BIO
Mike Gilman is an Investment Advisor with Gerber Kawasaki. Mike realizes the importance of financial well-being to one’s happiness and passionately enjoys helping clients with tailored financial plans and investment strategies to achieve their personal financial goals and dreams.
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After graduating from USC with an MBA in Finance and Marketing, Mike spent the next 20 years as a Director of multi-million-dollar businesses for top companies like Neutrogena, Unilever, and Nabisco.
Desiring to leverage his vast experience in business to help people on a more personal level, Mike transitioned to a career as a Financial Services Professional beginning with New York Life Insurance & NYLife Securities followed by Fidelity Investments before joining Gerber Kawasaki.
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Mike thinks that financial planning should be a tool that simplifies your life. Clients come to him because he helps them build a financial plan for their future that they can understand - without the over-complication and industry jargon so common today. Armed with 5+ years of financial services experience, he believes that a complete understanding of his clients' vision of their future is the foundation of a good strategy.
Mike grew up in Santa Monica where he discovered another passion of his: surfing. He also broadened his horizons and appreciation for other cultures living abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil for 5 years and now speaks fluent Portuguese.
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