Our Team
R. Scott Pearson
President and Chief Investment Advisor
R. Scott Pearson is an investment advisor, writer, editor, instructor, and business leader. As editor and publisher of Investor's Value View, a national investment newsletter, he provides general money tips and investment advice to readers, and demonstrates a special knack for locating the up-and-coming stocks in the burgeoning high-tech industries. As President and Chief Investment Officer of Value View Financial Corp., he offers investment management services to a wide variety of clients. Prior to founding Value View, he edited the Pearson Investment Letter for eight years, and served as Registered Investment Advisor for Pearson Capital Management. Many of his newsletter articles and recommendations have been reprinted in other leading investment publications, including Investor's Intelligence, Bull and Bear and the Dick Davis Digest. In addition, he has written columns and articles of general interest for various Florida newspapers, covering everything from investments and IRA's to mortgages and credit issues. He earned his undergraduate degree from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of South Florida, where he has also taught classes. Also has a Masters in Economics and PhD from the Ohio State University. Serving as an adjunct instructor at USF (the nation's 17th largest university) and at Webster University, he has instructed students in such areas as Finance, Investments, and Money and Banking. He currently serves as a Finance professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Mr. Pearson has also served as a counselor and educator with Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the Florida Gulfcoast, a non-profit United Way agency, helping individuals learn to work through financial difficulties. He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with his twins Zach and Kate (8) and wife Christine.
Luke Bartolf
Client Engagement Associate
Luke Bartolf is an investor currently working on his series 65 license to trade within the firm. He is currently an undergraduate student at Palm Beach Atlantic University with plans to graduate in May 2023, with a degree in Finance. Starting at Value View Financial in January 2022, Luke has been tasked with many different tasks, including new client processing, client relations, marketing, research in specific stock market sectors, and finding new systems that are more efficient for the company. His title of client engagement associate leads him to focus on client relations and workflows with regards to transactions and requests from clients. Growing up with a father who is a financial advisor, Luke has always known this is what he wants to do and has learned a lot about the industry from a young age, with goals to own his own wealth management firm one day. Luke was born in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, but spent most of his childhood growing up in Castle Rock, Colorado, where he played high school baseball.