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While so much in business has changed, one sector stands out as it operates much the same as when stock tickers dominated its offices.
Now, one independent practice, Bridgemill Private Wealth, has set out to lead disruption in personal financial services by doing things differently for clients in Northwest Ohio.
It Starts with Working to Cut Fees and Costs
Bridgemill Private Wealth combines big investment company experience with a nimble, client-centered approach that works to be different in important ways for its clients. It starts with working to reduce fees and costs that clients may have been paying at other firms for many years but may not see just by glancing at their statements. “We’re a team of experienced professionals but we also think fresh about investing and fees,” said Bridgemill Private Wealth founder/partner Gabe Pollock, of Napoleon. “It was very difficult to find an environment like that, so we joined one to help benefit our colleagues and our clients.”
Comprehensive Types of Investments
Bridgemill Private Wealth has access to a comprehensive variety of investments, on the types of investments it can offer its clients so they can work to help protect and build their families’ financial futures. “We have the freedom to work with our clients in ways that we couldn’t before, including investments in commercial real estate and private equity,” added wealth advisor, Ryan McCracken. “There’s no reason, now, for our clients to have to find another practice to be able to invest in the ways that they want, with carefully selected leaders in their sectors.”
Family/Local Business
Another difference is that Bridgemill Private Wealth can work as a family/local business, helping assure its clients continuity in the future. “My close relation, Ryan McCracken, who lives in Van Wert, and Gavin Cross, professional colleague from Van Wert, are both investment professionals in their own right and have joined us as wealth advisors,” said Gabe Pollock, founder. “Olivia (Cunningham) Dealey, our invaluable director of operations and client service, is also from Van Wert County. We’re committed to the long-term future of our team, so our clients don’t have to worry about getting passed from advisor to advisor. Our clients appreciate that in years to come, they’ll be working with someone at Bridgemill Private Wealth they know and trust.”
A Different Kind of National Partnership
The “&” in &Partners is more than a name. It’s the start of something better. The practice’s relationship with the fast-growing and pioneering national firm &Partners represents another key difference for Bridgemill Private Wealth, which was the tenth group in the country to join the firm that started in 2023. Instead of working under contract, Bridgemill Private Wealth partners hold equity in &Partners, so they can share success, rather than just fee income, with the national firm that stands behind them. &Partners website is quoted as saying “A place where advisors have ownership, clients come first, and everything we do is driven by one mission: to change lives for the better.”
In less than two years, &Partners has over 100 teams nationwide, with more than 300 advisors, and nearly $50 billion in pre-hire assets under management (as of October 31, 2025), providing strength and collaboration that all points toward helping clients succeed. Local advisors help shape the national firm and its strategies.
“Our promise to clients is that we’ll serve as their Personal CFO,” added Gavin Cross. “We now have the system to do that and act, at all times, in their best interests.”
“We all hear a lot about disruption in business now,” added Gabe Pollock. “Bridgemill Private Wealth, with the national power of &Partners are disrupting financial services and investment management, for the better.”
Bridgemill Private Wealth is located in Napoleon, OH and Van Wert, OH with clients across Northwest Ohio, Northeast Indiana, and Southcentral Michigan. More information is available at bridgemillpw.com.
First Published December 15, 2025, 12:00 a.m.
Securities and investment advisory services offered through &Partners, LLC, a broker-dealer and investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and member FINRA, SIPC.
