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Tom W. Anderson
Vice Chairman and Founder - PENSCO Trust Company
Tom Anderson is a recognized national expert on self-directed IRAs who has hosted his own radio show, “Maximizing Your IRA,” and appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” PENSCO Trust enables its clients to place non-traded investments such as real estate and private placements in IRAs.
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Richard Arnitz
Executive Vice President, Sales - Grubb & Ellis Securities Inc.
Richard Arnitz is responsible for the sales and marketing of the company’s public and private investment programs, including public non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and tenant-in-common (TIC) offerings for 1031 exchanges. He has more than 23 years of experience in the financial services industry.
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Matthew Balaker
Senior Investment Analyst - Mickelson Investment Management LLC
Matthew Balaker is an analyst for Mickelson’s Micro PIPE Fund I. He formerly served as an investment officer at Bristol Capital Advisors LLC, where he worked for eight years and participated in over 300 investments. Mr. Balaker speaks at many industry conferences, often discussing issues related to private investments in public equity (PIPE) transactions.
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Tony Battista
Licensed Instructor - TD AMERITRADE
Mr. Battista began his 22-year career in options and futures trading in 1983, as an independent market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), as well as a local independent trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), where he traded the 30-year bond future. While primarily an independent trader in an index options pit, he also spent three years in an equity options pit. In 1987, he solidified his position at the CBOE by purchasing his first seat at the exchange. He served on the CBOE arbitration committee for over 10 years, ruling on disputes between traders and trading firms. He holds industry licenses in Series 7, Series 63, and Series 65.
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James Bittman
Senior Instructor - The CBOE’s Options Institute
James Bittman is the author of four books about options trading and teaches courses on the topic for public and institutional investors. He began his trading career in 1980 as an equity options market maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From 1983 to 1993, he was a commodity options member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
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John Brynjolfsson
Chief Investment Officer - Armored Wolf LLC (Sub-advisor to Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy Fund)
Prior to forming Armored Wolf, John Brynjolfsson spent 19 years at PIMCO, where he created and grew the Real Return platform to $80 billion. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and a master’s degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Tom Capasse
Principal - Waterfall Asset Management LLC
Tom Capasse is a principal of Waterfall, a leading asset backed securities and non-performing loan manager with $1.3B AUM. A pioneer in the securitization market as a founding member of Merrill Lynch’s industry-leading ABS Group (1983-1994), Capasse subsequently managed principal finance groups at Greenwich, Nomura and Macquarie before co-founding Waterfall.
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Brian Casey
Partner - Locke Lord Bissell, LLP
Mr. Casey serves as co-leader of the Corporate Insurance Practice Group at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP. Mr. Casey's primary practice focus is on life insurance
Settlements, insurance-linked securities and related insurance capital
markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, the multi-state regulation of insurance companies, insurance agencies, third-party administrators and other financial services firms. He is a nationally recognized speaker and regularly addresses some of the most prestigious organizations in the United States on issues regarding life settlements.
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L. Bryan Carter, CFA
Vice President and Associate Portfolio Manager - Acadian Asset Management
L. Bryan Carter joined Acadian Asset Management in 2007 as a vice president and quantitative research analyst. He also is an associate portfolio manager for the firm’s emerging markets debt strategy. Carter came to Acadian from T. Rowe Price Associates, where he was an economist on the fixed-income trading floor. Prior to that, Carter served for two years as a Presidential Management Fellow in the U.S. Treasury Department’s international affairs division. He holds a master’s degree in international development from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in economics and Spanish from Georgetown University.
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Cleo C. Chang
Vice President - Wilshire Associates
Cleo Chang joined Wilshire in 2005 and is head of the firm’s investment research group. She has more than nine years of experience in the asset management industry. Chang is responsible for making strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations, creating customized investment solutions and portfolio risk modeling.
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Larry Connors
CEO - The Connors Group
Mr. Connors has over 28 years experience in the financial industry, including working at Merrill Lynch and as VP at DLJ, and building two multi-million dollar companies. The Connors Group’s new product, The MachineTM, is the only software that builds quantified investment portfolios and was named finalist for the 2010 Innovative Market Data Project award presented by Inside Market Data.
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Peter Cook
Chief Investment Officer - Performance Trust Investment Advisors
Prior to joining PTIA, Peter Cook previously managed assets for Rochester Partners, a long/short equity fund, and Templeton Global Advisors, and was vice president in interest rate and currency swaps at UBS. Cook received a bachelor of science in accountancy from University of Illonois and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago.
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Jon Corzine
Chairman and CEO - MF Global Holdings
Jon Corzine is former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and a former New Jersey governor and U.S. senator. Under his leadership, Goldman Sachs successfully converted from a private partnership to a public company. As senator, Corzine co-authored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to a wave of national financial scandals.
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Stephen Cucchiaro
President and Chief Investment Officer - Windward Investment Management
Stephen Cucchiaro has researched the global capital markets for more than 30 years. He has a mathematics degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School. In the late 1970s, Cucchiaro qualified for the U.S. Olympic yacht racing team and was a gold medalist in the 1979 Pan American Olympic Games.
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Jack Dzierwa
Global Strategist - U.S. Global Investors
Jack Dzierwa evaluates international opportunities for U.S. Global Investors and performs analysis of individual companies and macro-theme development in both developed and emerging markets. He was formerly a director in the emerging markets research department at ING Financial Markets in London.
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Theodore P. Enders
Vice President and Portfolio Strategist - GSAM
Theodore Enders joined GSAM in 2004, after developing quantitative trading models and managing a fund of funds for a Boston alternative investment firm. From 2000 to 2002, he was an equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, and from 1996 to 2000, he was a corporate strategist with Morgan Stanley.
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Mark Enman
Head of Global Macro - Man Investments
Mark Enman is head of global macro in the hedge fund research area of Man Investements’ multi-manager business. Enman, based in New York City, previously headed RMF Investment Management’s global macro team. He also has worked at Arden Asset Management, a New York-based fund of hedge funds, and Dresdner Kleinwort, a former British-based investment bank.
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Michael R. Eschmann
Vice President, Business Development - Direxion Shares
Michael Eschmann leads Direxion’s ETF sales effort and develops and maintains strategic relationships with the institutional and retail investor base. He has nearly ten years of experience in sales and trading, including seven years in institutional fixed-income sales at Merrill Lynch.
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David L. Fingold
Vice President/Portfolio Manager - Goodman & Company
David L. Fingold has over 20 years of business, operational and investment experience including senior positions in corporate finance, sales, purchasing and marketing in the manufacturing, transportation and distribution industries. David’s keen interest in restructuring companies is the result of considerable professional experience focusing on core business competencies and running organizations to maximize free cash flow.
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DeFred “Fritz” G. Folts III
Principal - Windward Investment Management
Mr. Folts joined Windward in 2003 from Lehman Brothers and serves on the firm’s investment committee. Prior to Lehman, he co-founded and served as president of Saugatuck Securities Inc., a registered broker-dealer that provided investment banking and private placement services to hedge fund and private equity firms. Mr. Folts began his career at The Boston Company, where he ultimately served as vice president and director of global funding for the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. in London.
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Philip H. Gocke
Managing Director - Options Industry Council
Philip Gocke has been the managing director for institutional education and research for the Options Industry Council since 2005. He is also President of the options trading firm, Brite Sky LLC, and was previously CEO of VDM Options LLC.
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Mark Green
Chief Investment Officer
Oxford Financial Group Ltd.
Mark Green has 20 years of investment management experience serving private and institutional clients, and has had extensive experience with traditional and non-traditional investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, real estate and illiquid investments.
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Suzanne Hamilton
Hedge Fund Manager - Legacy Capital Fund LP
Suzanne Hamilton has been managing portfolios for 11 years, using her 18 years of computer security and mathematics experience to automate the management of risk in supporting trading strategies. Prior to founding Legacy Asset Management, Inc., she was CEO of SECURIX, Inc.
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Ryan Harder
Senior Portfolio Manager - Rydex|SGI
Ryan Harder leads the portfolio managers and analysts who manage many of Rydex|SGI’s alternative funds, as well as the firm’s leveraged and inverse funds. Harder was previously an equity research analyst and assistant portfolio manager at WestLB Asset Management.
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Joanne Hill
Head of Investment Strategy - ProShares
Joanne Hill is responsible for research, development and dissemination of investment strategies using ProFund’s ETFs and mutual funds. She was formerly with Goldman Sachs for 17 years. Hill has published extensively on quantitative investment topics and derivatives, with recent articles in the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Trading.
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Christopher Holt
Founder and Managing Editor - AllAboutAlpha.com
Holt is head of industry relations in the Americas for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association and the founder and managing editor of AllAboutAlpha.com, a Web site covering research, analysis and opinion on alternative investments. He holds an M.B.A. from Duke University and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.
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Brian K. Hurst
Principal - AQR Capital Management
Brian Hurst has been with AQR Capital since its inception in 1998. He has more than 15 years of experience managing money for institutional investors in both traditional and alternative investment strategies. He is currently the head of AQR’s Global Trading Strategies group. Prior to AQR, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Roger G. Ibbotson
Chairman and CIO, Zebra Capital Management, LLC
Roger Ibbotson is founder of Ibbotson Associates, a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar Inc., and a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management. Morningstar acquired Ibbotson Associates in March 2006 and Ibbotson now acts in a management advisory role for Morningstar.
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Jeff Joseph
Co-Founder and Managing Partner - Prescient Capital Partners
Jeff Joseph is an active angel investor, venture catalyst and financier. As a former RIA and the founding managing director of the Alternative Strategies group at Rydex Investments, Joseph’s expertise lies at the intersection of family offices and alternative investments. Joseph writes a blog for RIAs that allocate to private investments at www.venturepopulist.com.
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Edwin Kelly
Director of Education - Sterling Trust, an affiliate of Equity Trust Company
Edwin Kelly is a recognized self-directed IRA expert who has educated thousands of investors, advisors and financial professionals each year on the concept of self-directing with alternative assets. He also instructs advisors on strategies for business expansion and alternative investing.
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Samson Koo
Head of Equity & Funds Structured Markets Origination, Americas - Barclays Capital
Samson Koo is responsible for a team of financial engineers/structurers who use equity and hybrid derivatives to design solutions for Barclays’ clients in the Americas. He has been in the derivatives industry for more than ten years and has focused at different times on derivatives in equities, interest rates, currencies and commodities.
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Charles Krusen
CEO - Krusen Capital Management/LionHedge
Charles Krusen is the Chief Investment Officer of Krusen Family Office as well as the CEO of Krusen Capital Management/LionHedge, a single- and multi-manager hedge fund and private equity platform. The firm provides alternative investment solutions for family offices, high-net-worth individuals, independent wealth advisers, funds of funds and select institutions.
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John W. Labuszewski
Managing Director, Research & Product Development - CME Group
John W. Labuszewski was appointed managing director, research and development, of CME Group in August 2007. He is responsible for the CME Group’s product development efforts. Before coming to the CME in 1998, he was general manager of Nikko International’s U.S. Asset Management Division, where he was responsible for the development and operation of managed futures and hedge funds. He has also worked for Virginia Trading Company, a subsidiary of Kleinwort Benson, Refco, Inc., and the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Frederick C. “Rick” Lake
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman - Lake Partners Inc.
Frederick C. “Rick” Lake oversees Lake Partners’ research on mutual funds that utilize alternative strategies and helps direct the company’s asset allocation, investment research and multi-manager investment programs. He has 29 years of experience in the investment industry. Rick has been quoted in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other publications.
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Stephanie S. Lang
Senior Investment Analyst - Homrich Berg Wealth Management
Stephanie S. Lang joined Homrich Berg in 2005 after more than two years at Bank of America's private bank, where she managed over $350 million in assets for individual and family trust, charitable trust, foundation and retirement accounts. She spent six years as an equity research associate analyst with Robinson Humphrey.
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John LaPann
President and Chief Investment Officer - Federal Street Advisors
John LaPann brings more than 30 years of high-level investment and planning experience to his role as president of Federal Street Advisors. He previously served as senior vice president of Gannett, Welsh & Kotler and spent seven years as vice president of Pell, Rudman & Company.
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Robert D. Leinbach
President - Walton USA
Robert D. Leinbach joined Walton in 2005 and became the head of operations in April 2007. He was formerly a partner in the law firm of Wolfe Leinbach P.S., a Seattle-based firm specializing in representing companies and their executives. During that time, he assisted The Walton Group with their entry into the U.S. market.
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Alan Lenahan
Managing Principal/Director of Hedged Strategies - Fund Evaluation Group
Alan Lenahan's responsibilities include serving as portfolio manager of FEG’s Access Funds, as well as strategy research and due diligence management. In 2007, Lenahan was named one of the 20 rising stars in hedge funds by Institutional Investor News.
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Robert Lindner
Lindner Capital
Robert Lindner earned his undergraduate degree from Mercer University and his graduate degree from the American College. He is a licensed Certified Financial Planner. Lindner serves on the executive boards of the Atlanta Humane Society and the Georgia Chapter of the March of Dimes.
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Tom Lydon
Editor and Publisher - ETF Trends
Tom Lydon is editor and publisher of ETF Trends, a Web site with daily news and commentary about trends in the ETF industry. He is also president of Global Trends Investments, an investment advisory firm specializing in the creation of customized portfolios for high-net-worth individuals.
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Michael L. Masterson
Executive Vice President - Goldman Sachs Trust Companies
Michael L. Masterson is responsible for overseeing all aspects of asset management and representing Goldman Sachs’ personal trust investment management capabilities to clients, prospects and intermediaries. He was a formerly a senior portfolio manager at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.
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Michael Mastey
SVP, Managing Director of Alternative Investments - PNC Capital Advisors
Michael Mastey is in charge of developing and growing PCA’s proprietary alternative investment product platform and is directly responsible for all aspects of product management, strategic product development and risk management overlay. He chairs the firm’s Alternative Investment Risk Management Committee. He also plays a strategic role in alternative investment sales development and marketing for the complex.
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W. Bradford McMillan
Vice President, Chief Investment Officer - Commonwealth Financial Network
W. Bradford McMillan leads Commonwealth’s Investment Research, Advisory Services, Asset Management and Investment Consulting teams. He is a frequent guest speaker at industry conferences, including BMO Capital Markets’ Non-Traded REITs Forum, the Information Management Network Symposium and the FPA National Capital Area Chapter.
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Ed McRedmond
Senior Vice President - Invesco PowerShares Capital Management
Ed McRedmond works on increasing the awareness and usage of PowerShares ETFs within various distribution channels, with a focus on working with analysts, due diligence groups and portfolio managers who develop ETF portfolios and investment strategies. He oversees a team that services the institutional and international channels.
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David Mickelson
President and Portfolio Manager - Mickelson Investment Management LLC
David Mickelson manages the Micro Pipe Fund I and is also the president of Mickelson Capital Consulting. He has more than 15 years of experience in financial services and specializes in advanced estate planning and investment management. Mickelson lectures on financial strategies within wealth building, estate planning and charitable contexts.
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Robert Mileff
Director, Alternative Investments - Fortigent LLC
Robert Mileff is responsible for researching, selecting and monitoring hedge funds and other non-traditional investment solutions for client portfolios and assists in Fortigent’s asset allocation and portfolio construction processes. Before joining Fortigent, Mileff spent several years at Monroe Vos Consulting.
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Trisha Miller
National Sales Manager - Carey Financial LLC
Trisha Miller oversees Carey Financial’s wholesaling team and the internal sales desk. A 23-year veteran of the financial services industry, Miller has extensive experience working and developing relationships with financial advisors in all channels.
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Martin Murenbeeld
Chief Economist - DundeeWealth
Martin Murenbeeld is publisher of the Gold Monitor. He has 30 years of research and consulting experience in gold and precious metals, currency, foreign exchange and credit markets. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 with a Ph.D. in international finance.
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Daniel O’Donnell
Capital Markets Associate - Coventry Capital
Mr. O’Donnell is responsible for developing strategic relationships with global financial institutions accessing the U.S. longevity market. Previously, Mr. O’Donnell was a sales representative for De Lage Landen Financial Services. He also worked as an account executive at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Mr. O’Donnell earned his bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University.
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Jeff Pfeffer
Co-Founder - CapX
Mr. Pfeffer co-founded CapX Partners (formerly known as DNJ Capital) in 1999. His responsibilities include new business development, investment committee, financial management, legal, SBIC matters and credit administration. Mr. Pfeffer has 23 years of experience in leasing, lending and fund management. Prior to founding CAPX, he was a first vice president and managed a three-state region for Banc One Leasing Corporation. He started his leasing career in 1995 by helping create American National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago's equipment leasing business.
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Steven Quirk
Managing Director, Trader Group - TD Ameritrade
Steven Quirk is responsible for the development of new trading tools and technology enhancements for TD Ameritrade’s trading platform. His 22-year trading career began in 1987 as a Chicago Board Options Exchange market maker. While at the CBOE, he served on the exchange’s Index Market Performance Committee and the Arbitration Committee.
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Harry Rady
CIO - Rady Asset Management
Harry Rady is portfolio manager of the Lipper Leader Rady Contrarian Long/Short Fund (RADIX), and the Opportunistic Value Fund (ROVIX), ranked in the top 1% by PSN Informa for the 1-, 2-, 3-, 5- and 15-year periods through June 2009. He is also a board member of Rady Children's Hospital (chairman of the investment committee) and Rady School of Management at UCSD. Harry frequently contributes to CNBC, Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal.
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Luke Rahbari
Chief Investment Manager - Peachtree Asst Management
Mr. Rahbari has more than 15 years experience trading equities, derivatives and structured products and became an independent market maker for the CBOE. He ran the largest specialist unit for LETCO Trading and later started the U.S. Institutional Equity Derivatives desk for Toronto Dominion Bank. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Michael Reed
President - M. J. Reed Investment Consulting
Michael Reed is president of M. J. Reed Investment Consulting, an independent registered investment advisor in Bridgewater, Conn., specializing in investment planning, tactical asset allocation and fund selection for affluent individuals and small institutions. From 1994 until 2009, Reed was a member of the Process Driven Trading group of Morgan Stanley. Reed has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
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Carl Resnick
Managing Director, Portfolio Strategist - Rydex|SGI
Carl Resnick provides strategic guidance on product management, new business development and profitability for the firm’s asset allocation and target beta fund line-up within the institutional marketplace. Previously, Resnick was as national sales manager of ETF and institutional sales and a variable trust wholesaler.
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Tom Ricketts
Chairman and CEO - Incapital LLC
Tom Ricketts co-founded Incapital LLC in 1999. Ricketts previously served as vice president of ABN AMRO, where he pioneered the use of Internet and technology so that companies could offer their investment-grade bonds through a network of broker-dealers and advisory firms. In 2009, Ricketts became executive chairman of the Chicago Cubs.
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Dan Roe, CFP®
Principal and Chief Investment Officer - Budros, Ruhlin & Roe
Dan Roe has been advising clients and in the financial services industry for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Budros, Ruhlin & Roe in 1996, he owned his own fee-only wealth management practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. His primary focus has been on portfolio management issues, but his professional expertise extends to insurance, tax and retirement planning.
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Kevin M. Sánchez, CIMA, CFP®
Vice President – Investments, Institutional Consultant - UBS Institutional Consulting
Certified Investment Management Analyst
Kevin Sanchez’s $1.7 billion practice focuses on investment policy and portfolio design for 26 foundations and endowments. His team also provides comprehensive wealth solutions for a limited group of affluent families. Kevin has an MBA in Finance from the University of Oregon and the CIMA designation through the Wharton school and IMCA.
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Kenneth Settles, CFA
Co-Portfolio Manager - RS Global Natural Resources Fund
Kenneth Settles is a co-portfolio manager of RS Global Natural Resources Fund. Prior to joining RS Investments, he was a senior energy analyst for seven years at Neuberger Berman LLC, where he also co-managed the Neuberger Berman Premier Energy Portfolio. Settles holds a B.A. in economics from Williams College.
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Daniel Sheedy
Director of Capital Markets - GWG Life
Mr. Sheedy, CFA, has 20 years of experience in the development, management and sale of alternative investment products (both credit strategies and long/short equity hedge funds). He also had a long career in traditional asset management. He works in Dallas.
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Jeff Schlegel
Senior Editor - Financial Advisor magazine
Jeff Schlegel has 17 years of business- and finance-related journalism experience at regional newspapers and national magazines. An award-winning journalist for both business and travel writing, Schlegel has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Newark Star-Ledger, Barron’s, Worth and Bloomberg Personal Finance, among others.
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Evan Simonoff
Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director - Financial Advisor and Private Wealth magazines
Evan Simonoff is editorial director of Financial Advisor and Private Wealth magazines and is a founding partner of Charter Financial Publishing Network (CFPN). He has spent more than 20 years as an editor and reporter covering the financial services industry. Simonoff is a widely recognized expert on personal finance and investments.
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Luciano Siracusano
Chief Investment Strategist - WisdomTree
Luciano Siracusano oversaw the creation and development of WisdomTree’s proprietary index methodology and other intellectual property. Before joining WisdomTree in 1999, he was an equity analyst at Value Line Inc. Prior to his career in finance, Siracusano served as Special Assistant to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Luciano is a graduate of Columbia University.
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Chris Skardon
Portfolio Manager - Gorelick Brothers Capital
Christopher Skardon has more than15 years of trading and investment experience in structured finance securities. Before joining Gorelick, he was a managing director at Banc of America Securities LLC. Skardon has held senior investment and trading roles at American Capital Access, Prudential Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities. He is a Yale University graduate.
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Ken Steben
President and Chief Executive Officer - Steben & Company Inc
Ken Steben founded Steben & Company Inc., which specializes in managed futures funds and has more than $1 billion in assets under management. He is viewed as a pioneer in the managed futures fund business, having introduced hundreds of financial advisory firms to this investment strategy over the last 20 years.
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Matthew Swanson
Vice President - Ridgewood Securities Corp.
Matthew Swanson joined the Ridgewood Companies in 2002. In 2003 he began attending Harvard Law School and continued working part time at Ridgewood. Also during law school, Swanson worked in the SEC’s investment management division and in the tax department of the New York law firm Chadbourne & Parke. He received his J.D., with honors, from Harvard in 2007. While working towards his J.D., he also earned a master's degree in commercial law from the University of Cambridge, England.
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Charles (Chuck) Stucke
Chief Investment Officer - Guggenheim Investment Advisors
Chuck Stucke chairs Guggenheim’s Investment Committee and leads the Portfolio Management Group. Before joining Guggenheim in 2006, he served as an executive director on the Portable Alpha Team at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, where he opened and managed the firm’s London-based European alternative investments research office.
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Brian Stutland
Founder - The Stutland Volatility Group, LLC
Mr. Stutland established his own consulting firm in 2010 called The Stutland Volatility Group, LLC, which has lead an intiative to lower risk using equity and index based derivatives for high net worth individuals and institutions. Stutland is a frequent contributor of market commentary to the news media and continues to write a blog with market updates given by he and his employees. As a contributor to CNBC's network and an "Options Action" trader, which can be seen on CNBC on Friday at 5:30pm EST, Stutland continues to inform the public ways to use volatility as an asset class and ways to use options to mitigate risk while increasing returns.
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Matthew Swanson
Vice President - Ridgewood Securities Corp.
Matthew Swanson joined the Ridgewood Companies in 2002. In 2003 he began attending Harvard Law School and continued working part time at Ridgewood. Also during law school, Swanson worked in the SEC’s investment management division and in the tax department of the New York law firm Chadbourne & Parke. He received his J.D., with honors, from Harvard in 2007. While working towards his J.D., he also earned a master's degree in commercial law from the University of Cambridge, England.
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Stuart Thomas
Principal - Next Investments
Mr. Thomas began his career on Wall Street in 1989 with Merrill Lynch. He spent his first ten years there working as a U.S. international equity salesman, a senior deal manager on the equity syndicate desk and as manager of the convertible sales and marketing desk before moving to Morgan Stanley. He is widely credited with creating Morgan Stanley’s retail exchange-traded fund business. and served as manager of the ETF sales and trading department until his promotion in January 2002 to first vice president, director of equity capital markets sales.
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David W. Tice, CFA, CPA
Chief Portfolio Strategist, Bear Markets - Federated Investors Inc.
David W. Tice has been at the forefront of bear market investing for more than 20 years. He launched his own firm in 1988 to provide clients with hedging or sell discipline perspectives and recommendations. This effort formed the origins of Federated Prudent Bear Fund in 1995 and Federated Prudent Global Income Fund in 2000.
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Mike Tims
CEO, mtn-i
Mike Tims is the founder and CEO of London-based mtn-i, a news service, magazine and database that tracks activity in the structured product and private placement bond markets. Since 2006, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have regularly cited mtn-i for its comprehensive coverage of the U.S. markets. Tims is also an occasional CNBC guest.
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Michael D. Underhill
Founder and Chief Investment Officer - Capital Innovations LLC
Michael D. Underhill is founder of an employee-owned independent investment advisor headquartered in Hartland, Wis., with offices around the world. He is frequently quoted, both in print and broadcast media, on the infrastructure industry. His new book, “The Handbook of Infrastructure Investing,” was published by Wiley in June.
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Catherine Vaughn Deutsch, CFA
Managing Director - Highbridge Capital Management
Catherine Vaughn Deutsch is a managing director of Highbridge Capital Management and head of Asset Management. Before joining HCM in April 2006, Vaughn Deutsch was with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, involved with business and product development. Vaughn Deutsch earned an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she was a Rothschild Scholar.
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George H. Walper Jr.
President - Spectrem Group
George H. Walper Jr. is president of Spectrem Group, a research and consulting firm that specializes in the affluent and retirement markets. Walper has a bachelor's degree in business from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Don Wilson, CFA, CFP
Director of Portfolio Management, Partner - Brightworth
Don Wilson is a partner at Brightworth, a leading wealth management firm in Atlanta. His primary responsibilities include developing the firm’s overall investment strategy, researching investment managers and asset classes, and leading the investment research and portfolio management team. Prior to his current role, he was a research analyst and portfolio manager for the firm.
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Jason Wilson
Executive Director - Incapital LLC
As head of transaction management at Incapital LLC, Jason Wilson is involved in a number of financial product transactions, including structured product offerings. Prior to joining Incapital in 2010, he was director, Global Markets Division—Cross Asset Solutions at Societe Generale, and executive director—Equity & Commodities Structured Products at CIBC World Markets. He holds a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Western Ontario.
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Larry Wilson
Vice President - North America Third Party Structured Investments Marketing
J.P. Morgan
Larry Wilson’s team at J.P. Morgan markets cross-asset structured investments through external broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, trust companies and private banks in the United States. Wilson obtained a bachelor’s of science degree from Oakwood College and his master’s in business administration from the University of Chicago.
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Robert L. Worthington, CFA
President - Hatteras Funds
Robert L. Worthington is responsible for day-to-day management and oversight of portfolio and risk management, including investment products, personnel and joint venture partner relationships. He also serves as a member on the investment committee for several Hatteras funds. Prior to joining Hatteras, Worthington was a managing director at JP Morgan Asset Management in the firm’s Institutional Advisory business.
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Marc Zeitoun, CFA
Managing Director and Head of Distribution - Rydex?SGI
Marc Zeitoun is head of distribution for Rydex?SGI and helps shape the firm’s strategic direction, with specific emphasis on financial intermediary and sub-advisory sales. Previously, he was executive director for Investment Solutions and Fee-Based Platforms and senior vice president of Investment Process and Integration at UBS Financial Services.
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