Meet the Team

Amber has over 12 years’ experience as a Medicaid and VA Planner.  She has an immense passion for educating attorneys, advisors, and their clients regarding financial strategies designed to help pay for long-term care costs applicable to both Preplanning (asset-based LTC/hybrid policies) and Crisis Medicaid scenarios.

Amber is a proud recipient of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s BA of Finance where she graduated with magna cum laude honors. She is a licensed insurance agent licensed in all 50 states and holds her Series 65 license with FINRA.

Todd Whatley is a licensed insurance agent and Certified Elder Law Attorney with 20 years of experience as an attorney.  He is Past President of the National Elder Law Foundation, the ABA approved organization to certify attorneys nationally as Certified Elder Law Attorneys.

He has created, managed and sold 3 law firms in Arkansas.  He is of Counsel with a number of law firms across the country.  He is a national speaker and educator on Elder Law issues.

John has been practicing law since 1987.  During the first part of his legal career, he counseled franchise organizations and was awarded the Certified Franchise Executive accreditation (by the International Franchise Association). John represented franchisors in many international master franchise agreement negotiations including Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.  Beginning in 2009, he joined ElderCounsel, LLC as a director.  EC is a nationally recognized attorney-only organization that teaches practitioners elder law, VA pension and special needs strategies and offers a state-specific document assembly system.

Currently, John is Attorney, Specialty Markets for America’s First Financial Corporation. He has been a lecturer for the University of Oregon MBA program, presenter for the Veterans Advocate Group of America as well as numerous bar associations.