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Paul Byron Hill, CFP® LinkedIn link for Paul Byron Hill

Paul Byron Hill, MBA, MFP, MSFS, ChFC™, WMCP™, CFP®, is a Certified Financial Planner® professional and Wealth Management Certified Professional™.

Paul founded Professional Financial Strategies, Inc. as one of the early fiduciary advisory firms in 1993 that now specializes in retirement and wealth planning for affluent and aspiring families. Paul is a financial adviser who acts in client best interests. He brings together a professional management process and a network of specialists for making informed decisions for structured investing, secure income, mitigating taxes, protecting assets, and preserving wealth for families and causes that they deeply care about.

Mr. Hill received a BA with distinction from the University of Rochester and later an MBA in finance from its Simon School of Business. He earned an MS in financial services from The American College along with his Chartered Financial Consultant and Retirement Income Certified Professional designation, and then received an MS in financial planning from the College for Financial Planning (now at the University of Phoenix).

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • MBA University of Rochester – Simon Graduate School of Business (1989)
  • MS Financial Services, The American College (1988)
  • MS Financial Planning, College for Financial Planning (1997)
  • Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), College for Financial Planning (1983)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC™), The American College (1983)
  • Retirement Income Certified Professional™, The American College (2020)
  • Wealth Management Certified Professional™, The American College (2019)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES

  • Financial Planning Association (since 1982)
  • National Society of Accountants
  • Former adjunct faculty member, College for Financial Planning (since 1998)
 

Kam-Lin “Katherine” Hill, CFP®

Kam-Lin K. Hill, CGMA®, ChFC®, CFP® is Vice President, a Certified Financial Planner® professional, a member of the investment committee and specializes with widows and women on their own.

Kam-Lin Hill’s rigorous academic and professional background, global perspective and years of experience enable her to develop highly customized wealth management strategies for our clients. She is fluent in four languages and dialects: English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and Malay.

As Vice President of Professional Financial Strategies, Inc., Kam-Lin works with successful professionals, widows and retirees from many walks of life, acting as a trusted financial advisor.

Using a consultative process, she helps families make informed decisions about preserving wealth, mitigating taxes, taking care of heirs, protecting assets from unjust loss, and making a difference through charitable giving.

Prior to Professional Financial, Kam-Lin’s served as financial controller for Dindings Consolidated Sdn Bhd in Malaysia. During her 12 year tenure at Dindings, Kam-Lin worked her way up through management to senior manager and then to director and financial controller for the Group. Her varied responsibilities included management of group operations, including finance, treasury, accounting, taxation, and oversight over its property development projects.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • MBA University of Hull, United Kingdom (2000)
  • Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), College for Financial Planning (2005)
  • Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®), The American College (2004)
  • Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA®) (1997)
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) (2001)

CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Katherine and her husband actively support Bibles for the World (BFTW) and other charities. BFTW serves poor peoples, mostly Hmar, in northern India and surrounding countries with Christian education and free medical services for anyone, as well as Bibles in native languages. She is a financial parent for about 100 poor and orphaned Christian Hmar children from grade school through high school.

 
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Peter C. Van Der Voorn, CFP®

Peter C. Van Der Voorn is a Relationship Manager for Professional Financial Strategies, employed since 2000.

Dr. Van Der Voorn is a Certified Financial Planner® (since 2001), and is admitted to the Registry of CFP Licensed Practitioners. He holds a BA from Wichita State University (1961) and a PhD from The University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1964). He has practiced financial planning since 2000.