We combined decades of experience with our unique backgrounds and expertise to change the American retirement plan industry for the better.
The Marcado Team
Nathan J. Sharp, AIF®
Co-Founder & Principal
nathan.sharp@marcado.com | 210-320-1171 | LinkedIn
With over 20 years working with retirement plans, Nathan's true passion lies in the mathematics of portfolio construction, asset allocation, and tax-saving retirement plan contribution formulas. He has helped design and manage plans with $1 billion in assets down to plans just starting out. Nathan’s work led him to be named one of the “Top 50 Under 40 Retirement Plan Advisers” by the National Association of Plan Advisors in 2016. Having developed a love for helping clients simplify their plans (and disappointment with the industry's movement toward creating more noise and inefficiency), he launched Marcado in 2017 with an eye toward doing things differently. Nathan graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Math, and has maintained his Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®) designation for over a decade.
Nathan and his wife Stacy are active members of their church and of their children’s school community in San Antonio, and they have been licensed foster parents since 2014.
ANDREW W. BRONSON, AIF®
Co-Founder & Principal
andrew.bronson@marcado.com | 210-320-1193 | LinkedIn
After graduating from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Economics, Andrew went to work with the asset management company Archon Group, a fully-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, commissioned to invest on behalf of the Whitehall Street Funds. Andrew’s seven years with Archon centered on management of real estate and loan portfolios across four global offices, including a three-year stint in Bangkok, Thailand. Impacted by what he experienced living in Thailand, he returned to Asia leading a team for the non-profit, Mission to the World. He spent seven years there managing projects in support of mercy initiatives, micro-enterprise and various development projects. Along the way, Andrew earned a master’s degree from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis as well as participated in several projects in investment consulting for firms in Asia and the U.S. He continues to support the work in Thailand specifically through project consulting, and as a way to maintain his proficiency in the Thai language.
Andrew and his wife Becky have three boys and relocated to San Antonio in 2017. Andrew and Nathan met at Vanderbilt and the two have been close friends ever since, including a visit from Nathan to Bangkok where the two actually fought each other in a Muay Thai kick-boxing ring...and survived to one day be business partners.
Linda L. Yang, CrPC®
Partner, Client Operations
linda.yang@marcado.com | 512-537-9977 | LinkedIn
Linda is driven by a passion to positively influence the lives of others and elevate the standard of care provided by financial service professionals. She holds the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC®) designation and has spent over 17 years serving clients and advisors in the retirement plan industry - protecting plan sponsors, educating plan participants, and helping advisors build truly unparalleled client service experiences from the ground up. Well-known for the level of attentiveness in which she maintains client relationships and her keen eye for detail in all her work, Linda focuses her time on Marcado’s client service operations.
Linda lives in Austin with her husband and son. She stays active in her local community serving on committees at Impact Austin - a women’s collective-giving organization. Since graduating from the Financial Analyst Program at Southwestern University in 2003, Linda has continued to mentor students, drawing new graduates with a heart for helping others into the financial services industry.
ELSA SELLECK, CPA
Consultant, Plan Services
support@marcado.com | LinkedIn
Having conducted and supervised employee benefit plan audits since 2008, Elsa possesses a wealth of knowledge and a deep understanding of the intricacies of our industry. She has niche experience across a wide range of sectors including construction, manufacturing, not-for-profit, financial institutions, retail, and distribution. Her accounting expertise includes Income Tax, Auditing, Tax Preparation, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and Financial Accounting. Elsa is dedicated to providing clients with top-tier services and supports Marcado through client relations and bi-lingual participant education.
She lives in Kilgore, Texas, with her husband, Josh, and her two children, Alex and Max.
David V. Ta
Coordinator, Applications Systems
support@marcado.com | LinkedIn
David is a creative and entrepreneurial IT consultant. As an entrepreneur, he helped co-found a San Diego-based IT consulting service called UNI, which exists to serve SMEs in streamlining and improving their productivity through the latest software and cloud solutions. He is passionate about helping his clients identify inefficiencies and increase their productivity, while emphasizing people first, then technology. Technology exists at the end of the day to assist people, and if people thrive, their businesses follow. He currently serves as the technology coordinator for Marcado.
His other work experience includes serving as a technical lead at both UCSD Academic and Media Services and at Titleist. David has also served in Bangkok as a nonprofit worker through MTW (Mission to the World), where he was in charge of developing a technology media team that was focused on content curation, social media, and streaming. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and is married to his wife Reagan. He enjoys studying productivity hacks and graphic design in his spare time.
