Gil Baumgarten

Gil Baumgarten is the founder and president of Segment Wealth Management, a fee-only fiduciary firm in Houston, and a wealth strategist with more than 40 years of investment experience. He began his career in the early 1980s and became a top producer at major Wall Street brokerages before leaving that world in 2010 to launch Segment, where the interests of the client and the firm are aligned. Since then, Segment has grown into one of Houston's top-ranked advisory firms with more than a billion dollars in client assets under advisement. Gil is a multi-year recipient of Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors in America and has been recognized as one of the country's leading exchange-traded fund thought leaders by Barron's and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the bestselling FOOLISH: How Investors Get Worked Up and Worked Over by the System.