Fiduciary, Trust/Estate & RIA Broker-Dealer Expert

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Jon-Eric Kronvall is a testifying expert witness with more than 35 years of experience in fiduciary governance, retail, business, and private banking, investment advisory, and securities regulation. As President of Esoteric Advisors, he delivers expert reports, declarations, affidavits, depositions, and trial testimony to courts, arbitration panels, and counsel on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Kronvall's concurrent role as President, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer of Wealth Innovation, a Registered Investment Adviser firm, keeps his expert opinions grounded in current market conditions. He is actively managing portfolios for high-net-worth clients using the same products, regulatory standards, and fiduciary frameworks he analyzes in litigation — informed by current practice rather than retrospective analysis. Esoteric Advisors and Wealth Innovation operate as independent practices with no shared clients, referrals, or overlapping engagements, ensuring his active market role informs his expert analysis without creating conflicts of interest. Recent engagements reflect the breadth of his practice: 5.5 hours of deposition testimony in a fiduciary breach dispute; a multi-decade offshore account reconstruction spanning Switzerland and Andorra; a sworn expert declaration filed and accepted into evidence within 48 hours of retention; and 12 hours of deposition testimony in a matter involving fiduciary governance failures and improper broker-dealer inducement of client accounts. His testimony has been expressly cited and relied upon in a court's written decision. Prior to founding Esoteric Advisors in 2017, Mr. Kronvall spent 26 years at Wells Fargo Bank, where he served as District Manager overseeing approximately 1,000 employees across a multi-office region, and later as Senior Private Banker and Team Lead Wealth Manager in the Montecito Wealth office. His leadership spanned retail, business, private banking, compliance, lending, and human resources through periods including the 2008 financial crisis — providing direct institutional knowledge that informs his analysis of banking governance, employment, and control-failure disputes. Credentials, Licenses & Affiliations Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) — Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; Board Member, Central Coast Chapter Certified Trust & Fiduciary Advisor (CTFA) — American Bankers Association FINRA Series 7TO (under FINRA MQP) and Series 66 California Real Estate License California Health, Life, and Disability Licenses Voting Member, Securities Experts Roundtable Available nationwide · esotericadvisors.com · 805.886.6126