Ashmead Pringle
President, GREENHAVEN LLC

Mr. Pringle spent first ten years as controller for several companies in the timber, land, fertilizer, and grain industries.  He became a hedge advisor in 1978, and in 1984 founded Grain Service Corporation, a brokerage and hedge advisory firm for grain elevators and other commercial grain hedgers.  Mr. Pringle started GSC Energy in 1989 to work with commercial energy hedgers.   He formed GreenHaven Commodity Services in 2006 to develop products to commodity exposure to the investment community.  In January 2008, GreenHaven launched the GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund, ticker GCC.  GCC tracks the Thomson Reuters Continuous Commodity Index, an equal weight index of 17 commodities formerly known as the CRB Index.

Kevin D. Mahn
President & CIO, HENNION & WALSH ASSET MANAGEMENT

Kevin D. Mahn joined Parsippany, NJ based Hennion & Walsh as a Managing Director in 2004. Serving as its Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Mahn is responsible for the Asset Management activities of the Firm. Mr. Mahn also serves as the Portfolio Manager for the SmartGrowth family of mutual funds and directs the creation and supervision of the various portfolios within the SmartTrust™ series of Unit Investment Trusts. Additionally, Mr. Mahn is the author of the quarterly “ETF Insights” newsletter as well as a co-author of the book, Exchange Traded Funds: Conceptual and Practical Investment Approaches, © 2009 Riskbooks. Prior to Hennion & Walsh, Mr. Mahn was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers where he held the positions of CAO of the High Net Worth Product and Services Group as well as COO of Lehman Brothers Bank. Mr. Mahn received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Muhlenberg College and his M.B.A. in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Mr. Mahn has also served as an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University within the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business. 

Mr. Mahn was the recipient of the 2009 Institutional Investor Rising Stars of Mutual Funds Award.  Interviews with, as well as byline articles and insights from, Mr. Mahn have appeared in/on CBS News, CNBC, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, New York Times, CNNMoney.com, Investment Advisor Magazine, SmartMoney, The Star-Ledger, The Daily Record, Reuters, Fund Action, The Street.com, CNBC.com, Fox Business.com, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch, Ignites, Ticker Magazine, Money Management Executive, Wall Street Transcript, Financial Planning, Risk Magazine, Financial Times and Investment News.

Axel Merk
President & CIO, MERK INVESTMENTS

Axel Merk is the President and CIO of Merk Investments, manager of the Merk Funds. An authority on currencies, he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. Axel Merk is a sought after speaker and author on topics ranging from the economy, gold and currencies to sustainable wealth and personal finance, as well as a regular guest and contributor to the business media around the world.

Axel Merk manages the Merk Hard and Asian Currency Funds and co-manages the Merk Absolute Return Currency Fund. He holds a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University.

Paul Ingersoll
CEO, GOOD HARBOR FINANCIAL

Paul R. Ingersoll, Managing Partner of Goof Harbor Financial, co-founded NES, a business services company grown from start-up to over $700 Million in revenue. Paul led the M&A and capital raising efforts that resulted in 47 separate acquisitions and raised in excess of $1.2 billion. Paul earned his MBA with Honors from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He also holds a BS in Economics and French from The University of Michigan.

Oliver Pursche
Co-Portfolio Manager & Managing Partner, MONTEBELLO PARTNERS
President, GARY GOLDBERG FINANCIAL S

Mr. Pursche is a Managing Partner for Montebello Partners LLC, as well as being the co-portfolio manager of the GMG Defensive Beta Fund. Separately, Mr. Pursche is also the President of Gary Goldberg Financial Services, where he is a member of the Executive Committee, Investment Committee and Board of Directors.  Mr. Pursche frequently provides market and economic commentary on CNBC and Fox Business News, as well as often being interviewed by Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Associated Press regarding his and the firms views on the latest market news and events. Mr. Pursche's views on the market and investment strategies have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Smart Money, USA Today and other national business publications. Additionally, Mr. Pursche is a weekly contributor to Forbes.com, BankRate.com and TheStreet.com. 
 
Prior to joining GGFS, Mr. Pursche was Vice President of Sales at Trust Company of America, where he worked closely with various financial institutions to improve their trading, custody and reporting systems. Previously, he spent nearly seven years at Neuberger Berman, where he helped develop the firm's first mutual fund wrap program, and lead the sales efforts of that program to various broker dealers and advisory firms. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pursche was an Investment Representative at PaineWebber.
 
Mr. Pursche earned his Bachelors degree from Bentley University in Waltham Massachusetts and participated in gradual level course work at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He holds various securities licenses and is a SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Mr. Pursche is a member of the New York City Ballet's Society in C, and sits on the Advisor Council Board of Gemini Fund Services.

Tom Conner
Partner, REED SMITH

Tom is a member of Reed Smith's Financial Industry Group. The focus of Tom's practice is on the representation of financial services companies including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (including ETFs that invest in commodities), insurance companies issuing fixed and variable annuities and life insurance, and financial firms offering a wide range of other types of financial products. His practice combines regulatory experience with an extensive knowledge of the mutual fund, ETF, commodity pool, variable contract and investment advisory industries.

Tom assists clients in navigating the complex regulatory requirements governing insurance and securities products, including the federal securities laws administered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and state insurance laws and regulations.

Tom has represented financial service companies in a private practice for over fifteen years. Additionally, Tom was Vice President and General Counsel of the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) (formerly, the National Association for Variable Annuities (NAVA)). He was responsible for IRI's regulatory affairs program and represented the industry in a number of significant regulatory matters, appearing before regulatory agencies including the SEC, FINRA and National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

In addition to private practice and serving as IRI's General Counsel, Tom was a staff member of the SEC in the Office of Disclosure and Investment Adviser Regulation and the Office of Insurance Products.

Mitchell D. Eichen JD, LLM
CEO, THE MDE GROUP, Inc.

In 1987, Mitch founded The MDE Group, a pioneering and nationally recognized wealth management firm, with more than $1.35 billion under management. Since  its inception, Mitch has lead The MDE Group as CEO with a strategic vision of innovation – first in the field of executive counseling, then  holistic wealth management and, since 2009 in developing a new investment paradigm of investment risk and return called Risk 3.0™.

After the introduction of Risk 3.0 Investment Solutions, Mitch observed an overwhelming demand, as well as a correspondingly high level of client satisfaction, for these innovative risk and client centric investment solutions. Recognizing the void of, and the corresponding need for, more effective risk controlled solutions among RIAs, Family Offices and Institutions, Mitch “spun out” the manufacture and distribution of Risk 3.0 Investment Solutions into a new and independent investment management business. Risk 3.0 Asset Management, LLC is an independent third party investment manager that exclusively offers proprietary risk controlled investment solutions, not otherwise available through traditional or alternative investments, to RIAs, Family Offices and Institutions. The goal of Risk 3.0 Asset Management is to help RIAs, Family Offices and Institutions increase their client satisfaction, and help them grow their businesses, by providing  consistent and predictable investment performance, without any surprises, in a client centric and cost effective manner.

Mitch has an LL.M. in taxation from the New York University School of Law Graduate Division and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mitch is a frequent TV guest, columnist, writer, and lecturer on a variety of financial topics as well as a member of the Financial Advisory Board to the Rutgers Graduate School of Business.

Prior to 1987, Mitch was an officer and Senior Financial Counselor for The Bank of New York's Personal Financial Counseling Department. Previously, Mitch practiced tax, trust, and estate law for Shanley & Fisher, P.C. (now Drinker, Biddle), in Morristown, New Jersey.

Matthew D. McCall
President, PENN FINANCIAL GROUP LLC
Author, The Next Great Bull Marke

Matt McCall is founder and president of Penn Financial Group, an investment advisory firm that specializes in ETFs and individual portfolio management. The company also publishes The ETF Bulletin is a weekly newsletter that offers ETF-only portfolios.
 
Matt released two books, published by Wiley, in 2009. The first, The Swing Trader's Bible: Strategies to Profit from Market Volatility was co-authored with Mark Whistler. His second book, The Next Great Bull Market: How to Pick Winning Stocks and Sectors in the New Global Economy hit the shelves in October 2009. Mr. McCall is a regular guest host on the Fox Business Network and his insights can be found regularly in major media outlets. Some of Matt's credits include: The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Business Week, Bloomberg TV, and Investor's Business Daily to name a few.

Roop Chand Betala
Chief Executive Officer, VOLVIE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Mr.Roop Betala is joined Volvie Capital in 1995. Volvie Capital has office in Mumbai, Singapore and New York.  Roop Focus on Capital Raising, Acquisition /strategy and JV partnership for large infrastructure projects. Roop has over Twenty five years of experience in the Indian Capital Market with knowledge to foreign listing and raising Capital.  Mr.Betala has significant experience in Indian capital market in term of trading raising capital and products. He also has working experience on listing requirement and compliance, Foreign listing and converts methodoloty.  Roop Interest of topic is to speak on ETF and their importance in the market place with respect to product development.

Roop is a regular speaker in various conference across the world on Private Equity & Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Development, Exchange Traded Fund and Technology Trading.  Roop has done his MFM from Madras University and PEVC from Harvard Business School and London Business School.

Roop personal Involve is in FIT segment “Financial, Infrastructure and Technology”.  Roop has authored maiden book on Depository system in India called “Business as Usual” He has also co-authored the comprehensive textbook Option: Pricing, Hedging and Trading.

Janet Flanders Johnston, CFA
CIO, MADRONA PARTNERS, INC.

Janet is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience.  Formerly, she was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager with Avatar Associates.  She is an ETF expert with experience managing tactical, global and balanced ETF only portfolios. She has compared equity sector, country, commodity, style, capitalization, dividend, and volatility ETFs to find the best security for a desired tilt to portfolios. In addition, she was a portfolio manager for Madrona Partners, a private equity partnership where she was an alpha generating stock picker.  She performed macro and company analysis to develop strategy and themes within a portfolio.  She is a member of the NYSSA.

Maneesh Deshpande
Managing Director, Global head of Equity Derivatives Strategy, BARCLAYS CAPITAL

Maneesh S. Deshpande joined Barclays Capital in September 2008 and is currently a Managing Director and global coordinator of  Equity  Derivatives Strategy. Maneesh was part of the team which was ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor's annual survey from 2007 to 2011 in the Equity Derivatives/Equity Linked category. Prior to Barclays Capital, Maneesh held a similar role at Lehman Brothers since 2007. He joined Lehman Brothers from Goldman Sachs, where he established and ran its Systematic Portfolio trading desk. Prior to that, Maneesh was the head of the Principal Trading desk at Morgan Stanley Japan and the head of the U.S. Interest Rate Options Trading desk at BNP. Maneesh earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Kathleen H. Moriarty
Partner, KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN, LLP

Instrumental in the development of SPDRs, Kathleen is a financial services lawyer with extensive experience representing US exchange-traded investment companies (ETFs). She also advises public and private foreign entities about the regulation and operation of ETFs. In addition, Kathleen represents market participants structuring non-investment company exchange traded vehicles (ETVs) about legal and regulatory matters involved in issuing, purchasing and selling ETV shares.  Kathleen is an inaugural member of the ETF Database’s ETF Hall of Fame and a recipient of an ETP Icons of the Industry Award. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Indexes and frequently speaks on the topic of ETFs and ETVs.

Kathleen received her A.B. from Smith College and her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.  She is a member of several bar association committees focusing on securities and derivatives law matters, and is a member of the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council.

Marvin Apel
CEO, APPEL ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP.

Marvin Appel originally trained as an anesthesiologist at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He concurrently earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University.  However, in 1996 he changed careers and joined his father in the field of investment management where he has been able to put his engineering and computer training to work in analyzing the stock market.  He is now CEO of Appel Asset Management in Great Neck, NY, which manages more than $45 million in client assets in mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and individual stocks and bonds using active asset allocation strategies.

Dr. Appel’s book “Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy”, now in its second edition, was published by Prentice-Hall and was featured on CNBC’s Closing Bell show.  Dr. Appel and his father have also written, “Beating the Market, Three Months at a Time”, published by Prentice-Hall and released in January, 2008.  Dr. Appel is currently working on his newest book, “Safe Investing: Using Bonds, Stocks and Options to Generate Lifetime Income”, scheduled to be released in April 2010.  Dr. Appel is the editor of Systems and Forecasts, a highly regarded newsletter on technical analysis that his father, Gerald Appel, started in 1973.  He is also a regular contributor to Investment News.  Dr. Appel has been a regular contributor to Dental Economics and to Physician’s Money Digest.  His market insights have been featured on CNNfn, CNBC, CBS Marketwatch.com and Forbes.com.  He has been invited to testify to the New York State Legislature regarding his market forecasts, and has presented his investment strategies to numerous investment conferences, most recently at the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts at their annual meeting in Toronto (2009).

Joe DeSipio
Co-Founder & Chief Market Strategist, ARIN RISK ADVISORS, LLC

As Co-Founder and Chief Market Strategist, Joseph DeSipio leads strategy design, risk management, and intermediary training sessions. He previously held Strategist and Lead Portfolio Manager positions with SEI Investments, Evergreen Investments, Wachovia and Vector Capital Management. He founded Evergreen Investments' Options Strategy Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where his team of investment professionals delivered customized position and risk overlay management to trusts, high net worth individuals and non-profit organizations. Mr. DeSipio earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University of PA and Master of Arts degree in Economics from Temple University. He is a CFA charterholder and a Financial Risk Manager.

Alex Depetris
Director, db-X Group, DEUTSCHE BANK

Alex Depetris is a Director of Deutsche Bank’s db-X Group, the exchange-traded products division. At Deutsche Bank, Alex structures and manages Deutsche Bank’s U.S. cross-asset exchange-traded products, including the PowerShares DB commodity and currency suite of exchange traded funds and notes and the db-X MSCI family of funds.  Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Alex was an associate with the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP in New York.  Alex received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law and his Bachelors of Science in Finance from University of Maryland, College Park.

Alex Gurvich
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, THE ROCKLEDGE GROUP

Mr. Alex Gurvich is founding member and a Managing Partner at The Rockledge Group, which is a money management firm. Rockledge applies proprietary quantitative techniques to manage funds for the US and European investors. Mr. Gurvich is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Pace University Lubin School of Business.  Prior to Rockledge, Mr. Gurvich was a venture capitalist with General Electric’s GE Capital. Prior to GE, Mr. Gurvich started his business career as a management consultant, with Bain & Company. Prior to business school he was an engineer/physicist, with a French high tech scientific instrumentation start up. Prior to this he worked in the medical physics laboratory at the Harvard University.

Mr. Gurvich holds a BA in Physics from the University of Chicago and dual Masters degrees, an MBA from INSEAD and an MS in Financial Engineering from New York University Polytechnic Institute. He is also a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute.

Diane Garnick
CEO, CLEAR ALTERNATIVES LLC

Ms. Garnick is CEO of Clear Alternatives and oversees  its research and  investment activities. She founded the firm in 2012  and has over 16  years of investment experience. Clear Alternatives is a women owned and operated  asset management firm that seeks to provide consistent returns for investors while creating revolutionary career opportunities for women. Clear Alternatives was launched in 2012 by women with advanced degrees, professional designations, and significant industry experience. Ms. Garnick  has authored  hundreds of reports that focus on portfolio construction, volatility, corporate actions, equity indices, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), futures, options, accounting and taxation. Garnick’s writing style has been  described as “translating math into English”  by Pensions & Investments.

She brings  complex investment theories into  the reach of many decision makers. Her  tireless efforts have helped  improve the  risk-­�]return  profile of thousands of pension plans. Diane has spent her career focused on pensions, foundations and endowments in a variety of roles. She began  her career as  an Equity Derivative
Strategist at Merrill Lynch  where she spearheaded the firm’s global pension initiative and provided valuable insight to plans considering various investment strategies. She moved on to  become the Global Investment Strategist  at State Street Global Advisors, where she focused on developing their  enhanced, ETF,  and fiduciary businesses. More  recently Diane was the Investment Strategist at Invesco, one of  the world's largest entirely active asset management firms.

Ms. Garnick holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a concentration in Strategy, a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University,
and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Michael Gayed
Chief Investment Strategist, PENSION PARTNERS LLC

Michael A. Gayed, CFA is Chief Investment Strategist at Pension Partners, LLC, an investment management firm which uses quantitative strategies to buy and rotate across various ETFs in an effort to generate absolute returns. As Chief Investment Strategist, Michael helps to structure portfolios to best take advantage of various strategies designed to maximize the amount of time and capital spent in potentially outperforming investments. Prior to this role, Michael served as a Portfolio Manager for a large international investment group, trading long/short investment ideas in an effort to capture excess returns. From 2004 to 2008, Michael was a Portfolio Strategist at AmeriCap Advisers, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm which managed equity portfolios for large institutional clients. As a member of the investment committee, Michael performed detailed analysis on various stocks and worked closely with the principals of the firm to structure client portfolios. In 2007, he launched his own long/short hedge fund, using various trading strategies focused on taking advantage of stock market anomalies. Michael is an active contributor to popular financial websites, including SeekingAlpha.com, MarketWatch.com, Minyanville.com, and ETFTrends.com. He has been interviewed on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, as well as the Wall Street Journal live for his unique approach to interpreting market movements. His analysis has also been featured by Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, and Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture. He is the author of the Lead-Lag Report, a weekly summary of various intermarket trends, and the Week in Review which is a free e-newsletter sent out every Sunday to people who sign up through his company’s website www.pensionpartners.com. Michael earned his B.S. from New York University, and is a CFA Charterholder. Follow him on Twitter: @pensionpartners, and on YouTube: www.youtube.com/pensionpartners.

Douglas Wolfe
Co-founder & CIO, SADDLE RIVER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Douglas Wolfe is Principal and CIO of Saddle River Capital Management. SRCM manages five all ETF portfolios it offers to individuals, advisors, and institutional clientele. He is responsible for the research, construction and implementation of these portfolios that SRCM has been managing since 2004.  Doug received his BS in finance from Pennsylvania State University. He worked for 4 years as an Equity and Fixed Income Trader at Asiel & Co., in risk arbitrate and convertible arbitrage. Followed by a 12 year career as an Equity Trader on the Institutional Trading Desk at Salomon Smith Barney.

Elliot Noma
Managing Director, GARRETT ASSET MANAGEMENT

Dr. Noma is the founder of Garrett Asset Management, a systematic trading firm that uses technical systems to invest in futures, ETFs, and currencies. Dr. Noma is also a Senior Risk Consultant with Asset alliance. He consults on a variety of financial issues involving portfolio management, hedge fund due diligence, trading systems, risk management, fund of hedge funds, and operational due diligence. Dr. Noma is a member of the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) examination committee within the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is also a member of the editorial board for The Investment Professional, published by the New York Society of Security Analysts.  Prior to founding Garrett Asset Management, Dr. Noma was the portfolio manager for the BTOP50 fund, a diversified portfolio of global macro, commodity, and managed futures programs. He was a member of the Asset Alliance Investment Committee that oversees all fund of funds investments for Asset Alliance. Dr. Noma was also the Chief Risk Officer at Asset Alliance. In that role he was responsible for the risk oversight of Asset Alliance's single- and multi-manager product offerings.

Prior to joining Asset Alliance, Dr. Noma was Senior Risk Analyst, Fixed Income Products, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2000-2003). Earlier in his career, Dr. Noma was Director of Corporate Risk Management overseeing derivative and fixed income products within Deutsche Bank, Americas (1995-1999), and developed fixed income market strategies at, J.P. Morgan Securities (1993-1995).  Dr. Noma also spent four years in the psychology faculty at Rutgers University (1983 – 1986) and his research has been published in numerous industry journals and scholarly periodicals.

Dr. Noma graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a BA in Mathematics.  He received M.A’s in Mathematics and Psychology in 1979 and a Ph.D in Mathematical Psychology in 1982 from The University of Michigan. In 1990, Dr. Noma received an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University.

Eric W. Falkeis, CPA
CFO/Senior Vice President, U.S. BANCORP FUND SERVICES, LLC

Eric Falkeis optimizes the use of technology to meet the data reporting needs of his mutual fund customers. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services not only invests in leading edge technology, but partners with other strategic allies to pioneer software, such as Eagle Investment Systems and Confluence Technologies. These joint developments create the industry standard for mutual fund accounting, compliance, and financial reporting best practices. U.S. Bancorp Fund Services business-specific technology applications significantly speed the delivery of data to customers, while providing robust reporting options. With more than 16 years of experience in fund administration, Eric Falkeis can provide expertise onstories relating technology to data delivery.

Gary L. Gastineau
Principal, ETF CONSULTANTS LLC

Gary Gastineau is a recognized expert on exchange-traded funds. He is the Principal of ETF Consultants, a firm providing specialized exchange-traded fund consulting services to ETF issuers, exchanges and other markets, market makers, research organizations and investors. He is also a Managing Member and co-founder of Managed ETFs, a firm that developed patents and patent applications covering a new ETF trading mechanism and actively managed ETFs. Previously, Mr. Gastineau was Managing Director of ETF Advisors and Managing Director for ETF Product Development at Nuveen Investments. Preceding his tenure at Nuveen, Mr. Gastineau was Senior Vice President for New Product Development at the American Stock Exchange for five years where he was instrumental in the introduction of many derivative contracts and ETF products. Earlier, Mr. Gastineau held senior positions in research, product development and portfolio management at major investment banking firms.

The first edition of his book, The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual, was published in February 2002 by Wiley. The second edition, which is completely new, was published in the summer of 2010. Gary is also the author of Someone Will Make Money On Your Funds – Why Not You? published by Wiley in 2005, The Options Manual (Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1988), and co-author of the Dictionary of Financial Risk Management (Fabozzi, 1999) and Equity Flex Options (Fabozzi, 1999), as well as numerous journal articles. He received the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for an Outstanding Article for “Equity Index Funds Have Lost Their Way,” which appeared in the Winter 2002 issue of The Journal of Portfolio Management.

Gary serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Indexes. Gary is a member of the Review Board for the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. He is an honors graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Patrick Smith
CEO, GRANITE SPRINGS ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC

Patrick L. Smith is the founder and CEO of Granite Springs Asset Management, an independent registered investment advisor (RIA) firm that specializes in ETF-based tactical asset allocation strategies and fixed income portfolio management for high net worth private clients and institutional investors.  Patrick was previously a Partner & Managing Director at Williams, Jones & Assoc. (WJA) where he co-managed over $1.5 billion in fixed-income and ETF assets for more than ten years.  Prior to joining WJA, Patrick held senior level positions in fixed income trading at J.J. Kenny Drake & Co., Euro Brokers-Maxcor Financial Group, and Greenwich Partners, Inc.  Patrick holds a BBA in Finance from Iona College and he is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts (NFMA), the Municipal Analysts Group of New York (MAGNY), and the Municipal Bond Club of New York.

Daniel K. Weiskopf III
Principal, GLOBAL ETF STRATEGIES

Mr. Weiskopf is the ETF Strategist and the co-portfolio manager.  Mr. Weiskopf was the Founder and Portfolio manager of MH CApital Partners L.P. from 1995 to 2003.  In 2003 he joined UBS Financial Services Inc. where he was a founding Partner of the FaucettaWeiskopf Wealth Management Group.  Mr. Weiskopf began his career in 1987 at American Diversified Enterprises (ADE), an Allen & Company affiliate. Mr. Weiskopf is a graduate of Colorado College and has an MBA from Fordham University in New York.  Mr. Weiskopf has contributed to many articles in the media on ETFs and presented at various conferences.

Jordan Balkany
Managing Director, LARKIN CAPITAL

Jordan Balkany is a Managing Director at Larkin Capital where he advises asset managers, hedge funds, and other buy-side investors on ETF strategies, product selection, real time pricing, and trading performance. He has been an institutional ETF trader for twelve years, with buy-side and sell-side experience. In 2000, Jordan was an ETF specialist at Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg and an ETF market maker at Goldman Sachs until 2007. He then moved to the buy-side, joining a $3 billion asset management firm as the head of ETFs, and he founded Larkin Capital in 2008. Jordan is on the financial services council and is a Leading Expert in ETFs at GLG Research.

Scott Rothbort
President, LAKEVIEW ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC

Robert Holderith
President & Founder, EMERGING GLOBAL ADVISORS

Robert Holderith founded Emerging Global Shares in September 2008.  He previously held several executive positions at ProFund Advisors, lastly as Managing Director, Institutional Sales and Investment Analytics serving on the company's ETF Steering, Product Development, Strategic and Tactical Distribution, and Product Launch teams.  Earlier, he spent nine years at Swiss bank/UBS, where he led a variety of product, asset management, and senior sales initiatives.

Richard Kang
Chief Investment Officer & Director of Research, EMERGING GLOBAL ADVISORS

Richard Kang has served as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Investors since its founding in September 2008. He has been active in both institutional and individual asset/risk management for eighteen years with extensive experience in alternative asset classes, especially hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Kang began his career at Guardian Timing Services, a Toronto based hedge fund focused on global macro and GTAA strategies including the very early use of ETFs.  In late 2002, Mr. Kang co-founded Meridian Global Investors (“Meridian”), an investment counseling firm and thereafter Quadrexx Asset Management, a Toronto based fund-of-hedge funds.  More recently, Mr. Kang co-founded and was CIO of ETFx Indexes LLC, a boutique index provider focused on alternative investments and strategies.

Mr. Kang received his degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada, is an associate editor of Institutional Investors’ Journal of Index Investing and is an adjunct professor at NYU.

Jim Pritchard
Managing Directo, SWAN WEALTH ADVISORS

Jim received his degree from Columbia University in 1982 where he studied Economics. He became an investment consultant with Smith Barney before starting his own investment management firm which focused on asset allocation strategies implemented via index funds. Jim created one of the first separately managed accounts using index funds and ETF's and developed a proprietary quantitative system to optimize index strategies.  Jim's articles on Portfolio Risk mitigation, asset allocation and indexing have been published in various financial magazines including Dow Jones' and Institutional Investment Journals’ Journal of Indexing. He has appeared in Fortune Magazine, Plan Sponsor Magazine and Bloomberg's Wealth Manager. Additionally, Jim appeared on CNBC's Money Talk and has been an expert guest speaker at numerous institutional investment conferences including TD Ameritrade, the Super Bowl of Indexing, Inside ETF’s and the Dow Jones Equity Styles Conference.

Jim is active in his community, serving on the Board of Directors for a hospital, health care foundation, country club, financial planning association (IAFP) and a private middle school. He founded and was President of a nonprofit which built an ice rink and was the founder of the Durango Colorado youth football organization.

J. Kolman Estreicher
Director, ETF Execution, WOLVERINE EXECUTION SERVICES (WEX)

Kol Estreicher is responsible for all business development and marketing activities relating to WEX’s ETF Execution business.  Kol joined WEX from UBS Financial Services where he was a Vice President and actively managed over $500MM in assets for institutional clients, including venture-backed start-ups, public companies, private foundations and trusts.  He was also intimately involved in several initiatives to broaden client relationships through the introduction of stock plan administration services, institutional investment consulting for qualified retirement plans, and insurance-based financial products.  Prior to UBS, Kol worked at a financial software firm and played an integral role in designing a fixed income best execution testing solution for the investment adviser and broker dealer community.  Kol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Trinity University and is Series 7 and 66 licensed.

Yvonne Pytlik
Chief Compliance Officer, DREMAN VALUE MANAGEMENT LLC

Yvonne I. Pytlik is a senior executive and one of industry’s most highly regarded strategists in compliance risk management and corporate governance for financial institutions.  Prior to joining Dreman, she was the Deputy Head of Global Compliance, Risk Management, and Strategic Planning at Deutsche Bank AG.  Ms. Pytlik was responsible for global compliance risk management across all business lines, including capital markets, investment banking, asset management, and private wealth management.  During her eight years at Deutsche Bank, she made significant contributions to the firm’s overall compliance organization, including the development and implementation of global compliance risk management functions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.  Ms. Pytlik developed and implemented the Chief Compliance Officer Program Oversight initiatives for the asset management division.

Ms. Pytlik currently serves on the Risk Governance Committee at the Risk Management Association in NYC and she is on the Board of Directors at Global Compliance Risk Management Corp. Her recent compliance expert opinions were published: ”New technologies to stop insider trading”, “Insider Trading – can it be stopped?” in the Wall Street & Technology and “Compliance Risk: a critical business risk for asset managers” in the Journal of Securities Laws, Regulations & Compliance by Henry Stewart Publications in UK.

Michael Dieschbourg, CIMA
Managing Director, BROADMARK ASSET MANAGEMENT

Michael Dieschbourg is the former CEO and Global Head of ESG for Global Currents Investment Management LLC, a global and international equity firm (a Legg Mason company).   Mr. Dieschbourg has been actively involved in the investment industry since 1983. He has spent 18 years in institutional consulting and 11 years in investment management, including global equity and hedge fund of funds.  He has contributed to the evolution of the investment industry by being part of the team that developed the CIMA program sponsored by IMCA.  He co-developed the “The Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies List” (Global100.org) announced annually at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  He also has served on the boards of many organizations including former Chairman of the Audit Committee and Board Member of Phoenix-LJH Advisory Hedge 40 Act FOF and a number of volunteer organizations including current member of the IMCA Board; past boards include the National Constitution Center, Chester County Boy Scouts, New Orleans Girl Scouts and the Delaware Governor’s Task Force for Financial Independence.   Mr. Dieschbourg earned a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago.  He has published multiple articles and contributed to four books: Marketing to the Affluent by Dr. Tom Stanley, The Managed Accounts Handbook by Stephen Gresham, Lessons from The Legends of Wall Street by Nikki Ross and The Eighteen Holes of Success- Wall Street Edition by Ron Schenk.

Mr. Dieschbourg joined Broadmark in April 2011. He began his career in 1983, spent 18 years in institutional consulting and 10 years in investment management, including global equity and hedge fund of funds. He is the former CEO and Global Head of ESG for Global Currents Investment Management, a global equity firm owned by Legg Mason. He is part of the team that developed the CIMA program sponsored by IMCA. Mr. Dieschbourg currently serves on the IMCA board and has served on the boards of many industry and volunteer organizations, including the Chairman of the Audit Committee for the Phoenix-LJH Advisory Hedge 40 Act Fund, Chester County Boy Scouts and the Delaware Governors Task Force for Financial Independence. He has published several articles, is a noted speaker on investment industry topics and has taught investment classes at the University of New Orleans. He has been a guest lecturer on Investment Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dieschbourg earned a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago.

J. Stuart Thomas
Principal, PRECIDIAN INVESTMENTS

Mr. Thomas began his career on Wall Street in 1989 with Merrill Lynch. He spent his first 10 years there working as a U.S. International Equity Salesman, Senior Deal Manager on the Equity Syndicate Desk, and as Manager of the Convertible Sales & Marketing Desk before moving to Morgan Stanley. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Thomas was widely credited with creating their retail exchange-traded fund business. He 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. On behalf of the World Gold Council, he started World Gold Trust Services in August 2002 to create, manage, and market the first U.S. commodity-backed equity traded on an exchange. In November 2004 SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) was launched on the NYSE.