Meet Ashten Barber
One advisor who actually knows your whole story.
I earned my degree in finance and began my career at Fidelity Investments. From the inside of the traditional system, I saw the same pattern repeat: plans that favored products over people, clients who were handed information but never truly understood, advisors rewarded for volume instead of outcomes.
I didn't want to join a better firm. I wanted to build one. Eclipse is designed to work the way a financial relationship should: planning first, the same advisor every time, and strategy that exists to serve you rather than sell to you.
Why Engineers
The same rigor you bring to your work, brought to your money.
Engineers think in systems, tradeoffs, and second-order effects. So do the best financial decisions. Equity compensation, taxes, concentration risk, and long-term investing are not separate problems to solve one at a time. They are one connected system, and a change in any one of them moves the others.
Most advice treats them as a checklist. Eclipse treats them as a system, because that is how they actually behave, and because that is the only way to make decisions you will still be glad you made ten years from now.
My Story
It was never really about the numbers.
My interest in finance started early, watching my mother balance the family checkbook at the kitchen table. It was about stability, intention, and building a life on purpose. That has stayed with me.
Outside of work I'm a wife and a mother to two boys (18 and 13). I understand firsthand the balance between building a meaningful career and being present for the moments that matter most. I value independence, time, and living with intention, and I feel most at home on California's beaches, where everything comes back into alignment.
Predictable Patterns
The most predictable event in nature.
An eclipse follows a fixed cycle. Astronomers calculate them centuries in advance, down to the minute, because the pattern never changes.
Markets are cyclical too. Expansions, corrections, and recoveries are not anomalies. They are the pattern. Neither an eclipse nor a market cycle can be stopped, but both can be anticipated, and a plan built around the pattern is what turns an event that catches people off guard into one you already accounted for.
