Investment management professional building operations solutions for hedge fund, insurance and real money asset portfolios. Focused on the development and project management of operations systems, governance, and infrastructure.

Key Competencies

• Process Improvement

• System Selection / Implementation

• Workflow Automation

• Project Management

Asset Classes

• Fixed Income

• Interest Rates

• Derivatives

• Equities

Areas of expertise

• Middle and Back Office Workflow

• Data Integrity / Stewardship

• IT Infrastructure

Professional Background

• Midwest Holding Inc

• Nassau Financial Group

• Security Benefit Corporation

• Barnegat Fund Management

Education

• Bachelor of Arts

• Gettysburg College

• Business Management

Overview

• Over 25 years’ experience in buy side and sell side trading and investment management.

• Held senior leadership positions in front, middle, and back-office departments.

• Creative problem solver building scalable vertical and horizontal efficiencies.

Experience

• Shareholder, Head of Middle Office Operations at Midwest Holding Inc – The holding company of American Life & Security Corp and owner and contributor to home-grown m.risk and m.pas asset and policy administration systems.

• Head of Middle Office at Nassau Financial Group – CT and NY life and annuity company with $23 billion in assets under management.

• Director, Investment Operations, at Security Benefit Corporation – a leading life insurance, retirement, and annuity company with a $37 billion general account and $18 billion derivatives portfolio.

• Chief Operating Officer, at Barnegat Fund Management, Inc – a top performing Fixed-Income, Relative-Value hedge fund focused on interest rate anomalies in the large, liquid markets of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim with a compound annual net of fees return of 16% since inception in 2001.

• Directed trading, operational, research, infrastructure, and legal improvements moving global investment vehicles to the forefront of scalable workflow efficiencies at startup / mature / turnaround corporate phases, including:

  • Startup phase of reinsurance & annuity corporation: Reinventing the insurance value chain by building the bridge across technology and workflow gaps for assets and liabilities. Connecting annuity buyers with institutional asset managers and investors, and offering Insurance As A Service.

  • Turnaround phase of $18 billion annuity portfolio: Incubated derivative hedging process and team build out which was awarded the “Insurance Risk Management Team of the Year” award by EQDerivatives, Inc. for 2017.

  • Growth phase of $37 billion insurance general account: Selected, scoped, implemented, and managed daily processes of enterprise data management system (Markit EDM)

  • Mature phase of $750 million hedge fund: Managed every process to optimize daily tasks and kept the fund out in front of all regulatory and technological sea changes.