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Our Team

William A. Payne

Principal & Co-Founder

Richard A. Renwick

Principal & Co-Founder

Thaddeus J. Dziuba III

Partner | Director of Advanced Planning

Gary A. Wentling

Chief Financial Officer

Duncan E. Payne

Partner | Business Development

Lion Street Team

Trident Wealth Strategies is a founding partner of Lion Street, LLC., an elite national network of independent firms and financial professionals providing sophisticated life insurance and wealth planning solutions to high-net-worth individuals, companies, business owners, executives, and high-income earners. Lion Street Firms gain favored access to insurance carriers and financial institutions, and the products and services they offer, enhancing our ability to meet the complex planning requirements of our clients.

Through our Lion Street partnership, our clients benefit from the collective negotiating power, intellectual capital, and market access of a national organization — delivering institutional-level solutions and pricing that an individual advisor simply cannot replicate.  Our clients effectively gain a private advisory team backed by national scale — allowing us to secure superior product design, underwriting advocacy, and pricing advantages typically reserved for the largest institutional buyers.

Tiffany Hyde

Head of Underwriting

Jon Denote

SVP of Firm Development

Michael Fontanini

VP of Advanced Sales and Design

dan stanley

SVP of Sales and Operations

Matt Veatch

Vice President of Corporate & Business Solutions

Monika Wright

Case Management Specialist