Scott MacKillop is CEO of First Ascent Asset Management, the first flat-fee turnkey asset management program (TAMP).

First Ascent has been ranked by advisors as the #1 TAMP for the past 3 years (2022, 2021, 2020) in the T3/Inside Information Advisor Software Survey.

Last year Scott won the “CEO of the Year–Asset Managers” WealthManagement.com Industry Award and a ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Award for Executive Leadership.

Scott has served as president or CEO of 5 TAMPs and is a pioneer in the TAMP industry.

Scott has written over 160 articles and papers on investment-related and practice management topics and spoken at over 100 conferences, webinars, and podcasts.

Learn more: https://firstascentam.com/

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Mike Saunders, MBA

Mike Saunders is theAuthority Positioning Coach at Marketing Huddle, the author of Amazon Bestselling book Authority Selling™, Adjunct Marketing Professor at several Universities, contributor to The Huffington Post, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council – an invitation-only community for the World’s Most Influential Business Coaches.

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