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Management
Team
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Lowell
G. Miller
is Founder, President, Chief Investment Officer, and Director
of Research for Miller/Howard Investments. He holds an undergraduate
degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Juris Doctor from New
York University School of Law. He began his studies of the securities
markets while still an undergraduate, and has continuously pursued
the notion of disciplined investment strategies for over twenty-five
years. He is the author of three acclaimed books on investing,
The Perfect Investment (E.P. Dutton and McGraw-Hill, 1984), The
Momentum-Gap Method (G.P. Putnam's, 1978, named "Stock Market
Book Of The Year" by the Hirsch Organization), and The
Single Best Investment (Second Edition, Independent Publishers
Group, 2006). He has also written on financial subjects for The
New York Times Magazine as well as editing the periodical Investment
Values. Lowell was a featured guest on Louis Rukeysers Wall
$treet Week and CNN-FN, and hes often quoted in the press.
Bryan
J. Spratt, CFA, Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager,
graduated summa cum laude from Spring Arbor College with a BA
in Economics/Computer Science. He previously worked as an analyst
and portfolio manager in various investment subsidiaries at Comerica
Bank from 1990-2001, including 1994-2001 at Munder Capital. He
was a member of the Energy and Power Team that developed, launched
and managed the Munder Power Plus Fund, among other portfolio
management responsibilities. From 2001 through 2004 Bryan was
responsible for the utilities and telecom sectors for the Value
Team at Banc One Investment Advisors and the One Group Funds,
which ranks among the largest asset management organizations in
the U.S. He has extensive experience in quantitative modeling
and screening in the equity markets, in addition to in-depth analytic
skills. Bryan joined the firm in October 2004.
John
E. Leslie III, CFA, Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager,
grew up in Boston and earned his BS in Finance from Suffolk University
and his MBA from Babson College. He began his career in investments
over twenty years ago and has managed money since 1987. He brings
a high level of expertise in both fundamental and quantitative
research skills as well as experience managing large pools of
institutional assets. Previously, Jack was a portfolio manager
at Value Line Asset Management, M&T Capital Advisors Group
(Division of M&T Bank), and Dewey Square Investors (Division
of UAM). Jack joined the PM Team in November 2004.
Helen
Hamada, Principal and Managing Director, received a Bachelor
of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1973 and
an MBA in Finance from Marist College in 1997. For the seventeen
years before she joined Miller/Howard Investments, her responsibilities
were a blend of marketing, administration and financial management
for not-for-profit organizations. Helen has been Managing Director
and Director of Marketing/Client Service since 1990.
Steve
Chun, Executive Vice President and Client Service/Operations
Director, received a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 1987.
From 1997 to 1999 he worked for Paper House Productions, a nationally
recognized designer and manufacturer of stationery. His responsibilities
included the redesign of their inventory management and sales
reporting systems. Previous to that he worked for 7 years at Antique
Collectors' Club, a British art book publisher and distributor.
His duties included developing and implementing direct-mail campaigns
as well as working with up to 50 publishers as the exclusive U.S.
distributor for their books. He joined Miller/Howard Investments
in 1999 as Operations Manager and Systems Administrator.
Central
Region: Randall Cobb, Vice President for Sales and
Marketing, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Principia College in
1991. He graduated with a double major in Economics and Business
Administration, with honors. From 1995 to 2001, Randy was responsible
for marketing the Flex-Funds Institutional Money Market Fund in
Dublin, Ohio. Still based in the area, he is extremely committed
to the community and sits on the Board of Trustees for several
local foundations serving the public and children's needs. He
joined the marketing and sales team at Miller/Howard in 2001,
bringing considerable expertise in marketing to the financial
community.
Northeast
Region: David Halprin, Vice President for Sales and
Marketing, joined Miller/Howard Investments in 1999. With a BA
from Columbia University and JD from Harvard Law School, he practiced
law for the first five years of his career, and then moved into
management consulting, initially in the business/law intersection
of commercial litigation. David expanded his areas of expertise
to include business strategy, organizational development, technology
assessment and marketing strategy and implementation, and became
a Senior Consultant at Cambridge Meridian Group and GeoPartners
Research, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of his areas of
concentration was telecommunications, and he advised major corporations
such as AT&T until he joined Miller/Howard. David brings a
high level of expertise to the marketing and sales team at MHI.
Western
Region: Luke Theeuwes, Vice President for Sales and
Marketing, graduated from the University of Houston with a BS
in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. Following an internship
at Dean Witter, Luke began his career with Van Kampen in Chicago.
Luke moved to Los Angeles to join Trust Company of the West to
launch their mutual funds, and has remained in Southern California
since. In the past 11 years, he has worked in sales and marketing
for both US Trust and Managers Investment Group/AMG. Luke joined
the firm in May 2007, adding depth and experience to the sales
team.
Mid-Atlantic
Region: Keith Thompson, Vice
President of Sales and Marketing, joined Miller/Howard in the
summer of 2007 after spending over 7 years at Ashfield Capital
Partners as their Regional Sales Director. Prior to entering the
institional and retail managed money sales arena in 1999, Keith
worked for seven years as an Associate Vice President of Investments
with Morgan Stanley in suburban Philadelphia. Keith is a graduate
of Rutgers University and still lives in Southern NJ.
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