Meet Our Team

Bill leads Retirement & Benefit Partners' institutional retirement plans business and wealth management services with a clear mission: helping retirement plan committees and participants navigate complex decisions with confidence and clarity.

With extensive experience as a Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessor firms in Providence, RI, Bill has dedicated his career to developing and enhancing corporate retirement plans. His deep expertise and passion for continued learning is reflected in his comprehensive professional credentials, including Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®), Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst (AIFA®), Certified 401(k) Professional (C(k)P®), Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor (CPFA®), Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist (CRPS®), and Professional Plan Consultant (PPC®). Bill holds FINRA Series 7 registration with LPL Financial and Series 66 registration with both Retirement & Benefit Partners and LPL Financial.

Originally from Long Island, Bill now calls Rhode Island's East Bay home, where he lives with his wife and two children. When he's not helping clients secure their financial futures, you'll find him actively involved in coaching high school lacrosse or enjoying time on the golf course, platform tennis court, or lacrosse field.

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Tim is a Retirement Plan Consultant with our Wealth Management Division, where his primary responsibility is to provide financial education to plan participants. He also offers individualized investment services. He is passionate about helping participants plan, pursue, and enjoy a successful financial life.

Most recently Tim was a financial consultant with Transamerica where he offered personalized financial education and advice to a national healthcare organization with around 3000 participants in the Chicagoland area. (Licensed since 2014), Tim can share his experiences to help you navigate your financial journey to and through retirement.

Tim is a Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist (CRPS®) and a Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor (CPFA®). He holds FINRA Series 7 registration with LPL Financial and series 66 registration with Retirement & Benefit Partners and LPL Financial.

Tim lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and three children. Tim and his wife Denise support their teens’ passions for basketball, cheer and gymnastics. During their free time they enjoy cooking, gardening, and competing in 5k’s and triathlons.

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Brian is a Financial Advisor with our Wealth Management Division, where his primary responsibility is to provide financial education to plan participants. He also offers individualized investment services. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, working for such organizations as First Albany's Institutional Bond Group and, more recently, at A.G. Edwards, where he served as Vice President of Investments.

Brian is an Accredited Asset Management Specialist® from the College of Financial Planning; holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 registrations with LPL Financial and the Series 66 with LPL Financial and Retirement & Benefit Partners; and is licensed to sell life insurance and is NYS Long-Term Care Partnership-certified in New York. He is a graduate of Siena College (B.A., Finance).

RICP® conferred by The American College.

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Wayne heads up the investment research functions for Retirement & Benefit Partners institutional retirement plans business, as well as wealth management services. He began his career in 1988 with a national brokerage firm performing investment manager due diligence and portfolio analysis. He began applying this experience to institutional retirement plans in 2002 and has since expanded his professional responsibilities to include personal wealth management and taxation. Wayne was an adjunct professor in the Boston University Program for Financial Planners from 2004 to 2008. His professional designations include Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Wayne holds FINRA Series 6 and 63 registrations with LPL Financial. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from The University of Delaware.

Wayne lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children. He is an amateur historian of the early days of radio broadcasting (1920-1960) in America and has a library of well over 10,000 hours of recordings of broadcasts from that era.

Cosmo Gould has over 10 years of Financial Services experience including; Compliance, Investment Banking, Brokerage Operations, Options Trading, Retirement Plan/ERISA. Prior to joining GRP, Cosmo was Chief Compliance Officer of Financial Telesis, a Broker Dealer and RIA with roughly 500 registered representatives and roughly 90 Million in annual revenue. Cosmo was responsible for maintaining compliance with the rules and regulations of FINRA, the State, the Department of Labor, and the Securities and Exchange Commission for Financial Telesis Inc. and its employees. Before joining Financial Telesis, Cosmo was a Senior Examiner with FINRA responsible for leading routine examinations of member firms’ sales, trading, underwriting, financial, supervisory and organizational practices to determine compliance with SEC and FINRA rules and regulations. Cosmo began his career as an Investment Advisor Representative with Wells Fargo and has also worked as a Compliance Manager at Charles Schwab.

LPL Financial and Global Retirement Partners are separate entities.