Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Phillip Hanks is the founder of Parabla LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor.

He began trading over 20 years ago and became a financial advisor in 2015. He is a CFP® (Certified Financial Planner).

He favors a combination of Passive & Active Investment management.

Phillip Hanks, CFP®, is the founder of Parabla, a Registered Investment Advisory firm he founded in 2023 out of Oak Ridge, North Carolina. Phillip became a financial advisor back in 2015, and has experience running an actively managed ETF on the Nasdaq. Prior to founding Parabla, Phillip also started Black Oak Wealth Management in 2016, running the firm until starting Parabla. His primary focus at Parabla remains on both low expense ratio ETF models and individual stocks. Phillip brings boutique-style investment management and financial planning to a new age, seamlessly blending technology with personal service, with tailored portfolio management fees ranging from 1% to as low as 0.25% for larger clients.