Jaime Malm
Owner
Jaime Malm is a national speaker, financial educator, and retirement income planner. Jaime has not only counseled thousands of clients over her career toward financial freedom and success, but has served as a mentor and coach to hundreds of top financial advisors across the U.S. for the last 20 years.
Jaime’s unique approach to tax efficient retirement planning has been featured on Yahoo Finance, ABC, CBS, FOX network affiliates, Wall Street Journal Market Watch and the New York Business Journal.
Jaime is the founder of Iron Horse Financial Services, is an investment advisor representative and serves as a “fiduciary” to her clients, providing a five step, comprehensive approach to retirement planning. Jaime lives in McPherson, KS with her husband, Brad and their three children.
Brad Malm
Co-Owner
Brad graduated from Washburn University with a Masters Degree in Administrative Criminal Justice as well as a Masters in Business Administration. He served in the Air National Guard and began his financial career at a national financial firm in 2002.
Brad has attained his Series 6 and 63 designations, the Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR) and the SHRM-CP (Certified Professional).
Brad brings over 20 years experience in business administration, is the co-founder of Iron Horse Properties and Iron Horse Financial Services. He and Jaime have been married since 2001 and have three children.
Emma Malm
Director of Marketing
Emma Malm is the Operations Manager for Iron Horse Financial. Emma strives to create the best experience for our clients. Emma is a recent graduate from Tabor College with a major in Business and Marketing. Emma is a licensed life and health agent and supports clients with life insurance and Medicare planning needs. Emma also coaches high school basketball at McPherson High and loves her English Bulldog, Lucy.
Margo Lysell
Director of Administration
Margo Lysell is the director of administration for Iron Horse Financial. Margo has worked in education for over 25 years. Margo received her bachelor’s degree from Washburn University and her master’s in administration from Fort Hays State University. Margo brings her organizational and technological skills to Iron House as well as her commitment to positive client communications and relationship building.
Strategic Alliances

Michael Binger, CFA®
President of Gradient Investments, LLC
Mr. Binger is the President of Gradient Investments. He has been with Gradient Investments since 2012 and has more than 30 years of total investment management experience. Mr. Binger’s prior roles include managing multi-billion dollar investment products for a large institutional asset manager. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and is a CFA® charterholder. We believe that he brings a depth of market experience that is rare within the industry and has been a featured contributor with several media outlets including CNBC, Fox Business, Barron’s, and The Wall Street Journal.

David Johnson, CFP®
Director, Casecentral
David is the Director of our Casecentral team. Casecentral is a team of CFA’s and CFP’s dedicated to using the most innovative technology solutions to provide a comprehensive analysis for your financial plan. Casecentral can assist with evaluating 401(k) rollovers, Roth IRA conversions, Social Security maximization strategies, tax planning strategies, portfolio analysis and more.

Keith Gangl CFA®
Portfolio Manager, Gradient Investments, LLC
Keith Gangl, CFA®, serves as a portfolio manager for Gradient Investments, LLC. Gangl brings over 22 years of institutional investment management experience to Gradient Investments. Gangl has a long successful track record of investment performance through various market cycles and has extensive knowledge of equity markets.
Prior to Gradient, Gangl worked as a senior portfolio manager for over 18 years covering various asset styles and market capitalizations for Thrivent Financial. He was on a team overseeing several billion dollars in assets. Gangl while managing the fund twice won a Lipper Leader Award, which is given to a fund that excels in providing consistent strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. As a senior portfolio manager, he developed and oversaw the tactical investment strategies utilized within mutual funds, variable annuities, pension funds and insurance company products. These investment processes included proprietary portfolio construction strategies, security selection metrics and volatility controlled parameters. Gangl helped start and develop the quantitative department improving portfolio construction and risk monitoring tools.
Gangl graduated from St. John’s University earning a Bachelor of Arts in Math and Computer Science. He received his Master of Business Administration graduate degree from the University of St. Thomas. Gangl is a CFA® and a member of the Twin Cities Society of Security Analysts.
Gangl has been featured in Investor’s Business Daily, quoted in Bloomberg, Wall Street online, Reuters, Yahoo! News and other local and national publications.

Jeremy Bryan CFA®
Portfolio Manager, Gradient Investments, LLC
Jeremy Bryan, Chartered Financial Analyst®, serves as portfolio manager for Gradient Investments, and brings over 15 years of investment experience to the team. Prior to joining Gradient Investments, Bryan spent several years working with investment advisors and their clients to design and manage investment portfolios. His in-depth knowledge of the private client market, along with his expertise in asset allocation, investment analysis and risk assessment gives him a unique perspective into the investment markets.
Bryan worked as an equity analyst at Deephaven Capital Management in Minneapolis and Surveyor Capital in New York City. Most recently, he was an equity portfolio manager at Alerus Financial in Minneapolis, where he oversaw more than $2 billion of assets under management.
Bryan was born and raised in Minnesota. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota and his master’s degree from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. Bryan earned his CFA designation in 2010 and is a member of CFA Institute. He also remains actively involved with the CFA Society of Minnesota.

William Nusser
Licensed Agent
William Nusser is a licensed Enrolled Agent from Hutchinson, KS that has a passion for hard work. Proudly Simmons & Simmons-Public Accountants has been his only place of employment since graduating from Washburn University in 2010. In 2017, he purchased the firm from Kevin and Joe Simmons.
William has a passion for servant leadership serving as Mayor for the City of Larned since 2015 while having active roles in community with participation in community organizations, including being the treasurer for the Larned Chamber of Commerce and a past president of the Larned Civic PRIDE Organization.
Outside of using his expertise in tax and accounting for clients at Simmons & Simmons what drives him is traveling the Midwest racing dirt oval track cars. Across the Midwest you can find the Nusser Racing team competing across various divisions.

Katelyn Nusser
Licensed Agent
Katelyn Nusser is a licensed Enrolled Agent from Bruce, Wisconsin. Obtained her accounting degree from Northwood Technical College. Katelyn joined Simmons & Simmons-Public Accountants in 2016.
Katelyn provides a wide variety of services including tax preparation, tax planning, payroll and financial statement preparation. Katelyn is actively involved in the community serving as the Clerk for the Larned Recreation Commission, board member for the Santa Fe Trailer Center and President of Larned Civic PRIDE Organization.
If you catch Katelyn outside the office or volunteering, you could find her enjoying her free time outdoors in a variety of activities with a special passion for camping and reading. Katelyn is an avid supporter and member of the Nusser Racing team traveling across the Midwest with William. She even has a little sense of speed having her motorcycle license.