Darrin is the leader of our Lincoln office, which opened in March 2025. He is a Colorado native and hall of famer at Fort Lewis College, where he was the basketball team’s 3rd leading all-time scorer and the school’s first Academic All-American.
Initially his career focus was in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies in the health care industry. Eventually he developed an interest in investing and retirement planning. The economic and market volatility of the Dot-Com Bubble of the late 1990s and the Great Recession a decade later prompted Darrin to get more serious about exploring ways to generate stable and reliable income in retirement. He dove into coursework at the American College of Financial Services. He became a Retirement Income Certified Planner. He went on to earn certification as a National Social Security Advisor. He was an executive producer of the movie The Baby Boomer Dilemma released in October 2021.
Darrin is a great fit at Retire SMART because he understands that a successful retirement plan requires more than accumulating wealth. He gravitated to retirement income planning because, “after much analysis and soul-searching,” he realized that stacking up a big pile of money is not enough. “The objective,” as Darrin puts it, “is to ensure your money does what you want it to do and lasts as long as you do!” The storms of economic and market volatility, including significant increases in taxes, are inevitable. Darrin has encountered various market challenges and is prepared to assist you in navigating them using strategies aimed at helping you safeguard and maintain your investments.
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