The team to help you carve your optimal path.
Your advisors are your advocates. These are the ones you will work with directly — credentialed, accountable, and close to the details. Through our affiliation with Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, there is no project too big and no detail too small to handle.
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Ryan Tunnell, CFA
After 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, predominantly in the private wealth divisions of banks, Ryan founded Kento Wealth Advisors out of a desire to see his clients cared for in a way that’s rarely done in financial advisory. This means using straightforward communication, engaging other experts to get to the optimal solution in complex situations, telling clients the truth even when it’s inconvenient, spending ample time to understand personal concerns and family dynamics deeply, and providing service that is truly customized for each client. Clients have thousands of options for wealth management providers. Kento’s clients choose our practice because we do these things consistently.
Prior to founding Kento Wealth Advisors, Ryan spent years as an investment portfolio manager, an investment platform manager, and a financial advisor. As a portfolio manager, he made buy and sell decisions for clients of independent financial advisors, communicating those decisions and their rationale. As an investment platform manager, Ryan selected which investment vehicles were available for use by financial advisors at his firm. Finally, as a financial advisor, Ryan has helped many clients structure their broader financial lives and execute upon their needs.
Previous firms include U.S. Bank / Union Bank and Comerica Bank in Los Angeles and City National Bank and Matrix Private Capital Group in New York City.
- CFA® charterholder
- FINRA Series 7 and 63
- CA Insurance License 4092981, Resident State CA – Life, Variable Life & Variable Annuity
- MBA – Yale School of Management
- B.S. Business Administration – University of Southern California
To support your financial needs we can coordinate with Wells Fargo specialists that will work with your attorney, accountant, and other outside advisors. We have listed some specialists from affiliated business lines of Wells Fargo & Company. Although they are an available resource, they are not members of our practice, nor can they make securities recommendations, or discuss brokerage or advisory accounts or products. If you have questions about how a specialist might be able to assist you, please contact us.
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Clay Stamson*
Clay Stamson is a senior custom credit banker with Wells Fargo Bank’s Wealth & Investment Management located in Irvine, California. Clay brings more than 22 years of experience in financial services and works as part of a team to help meet the comprehensive wealth management goals of high-net-worth individuals. He specializes in providing deep custom credit knowledge, partnering closely with clients and their advisory teams to structure sophisticated lending strategies that help support complex balance sheets, liquidity needs, and long-term wealth objectives, aligning credit solutions with broader investment and planning strategies. Areas of experience include financing for liquid secured facilities, unsecured credit, commercial real estate, aircraft, life insurance premium finance (LIPF), restricted or private stock, employee stock option purchase (ESOP) monetization, private equity (PE).
Clay’s career experience spans retail, commercial, credit, and wealth management. Prior to joining Wells Fargo Bank, he spent 15 years with Comerica, most recently serving as head of their private banking entertainment and regional director of private banking for the Los Angeles team. During his tenure, Clay also held leadership roles as director of commercial underwriting and business banking group manager. Prior to joining Comerica, he spent seven years in commercial and business banking with financial institutions in Texas, building a strong foundation in relationship management and credit.
Clay earned a Master of Business Administration in Management and Strategy from Southern Methodist University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Mississippi State University.
Clay resides in Huntington Beach, and in his spare time he enjoys traveling with his husband, spending time with family and friends, personal fitness, and relaxing at the beach.
- MBA – SMU Cox School of Business
- B.S. Business Administration, Concentration in Finance – Mississippi State University