Fidelis Wealth Advisors

Fidelis Wealth Advisors

Fidelis Wealth Advisors was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Castle Rock, Colorado. Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer John Van Sant previously served as President and CFO of Cascade Financial Management and held an OSJ Principal role with LPL and Apollon Financial, building the operational architecture that now supports Fidelis. The firm operates as an SEC-registered investment advisor, a structure that legally obliges it to act as a fiduciary — advice must serve client interests, not product-distribution quotas. The firm deploys capital across three primary channels: individually managed equity and fixed-income portfolios, financial planning engagements, and employer-sponsored 401(k) plan administration for small businesses. Karley Fidani, a NAPA Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor, leads the retirement-plan practice — a specialization that differentiates Fidelis from generalist RIAs that treat 401(k) work as ancillary. The firm's strategic partnership with RIA Innovations, a division of NWAM, LLC, supplies administrative support services, allowing Fidelis advisors to concentrate on client-facing work rather than back-office processing. Its geographic footprint is concentrated in Colorado and Wyoming, where team members maintain client relationships across the Front Range and the Wind River region. The team includes four named professionals operating across Castle Rock, Colorado; Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; and Green River, Wyoming. Tina Jessick joined the firm in spring 2025 as an administrative assistant, adding accounting capacity as the firm gradually expands its support layer. Fidelis is structurally different from most bank-affiliated wealth managers because it carries no proprietary investment products. Every portfolio dollar generates fee-only revenue through advisory relationships, removing the incentive to place client assets into high-margin house funds. That fiduciary-only architecture, combined with a small-team footprint and a retirement-plan specialization, yields a business model that scales by deepening existing relationships rather than by accumulating transactional clients.