Gary Duell was born in Garden City Kansas, moving with his family to Salem, Oregon at the age of 5.  He graduated from Willamette University in 1974 with a double major in psychology and philosophy.

Gary provides comprehensive financial plans and the appropriate insurance and investments to implement them, continuing ethics education classes for insurance agents, as well as public seminars. He is on contract with Portland Community College’s Community Education department to provide retirement education to pre & current retirees, most notably, Social Security optimization.