Our Team
Bob Deitrick
CEO, Managing Partner
Bob Deitrick is the principal owner of Polaris Financial Partners. He is an author and contributes as a primary source to Forbes also. He graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Finance and Economics. He has been a financial planning professional for 31 years having started his career with CIGNA Financial Services which later became Lincoln Financial Group.
Bob created his own independent branch in 2003. Bob has had numerous television appearances regionally and nationally including Fox Business News, MSNBC, ONN, WCMH and WBNS discussing various financial topics including the stock market, financial planning as well as his book. Bob was an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University, and was co-founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Financial Planning at Ohio State. He has created several pilot classes in high schools in financial literacy in Columbus as well.
Bob is co-author of the book “Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box” published in 2012. Bob has had dozens of radio, print and television interviews for his book including interviews on FOX Business, NewsMax and MSNBC. Bob holds Finra licenses 6, 7, 22 and 63. He is a father of three beautiful children — Mitchell, Mallory and Meredith — as well as an avid skier and licensed PADI diver.
William Harrigan, Esq.
General Counsel/Investment Advisor Representative (IAR)
Will graduated from the University of New Mexico, summa cum laude, with a degree in Journalism and Criminology in 2016. During his undergraduate studies, Will’s love of travel took him to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and to the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, USVI, as an exchange student. Following graduation, Will accepted a full merit scholarship to the University of New Mexico School of Law, graduating in 2019. Will has passed his SIE, series 63 and series 65 exams with FINRA.
After graduating from law school, Will returned to St. Thomas, and served as a law clerk at the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands for two and a half years for the Honorable Carolyn P. Hermon-Percell. In January 2022, Will joined the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Property and Procurement as their legal counsel. Will’s responsibilities included reviewing leases and various types of contracts for legal sufficiency for the Government of the Virgin Islands. Will is admitted to practice law in both Vermont and the U.S. Virgin Islands and is currently seeking admission to the Ohio bar. He enjoys spending Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching college and professional football, respectively.
Jesica Kantner
Chief Marketing & Client Experience Officer
Jesica grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts with degrees in Hospitality and Marketing Management. She completed her externship with Cameron Mitchell Restaurants and worked for Darden Restaurants in both Virginia and Ohio. In 2007 she returned to Columbus and joined Eddie Merlot's, where she was their Corporate Sales & Private Dining Manager, overseeing 13 locations including Columbus. Her dedication to her guests made them one of the most successful steakhouses in the Columbus area. As the Corporate Sales & Private Dining Manager, her responsibilities included building new sales growth, writing and developing training materials, training new staff, and most importantly client engagement.
Jesica has been close to all of us at Polaris Financial over the years and she has personally promoted our brand on numerous occasions. She believes in our core team values and how we treat and take care of our clientele which are among the reasons she has joined us at PFP. Jesica will be working closely with Owen and William to promote and brand our business and to build greater connections with each client. She will be working locally with chambers of commerce and other marketing outlets, to expand our outreach efforts for reaching new prospective clients. She will also be working with other local and national businesses to build and scale our brand at PFP. In addition to her professional life, Jesica is a busy, proud mother of three, and has been married to her husband Eric for 18 years.
Owen Osborne
Investment Operations Intern
Owen Osborne is a Senior at Otterbein University majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Finance and Sports Management. Owen is skilled in providing excellent customer service to a diverse client base and has developed strong business partnerships based on loyalty and client satisfaction. Owen will be working closely with Jesica and William to improve client experience, and he will be focused on various projects from helping clients with move money needs to using our technology at Charles Schwab and PFP to increase efficiency and improve our experience for each client. He thrives in a collaborative team environment having played sports most of his life, and will be an invaluable member of our team. Owen possesses strong initiative and entrepreneurship skills, and he is skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, as well all the Google platforms.
Owen was a student athlete at Otterbein and is presently a Resident Advisor for 100 residents in a freshman dormitory on campus while serving as a mentor and role model and he has also worked as a Natural Resource Technician for the Ohio Parks & Recreation Association, Delaware.