Dr. Jason Heller, Ph.D., CFP®, CIMA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU
Dr. Jason Heller, Ph.D., CFP®, CIMA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU
Senior Executive Vice President
P: (954) 689-9409
E: JasonHeller@mycoastalwealth.com
As the Head of Coastal Wealth's Planning Solutions Group, a Division of Coastal Wealth, Dr. Jason Heller plays a critical role at Coastal Wealth, leading a professional team of para-planners, product line specialists, financial planners and advance market professionals, who work together to help you make informed decisions that can help maximize your client relationships. Jason’s experience includes the development and implementation of strategies to help clients achieve their goals of growing, preserving and transferring their wealth.
Prior to joining our firm, Dr. Heller worked as an Investment Specialist at MassMutual South Florida and Guardian Life Insurance after managing his own private practice for several years. In 2007, Guardian named Jason their National Investment Specialist of the year. Jason is a lifetime qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table and a qualifying member of the Court of the Table in years 2010/12/14/15/16/17/18/19/20 and 2021. Jason has qualified for Top of the Table once (2021).
Dr. Heller is not only a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional (CFP®), he has earned thirty industry designations, including the Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®), a designation given jointly by the Wharton School of Business and the Investments & Wealth Institute, along with the Retirement Income Certified Planner (RICP). Jason has received his Ph.D. from the American College (’20) in financial and retirement planning. He also has two Masters degrees in Financial Services from the Institute of Business & Finance (’05) and the American College (’16).
Jason graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where he also played college basketball. He is an avid University of Miami athletics fan. Jason is married to Jessica, a third-generation Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) agent. They live in Ft. Lauderdale with their two children, Cameran and Jackson. A conservative financial planner by training, Jason’s motto is “I would rather lose a little opportunity than lose actual dollars.”
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Reed Willett
Reed Willett
Vice President - Planning Solutions Group, a Division of Coastal Wealth
P: (954) 308-7143
E: rwillett@mycoastalwealth.com
Reed began his career in the financial services industry as an institutional fixed income broker with Crews & Associates in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. After just over a year as a broker, he accepted a position on the trading desk at Simmons First National Bank, where he eventually became the Head Trader overseeing municipal, corporate and mortgage trading operations. He also revived the Bank’s Municipal Underwriting Desk and began bringing issues that raised money for rural school districts.
Since 2016, Reed has held various key positions with Coastal Wealth, a MassMutual firm, one of the fastest-growing MassMutual firms in the Southeast United States. Reed serves as Vice President of the firm’s Planning Solutions Group as an Investment Specialist. With his robust experience on a fixed income trading desk, compliance and operations, extensive knowledge of annuities, and financial planning, he has become a key valued member of Coastal Wealth’s Private Client Group, a division of Coastal Wealth. He is a frequent lecturer and speaker to our team of financial professionals conducting numerous education series and advanced concepts.
Reed takes pride in being able to isolate unique opportunities for our high-net-worth clientele. He specializes in reviewing existing financial plans, developing comprehensive financial and situational plans designed to help optimize the client’s overall financial position and legacy.
His passion for serving others and experience in various areas of the financial services industry has led Reed to be an integral team player of Coastal Wealth’s Private Client Group by supporting our high-net-worth clients and business owners with comprehensive legacy planning, charitable giving, advanced estate planning, comprehensive annuity analysis with multiple insurance carriers and different tax-efficient strategies.
Reed takes great pride in our commitment to our clients by providing unparalleled client service through our guiding principle of securing our client’s legacy and protecting the ones they love most – family and community. He is active in his local community, and participates in various philanthropic causes – including, but not limited to Fruitful Field, Loaves & Fishes and Habitat for Humanity. He is an avid golfer, food enthusiast and loves to travel.
Dave Leali, CLU, ChFC®
David started in the investment advice industry in 2000 at the private wealth management firm Dale K. Erhart, Inc. as an Operations Manager. Since then, he has worked in positions supporting advisors in writing comprehensive financial plans at Capital Panning Group, the AIG Financial Network and most recently as the head of the financial planning department for MassMutual South Florida since 2017.
In 2007, he earned the Chartered Financial Consultant designation from the American College, as well as the Chartered Life Underwriter designation in 2011. The financial planning department can help on both fee-based plans and non-fee-based strategies – this is something we can touch on in your individual town hall meetings. Dave is going to present the concept of Wealth Building Cornerstones.
Michele Friedlander, RHU, REBC®
Michele Friedlander, RHU, REBC®
DI/LTC Specialist
P: (954) 689-9462
E: mfriedlander@massmutualbrokerage.com
Michele has over 30 years of experience in the disability income insurance arena. Starting her career with Provident life, she joined MassMutual 15 years ago as both the internal Disability and Long-Term Care Specialist, supporting the career agency system as well as Brokers. She specializes in working with agents and their clients to protect their income, as well as asset protection needs.
Michele has earned the RHU and REBC® designations; she is a certified Continuing Education Instructor; Past President of the Women In Financial Services Organization; she is also the current Chapter President of Broward NAIFA. She will be conducting our DI & LTC Training and is also available for Joint Work. Michele is a resource on all MML DI and LTC products as well as those of other companies. She is truly the best-kept secrete of Coastal Wealth and the PSG.
She is exceptionally knowledgeable on DI and LTC contracts from all carriers, and she is a tremendous resource in this area - please engage her, it will only benefit you and your clients.
Marcia Dryjowicz, CLU, ChFC®
Marcia started her career with MassMutual in 1982 and spent 15 years in the Life Sales and Competition Unit. In 1999, she became Life Regional Director for the MassMutual agencies in New England and Pennsylvania, providing support to the Career Agency System and brokers in that territory. In 2003, she relocated to Florida and became the Life Regional Director for all MassMutual agencies in the southern region. In 2010, Marcia retired from MassMutual and took on the role of Agency Life Product Specialist in the former MassMutual Jacksonville-Savannah agency.
Marcia earned her CLU designation from the American College in 1993, and her ChFC® designation in 1995.
With expertise in MassMutual’s life products, and overall life insurance topics, Marcia is a valuable resource in life sales. Her responsibilities for Coastal Wealth include training on life products, the MassMutual sales illustration system, as well as educating agents on various important life insurance topics, such as direct recognition, modified endowment contracts, and stock versus mutual insurance companies. She is also available to work with financial professionals on case design, to help ensure their client’s life insurance needs are met with the appropriate product.
Ryan Solle
Ryan began his career in the financial services industry focusing on personal finance and insurance planning promptly after graduating from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he played college soccer. Ryan was drafted in Major League Soccer and played 3 years of professional soccer before beginning his career with our firm in 2009. His experience in sports built a solid foundation for his career, fostering strategic thinking and focus on competitive strategy to drive the best possible results.
His passion for helping people at a relatively young age and the fulfillment of seeing a business and family achieve their financial goals led Ryan to join our Planning Solutions Group, a Division of Coastal Wealth, in 2015, a team of product and concept specialists whose sole purpose is to help advisors grow their practice by providing comprehensive financial planning services. The success Ryan had in this team along with his continued passion for helping others led Ryan to become the Director of Advanced Markets in 2020 and a valued team member of Coastal Wealth's Private Client Group.
Over the years, Ryan has been instrumental in supporting our high-net-worth clients with comprehensive financial solutions, advanced estate planning and premium finance cases, complex underwriting, maximum retention capital strategies, with multiple insurance carriers and products. Ryan takes great pride in our client’s accomplishments and works with our team of specialists to deliver a well-executed financial plan, a well-established legacy and the confidence of providing as much certainty in the uncertainty of complex insurance planning solutions.
Nick Tranghese
I have been with MassMutual since 2014, starting my career working with Third Party Distribution, Licensing and Commissions. After 2 years, I was promoted and moved to become a Relationship Manager for Annuity New Business. During this time, I managed East Coast agencies in the new business process, aided in the transition to our partners in Topeka, Se2, and helped stand up a new Fixed Annuity Order Entry process.
Through my experience as a Relationship Manager, I grew key relationships with our Wholesaling team and joined the team in December of 2017. Upon passing my series 6 license I was promoted in a few months to wholesale with Jeff Landsberg and the Southeast territory. During my tenure on the desk, I have exceeded multiple sales goals in our Life and Annuity Lines of business; recognized as a “Top Wholesaler for 2019”. Due to my success as a wholesaler, I have been afforded the opportunity to expand my territory which now includes almost 28 agencies that range from Texas to Florida, up to New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Anh Nguyen, CFA®, CFP®, MBA
Anh Nguyen, CFA®, CFP®, MBA
Investment Director | Financial Planning | Investment Advisor Representative
P: (954) 308-7162
E: anguyen@mycoastalwealth.com
Your financial success is my ultimate goal! I offer total financial needs analysis through a network of experienced professionals with expertise in:
- Advisory services
- Retirement analysis and programs
- Estate strategies
- Employee benefit and retention services
- Business continuation strategies
- Trust services*
*Trust services offered through the MassMutual Trust Co., FSB
Focus: Insurance Strategies, Investment Strategies, Business Owners, College Funding Strategies, Charitable Giving, Risk Management Strategies, Estate Planning, Financial Education, Retirement Income Planning, Business Succession Planning, Group Benefits, Retirement Strategies
Anh holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) certification and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) designation. He graduated with an MBA in Finance from Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Anh holds his securities series 7, 66, and Life & Health Insurance licenses. He is an active member of the CFA Institute, South Florida CFA socieyt, and Financial Planning Association (FPA). Anh resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife, Ivy. His outside interests include traveling, fine dining, fishing and tennis.
Janett Eichenberger
Janett Eichenberger has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years. She has worked with many firms such as Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Alliance Financial Group, and, now, Coastal Wealth. She is the Coordinator for Coastal Wealth's Planning Solutions Group and is the gatekeeper of the team. She is in charge of scheduling and connecting financial professionals and clients to the team. Janett is the glue of the group and holds everything together.
She has graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in Marketing. Janett was born in Medellin, Colombia and was raised here in South Florida. She is fluent in both Spanish and English. She enjoys traveling the US exploring every baseball park with her son, David. He has just graduated from the University of South Florida in Marketing and is pursuing a Master’s
