BFS Team: PORTFOLIO MANAGERs' Profiles





 

Robert H. Bradley
President and CEO

Education:
Williams College
BA, History

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
MA, International Economics

 

Mr. Bradley serves as President and CEO of Bradley, Foster & Sargent. He managed Conning & Company’s Investment Management Group from September 1993 until July 1994, when he and Mr. Sargent joined with Mr. Foster to found Bradley, Foster & Sargent. He is a Principal and Portfolio Manager. Previously he served fourteen years with Citicorp, twelve years of which were spent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1985, Mr. Bradley returned to Boston to found Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, where he was President and CEO from 1986 through 1992. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Currently he serves on the Board of Governors of the Investment Advisor Association - the national not-for-profit association, founded in 1937, that exclusively represents the interests of federally registered investment advisory firms.


Cameron H. Burns
Executive Vice President

Education:
Williams College
BA, Economics

The Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania

MBA, Finance

 
Mr. Burns joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent, Inc. in September, 2011 as a Principal and Executive Vice President. He is a Portfolio Manager and a Member of the Investment, Risk and Management Committees. Mr. Burns has been in the investment management business since 1990 when he joined Morgan Stanley in New York. He served as a portfolio manager, working with wealthy families as an Executive Director and a senior member of an investment team managing more than $2 billion in assets. Departing Morgan Stanley in 2006, he joined Silvercrest Asset Management LLC as a Managing Director and Partner in the capacity of a portfolio manager and client relationship officer. He left Silvercrest in 2009 to become Chief Investment Officer of The Johnson Company, a multi-billion dollar family office serving a wealthy family in New York City.

Timothy H. Foster
Executive Vice President

Education:
Dartmouth College
BA, Economics

Amos Tuck School of Business
Administration at Dartmouth College

MBA

 

Mr. Foster serves as Executive Vice President of Bradley, Foster & Sargent. He is a Principal and Portfolio Manager, as well as a Member of the Investment Committee. Prior to forming Bradley, Foster & Sargent with Mr. Bradley and Mr. Sargent, he founded Arcadia Asset Management in 1986, building assets under management in excess of $25 million. Prior to founding Arcadia, Mr. Foster served as a Portfolio Manager of institutional equity accounts for CIGNA Investment Management Co. from 1982 to 1986 and as a Senior Research Analyst for Connecticut General Investment Management Co. from 1981 to 1982.


David P. Korzendorfer
Executive Vice President

Education:
N. Y. State College at New Paltz 
BS, Geology

Washington State University
MS, Geology

University of Utah
MBA

 
Mr. Korzendorfer joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in April, 2007 as a Portfolio Manager. He is a Vice President and a Member of the Investment Committee. He became a Principal of the firm in January, 2010. Mr. Korzendorfer joined the firm after a 17 year career with Bank of America and its predecessor banks: Bank of New England and Fleet Bank. Most recently, Mr. Korzendorfer served as Managing Director at Bank of America, with responsibility for a team of 8 investment professionals who managed the portfolios of individual clients in the greater Hartford area. He started his investment career at First Security Investment Management in Salt Lake City, Utah and worked for several years for Curbstone Investment Management in Canton, Connecticut. He has achieved the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Hartford CFA Society, also having served as its President.

Keith G. LaRose
Executive Vice President

Education:
University of Connecticut
BA, Economics

Trinity College
MA, Financial Economics

 
Mr. LaRose joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in February, 2000 as a Principal and Executive Vice President. He is a Portfolio Manager and a Member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. LaRose was Director of Individual Investment Services at Hartford Financial Management, Inc., where he was responsible for supervising the investment management of more than $200 million in client assets and functioned as chief equity manager and strategist. Mr. LaRose started his investment career in 1984 with Dean Witter Reynolds in Greenwich, Connecticut. He joined E. T. Andrews & Company, Inc., in Hartford in 1989, where he was President until 1994. 

Roger H. Manternach
Roger H. Manternach
Vice President 

Education:
Middlebury College
BA, Economics

Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
MBA

 
Mr. Manternach joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in September, 2008 as a Portfolio Manager. He is a Vice President and a Member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Manternach has broad experience in the investment business.  He started his investment career in 1969 with Hartford Fire Insurance Company as a securities analyst. Since 1973, he was employed by Bank of America/U.S. Trust and its predecessor companies (Hartford National, Connecticut National, Shawmut and Fleet). Most recently, Mr. Manternach managed a team of four portfolio managers. He was personally responsible for managing $400 million in investments for both individual and institutional accounts.

Jeffrey G. Marsted
Executive Vice President

Education:
Williams College
BA, American History and Literature

Trinity College
MA, Economics

 

Mr. Marsted joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in 1995 as a Principal and Executive Vice President. He is a Portfolio Manager and a Member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining the firm, he was Vice President and Manager of the Shawmut Bank Investment Management and Advisory Group in Hartford. Mr. Marsted joined the Hartford National Bank, which subsequently became Shawmut Bank, in 1965 as a Securities Analyst. He moved to portfolio management in 1969 and eventually assumed responsibility for a group of portfolio managers, with over $3 billion under management. He later served as a Member of Shawmut’s Investment Policy Group, with responsibility for asset allocation, sector strategy and economic assumptions for the $16 billion within Shawmut Investment Advisors. 


Roger H. Manternach
Gregory M. Miller
Vice President 

Education:
The George Washington University
BA, Finance

University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
MBA

University of Connecticut School of Law
JD

 

Mr. Miller joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in February, 2011 as a Portfolio Manager. He is a Vice President and a Member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Miller joined the firm after more than 25 years with Bank of America and its predecessor companies: Merrill Lynch, Columbia Management Group, Shawmut Investment Advisors and Connecticut National Bank. During his career, Mr Miller's responsibilities included managing investment portfolios for pension funds, mutual funds, endowments and foundations, and all aspects of the client relationship. He has managed both equity-only and balanced accounts with assets under management at times in excess of $1 billion.


William R. Peelle, Jr.
William R. Peelle, Jr.
Executive Vice President  

Education:
Trinity College
BA, Economics


Trinity College

MA, Economics and Public Policy
 
Mr. Peelle joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in September, 2010 as a Portfolio Manager. He is a Principal, Executive Vice President and a Member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Peelle has broad experience in the investment business.  He started his investment career as an associate with Smith Barney in 1986.

Joseph D. Sargent
Chairman

Education:
Yale University
BA, Geology

 
 
Mr. Sargent serves as Chairman of Bradley, Foster & Sargent. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Conning and Company for more than twenty-four years. Mr. Sargent is a Principal and Portfolio Manager, as well as a Member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Sargent has also been a founder and director of several specialty lines insurance companies, including Executive Risk and Beazley Group PLC in the U.K.  

Thomas D. Sargent
Executive Vice President

Education:
Union College
BA, Economics & History

Amos Tuck School of Business
Administration at Dartmouth College

MBA

 

Mr. Sargent joined Bradley, Foster & Sargent in 2000 as a Principal and Executive Vice President. He is a Portfolio Manager and Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Sargent came to Bradley, Foster & Sargent from Conning & Company, where he managed their institutional business since 1986. In that capacity, he served as a Member of Conning’s Executive Committee with responsibility for Equity Research, Institutional Sales, and Equity Trading. He was also a Principal in the Venture Capital/Private Equity area. During his career, Mr. Sargent was cited for his equity research expertise by Institutional Investor magazine in its “Best of the Boutiques” profile. He has achieved the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst.


 

 

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