FPA honors three planners with awards

FPA honors three planners with awards
The ‘Heart of Financial Planning’ award to go to Shawn Jacobson, Mark Prendergast, Celeste Revelli.
NOV 14, 2022

The Financial Planning Association will present its 2022 Heart of Financial Planning Award to Shawn J. Jacobson, Mark Prendergast and Celeste Revelli at the group’s annual conference in Seattle in December.

The award recognizes financial planning professionals, firms and organizations that demonstrate remarkable commitment and passion for contributing or giving back to the financial planning community and/or public, the FPA said in a press release Monday.

Shawn J. Jacobson, a financial adviser with NorthRock Partners in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been an active member in FPA of Minnesota for many years. Mark Prendergast, director of tax strategies at Inspired Financial in Huntington Beach, California, is a former FPA Knowledge Circle host and past member of the FPA Board of Directors. Celeste Revelli is director of digital planning at Fidelity Investments based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a former director of the FPA of the Philadelphia/Tri-State area board of directors.

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