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Jaris Hansen has been helping retirees and pre-retirees in Northern Colorado navigate the important financial decisions that come with retirement since 2001. As a Founder of Retirement Planning Center of the Rockies, he has helped build a firm centered on comprehensive retirement planning, personal relationships, and helping clients bring their vision for retirement to life. 

He believes retirement planning shouldn’t feel overwhelming. He focuses on making complex retirement topics easier to understand, helping folks move forward with clarity and confidence.

For Jaris, a thoughtful retirement plan is more than managing finances. It’s about the peace of mind that comes from understanding how all the pieces work together, so retirees can spend less time worrying about money and more time enjoying the retirement they’ve worked hard for.

Outside the office, Jaris and his wife live in Greeley, Colorado, with their five children and an ever-growing assortment of farm animals. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing the piano, serving in his church, and volunteering with Junior Achievement, where he has taught financial literacy to local students for more than a decade. 

Gary Hansen is the founder of the Retirement Planning Center and has been helping individuals and families navigate important retirement decisions for more than four decades. Since entering the financial services industry in 1980, Gary has built his career around a commitment to honesty, integrity, and putting clients’ interests first. 

Gary believes retirement should be an adventure worth looking forward to. Effective retirement planning begins with listening to and understanding what each client wants that adventure to look like. His goal is to help clients navigate the journey with greater clarity and confidence, so they can spend less time worrying about retirement and more time enjoying the life they’ve worked hard to build. 

Education has always been an important part of Gary’s work. He is passionate about teaching others, helping clients and members of the community improve their financial literacy, understand their options, and make informed decisions about their financial future. 

Today, Gary especially enjoys working alongside the next generation at Retirement Planning Center, including his sons, Jaris and Brandon, his son-in-law, Josh, and 11 other advisors and support staff. For Gary, building lasting relationships with clients and helping them bring purpose, plans, and possibilities to life continues to be the most rewarding aspect of his work. 

Outside the office, Gary’s greatest priority is his family. He and his wife and best friend, Jennis, have been married for 53 years and have seven children and 21 grandchildren. He enjoys racquetball, yoga, working on his acreage, and supporting local charities and causes. He also volunteers on a church welfare farm, where time behind the wheel of a John Deere tractor has earned a permanent place on his calendar as “Tractor Therapy.” 

Josh Cumrine believes retirement isn’t the finish line – it’s base camp for the next adventure. As Co-Founder of Retirement Planning Center or the Rockies, he and his team help clients turn decades of hard work into a plan that funds the kind of life they want to live, not just the one they can afford to sit still for. 

Josh’s path here wasn’t a straight line. Growing up, he chased three things: baseball, numbers, and helping people. Baseball didn’t work out as a career, but the other two did. He entered financial services in 2003, and over the years built a conviction that retirees can benefit from a comprehensive retirement planning approach that considers factors beyond investments alone. 

That conviction became RPC’s Summit Retirement Guide™ – a process built around five key areas every solid retirement plan needs to address: Income, Investments, Taxes, Healthcare, and Legacy. Josh walks each client through the Guide personally, translating the technical into the clear, so they can move forward with confidence instead of doubt. 

Outside the office, Josh is a husband and father to three sons (and one English Bulldog). A lifelong athlete, he remains deeply engaged in the fitness world today. He lives in Northern Colorado, where family, faith, and community keep him firmly rooted between adventures.