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Phone: (415) 839-9640 ext. 111
Fax: (415) 839-8625
E-mail: rsklar@silvertransition.com 

CA Insurance License #0B49193

Ralph Sklar

Financial and Estate Planning Adviser

Ralph's perspective has been forged by over thirty-five years of entrepreneurship. In 1982, while a candidate for a PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley, he founded his first business. It had over 90 employees when he sold it twelve years later.

Ralph speaks, teaches, and writes about strategies and techniques that can help entrepreneurial individuals to crystallize and attain their most important financial objectives. These strategies and techniques are all formulated by observing not only what has been successful with his clients, but what has been successful with other legacy clients as well.

In 2001 Ralph partnered with Alan Silver, nephew of the legendary Ben Silver, at The Silver Group. In 2007 Ralph renamed the company Silver Transitions, but the half-century of financial planning history, success and experience still remain within its halls today.

Ralph has been a President of the East Bay Estate Planning Council, a Trustee of the Oakland Rotary Endowment, a board member of the San Francisco Estate Planning Council, and is currently a board member of the Telegraph Area Business Improvement District, and the NYLARC Reinsurance Company.

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Phone: (415) 393-6127
Fax: (415) 393-6124
E-mail: tkanaley@silvertransition.com

CA Insurance License #0D07336

Thomas J. Kanaley, J.D

Financial and Estate Planning Adviser

Tom works with ultra-affluent and high net worth families and business owners to help them achieve their estate, business and charitable planning objectives. He has spent more than 22 years serving clients in the areas of estate, business succession, and charitable legacy planning. He also has extensive experience in the use of life insurance for wealth preservation and integrated family wealth planning. A former practicing attorney, he served as a consultant with two major financial institutions, working throughout the country with high net worth clients and their professional advisors. Tom is a frequent speaker to professional associations and industry groups. He has addressed national audiences on the topics of life insurance planning and wealth preservation and is on the Planning Committee for the Kasner Estate Planning Symposium at Santa Clara University.

Tom is a graduate of Vassar College and earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a member of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting, the Society of Financial Services Professionals and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.

Tom is a graduate of Leadership San Francisco and is active in community affairs. He is past president of St. Gabriel Church’s Parish Council and has served on the Planned Giving Committee for the Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco. Tom lives in San Francisco with his wife and six children.


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Phone: (415) 839-9640 ext. 112
Fax: (415) 839-8625
E-mail: bstewart@silvertransition.com

Brian Stewart

Life and Disability Insurance Coordinator

Brian Stewart helps oversee operations at Silver Transitions and has been a valued part of the Silver Transitions team since 2001. Brian specializes in Life, Health, and Disability Insurance. All of our clients benefit from his many years helping to evaluate insurance needs, and potential solutions.

Brian’s greatest strength may be in his ability to understand and clearly explain the differences between different type of policies and identifying the features that are most important in each situation.

A lifelong resident of San Francisco, Brian has over twenty years of experience volunteering as community role model and mentor to youth.


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Phone: (510) 282-1690
Fax: (415) 393-6124
E-mail: dscharff@silvertransition.com

CA Insurance License #0689910

David Scharff

Financial Services Professional

David’s passion is simple: to help business owners and their families live fuller lives by helping them make more effective financial decisions.

David has been a business advisor for over twenty years. Through hundreds of hours of conversations and working closely with business owners, he learned they are often so busy with daily operations that they sometimes don’t take the time to plan for their future. He helps his clients’ personal financial results match their successful business financial results.

David serves on the Board of Legal Assistance for Seniors of Alameda County. He also loves to play the drums for the Rough & Ready Blues Band which supports community fundraisers on a pro bono basis. David has been an active Oakland Rotary Club member for over 15 years.

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Ralph Sklar is an agent licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company and may be licensed with various other independent unaffiliated insurance companies in the states of CA (CA Insurance License #0B49193), CO, CT, FL, MA, NV, NY, OR, and VT. No insurance business may be conducted outside the states referenced.

As a New York Life Agent, Ralph Sklar is licensed and authorized to offer insurance in California, but Silver Transitions Financial & Insurance Solutions may not be. For additional information on California licensure status, please click here.

Ralph Sklar is a Registered Representative of and offers securities products & services through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, a licensed insurance agency, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, 425 Market St Ste 1600, San Francisco, CA, 94105, 415-839-9640. In this regard, this communication is strictly intended for individuals residing in the states of CA, CO, MA, NY, OR, and VT. No offers may be made or accepted from any resident outside the specific states referenced.

Ralph Sklar is also a Financial Adviser with Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, offering advisory services in the states of CA, CO, MA, NY, OR, and VT. As such, these services are strictly intended for individuals residing in the states referenced.

The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), The Premier Association of Financial Professionals®, is recognized globally as the standard of excellence for life insurance sales performance in the insurance and financial services industry.

Silver Transitions Financial & Insurance Solutions is not owned or operated by NYLIFE Securities LLC or its affiliates.​

Neither Silver Transitions Financial & Insurance Solutions nor its associates are in the business of offering tax, legal, or accounting advice. Please consult your own tax, legal, or accounting professional before making any decisions.​

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