About Us
Most tax advice arrives too late to be advice. It arrives in March, about a year that's already over, describing decisions that can no longer be changed. Everyone involved is doing their job correctly and the outcome is still worse than it needed to be.
We built this firm around the opposite premise: that the tax bill is decided long before anyone files, by people making ordinary business decisions without knowing what those decisions cost. Being your year-round team is what puts us in that conversation early enough to matter.
Not an Annual Event
Tax law changes. Your business changes. The strategy that was right two years ago may be actively costing you now, and nothing will tell you that except someone looking.
So we stay in it. When you're weighing a building, a partner, a new comp structure, an acquisition, or an exit, that's the conversation where the tax outcome is actually determined — and it's a conversation you should be having with your team before the deal, not after. Most of our clients hear from us more between January and December than they ever heard from a prior firm even during filing season.
That's not a service level. It's the only way this works.
Meet the Team
David B. Hampson
Managing Partner
David B. Hampson is an entrepreneur, commercial pilot, author, and board-level strategist who owns and leads multiple businesses spanning wealth advisory, insurance, and premium finance. With more than two decades of experience in specialty risk environments, he is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build more profitable companies, reduce taxes legally, and create lasting wealth. He lives in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and two sons.
Ryan Sturgis
CPA
Ryan Sturgis Ryan is a Massachusetts-licensed CPA with more than a decade of experience in tax and audit compliance for complex entities. Building on this technical foundation, Ryan is now focused on proactive tax planning and is committed to translating the tax code into practical strategies that clients can apply directly to their businesses to legally minimize tax liability and build wealth. Outside of work, he enjoys playing music, basketball, and spending quality time with his wife and two young children.
Buddy Hampson
Partner-Business Development
Buddy Hampson has over two decades of business experience, having previously worked in both financial services and banking. She started as a teller in 2007 and worked her way up to several management positions before leaving banking in 2019 to join the family business. Buddy is originally from Cape Town, South Africa but has been living in the United States since December 2006. Although bilingual in English and Afrikaans, she now seldom gets to practice the latter! Buddy lives in Portsmouth, NH with her husband and two sons.
Where the Method Comes From
TFW Hampson Sturgis is a TFW Advisors® firm — part of a national network of CPA-based tax strategy practices founded by Tom Wheelwright, CPA.
Tom is the CPA for Robert Kiyosaki, a Rich Dad Advisor, and the bestselling author of Tax-Free Wealth and The Win-Win Wealth Strategy. His central argument, and ours, is that the tax code isn't primarily a penalty. It's a set of instructions. Most of it describes things the government wants you to do — build, hire, house people, produce energy — and the incentives are sitting there in plain text for anyone willing to plan around them in advance.
That method is what we brought to New England. What we added is being the CPA who implements it.
“Our goal is to help successful entrepreneurs keep more of what they earn, invest it wisely, and build a business and life they never want to retire from.”
–Tom Wheelwright®, CPA
