Tod R. Arbutina, CPA, CFP®, MBA – Managing Shareholder

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110 Central Square Drive,

Suite 4
Beaver Falls, PA 15010

Tel: (724) 846-9145

Fax: (724) 847-5048

Four Gateway Center, 22nd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Tel: 412.227.0286

Email: tarbutina@cottrillarbutina.com

Web: www.cottrillarbutina.com

Tod R. Arbutina is managing shareholder of Cottrill, Arbutina Professional Services, a Pittsburgh Business Times “Top 20” public accounting firm. He also is managing member of Cottrill, Arbutina Wealth Management Group, LLC. With Big Four experience, he has spent two decades as a CPA and business leader.

Under the guidance of Mr. Arbutina and his colleague Dale Cottrill, the firm's business has grown dramatically in the past decade, and today serves more than 2,000 clients, with offices in four locations. The firm has set double-digit growth records in volume each of the past seven years, including a high profile acquisition of acquired a tax and audit group from S.R. Snodgrass, A.C. in Chippewa Township.

Mr. Arbutina has been profiled in Kiplinger’s for his financial planning acumen. He also has been named in Pittsburgh Magazine as a Five Star Wealth Manager and as one of the “best personal wealth managers in the Pittsburgh area” based upon an extensive survey of client satisfaction. He holds a five-star designation in the Paladin Registry, an information services company providing free education, advisor information and matching services on the web, and is included in the Guide to America's Best Financial Planners, published by the Consumers' Research Council of America.

In 2008, the Beaver County Foundation presented Mr. Arbutina and Mr. Cottrill with the Benjamin Franklin Entrepreneurship Award honoring local companies that best capture Franklin's pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit. The Pittsburgh Business Times named the firm in 2008 as one of the 100 fastest-growing privately held businesses in the Pittsburgh region.

Mr. Arbutina specializes in accounting, tax and business advisory services for manufacturers, professional services, retail and non-profits. In addition, he is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner, and has helped build Cottrill, Arbutina Wealth Management Group into a comprehensive financial service practice. Mr. Arbutina is a registered representative with, and offers securities through, LPL Financial, Member FINRA / SIPC. LPL is an independent financial services firm which offers the actual securities and advisory services once clients have made decisions about their accounts.

Earlier in his career, he was a manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Pittsburgh. While there, he provided both audit and tax services to a diverse client base including publicly and privately-held domestic and international companies. He was a member of the compensation and benefits, healthcare and tax-exempt service teams in Pittsburgh and was the tax practice liaison for all employee benefit plan, healthcare and not-for-profit audit clients.

Mr. Arbutina is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants as well as the Institute of Certified Financial Planners. He is a former board director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Beaver County and as chair of its annual auction has helped raise $100,000 over the past several years. Previously, he served in leadership capacities with the Beaver County Red Cross and the Rotary Club of Beaver. He holds a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business.

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