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Name: Bryan Longpre Firm: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Location: Pasadena, California Team Custodied Assets: $872 million Background: Longpre, 39, grew up in a working-class family in La Crescenta, California, the son of a mail courier and a nurse. His interest in finance began at age 11, after his parents lost their savings due to bad financial advice from an advisor Longpre believed put his interests over the family’s.

Name: Elisabeth Dewailly Firm: Merrill Wealth Management Location: New York, New York Team Custodied Assets: $727 million Background: Elisabeth Dewailly grew up near the southernmost tip of Texas in a rural, low-income town she compares to Friday Night Lights, where everyone knew the starting football players and students drove tractors to school. Her father grew up on what she calls “the wrong side of the bad part of town” in Paris, while her mother was raised in French Guiana.

Warner-Prokos Photography Name: Sarah Ponczek-Van Camp Firm: UBS Private Wealth Management Location: Boca Raton, Florida Team Custodied Assets: $4 billion Background: Sarah Ponczek-Van Camp once thought anchoring a Bloomberg morning show would be a career-defining opportunity.