As a Private Wealth Advisor, Katy is committed to helping clients with the careful planning needed in an effort to help ensure that their wealth works in support of their goals. Katy believes that such planning is not a single event - it is a process. As life circumstances change, so must the investment strategies to stay on course toward meeting your objectives.

It is important to work one on one to design investment strategies targeted to your specific needs and goals, while considering your risk tolerance and personal values. Although Katy cannot provide tax or legal advice, she will coordinate efforts with your tax and legal advisors to help you stay current with tax law changes and estate plan issues to help preserve and protect your wealth.

The CRPC® certification encompasses pre-and postretirement needs, asset management, estate planning and the entire retirement planning process. All designees must renew their designation every two years by completing 16 hours of continuing education.

To earn the CFP® certification students must master planning topics such as General Principles of Finance, Insurance Planning, Employee Benefits, State and Federal Income Tax Planning, Estate and Gift Tax Planning, and Retirement Planning. CFP® professionals must complete 18 semester hours of education, pass the comprehensive CFP®

Certification Examination, pass CFP Board’s Fitness Standards and agree to abide by CFP Board’s Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and Rules of Conduct which put clients’ interests first. All practitioners must renew their certification every two years by completing 30 hours of continuing education.

Katy, her husband Andrew, and son Evan are residents of Inver Grove Heights. In her free time, Katy enjoys Crossfit, reading and volunteering. She enjoys volunteering with the Salvation Army, Minnesota Zoo, and Twin Cities in Motion.

 As a Financial Advisor, Travis is committed to helping clients navigate the complex landscape of managing their wealth. He takes a highly personalized approach to the client experience, spending significant time discussing client’s needs, concerns, and long-term aspirations. In doing so, Travis creates a customized wealth strategy that focuses on retirement and legacy planning, investment management, higher education saving and charitable giving. By taking the time to understand the families he serves, Travis helps reduce the fear and anxiety that come with making essential investment decisions.

A native of Brooklyn Park, MN, Travis received his M.B.A. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Personal Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, Travis earned the Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) designation, meeting extensive training and experience requirements making while also committing to act as a fiduciary when providing financial advice to his clients. He began his career in Financial Services with Merrill Lynch in 2005 and joined Wells Fargo Advisors in 2022.

Travis currently resides in Plymouth with his wife, Camille and their two children, Owen, and Piper. In his free time Travis enjoys downhill skiing, inland surfing and being an active member of the community.

As a Senior Financial Advisor, Managing Director, Investments, Paul believes a successful financial relationship has to be based on trust. And to build trust, a financial advisor must first have a sincere desire to help people. With 30+ years’ experience in the Financial Services industry, Paul helps clients define their financial goals and establish an investment plan to achieve those goals. Many of Paul’s clients have worked with him more than twenty years. It’s not unusual for Paul to work with more than one generation of a family.

Paul began his career in Financial Services in 1988 as a Trust Officer at Norwest Bank. Several years later, he joined the bank’s investment firm as Financial Advisor. He’s a graduate of the University of Minnesota with an MBA in Finance and B.A. in Business Administration.
 

Paul is an avid sailor, downhill skier, and cyclist. He’s sailed the length of Lake Superior and crossed the Atlantic from Cape Cod to Gibraltar. He also sings in the choir at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church. Paul and his wife of 42 years have lived in the Minneapolis area their entire lives. They have three adult children.

Stacy grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Iowa with a double major in Finance and Marketing, as well as a minor in English. 

She began her career in wealth management in 2009 as a Senior Associate for RBC where her team was responsible for transfer of clients’ assets in all RBC branches across the United States. Stacy was selected as a Premier Service Group Captain to serve as a designated point of contact for an exclusive group of RBC’s top-producing Financial Advisors.

In 2010 a move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania brought Stacy into a client-facing role for a top-producing team at Merrill Lynch with over $2 billion in assets under management for over 600 high net worth households. She moved to a team in Washington, DC in 2012 where she supported three Financial Advisors, mentored new Client Associates, and was promoted to Registered Senior Client Associate.  In 2018, Stacy returned to Minneapolis where she supported multiple Financial Advisors and served as a Committee Chair for Bank of America’s Leadership, Education, Advocacy & Development (LEAD) for Women employee network.

After 12 years with Merrill Lynch, she joined Wells Fargo Advisors in October 2022 as a Senior Registered Client Associate working with Katy Uzpen CFP® CRPC® Senior Wealth Client Financial Advisor, Travis Jensen CFP® Senior Wealth Client Financial Advisor, and Paul Hammond, Senior Wealth Client Financial Advisor. She assists the team with operational, account maintenance, communication, and client service functions.

Stacy passed the Series 7 General Securities Representative Exam in 2011 and the Series 66 Uniform Combined State Law Exam in 2012.

She lives with her husband, Zach, and her young children, Delaney and Callan, in South Minneapolis.  Outside of work, Stacy loves to try new restaurants and breweries, spend time at Lake Harriet with her family, spend weekends at her parent’s lake home in Pine City, and travel anywhere and everywhere time and budget will allow!

Kyle grew up in Eden Prairie, MN and is a graduate of North Dakota State University with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Kyle began his career as an intern with Wells Fargo Advisors in May of 2013 and was hired full time after his last semester of college in January of 2014.

Kyle started as an Operations Specialist in a Downtown Minneapolis branch processing back office requests the daily deposit for metro area branches. He transitioned to the Client Associate role in Wayzata where he passed exams for registration. After brief assignment back to Minneapolis as a Registered Client Associate, Kyle took the position of Branch Liaison in Bloomington where he spent the next several years becoming integral to branch operations and elevating the experience for Financial Advisors in the branch. During this time Kyle also directly supported several Financial Advisors as a direct assistant and in 2023 transitioned to a Senior Registered Client Associate role to join our team. Kyle will be our team Planning Associate with the responsibility of scheduling your Annual Review meetings with Katy Uzpen, Private Wealth Financial Advisor, and Market Update meetings with Travis Jensen, Senior Financial Advisor. In addition, he’ll assist Katy in preparing your Envision plan and managing the New Client experience.

Kyle and his girlfriend, Courtney recently purchased a home together in Shakopee and are enjoying exploring and getting to know their new community. Kyle is passionate about fitness, movies, casual board games and competitive table games