Built On Guidance,
Not Gimmicks

You do not build long-term financial security by following rigid templates or chasing temporary market trends. You build it through steady guidance, honest peer-to-peer conversations, and an unwavering commitment to your best interests.

At KDH Financial, we are an independent wealth management and comprehensive financial planning firm rooted in a simple philosophy: protect our clients’ hard work, optimize their financial ecosystems, and treat their milestones as our own.

Whether you are navigating an enterprise exit, transition into retirement, or generational wealth transfer, our team bridges where you are today with where you want your legacy to stand tomorrow.

Why We Built KDH

KDH Financial was founded on a principle to build something deliberately different: a firm small enough to know every client, and serious enough to handle real complexity. We stayed lean on purpose. Fewer clients means senior advisors who actually know your name, your accounts, and your goals,

Not a file passed down to whoever’s available.

KDH Financial

WHY CLIENTS TRUST KDH

Published authors in tax-smart retirement & institutional investing · CFP® & ChFC® professionals · Serving Tampa Bay from offices in Tampa & Largo · A fiduciary standard in every advisory relationship.

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Senior advisors, start to finish

You work with the people whose names are on the door, not a rotating call center.

Tax is the strategy, not an afterthought

Most plans optimize the portfolio and ignore the tax bill. We build around both.

A real plan, not a package

Big firms fit you into a box. We build the strategy around your actual situation — including the requests larger institutions turn away.

Clear Compensation

A straightforward advisory fee, plus disclosed commissions on certain products. You'll always know what you're paying and why.

Life Insurance & Annuities

Stay Ahead of the Curve
A Superior Knowledge Base

The Architecture of a Tax-Smart Retirement

Kevin Harwood writes as someone "living in the same financial reality you are" — a husband, father, and grandfather who thinks in generations, not quarters. This book walks through the layer most retirement plans stop short of: tax brackets, Roth conversions, the forced-income problem, and structuring a legacy on purpose. Written for successful people who have the wealth but want the clarity.

Investing With The Institutional Edge

Most individual investors are handed a menu the institutions would never order from. In Investing With The Institutional Edge, Kevin Harwood opens up the side of the table most people never see — how alternative investments fit into a real long-term strategy, and why patience, not prediction, tends to win over time.

Published authors in tax-smart retirement & institutional investing · CFP® professionals · Serving Tampa Bay from offices in Tampa & Largo

The People Behind KDH

True financial success isn’t just about numbers — it’s about the options it creates. We guide investors from uncertainty toward independence, opening the door to more freedom and more choices for the life you want.

Kevin Harwood

Financial Advisor, Founder

Tanner Harwood

Financial Advisor

Belinda Lusk

Client Services

John Ramsden

Insurance Specialist

Matthew Markowski, CFP®

Financial Advisor, Compliance

Joshua Markowski, ChFC®

Financial Advisor, Operations

Patrick K. Ambrose, CPA

Certified Public Accountant

Advisory Services offered through Compass Financial Management LLC, an SEC Registered investment Advisor.

IN THE COMMUNITY

We’re not a national call center with a Florida zip code. We live and work here — and we put real support behind the causes our community cares about, including: