
Joseph Rinaldo, CLTC
Financial Advisor

Experience financial resources directed by your values and toward your goals.
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Joseph Rinaldo, CLTC
Financial Advisor

Experience financial resources directed by your values and toward your goals.
About
Joe is a financial advisor at North Star Resource Group, an independent financial services firm with roots tracing back to 1908.
As an independent advisor, Joe is not tied to one specific line of products and can instead make recommendations based on your specific needs and goals for your future.
Regardless of where you are on your financial journey, Joe and the North Star team are here to support you and your values.
Services
- Financial planning
- Investments
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Property and casualty
Team

Carrie Hancock
Vice President, Financial Planning Resource Center

Carrie Hancock
Vice President, Financial Planning Resource CenterCarrie leads our financial planning team and provides a high-level of planning support and guidance to North Star associates and their clients.
As a team, the Financial Planning Resource Center of North Star offers steady guidance and personalized solutions for individuals and families navigating the many changes life brings.
While Carrie and her team work out of North Star’s headquarters in Minneapolis, they serve clients and financial professionals throughout the country.
Carrie is a registered representative and investment advisor representative of Securian Financial Services, Inc.
3569772/DOFU 4-2021

Steven Vacinek, CIMA
Investment Consultant

Chase Brakke, DIA, DIF, CEPA®
Vice President of Business Owner Solutions

Chase Brakke, DIA, DIF, CEPA®
Vice President of Business Owner SolutionsChase leads our disability insurance, property and casualty insurance, and employee benefits divisions, ensuring clients have a customized protection strategy for their specific individual, family, and business needs.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Chase joined North Star as a financial advisor in 2008. In 2011, he transitioned to becoming North Star’s national disability insurance consultant and expanding the division and its services nationwide.
Then, in 2019, he became the vice president of disability insurance and property and casualty. Under his leadership, the two divisions have grown and developed to serve clients throughout the U.S. with valuable asset and income protection solutions.
As a former financial advisor, Chase understands how to integrate risk management into an overall financial strategy.
He is also a leader in the national disability insurance industry, serving on various advisory boards for leading carriers and as a member of the International DI Society. He uses this expertise in consultations with financial professionals and their clients. North Star prides itself on providing clients with comprehensive investment and risk management solutions within a single company.
Chase is heavily involved in his community as a member of the board for BestPrep, a non-profit providing Minnesota students with financial literacy skills. Each year, Chase volunteers over 100 hours with the organization as an eMentor, classroom speaker, and fundraiser organizer. He received BestPrep’s Service Award in 2015 and Volunteer of the Year Award in 2018.
Chase lives in Stillwater, Minn., with his beautiful wife Jenn and two children.
Chase is a registered representative and investment advisor representative of Securian Financial Services, Inc.
3650312/DOFU 8-2021

Chris Sitek, CLTC®, CASL®, CLU®, ChFC®, RHU®, REBC®
Vice President Life and Long-Term Care

Chris Sitek, CLTC®, CASL®, CLU®, ChFC®, RHU®, REBC®
Vice President Life and Long-Term CareChris helps financial advisors at North Star identify the strongest insurance product solutions for their clients. Joining North Star in 1996, Chris’s career path has taken him from financial advisor to manager of external insurance brokerage to long-term care specialist to his current role as vice president of insurance brokerage and long-term care. He is very passionate about both brokerage and long-term care given the consequences families face without proper planning.
In an industry with hundreds of companies and thousands of products, Chris helps narrows down the choices to the few that truly make sense based on each client’s unique situation.
Chris attended St. John’s University in St. Joseph, Minn., and he currently works out of North Star’s headquarters in Minneapolis.
Chris is a registered representative and investment advisor representative of Securian Financial Services, Inc.
3650312/DOFU 8-2021

Christina Church
Insurance Consultant

Christina Church
Insurance ConsultantChristina has been a valuable member of the North Star team since 1999, recruiting and training financial professionals for over 20 years and now serving the western U.S. with high-quality risk management guidance and service.
Before joining North Star, Christina graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in communication, and in 2012, she received her internet marketing certificate from the University of San Francisco. She currently works out of our North Star – Scottsdale office.
Joseph is an Registered Representative & Investment Advisor Representative of Securian Financial Services, Inc. 5173273/DOFU 11-2022