Founding Partner
Brett Belliston is a founder of Tanara and has spent decades working closely with high-net-worth families, entrepreneurs, and multi-generational family offices. His work centers on helping families organize complex financial lives across investments, tax planning, estate structures, business interests, and long-term wealth stewardship.
Brett is particularly known for his work in the family office space, where he helps families think beyond traditional investment management. He regularly works with families on governance, including developing family mission statements, clarifying long-term objectives, and defining roles and responsibilities across generations. His approach emphasizes clarity, thoughtful planning, and long-term alignment so families can steward wealth with purpose over time.
Over the course of his career, Brett has advised families through significant liquidity events, business transitions, and generational wealth planning. Many of his client relationships span decades and often grow into long-standing personal friendships built on trust and shared experience.
Brett holds a degree from the University of Utah and has earned several advanced professional designations, including Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), Chartered Financial Consultant® (ChFC®), Certified Exit Planning Advisor® (CEPA®), Accredited Estate Planner® (AEP®), and Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®).
Outside of work, Brett enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. He also enjoys traveling, golfing, snowmobiling, and scuba diving.
“Gratitude is the greatest of all virtues and the parent of all others.” – Cicero
Founding Partner
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
Zeb Lowe is a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Tanara Wealth Management. In addition to leading the strategic direction of the firm, Zeb remains actively engaged with clients, working closely with business owners, corporate executives, and high-net-worth families to navigate complex financial decisions and long-term planning.
His work focuses on helping clients organize their financial lives, evaluate key decisions, and align financial strategies with their broader goals and priorities.
Zeb began his career in the financial services industry in 2010 with Ameriprise Financial Services. In 2014, he transitioned to the independent advisory model and played a central role in building an independent RIA, where he held leadership positions including Director of Financial Planning, Chief Investment Officer, and Managing Partner.
He holds a degree in Financial Planning from Utah Valley University and is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional.
Outside of work, Zeb enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, golfing, and being outdoors.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo Da Vinci | Gordon B Hinkley
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
Director of Family Offices
Tyler Thompson serves as Director of Family Offices at Tanara Wealth Management, where he works closely with business owners and families to support long-term planning and coordination across complex financial structures. In this role, he helps oversee the family office planning framework and strategic initiatives that align resources, advisors, and processes in support of each client relationship. His work often involves coordinating planning considerations across investments, tax strategy, estate structures, and business interests.
Tyler is a Certified Financial Planner® professional and a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®). He also holds the Series 65 license as well as Life, Accident, and Health Insurance licenses. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Financial Planning Certificate from the University of Utah.
After playing baseball at the University of Utah, Tyler has continued to stay involved in the sport by mentoring young athletes. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, and values the role family plays in shaping long-term goals and priorities.
“What we do in life echoes in eternity” – Marcus Arelius
Director of Family Offices
Wealth Advisor | Director of Financial Planning
Alex Graham is a Wealth Advisor and Director of Financial Planning at Tanara Wealth Management, where he works with individuals and families to organize complex financial decisions and support long-term planning. His work includes financial planning, investment strategy, tax considerations, and estate planning coordination.
In his leadership role, Alex oversees the firm’s financial planning process and contributes to the development of advisory professionals, helping ensure planning discussions remain structured, consistent, and aligned with each client’s long-term objectives.
Alex graduated magna cum laude from Utah Valley University’s Woodbury School of Business in 2019 with a degree in Personal Financial Planning and earned his CFP® designation in 2020.
Outside the office, Alex enjoys spending time outdoors with his family and pursuing mountain sports such as trail running, ultramarathon racing, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, fast-packing, and hiking. He also enjoys playing golf, soccer, and basketball and is an avid follower of English Premier League soccer. Alex enjoys traveling and experiencing new cultures, an interest that began while serving a mission in Mexico City.
“Money and success do not change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith
Wealth Advisor | Director of Financial Planning
Wealth Advisor
Brock Alvord is a Wealth Advisor at Tanara Wealth Management, where he works closely with business owners and families to help them make intentional, confident financial decisions and build long-term wealth aligned with their values.
His work focuses on guiding clients through complex financial choices—organizing their financial lives, identifying opportunities, and creating strategies that support both their current lifestyle and future goals. He has a particular passion for helping clients think far beyond just investments, integrating tax strategy, retirement planning, and legacy considerations into a cohesive plan.
Brock takes a highly relational approach to advising, seeking to deeply understand each client’s priorities, family dynamics, and long-term vision. He believes that great financial advice starts with clarity and trust, not just numbers.
He holds a degree in Personal Financial Planning from Utah Valley University and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional and a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®).
Outside of work, Brock enjoys spending time with his wife, son and daughter, in the outdoors, playing sports or watching movies.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
Wealth Advisor
Our purpose is to bring clarity to complex financial decisions and create a strategy where every piece works together. We integrate wealth planning, investments, tax considerations, estate planning, and business interests into one cohesive approach. Through an enduring partnership, we help clients navigate important decisions with confidence, intention, and a clear sense of direction.
Comprehensive Wealth Solutions for Growing Complexity in Utah
Strategic portfolio construction aligned with your goals. Access global public equities, fixed income, private real estate, and tax-efficient growth and preservation strategies with a dedicated financial advisor in Utah.
Centralized governance, consolidated net worth reporting, bookkeeping, and advisory leadership for complex, multi-entity balance sheets across Utah and beyond.
Year-round, forward-looking tax strategies built directly into your portfolio - including strategic asset location, tax-loss harvesting, and direct CPA coordination managed by one of the experienced independent wealth advisory firms in Utah.
Strategic guidance through the three phases of an exit: Pre-transaction positioning, deal alignment, and post-transition capital deployment for Utah business owners.
Unified Governance for Complex Generational Wealth
While our wealth management strategies focus on core portfolio performance and financial planning, Tanara Family Offices provides an extended tier of institutional oversight designed for Utah business owners, multi-generational families, and complex balance sheets.
We act as your central advisory quarterback — unifying your investment strategies, legal structures, tax planning, and daily financial administration under a single, highly coordinated umbrella.
Whether you need targeted assistance with multi-entity planning or a fully integrated family office framework, our solutions layer seamlessly onto your existing wealth management plan to protect your legacy and free up your time in Utah.
Serving as the lead coordinator between your CPA, estate attorneys, corporate advisers, and private bankers to eliminate communication silos.
Designing family constitutions, trust structures, and educational frameworks to prepare the next generation for wealth stewardship.
Aligning private business equity, real estate holdings, and corporate liquidity events with your long-term estate strategy.
Simplifying daily operational noise through consolidated net-worth reporting, entity bookkeeping, and cash-flow monitoring.
If your financial ecosystem extends across multiple entities, private investments, or generational trust frameworks, discover how Tanara’s family office capabilities can bring order, discretion, and peace of mind to your complete balance sheet.
Tailored Guidance for Complex Balance Sheets
Navigating growing financial complexity, estate structures, and multi-generational governance.
Managing growth, corporate tax strategies, 401(k) plans, and eventual business exits or liquidity events.
Balancing equity compensation, stock options, deferred compensation, and high-bracket tax exposure.