Team

Meet our team, whose job and art form is the building and protection of your financial security. With our decades of experience, we are honored to be your trusted financial partners.

Ilinda Parham, CPA, CFP

Principal

Ilinda has worked with executives and high net worth individuals for more than 25 years addressing the varied issues they face, such as investment, tax, retirement and estate planning. Ilinda began her career at a law firm where she prepared tax returns and drafted wills and trusts for various estate planning techniques. Ilinda also worked at Ernst and Young for approximately nine years and led the personal financial counseling practice for the firm in Memphis and Nashville.

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In addition, Ilinda taught several courses in the area of income taxation and estate planning, and she served as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis, teaching the Estate and Gift Tax Course to graduate students. Ilinda's formal education includes a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Memphis.

Michael Bowers, CFA, CPA

Portfolio Manager

Michael is a Principal at FSG Wealth Advisors, LLC and is also a Principal at Pacific Northwest Asset Management, LLC. His industry experience includes positions at Conover Capital Management and Transamerica Financial Advisors. A specialist in investment and operational systems, he holds an MBA (Technology Entrepreneurship) from the University of New Mexico and is a Chartered Financial Analyst®.

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Michael is a member of the CFA Institute. He’s also a Certified Public Accountant, and currently chairs the Personal Financial Planning Committee of the Washington Society of CPAs. He previously served as a Board member of the Issaquah, WA Chamber of Commerce and for a time as the Board’s treasurer. For fun, Michael hikes the Cascade Mountains in summer, snowshoes in winter, and sails year-round on Puget Sound.

Stuart McGehee, MBA

Principal

Stuart is a Principal at FSG Wealth Advisors, LLC and is also the Founder and a Principal at Pacific Northwest Asset Management, LLC. With over 30 years in the financial services industry, Stuart's career includes roles in Investor Relations at FedEx, institutional fixed-income sales, investment advising, and software engineering. He holds a Series 65 and previously held other securities licenses, and he authored “The Best Kept Secret on Wall Street,” available on Amazon. Stuart earned an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.

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Stuart served on the board of First Sound Bank and serves on the board of the McGehee Family Foundation. A passionate conservationist, Stuart has donated over 1,300 acres in conservation easements to Wetlands America Trust, the entity that manages Ducks Unlimited's endowment and land holdings. Outside work, he enjoys many outdoor activities in the Pacific Northwest, especially with his daughter, Becca, because Stuart's wife, Dione, hates cold activities! Stuart is also a powered paraglider pilot.

Wes Poole, CPA

Principal

Wes is a Principal at FSG Wealth Advisors, LLC and is also a Principal at Chalmers Poole, CPAs. Besides being a CPA, Wes earned a Masters of Taxation degree from Mississippi State University as well as a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Mississippi State University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA). In 2013, the CCH (a suite of tax and accounting software solutions) Connectors User Conference selected him to be in the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders, a program designed for "rising stars" in the tax and accounting industry who are valuable contributors to their firms with significant influence and who are motivating and inspirational communicators. He holds a Series 65, and he has almost twenty years of experience in public accounting serving clients such as individuals, partnerships, corporations, and trusts. Wes has technical expertise in privately held businesses, family foundations, estate planning, rental real estate activities, and farm/timber activities. He has extensive experience working with individuals holding numerous investments in flow-through type activities. His knowledge and expertise in flow-throughs was recognized by Wolters Kluwer (parent company of CCH) when they selected him to be one of only a handful of tax experts to work on a project with the goal of teaching IBM's "Watson" to correctly analyze and interpret partnership K-1s.

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Outside work, Wes is the father of four daughters, and you'll find him coaching softball, basketball, and soccer for his daughters' teams. He enjoys many outdoor activities including hunting, these days especially with his daughters.

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