Andrew Gilliland - Financial Planner
Andrew Gilliland has spent the last half decade building a financial planning practice with a singular focus: helping queer folks get to the center of their own financial stories.
His work is rooted in a belief that our community deserves more than competent planning. It deserves planning that holds the full weight of queer life, the joys, the complexities, and the futures our ancestors dared to dream about. Andrew creates the space for clients to imagine long, financially impactful lives and then builds the roadmap to get there.
Before finding his way into financial planning in 2020, Andrew studied at Abilene Christian University and built a career across theatre, education, and fitness. Each chapter sharpened something essential: how to listen, how to teach, and how to meet people exactly where they are. He brought all of it with him when he joined the financial planning world, and all of it now lives at the heart of his practice at Identiti Financial.
Paulius Mendelis - Financial Representative
Paulius brings a wide-angle view of finance to his work with clients, one shaped by his past experience in institutional capital markets, top-tier New York real estate, and private banking. At Identiti Financial, he draws on all of it to help individuals, couples, and business owners in the LGBTQ+ community make confident decisions about building wealth, protecting the people they love, and leaving a legacy on their own terms.
Most recently, Paulius served as a Business Consultant in Fixed Income Analytics at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) in New York City, partnering with asset managers and major financial institutions on the analytics behind their decisions. Earlier, he spent several years advising clients on significant New York City real estate transactions at SERHANT and Compass and got his start in finance at Signature Bank. Clients benefit from that mix: the technical depth of a financial services professional who has spent his career in the rooms where institutional decisions are made, pai
red with the warmth and clarity of someone who knows that good planning is really about the human story underneath the numbers.
Paulius holds a Business Analytics certificate from Harvard Business School and a BA (Hons) in International Politics & Business from Middlesex University in London. He speaks English, Lithuanian, and Spanish, is an active member of the New York Lithuanian Professionals, where he has helped lead fundraisers supporting humanitarian relief in Ukraine, “Sector” LGBTQ entrepreneur’s club and is a regular at OPEN Finance and other forums advancing LGBTQ+ representation in financial services.