Gil Baumgarten, president of Segment Wealth Management, is a 30-year veteran of the securities and investment industry. After beginning his career at the venerable EF Hutton in the early 1980s, Gil became a top producer for UBS and Citigroup Smith Barney. Gil is a two-time recipient of the “Winners Circle” list of top 1000 advisors in America, given to the best financial advisors in the United States, and Gil has also been ranked by Barron’s as one of the 35 best advisors in Texas. Gil is a frequent guest commentator on Bloomberg Radio and hosted his own radio talk show called Dollars and Sense. Gil is also a perennial recipient of the Texas Monthly Magazine Five-Star Advisor award, which is based on an independent study of client satisfaction. Having participated as one of six beta testers in a national UBS program on all-ETF portfolios, Gil is one of only a handful of professional money managers with a 10-year ETF track record. Gil also is an award-winning woodworker, specializing in a particular art form called segmentation, from which the firm’s name is derived. Segmentation is the assembly of various species of wood, cut to fit in a precise pattern. This precision extends to Gil’s investment strategies, where risk components and financial strategies are added and subtracted from client accounts with the same attention to detail.