the clients comfort when they contact us.

What you like about financial planning?

  • I like the variety of tasks and self-learning/ improvement the role brings.

  • I like the interaction with clients & finding out about their plans for their futures

  • I like that our clients value us & the positive difference we make with their financial futures

What you like doing in your spare time?

  • Spending time with family

  • Gardening

  • Reading

  • Holidays to anywhere, but especially a new destination     

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Yasmin Zelko

Social Media/Client Service Officer

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Bachelor of International Studies, Major in Japan

What you are passionate about doing for clients?

For many people, navigating your financial and life circumstances can be a stressful and overwhelming time. I always get excited when speaking to new clients as it means that another person is a step closer to reaching their financial goals and achieving financial freedom.

As such, I strive to make that process as easy as possible by assisting our clients in any way that I can, such as clarifying information, explaining processes and even simply providing peace of mind to them.

What you like about financial planning?

Financial planning takes what we would do individually on a smaller
scale and widens our perspective to view and analyse our financial
situation in a much more extensive way. I like that financial planning
provides the knowledge and tools that act as the stepping stones for
multiple financial pathways such as planning your retirement, buying
your first home and even building personal wealth.

Additionally, I appreciate that financial planning is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ service but is rather malleable and can be tweaked at any time to accommodate the curveballs that life may throw at us.

What you like doing in your spare time?

As an avid coffee lover, I like to spend my spare time café-hopping
around Sydney. Additionally, I like cooking, watching tennis, spending
time with friends and family, listening to music and watching movies.

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Ron Boniol

Client Service Officer

Qualifications and Membership Associations.

  • Bachelor of Science in Management

What are you passionate about doing for clients?

As a client service officer, I am passionate about providing top-notch administrative support to financial advisers and their clients.

There is a sense of fulfillment when clients entrust us with the administration of their financial accounts. Additionally, it’s rewarding to know that clients are able to maximise and make the most of their time on their personal lives as we are here to take care of their financial planning. 

What do you like about financial planning?

Financial planning provides a sense of both responsibility and security. Planning and managing one’s financial affairs takes effort and discipline which could be exhausting in all aspects.

However, the idea of being aware where each penny of my hard-earned money is going real-time, and the knowledge on how to systematically and ethically build wealth is what personally gives me relief about my and my loved ones’ financial future.

What do you like doing in your spare time?

My spare time is maximised through binge-watching my favorite TV shows and sports conferences series non-stop!

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