Meet Our Planning Team

Cathey L. Paine is a highly experienced Select Planner with Sagemark Consulting Private Wealth Services, a preeminent group of financial planners within Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., who have unparalleled experience in wealth management, business continuity and sophisticated wealth transfer strategies. Cathey has been working with high value affluent clients on a personal and strictly confidential basis throughout the United States for almost 20 years. She is a firm advocate of the "team" approach and the unique ability of her elite team of Sagemark professionals to help serve the specialized financial planning needs of her clients.

Cathey is also a member of The Resource Group, an invitation only, nationwide network of top 200 financial planners within Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. serving highly affluent clients.

Cathey has been a frequent lecturer in Southern California on the topics of wealth preservation, tax efficient investing, and the unique challenges of long term care needs. She is an Investment Advisor Representative with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. and has earned the Certified Estate Planner designation. She also holds the FINRA Series 7, 6, 63, 2, and 26 securities registrations as well as Life Insurance, Disability and Long Term Care Insurance licenses.

An avid sailboat racer, she served on the Board of Directors for Anacapa Yacht Club for four years and is also an active member in her community's South Bank Community Council.

Her inclination to help others caused her to spend several months working in villages in Africa, contributing books and sports equipment to the village schools. In 2004, she made her first trip to Cambodia and Vietnam where she worked with land mine victims and most particularly, the bereft children who live in Steung Meanchey, otherwise known as the Phnom Penh garbage dump. As a result of her efforts, she was asked to serve on the Board of Directors of the Cambodian Children's Funds, a position she held for 5 years. She regularly visits the three girls she found living in the garbage dump, Hoeum, Horn, and Meas Saras, and after becoming their sponsor, they are now three healthy and happy girls living and attending school at the CCF.

Cathey Paine, of Lincoln Financial Advisors, Among Top 500 Financial Advisors in U.S. Selected to Attend Barron's Top Women Advisors Summit

• Areas of expertise: Advanced planning case design support, field training, legislative monitoring and reporting, compliance-related business and technical review of sales and marketing materials.


• Education: Juris Doctor degree from University of Bridgeport School of Law; Master of Laws degree in Taxation from Boston University School of Law; Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from University of Connecticut; Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Central Connecticut State University.

• Areas of expertise: Comprehensive and dynamic financial planning for the high net worth market.


• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a minor in Psychology from University of North Florida. Series 6,7 and 65 FINRA registrations.

Derek B. Ferriera understands:

• Your desire to reach financial independence with certainty and tax efficiency.


• Your desire to recruit, retain, and reward key employees for their hard work and dedication.


• Your need to be equitable in the business you built with your partner.


• Your hope to leave a legacy within your family or community after you are gone.


• That while you are busy taking care of everyone else in your life, he can help take care of you.

Derek Ferriera is committed to understanding your situation and customizing a comprehensive financial plan to help toward achieving your goals. Whether you are an executive at a Fortune 500 company, a small business owner, the bread winner of your family or a company ready to go public, Derek and his team can help you translate your goals into action steps. Derek is a motivating catalyst to take the words from the plan into immediate action.

Derek brings over 30 years of experience to his clients. For many of the 30 years, Derek also coached and developed financial planners to help build successful practices. This provides Derek the depth and breadth of financial planning strategies that will optimize the various objectives his clients desire to reach. His experience on thousands of cases provides his clients the benefit of knowing that their financial plan will run through multiple design sessions before the appropriate options are presented to the client.

Derek is an active member of the financial planning community and keeps abreast of changes and innovations in the industry. He holds the following designations, certifications and affiliations listed below:

• CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Practitioner certification, CFP^®, 1990 College of Financial Planning, Denver


• Life Underwriting Training Council Fellow designation, LUTCF, 1991


• Agency Management Training Council AMTC, 1991


• Chartered Life Underwriter designation, CLU, 1993, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA


• Registered Employee Benefits Consultant designation, REBC, 1998


• Certified Fund Specialist designation, CFS, Institute of Business & Finance, 1998


• Board Member of Society of Financial Service Professionals (SFSP)


• Member of International Association for Financial Planning, IAFP


• Member of American Society of CLU/ChFC


• Board Member of The Resource Group of Lincoln Financial Advisors, an invitation only nationwide network of the top 200 financial planners with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.

As a graduate of Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, Derek began his career in 1984 spending time with John Hancock and more recently with C Solutions/Lincoln Financial Advisors. Prior to 1984, Derek worked for a nationally known real estate syndication firm running a 200+ unit garden apartment development. Derek has lived in the Bay Area for many years and enjoys sports, music, and travel. Derek and his wife Karen currently reside in Morgan Hill and have two children, Andrea and Alex, two dogs and two cats.

• Areas of expertise: Comprehensive financial planning for the high net worth market.


• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from University of North Florida.


• Professional designations: ChFC^®, CFP^®, CBEC^®, Series 6, 7, and 66 FINRA registrations.

• Areas of expertise: Comprehensive financial planning for the high net worth market.


• Education: Master’s degree in Business Administration from Regis University; Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, International Business, and Spanish from Miami University.

• Areas of expertise: Estate, retirement, investment, and business succession plans.


• Education: Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of William and Mary. Member of the Northeast Florida Estate Planning Council.

• Primary area of expertise lies within the personal risk management area where he is able to deliver unique strategies and tactics supported by strong product selections.


• Experienced in developing relationships with property and casualty, private banking and stock brokerage representatives, as well as catering to the needs of business owners and individuals who want to address their wealth preservation and estate planning needs.

• Areas of expertise: Advanced planning case design support, field training, legislative monitoring and reporting, and compliance-related business and technical review of sales and marketing materials.


• Education: Juris Doctor degree from Western New England University School of Law; Master of Laws degree in Taxation from Boston University School of Law; Bachelor’s degree in English from State University of New York at Buffalo.

• Areas of expertise: Multiple strategies for wealth transfer that meets objectives while reducing taxes for the high net worth market and business owners.


• Education: Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

• Areas of expertise: Complex estate planning, business succession planning, and retirement planning.


• Education: Summa cum laude, Master’s degree from Southern Methodist University.

• Areas of expertise: Fixed-income, equity allocations, alternative investments, and affluent wealth management.


• Education: Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law; Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lipscomb University. Holds a Series 7 registration.

• Areas of expertise: High net worth estate distribution strategies, senior executive compensation, tax return analysis, and retirement planning.


• Education: Bachelor’s degree from University of Connecticut with concentrations in Finance and Accounting and Associate's degree from Manchester Community College.

• Areas of expertise: Key concepts and strategies for the high net worth market.


• Education: St. Lawrence University. Main platform speaker at the annual conference of the International Association of Financial Planning, the Allied Jewish Federation's Annual Estate Planning Forum, GAMA International's LAMP meeting, and numerous technical and internal Lincoln business management sessions.