"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
Our Team
Our mission is to work closely with our clients to help design financial strategies that provide confidence and clarity while also helping to protect their future. Using customized plans that are created through a true partnership, we help empower our clients to weather the inevitable challenges that our complex financial world may present.
Paige Fraasch
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Investment Advisor Representative - Norseman Advisory Group, Inc.
Licensed Insurance Professional – Norseman Financial, Inc.
“I have been working in the financial services industry for over 10 years with a goal of helping my clients so they can retire with financial peace of mind and it is my passion. The relationships I build are the most rewarding. I genuinely care about my clients and want them all to have their best life. My goal is to walk side by side with my clients on their journey. I believe this is what makes Norseman different. I’m committed to helping as many people as possible minimize taxes, preserve assets, and enjoy a financial stable retirement. I am married to the love of my life and have two wonderful daughters and a precious granddaughter and grandson. I love to go to the beach, read good books, and play hide and seek in my spare time.”
* Insurance products and services are offered through Norseman Financial, Inc. an affiliated company.
Kym Byrd
Director of Business Operations
Office Supervisor
New Business Processing
Insurance Consultant
Kym@Norsemanfinancial.com
Genesis Sawyer
Client Relations Specialist
Client Relations Management
Event Coordinator
Office Support Assistant
Genesis@Norsemanfinancial.com
Melanie Garofalo
Administrative Support Specialist
Administrative Support
Marketing Coordinator
Client Liaison
Genesis@Norsemanfinancial.com
Strategic Alliances
Norseman Advisory Group, Inc. offers professional money management through various third-party money managers. One of our strategic alliances is Gradient Investments, LLC (GI). GI is an SEC-registered investment advisor firm offering clients over 20 proprietary portfolios. The portfolios are managed by Michael Binger, President of Gradient Investments LLC, CFA, and Portfolio Manager at Gradient Investments LLC, Mariann Montagne, CFA.
Whether your financial goal is preserving principal, maximizing income, or accumulating capital, our third-party money managers have carefully designed a strategy to help you work towards achieving your long-term financial goals.
MICHAEL BINGER, CFA®
President of Gradient Investments, LLC
Michael Binger, CFA®, serves as the president of Gradient Investments, LLC. Michael brings over 24 years of institutional equity investment experience to Gradient Investments and its affiliated advisors and clients. He has extensive experience working directly with financial advisors, designing and actively managing portfolios. Michael has successfully invested in numerous market and economic cycles giving him a level and depth of experience that is rare in this industry.
Michael started his investment career in Minneapolis with Lutheran Brotherhood in 1987 and gained experience managing assets in a variety of asset classes including convertible bonds, small cap equities and large cap equities. When Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans merged in 2001 to become Thrivent Financial, Michael was selected to work as the senior portfolio manager on the Large Cap Growth Team and Large Cap Alpha Team managing over $3 billion in assets. As the senior portfolio manager, he developed and oversaw the tactical investment strategies utilized within mutual funds, variable annuities, pension funds and insurance company products. These investment processes included proprietary portfolio construction strategies, security selection parameters and volatility controlled umbrellas.
Michael graduated from the University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration-Finance. He graduated with honors and was the University of Minnesota’s “Wall Street Journal Award Winner.” Michael is a CFA® and a member of The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Twin Cities Society of Security Analysts.
Michael’s media highlights include providing market insight on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio. He has also been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Smart Money, Reuters, Business Week and numerous other local, national and global investment publications.
JEREMY BRYAN, CFA®
Senior Portfolio Manager
Gradient Investments, LLC
Jeremy has been with Gradient Investments since 2016 and has more than 20 years of investment experience. Jeremy is a CFA® charterholder and his previous job history includes equity research and portfolio management for institutional asset managers and hedge funds in Minneapolis and New York. He is a frequent contributor to media outlets including CNBC, Fox Business, Reuters, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal.
KEITH GANGL, CFA®
Portfolio Manager
Gradient Investments, LLC
Keith joined Gradient Investments in 2018 and has more than 25 years of industry experience. Prior roles include asset management for a multi-billion dollar portfolio with a large institutional asset management firm. Keith is a CFA® charterholder, managed a Lipper Award winning mutual fund, and has been featured in media outlets such as Investor’s Business Daily, Nasdaq, Reuters, and Bloomberg.
This endorsement of Gradient Investments, LLC is provided by an investment advisor who refers clients to Gradient Investments, LLC. A conflict of interest exists because this investment advisor receives a portion of the annual management fee charged by Gradient Investments, LLC, based on the assets under management of this investment advisor’s clients. This endorsement could assist in the investment advisor increasing the assets placed with Gradient Investments, LLC, and therefore their compensation. These investment advisors are not affiliated with or supervised by Gradient Investments, LLC.