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Our Investment Team
Henry V. Kaelber,
CFP®, CPA
Since 2003, Henry has been President and Chief
Investment Officer responsible for managing all client accounts. From 1998
to 2003, Henry was CFO and a Director of the University of Virginia Investment
Management Company - the entity responsible for managing the University of
Virginia's endowment. At UVIMCO, Henry reviewed staff's external manager due
diligence efforts. He also negotiated for them a $230 million notional total
return swap, as a hedge, which was later presented as case study by Goldman
Sachs' equity derivatives group. Prior to that, Henry was COO and Product
Development Director for Kidder Peabody Asset Management's structured products
group where he was responsible for the formation and maintenance of more than
24 alternative investment companies. He also oversaw a combined $6 billion
out of the firm's $26 billion assets under management. After Kidder, Henry
established an offshore investment and fund administration company to handle
leveraged CDO funds left over from KPAM.
James M. Fink, CFA®,
JD, MPP, MBA
Since 2003, Jim has provided portfolio
strategy analysis. In addition, Jim works as a financial journalist and, prior
to that, as an attorney and telecommunications industry legal analyst, where
among other things he was a lobbyist to both Congress and the FCC. Working
in the D.C. office of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, he managed worldwide capital
markets projects and advised investment bankers on issues of due diligence.
Jim completed his undergraduate work at Yale University, received his JD from
Columbia University Law School where he was a Stone Scholar, received an MBA
in finance from the Darden Graduate School of Business and received an MPP
from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. While at Darden, he worked for
the University's Investment Management Company where he performed asset allocation
analysis and was involved in interviewing hedge fund, private equity, and
"long only," managers.
John
M. Yeager, CFA®, CFP®
Since 2003, John has provided portfolio strategy analysis. He brings broad
international finance experience, including experience in economic development,
privatization and acquisition transactions in lesser developed countries,
private equity and other alternative investments. John spent two years with
Citibank's international corporate banking group where he worked in New York
and Gabon, Africa, and a year with Europa Capital Management in Sophia, Bulgaria.
In Bulgaria, John led an acquisitions team investing in newly privatized companies.
John completed his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and earned
an MBA in Finance at the Darden Graduate School of Business and later worked
at the University of Virginia's Investment Management Company where he performed
portfolio analysis for the private equity portfolio.