Atlas Private Wealth Management Adds Vice Presidents

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Atlas Private Wealth Management has recently added two new executives to its financial team.

Gary Weinlein has joined the firm to develop a growing portfolio of regional and national accounts as vice president of business development and training and John C. Ogle will look to further develop client services as senior vice president, director of financial planning and wealth management adviser.

Weinlein has extensive experience from his 12 years in the industry, including working for First Global, Northwestern Mutual, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.  and Ayco Co. LP. The majority of his time has been helping align advisers' actions with intentions, connecting professionals and helping grow business as efficiently as possible.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in management, with a concentration in finance and minor in economics, from Rensselaer (N.Y.) Polytechnic Institute. He later earned his chartered life underwriter and chartered financial consultant designation in financial services from American College. He lives in Guilderland, N.Y., with his wife, Stephanie, and daughter, Adelyn.


Ogle brings more than 25 years of experience, including as a portfolio manager in the 1990s in the private bank at Bank of Boston, working with individuals and families on planning and investment strategies. In 2000, he joined Ayco/Goldman Sachs as a portfolio manager, addressing the investment and planning needs of executives of publicly held companies. He later progressed to a senior management role within the company's Investment Services Group in Latham, N.Y., overseeing the activities of several areas of the operation.

He holds a master's degree in business administration from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and graduated from the American Bankers Association National Trust School at Northwestern University. He also received certification securities analysis from the New York Institute of Finance. He holds the series 7, 64 and 65 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority registrations.

He will be working primarily from Atlas' home office in Williamstown. He and his family reside in Lanesborough.

Atlas Private Wealth Management is a fee-based investment advisory firm that provides services for individuals, families, businesses and nonprofit organizations. Atlas is a Securities and Exchange Commission registered investment adviser.

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Williamstown Planners OK Preliminary Habitat Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday agreed in principle to most of the waivers sought by Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity to build five homes on a Summer Street parcel.
 
But the planners strongly encouraged the non-profit to continue discussions with neighbors to the would-be subdivision to resolve those residents' concerns about the plan.
 
The developer and the landowner, the town's Affordable Housing Trust, were before the board for the second time seeking an OK for the preliminary subdivision plan. The goal of the preliminary approval process is to allow developers to have a dialogue with the board and stakeholders to identify issues that may come up if and when NBHFH brings a formal subdivision proposal back to the Planning Board.
 
Habitat has identified 11 potential waivers from the town's subdivision bylaw that it would need to build five single-family homes and a short access road from Summer Street to the new quarter-acre lots on the 1.75-acre lot the trust purchased in 2015.
 
Most of the waivers were received positively by the planners in a series of non-binding votes.
 
One, a request for relief from the requirement for granite or concrete monuments at street intersections, was rejected outright on the advice of the town's public works directors.
 
Another, a request to use open drainage to manage stormwater, received what amounted to a conditional approval by the board. The planners noted DPW Director Craig Clough's comment that while open drainage, per se, is not an issue for his department, he advised that said rain gardens not be included in the right of way, which would transfer ownership and maintenance of said gardens to the town.
 
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