Our team

Professional, courteous, and independent on your behalf.

• Changsoo Han

  Principal

  Changsoo Han co-founded Harvest Financial in early 2004, after spending 23 years with AXA Financial, Inc., one of the world's largest financial services companies. Mr. Han had a highly distinguished career at AXA, most recently as an AXA Premier Advisor and a member of the Quantum Leap Group. He was inducted into the Order of Excalibur in 1985, and the Hall of Fame in 1991. He has been elected to the President's Cabinet ten times, twice to the Legion of Honor, and nine times a Centurion. Mr. Han was a two time recipient of the coveted Bronze Eagle and Summit awards.

  He holds a FINRA Series 24 Registered Principal designation, a Series 6 and 7 General Securities designation as well as Series 63 and 65 Advisory Services designations with First Allied Securities, Inc. Since 1985, Mr. Han has received significant training in the areas of Retirement Planning, Estate Planning and Investment Planning through American College and Equitable University, in addition to participation in various investment forums, conferences and due diligence meetings. He is a graduate of Sogang University and has served a full tour of duty with the Republic of Korea Army.

• Louis F. Barnett

  Principal

  Louis F. Barnett, a co-founder of Harvest Financial, provides a wealth of operational experience to the firm. Mr. Barnett has spent over 25 years in the financial and insurance services industry. He holds the FINRA Series 6 and 63 Registrations with First Allied Securities Inc. He also holds a California Insurance License, O575413, for Life, Health, Disability, Property and Casualty. He is an active member of the NAHU (National Association of Health Underwriter), CAHU (California Association of Health Underwriters) and LAAHU (Los Angeles Association of Health Underwriter).

  Mr. Barnett joined the Air Force in 1972 and served for 4 years. In 1979 he began his career with Prudential Insurance Company, where he received the coveted Agent of the Year Award in 1980. Mr. Barnett started his multi-line Independent Insurance Agency, Louis Barnett and Associates, in 1982, offering a comprehensive suite of products and services. He was appointed Agent of Record for the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, and from 1982 to 1985 his agency provided services for approximately 3500 of their members. In 1984, Mr. Barnett joined the Pioneer Western Services Corporation and in 1985 received the Leaders Award for the State of California.

• Peter C. Han

  Principal

  Peter Han has been in the institutional and retail financial services industry for over ten years. Prior to co-founding Harvest Financial, he spent seven years as an investment banker at Duff & Phelps, LLC, where he worked on venture capital, equity and debt private placements and mergers and acquisitions for mid-size corporations. He holds a FINRA Series 24 Registered Principal designation, a Series 7 General Securities designation, as well as a Series 66 Advisory Services designation with First Allied Securities Inc. Mr. Han is also a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Engineering Sciences, with a French Minor. He also serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Board Member of Destiny Training International, a non-profit training center for Christian Spirituality.

• Richard L. Stevens, CLU, ChFC

  Vice President

  Richard L. Stevens has been in the financial services industry full-time since 1985, when he joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Over a 14 year career at the Equitable, he obtained the professional designations of Chartered Life Underwriter, Chartered Financial Consultant and Registered Financial Consultant. He holds the FINRA Series 22, 6, 62, 63, and 65 designations with First Allied Securities Inc. In 1999, Mr. Stevens transitioned his practice to provide independent advisory services. He joined Harvest Financial in 2005 to strengthen our Estate Planning and Wealth Management practice areas.

• Edward Yoon

  Vice President

  Edward Yoon joined Harvst Financial with ten years of financial services experience, most recently as Vice President of Investments at UBS. He holds a FINRA Series 7 General Securities and Series 63 and 65 designations with First Allied Securities, Inc. In addition to his responsibilities as a wealth manager, he is a partner of Yoon & Yoon, a real estate development and holding company. He also started Hokusai in 2006, an LA Times rated Japanese restaurant in Beverly Hills. Mr. Yoon is a graduate of University of California at Santa Barbara, with a degree in Law and Society.

• Karen K. Prater

  Operations Manager

  Karen Prater joined Harvest Financial after 25 years of distinguished service with United Technologies Corporation's Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne division. Her entire tenure was in Quality and System Safety (Q&SS) organization. Her most recent responsibilities included providing cost of quality performance metrics for the division, analyzing hardware performance data for manufacturing and quality engineers, and pricing scrapped hardware. She also facilitated several division-level executive council meetings for the General Manager of the company and VP of Q&SS and Environment, Health & Safety. Karen received NASA's distinguished Silver Snoopy award for her contribution to America's space program, which is personally given by astronauts to less than 2% of the aerospace/NASA industry workforce. She holds the FINRA Series 7 General Securities designation.