Meet Your Team

Dave.Alison@AlisonWealth.com

Dave Alison is a nationally recognized advisor with a passion to make clients’ financial lives easier through integrated holistic wealth management. 

Dave has become a thought-leader, speaker, and industry trainer on holistic financial planning including specializations in the coordination of taxation and financial planning, equity compensation such as NQSOs, ISOs, RSUs, Founder's Stock, and ESPPs, and retirement income distribution planning. His professional capabilities to engineer advanced financial, tax, investment, insurance and estate planning needs into one holistic plan led him to found Alison Wealth Management.

Dave's personal experience helping his brother navigate the complex financial decisions that arose from being the CTO and Founder of a tech startup which was eventually purchased by Meta (Facebook) led him to open Alison Wealth Management's Palo Alto office to help others with similar opportunities or challenges. 

Today at Alison Wealth Management, we deliver comprehensive wealth management to a broad range of clients, including founders, early stage employees with private equity grants, or executives, managers, and engineers at the world's leading public tech companies, as well as individuals who have achieved the financial freedom of retirement (which for many of our client's is an early retirement). 

Alison Wealth Management has offices in Palo Alto, CA, Mount Pleasant, SC (Charleston Area) and Littleton, MA. Alison Wealth Management serves client's all over the United States by offering virtual meetings.

To validate his commitment to furthering his education and competency in the advice he provides, Dave has earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance, the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation, Enrolled Agent admitted to practice before the IRS, Series 65 - Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination, Bucket Plan Certified™ designation, as well as the Life, Health, and Variable Annuity licenses. 

In addition to Alison Wealth Management, Dave is the founding partner of a national financial services company with a vision to help financial advisors across the United States deliver a better financial planning & investment experience to their clients. Under his leadership over the last 10 years, that company has grown into a highly respected enterprise of companies supporting hundreds of financial advisor offices nationwide. Dave currently serves as the President of Prosperity Capital Advisors and Valor Capital Management, two SEC Registered Investment Advisory firms managing over $1.75 billion in client assets.

Dave also serves as a mentor and trainer to hundreds of financial planners, CPAs and estate planning attorneys as well as a frequent speaker at industry conferences through the United States. He is regularly called upon as a public speaker and by the media to share his knowledge on holistic financial planning, including Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, US News and World Report, Financial Planning Magazine and more.  Dave is an active member of: 

• The Financial Planning Association: The Financial Planning Association® (FPA®) is the principal professional organization for CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) professionals, educators, financial services providers and students who seek advancement in a growing, dynamic profession. The primary aim of FPA is to elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning. FPA supports high standards of professional competence, ethical conduct and clear, complete disclosure when serving clients.
• The FPA of Silicon Valley: The Financial Planning Association of Silicon Valley is to be the voice of the financial planning profession in Silicon Valley.
• The National Association of Enrolled Agents: NAEA is the organization powering enrolled agents, America’s tax experts®
• The Million Dollar Round Table's elite Top of The Table: MDRT is the Premier Association of Financial Professionals where members are recognized for their outstanding professionalism and knowledge related to financial topics.
• The National Ethics Association: The National Ethics Association (NEA) has helped business professionals build their businesses on a foundation of trust, ethics and best practices. NEA is also devoted to aiding consumers with the increasingly complex task of conducting due diligence on business professionals. This results in greater peace of mind for skeptical consumers and also rewards those worthy of their trust. 
• The Forum 400: In 2019, Dave was invited to join the Forum 400, an elite organization comprised of leaders in production and innovation in financial services. Membership is restricted to 400 professionals nationwide. Currently, there are only 280 advisors who meet its rigorous qualifying standards.

David.Roth@AlisonWealth.com

David Roth is tax & wealth advisor who has obtained the designations & licensing of Certified Financial Planner ™, Enrolled Agent (EA) admitted to practice before the IRS, as well as Investment Advisor Representative. David has completed the National Association of Enrolled Agent's Cryptocurrency Certificate Program, which confirms his advanced expertise into the tax issues surrounding crypto currency & taxation in the metaverse. This diverse experience and credentialing allows him to bring unique solutions to our clients regarding their tax, financial and investment matters. David is a graduate of Boston University with an undergraduate degree in Music, and later earned a Certificate of Financial Planning from Boston University School of Professional Education.

To continue his own education to best serve our clients, David is actively involved in the National Association of Enrolled Agents, a member of the Financial Planning Association Boston Chapter, the National Association of Divorce Professionals, in addition to serving on the board of his local homeowners association.

Prior to joining Alison Wealth Management, David worked for Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, as a Tax Expert where he would answer tax questions and help hundreds of individuals file their returns. In addition, he served as a lead bookkeeper with their bookkeeper department within QuickBooks Live. This has given him great insight into tax strategy and planning at a national level.

David is married to his wife Julie and has a 4 year old daughter, Poppy. When he is not working, he enjoys making music with his daughter. Other interests include renewable energy, electric cars, watching football, and reading tax court cases.

Darryl.Brown@AlisonWealth.com

As a former senior manager, with a “big six” public accounting firm, Darryl has a vast array of experience in federal taxation of individuals, small businesses including partnerships, S corporations, closely held C corporations as well as large public companies. As a former college professor, he has an extensive background in teaching, researching, and writing about issues pertaining to the same areas of federal tax law including financial reporting and accounting for income taxes, and financial accounting, intermediate accounting, advanced accounting, financial statement analysis, and advanced corporate finance.

In addition to his thirty years of tax practitioner experience and twenty years of tax and accounting teaching experience, Darryl is an Enrolled Agent (EA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Darryl’s academic pedigree includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy and a Master of Science in Taxation from Bentley College (now Bentley University); he holds a Master of Science in Accounting and a Ph.D. in Accounting with a minor in Finance, from The University of Arizona. Although Darryl primarily focuses on tax advisory issues, he is eager to help our clients in a variety of ways including accounting and finance, employee compensation, IRS exam representation, and IRS reporting related to foreign tax issues. His vast background in both the practitioner and academic worlds permits him to deliver optimal solutions for our clients with a view toward maximizing after-tax cash flows. Darryl is an active member of the following professional organizations: NAEA, ISCPA, MSCPA, AICPA, ABA-Tax Section

In addition to his affiliation with Alison Wealth, Darryl is currently the managing and founding member of his own tax and accounting advisory firm that focuses on tax compliance, tax consulting, tax controversy, tax accounting and financial accounting issues for individual and business clients. He is quite passionate about tax instruction and frequently shares his passion for and knowledge of tax law by teaching tax courses including online and hybrid webinars for various state EA and CPA societies. Darryl also is the sole author of an inactive tax law blog “The Nutty Tax Professor” http://dbrowntaxlaw.blogspot.com/, which he hopes to soon reactivate.

Most important, Darryl is a devoted husband, father of seven children, grandfather of five, and loving member of a very large family all of whom tolerate his unusual love for federal tax law. In his spare time, Darryl enjoys reading non-tax books, fishing, gardening, landscaping, reading and studying tax law especially reading Tax Court cases, and writing and publishing tax articles.

Alana.Alison@AlisonWealth.com

Alana Alison is the operations director for Alison Wealth Management and is responsible for providing general support to the clients of Alison Wealth Management, including processing applications and account paperwork, assisting with scheduling needs and managing daily business operations for the firm. Prior to starting the company with husband, Dave Alison, she worked for a customer engagement agency providing account management, project management and marketing communications support. She is a graduate of Bournemouth University, located in Dorset, England, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business studies.

Originally from England, Alana moved to the United States in 2012. She and Dave are the proud parents of three daughters.