INDEPENDENCE IS THE END THAT WEALTH SERVES

Providing financial and investment advice to entrepreneurs, families, and workplace retirement plans for over 25 years.

Our business model has been built knowing that our clients will always demand the following:

  1. Highly competent, objective financial advice that is forward looking (start with a detailed plan);
  2. Delivered at significant value (costs matter);
  3. Executed with discipline, patience, and skill (long term investors);
  4. Paralleled by an exceptional Service Experience – inspired by anticipation, attention to detail, and common sense (life is not linear – be agile).

Our Ethos

Meet the Team

Scott Broaddus CFP®, AIF®

Partner

Scott Broaddus is an equity partner of Irongate Capital Advisors.  As a Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Planner™ Practitioner, Scott specializes in providing advice for...

Tripp Leonard CFP®, AIF®

Partner

Professional Experience:
Tripp Leonard is an equity partner of Irongate Capital Advisors.  Since 1994, he has worked with private businesses, their owners, and their key people in...

Jared C. Lewis CFP®, AIF®, CPFA

Partner

Jared Lewis is an equity partner of Irongate Capital Advisors.  As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional, Jared's practice focuses on financial planning and investment...

Emily Armstrong

Director, Private Client Services

Over the last decade working with our advisory team, Emily has reshaped and built what is now the gold standard for our firm’s client onboarding and servicing models.  Efficiency...

Chris Ellis CFP®

Financial Advisor

Chris graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Business Management and earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Entrepreneurship from George...

Karolina Ellis CLU®, ChFC®

Manager, Private Client Services

Karolina was born and raised in Poland and came to the United States as a student. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in...

Susan A. Murphey CFP®, CPFA

Director, Workplace Retirement Services

Susan has worked with our advisory team since 2017 after spending over 20 years working at local investment advisory firms.  Susan has been instrumental in developing our workplace...

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