Northwestern Mutual
Fairview Heights
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Leadership at the Fairview Heights office is dedicated to doing good for our clients, employees and community.
Christopher Lowery
CFP®, CPA, CLU®, ChFC®, CASL®
Managing Director
Christopher Lowery and his team's mission is to help deliver lifelong financial security to their clients through a simplistic, integrated, wealth management approach. They want to help each client personally, professionally, and financially by building enduring relationships, improving the lives, and protecting their dreams.
Nikolaus Skaer
CLU®, ChFC®, RICP®, CASL®
Growth and Development Director
Nik Skaer is a Field Director in the Fairview Heights, IL and Cape Girardeau, MO offices. Nik has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and joined Northwestern Mutual in 2009 after working with his family at their car dealerships and service centers for nine years. He has been involved in Field Leadership with the Lowery Group since 2010, originally serving as a mentor, becoming involved in our internship unit, moving to College Unit Director in 2015, and to a Field Director in 2017. As a Field Director, Nik’s focus is not just on growing our internship unit, but also sourcing and developing full time representatives/advisors as well. Nik has a true passion for training and developing the new talent of our office, while simultaneously building his own financial practice, helping his clients with their own personal, professional, and financial goals.
Greg Coleman
Growth and Development Director
Greg Coleman has a passion for teaching, and as a College Unit Director he works with our college interns year-round to give them a great experience. He brings over 15 years of outside business experience to help educate interns on how to successfully run a financial planning practice. Along with working with each one of our interns, Greg runs his own personal practice with clients all over the country.
Jodi Krauss
Director of Operations
Jodi Krauss is responsible for overseeing centralized services, technology, new rep onboarding and marketing. Her passion is to help the district office achieve the highest levels of productivity and profitability.Sandra Koenig
Director of Recruitment and Development
I help people learn more about how a career as a Northwestern Mutual financial representative can provide the rewards and opportunities of self-employment -- flexibility, having a positive impact on people’s lives and virtually unlimited earning potential. As a financial representative, you have all the advantages of being in business for yourself, but you’re not alone. We will help you develop your business and marketing plans, provide extensive training and coaching from certified trainers, and offer access to our knowledgeable group of financial professionals to help you launch your career.
Chelsie Bujnak
Development Coach
Chelsie is our Development Coach and oversees our district's Under 5 development including: coaching, developing and supporting our Under 5 year financial representatives. Chelsie graduated from Lincoln Trail College and previously worked in healthcare. She has been with the Lowery team since November of 2020. In her spare time she enjoys spending it with family and friends.
Amber Weidner
Sales Execution Team
Aaron Farthing
MAcc
Financial Advisor
I started my career as an accountant and obtained a MS in Accounting. Upon doing this for 6 years I gained very valuable insight on tax preparation and planning and how the holistic work I do can help to mitigate taxes. I specialize in helping young professionals and young families by creating holistic and comprehensive financial plans.