Gary Klein

Gary Peter Klein is a California-based financial adviser and co-founder of Regal Wealth Group. LinkedIn identifies him as being affiliated with Pacific Pointe Advisors, based in Seal Beach, California, and says he was securities licensed in 1981 and co-founded Regal Wealth Group. His education listed on LinkedIn is California State University, Fullerton.

Regal Wealth Group operated as an SEC-registered investment adviser with CRD #138374 and SEC #801-65444. The SEC’s IAPD record states that the firm’s registration was terminated effective March 28, 2024. Third-party adviser-registry data sourced from SEC and state feeds shows Klein’s prior registrations at Regal Wealth Group from January 2006 to March 2024, Allied Consulting Group from May 2003 to December 2005, and Regal Advisory Services from January 1998 to November 2006.

Since February 2024, Klein has been associated with NewEdge Advisors, LLC, doing business as Pacific Pointe Advisors RIA, at the Seal Beach office. Pacific Pointe Advisors describes itself as a financial-planning and investment-management advisory team supported by NewEdge Advisors, LLC, and lists Seal Beach as its main office. The firm says it works with corporate executives, retired executives, physicians, families with inherited wealth, and entrepreneurs.

Altss classifies Regal Wealth Group as a Seal Beach-based multi-family office co-founded by William Beeler and Gary Klein. Its profile says the advisory team, including Beeler, Klein, Jodi Edwards, and Darcy Pierce, transitioned client-facing advisory practices to Pacific Pointe Advisors in 2024, while the Beeler Family Trust retained ownership and governance of family-office assets.

• Regal Wealth Group’s alternative-investment activity is described as focused on private credit, private equity, hedge funds, and intellectual property and royalties.
• Altss reports that the firm focuses on Pre-IPO companies, especially in healthcare services, biotech, and sports and wellness.
• Geographic reach is reported as North America, Asia, and Oceania.
• The available public record does not show a founder-facing angel-investing thesis, seed-stage mandate, standard check size, or named startup sourcing process for Gary Klein personally.
• Pacific Pointe Advisors’ public materials frame the advisory practice around financial planning and investment management for executives, physicians, inherited-wealth families, and entrepreneurs, with a fee-based structure and no commissions for recommending certain financial products.