Welcome Letter 

Steven Zeller is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, Certified Business Exit Planner, Accredited Investment Fiduciary, practicing Wealth Advisor, and is President of Zeller Kern Wealth Advisors. He has 28 years of experience within his profession. Serving Business Owners Along with traditional wealth advisement, which includes comprehensive retirement planning for individuals and other financial planning, Steve has many years of experience working closely with first- and second-generation business owners, and their families. Steve is a relatively unique advisor for business owners because of his previous background working as a territory manager for a Fortune 500 consumer products company. As a result, he understands branding, positioning, distribution channels, product pricing, retail distribution, product promotion, and the overall product lifecycle. This uniqueness, along with his business education, and being a business owner himself, makes him uniquely able to understand the business owner’s needs. He advises owners on growing and protecting their wealth, creating comprehensive business exit plans, designing and managing company retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, and other solutions to build the value of their company. Through his many years of providing business exit planning, he has developed an effective Exit Planning Process that his firm uses today. He is also an active member of the Business Enterprise Institute, a national organization for exit planning professionals, and has been a featured speaker at the annual conferences. A Passion for Making a Positive Difference Steve has a passion for making a positive, life enhancing difference for his clients and their families. He achieves this by developing a deep understanding of their situation and needs, delivering planning and solutions, and by providing the highest level of client service possible – “it’s a relationship business.” Steve continues to actively learn, attend conferences, and develop planning processes such as the firm’s Focused Wealth Process, “Purposeful Conversations,” their Business Exit Planning Process, and the firm’s Family Legacy Development Process. Steve is also experienced in helping high-net-worth families develop a Family Legacy Plan, which involves facilitating family retreats to help the family establish a family vision statement, mission statement, and financial philosophy statement. Ultimately, a written family legacy plan is created, family meetings follow, and the family then begins on the road to family governance. Active Writer and Speaker Steve actively participates in the advancement of the wealth advisement profession by writing several articles and conducting regular public speaking engagements on the subjects of business value building, business exit planning, family legacy development, and other timely topics related to retirement planning, and growing and preserving wealth. He has his own professional Blog – www.family-fortunes.com, Where he dedicates his time towards these topics, and is a contributor to the ExitMap Blog. Founder of Sacramento Business Advisors Network Steve is President and Founder of the Sacramento Business Advisors Network, an exclusive organization of established advisors who collaborate to share best practices for serving business owners. He is also an active participant in his community, volunteering his time on many charitable boards. His Family and Passions Steve resides in Carmichael, California, and is married to his wife Cynthia of 24 years. They have one son who resides in Nashville, TN. In his off-hours, Steve enjoys spending time with his wife, and enjoys building friendships in the community, giving back, staying fit, traveling, reading books, studying history, economics and capital markets, and is an accomplished guitar player and collector.