Kirkland-based Robinswood Financial announced on April 10 that Brian D. Gawthrop, a Certified Financial Planner practitioner, has joined the Robinswood family. Gawthrop, founder of Five Cedars Financial, LLC, also in Kirkland, comes to Robinswood with a wealth of great experience and sound best practices within the financial advisory business.

“I knew Robinswood Financial was at Carillon Point in Kirkland, but I didn’t really know what to expect,” Gawthrop said. “As soon as I opened their door and stepped into the Robinswood living room, my body relaxed as if I were entering a spa, but without the bathrobe experience. The smell, the lighting, the comfortable leather couch… I didn’t feel like I was in a corporate office building anymore. Instead, I was in a welcoming and familiar place. That is how I want my clients to feel because relationships are extremely important to me and dealing with your finances shouldn’t be stressful. “

Ed Ward, Robinswood Financial’s Founder and CEO commented “We are thrilled to have Brian join the Robinswood family. We have known ‘of him’ and his reputation for several years, and so we jumped at the chance to bring him in as a Robinswood advisor.  His diverse experience has given him wisdom beyond his years and our client-philosophy is identical. That is, always put the client’s best interest ahead of your own, which is what it means to be a fiduciary.”

“Being an elected official on the Houghton Community Council, it is important to me that I live and work within my jurisdiction,” Gawthrop said. The Lakeview neighborhood, where Carillon Point is located, and the Central Houghton neighborhood where Brian lives are both within the boundaries of the former city of Houghton before it was annexed by Kirkland in 1967. “My wife, who is an Internist at Pacific Medical Center’s Totem Lake clinic, and I both enjoy serving our community as primary care providers—medically and financially. If necessary, we coordinate with specialists to ensure the best outcome for the patient/client.”

“With almost 150 years of cumulative financial advisory experience among the seven members of Robinswood Financial, it is empowering to know that my clients are in extremely competent hands, even if I happen to take a month-long vacation with my young family.”