Jay Dryden, CFP® — Managing Partner

The goal at Vector Wealth Strategies is always to provide you with guidance and assistance, as you transition from success in your career to significance in your retirement. As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Jay’s goal is to use his expertise and more than 15 years of experience to provide you with guidance in wealth management and legacy planning. He has a particularly deep understanding of both why and how to incorporate philanthropy into your family’s long-term wealth transfer plan.

Jay is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University, where he met his wife, Hilde, and currently serves on the FHU Board of Trustees. In 2012, Jay and Hilde established the Leadership Scholarship and the Genesis Scholarship with Freed-Hardeman. The Genesis Scholarship helps students whose families have never attended a Christian university, and the Leadership Scholarship was designed to allow Jay to become more involved and influential in the lives of juniors and seniors who share his same entrepreneurial spirit.

Jay began his career in finance in Huntsville, Alabama, while Hilde finished her marketing degree at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Jay and Hilde enjoy life with their son, Axl, daughter, Lorelai, and a tabby named Titan. They are members of Twickenham Church of Christ. When he is not working, Jay used to enjoy golfing, wakeboarding along the Tennessee River and traveling — but then they had kids. Now, he spends most of his free time playing chase, hide and seek or just wrestling on the floor, and he wouldn’t trade it for all the golf in the world.

Kelly Moise — Senior Partner

The goal at Vector Wealth Strategies is always to provide you with guidance and assistance, as you transition from success in your career to significance in your retirement. Kelly and the Vector Wealth Strategies team go beyond the traditional financial advisor role. Before she worked in financial services, Kelly owned a gymnastics training center and coached nationally ranked gymnasts. Using her skills as a coach, counselor and mentor, Kelly is particularly gifted at helping you craft a clear vision for your retirement and developing the financial plan to get you there.

Kelly and her husband, Patrick, were married in 2002 and have three children — Chelsea, Kieran and Aimee. They enjoy traveling; and some of their favorite locations have been Paris, Dublin and southern Spain. They visit Glacier National Park every year and love hiking. Kelly also serves on the leadership council of the Women’s Philanthropy Society and the Irish Society of North Alabama where she helps plan the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. But if you think you are getting any of her special Irish cupcakes, think again. Those special treats are for authentic kilt-wearing men only.

Most recently, Kelly lost her mind, and over 75 pounds followed when she started competing in ultra trail races of distances exceeding 30 miles in a single event. This special level of insanity to sign up for such endurance races, along with a great nutrition coach from StrongerU, have helped her and Patrick to lose over pounds 130 pounds between them (roughly the current weight of their teenage son Kieran). She’s truly half the woman she used to be.

Nick Jackson — Associate Advisor

The goal at Vector Wealth Strategies is always to provide you with guidance and assistance, as you transition from success in your career to significance in your retirement. We also work to ensure that your second half is secure even as our Lead Advisors consider their own second half life goals. Our Associate Advisor program was developed to train the next generation of talented Lead Advisors who will care for you and your family for generations to come. As a second year Associate Advisor Nick is taking a leading role in client meetings. He works closely with our Lead Advisor in not only developing financial plans and investment strategies, but in explaining and implementing them with clients. He also is continuing to study and work toward his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation.

Already quite accomplished academically, Nick is a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University, where he graduated with a BBA in Finance and an MBA. While Nick was at FHU, he was involved in many extracurricular activities, including serving as a mission trip coordinator and as the Portfolio Manager for The Clayton Investment Team, a student-led investment portfolio of one million dollars. Nick is proud to say he was one of the first to go through the intern program at Vector where he learned more about the industry and how Vector serves its clients and the surrounding community. 

FHU is also where Nick met his wife, Mackenzie, who is a second-grade teacher at Madison Academy. Nick and Mackenzie are active members at the Madison church of Christ. In his free time, you can find Nick spending time with family, having fun on the golf course, watching whatever sports event is on, and rolling with the tide in the fall.

Marshall Dearing — Associate Advisor

The goal at Vector Wealth Strategies is always to provide you with guidance and assistance, as you transition from success in your career to significance in your retirement. We also work to ensure that your second half is secure even as our Lead Advisors consider their own second half life goals. Our Associate Advisor program was developed to train the next generation of talented Lead Advisors who will care for you and your family for generations to come. As a first year Associate Advisor Marshall’s role is to listen and learn. He attends client meetings to help the Lead Advisor take notes, create follow up tasks and delegate work to the service team. He then works behind the scenes with the Lead Advisors monitoring investments and drafting financial plans while he continues to study and work toward his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation.

Already quite accomplished academically, Marshall graduated from Freed-Hardeman University with a BBA and MBA in Financial Planning. As a student, Marshall was honored to serve as the Portfolio Manager of the student-led Clayton Investment Team while also balancing involvement in numerous on-campus clubs and being named Homecoming King and Mr. FHU. Marshall fell in love with Vector and the entire city of Huntsville through VectorNext as a summer intern in 2019. 

It was at Freed where he met his wonderful and talented wife, Emma who is now a Registered Nurse at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children in their Mother/Baby unit. At home, Marshall and Emma enjoy cooking together, having friends over, and playing with their massive and clumsy German Shepherd, Mina. Marshall loves to golf any opportunity he gets and also enjoys playing music, and according to Jay, with a little practice he could be the best  wakeboarder on the Tennessee River. Marshall feels blessed to be part of a family of people invested in loving and serving others.

Josh Shoemaker — Lead Relationship Manager

As a Lead Realationship Manager, Josh will be your point person for ongoing account servicing. He helps prepare the advisors for your plan review meetings and handles important details, like investment withdrawals— getting the money you’ll need for that retirement cruise you have been looking forward to all year. Trained as a minister in college, he has an outstanding level of patience and understanding to help you work through the most tedious of service needs. When your CPA calls asking for last minute tax documents you forgot to turn in, you’ll be glad for Josh’s calm demeanor and efficient expertise in quickly finding exactly what you need.

Josh grew up on his family’s farm in Greenhill, Alabama. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Freed-Hardeman University in 2009 and soon after married Britney. They live in Hazel Green, Alabama, with their cat, Zeke. They are members of the Rock Family Worship Center in Huntsville, where Josh and Britney are heavily involved in leading the Celebrate Recovery ministry and also serve as a life group leaders. When he’s not at work, Josh is an accomplished fitness instructor and also enjoys traveling with Britney.

Christine Baker — Associate Relationship Manager

As an Associate Relationship Manager, Christine will be your point person for much of your ongoing account servicing needs. She helps the advisors with scheduling and many of the follow up tasks from your meetings. She also handles important details for you, like beneficiary changes and investment withdrawals— getting the money you’ll need for that special event you have been looking forward to all year. With nearly eight years’ experience as a server and manager in the restaurant industry, she has a gracious demeanor and understanding of customer first service that you expect and deserve.She enjoys going the extra mile and will follow every project through to the end.

Originally from Northern Illinois, Christine relocated to North Alabama in 2003. Her and her pit-mix, Star, live in Downtown Huntsville. Outside of work, she enjoys spending her time traveling and loves kayaking, camping, and snowboarding.

Jackie Kelly — Business Manager

Jackie Kelly joined our team in January of 2020. As our Business Manager, she primarily works behind the scenes supervising and managing the daily business operations of the firm to ensure that the company stays aligned to meet our goals. Jackie had a background in banking before moving into the Defense Contracting Industry where she spent over 14 years supporting both employees and contract customers. In 2013, she left to spend more time with her family where she found a new love of portrait photography.

In 1998, she married her sweetheart, Shawn and they have two amazing children, Tyler and Kaitlin. Jackie and her family attend Twickenham Church and she is involved in the Ladies Ministry as well as the Vision Council. In her spare time…OK, she’s a mom so let’s be honest, she has no spare time. But, when not carting kids to sporting and dance events she loves to do art projects with her daughter, hike and take pictures with the family, and play outside with their two dogs, Lucy and Zoe.