Kristin Hetzer oversees investment portfolios for a wide range of individuals and organizations as the principal of Royal Palms Capital in Rolling Hills Estates, California. Her daily responsibilities with this independent financial services firm include security analysis and daily compliance as well as the management of trusts and retirement plans.

Before establishing Royal Palms in 2005, Kristin Hetzer served tenures as a first vice president of investments with Prudential Securities. Ms. Hetzer has also held executive posts with Kidder Peabody & Company in Los Angeles and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith in Long Beach. She got her professional start in the healthcare industry, working four years as a territory manager with Wyeth Laboratories in Buena Park.

Kristin Hetzer presently resides in San Pedro, where she enjoys gardening, hiking, skiing and golf.