President:
Nanci D. Morris, CFA, NDM Management LLC
Nanci D. Morris, CFA, is managing director of New
England Retirement Group and president of NDM Management, LLC.
Previously Morris was director of public markets at Princeton
Theological Seminary, and prior to that was a senior vice president of
Callan Associates Inc., an investment consulting firm. As a strategic
consultant, she worked with corporate and public employee benefit plans,
endowments, foundations, not-for-profit organizations, and
multi-employer plans to provide a full range of consulting services.
Before joining Callan, she was a partner with the investment advisory
firm David J. Greene and Co. Morris was secretary and vice president of
NYSSA and received the Volunteer of the Year Award in 1998 for her work
as chair of the Membership Committee. She obtained her BA from Lycoming
College.
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Executive Vice President:
Kathy A. O'Connor, CFA, KJ Capital Management LLC
Kathy A. O'Connor, CFA, is a partner and
portfolio manager at KJ Capital Management LLC. Previously, she
co-managed portfolios at Morgan Stanley, New York Life Investment
Management and Towneley Capital Management. O'Connor received an MBA
from Babson College, a BA from University of Massachusetts and an
associate’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University. She
is a CFA charterholder and a member of CFA Institute, the Society for
Quantitative Analysts and the New York Society of Security Analysts.
O'Connor is on the board of the New York Society of Security Analysts
and the Babson College Graduate School Advisory Council.
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Secretary
John J. Apruzzese, CFA, Evercore Wealth Management LLC
John J. Apruzzese, CFA, is partner and chief
investment officer of Evercore Wealth Management. Prior to joining
Evercore Wealth Management in 2008, Apruzzese was a managing director of
US Trust, which he joined in 1984. At US Trust, Apruzzese was directly
responsible for managing $2 billion of client assets representing many
of US Trust’s most significant clients. Additionally, he served as
chief investment officer for US Trust of New York from 2003 to 2005 and
the head of equity investments and chair of the Equity Investment
Committee from 2005 to 2008. For 15 years he was an active participant
in the formulation of overall investment strategy and a member of the US
Trust Investment Strategy Committee. Prior to attending business school,
Apruzzese was on the staff of the US Senate Labor and Human Resources
Committee and worked on federal budget matters. He received his BA from
Bucknell University in 1980, an MBA from New York University in 1984,
and became a CFA charterholder in 1987.
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Treasurer
Elizabeth K. Miller, CFA, CIC, CFP, Summit Place Financial Advisors,
LLC
Liz Miller, CFA, CIC, CFP, after
more than 20 years' experience on Wall Street, founded Summit Place
Financial Advisors, LLC to offer personalized asset management and
financial consulting and coordination to elite families and individuals.
Liz started her career as a mergers & acquisition analyst and
proprietary trading analyst for The First Boston Corporation. She
went on to become a portfolio manager for Oppenheimer Funds and spent 15
years managing portfolios for institutions and individuals with Trevor
Stewart Burton & Jacobsen Inc. in New York. She served on CFA
Institute’s Private Wealth Advisory Committee and was a previous
chair for the NYSSA's Private Wealth Management committee for which she
received a Volunteer of the Year award. She currently serves on
NYSSA’s Board of Directors. Recently she was named one of New
Jersey's Best 50 Women in Business for 2010 by NJBiz Magazine.
Liz serves on the editorial advisory board for Trusts &
Estates Magazine and is also an instructor for the Chautauqua
Institute’s Special Studies program. She received a B.S in
Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and
an M.A. from Columbia University
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Directors-at-Large:
• Steve Balog
Steve Balog has extensive experience on both
the sell-side and buy-side of the investment business. For nearly
twenty years through 2001, Balog was a Wall Street research
professional—both an analyst and a research executive. He
was recognized five times by Institutional Investor Magazine’s
All-American Research poll for his work on the electronics industry. As
a research executive, Balog was part of the management team of the
Shearson Lehman Brothers equity research department that ranked #1 for
three straight years from 1990–1992. He was director of global
technology research at Merrill Lynch and had oversight of approximately
100 equity research professionals around the world. He was a partner,
board member and director of research of Furman Selz, a privately held
institutional firm. He was a general partner of Cedar Creek
Management, LLC an investment partnership in Summit, New Jersey which
employed a value-biased style and compiled a very attractive 10-year
record of performance. Balog has been quoted extensively and has
lectured frequently about the research business, at Columbia University
and the University of Florida, and has co-authored a case study on
research management which was published by the Harvard Business School.
Balog earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from
Bucknell University and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
• Karen E. Boroff, PhD
Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of
Business
Karen E. Boroff,
PhD, has been dean of Seton Hall University’s Stillman
School of Business since 2001. Committed to preparing tomorrow’s
global business leaders to meet the ethical challenges of the workplace,
she initiated the development of a code of conduct for the Stillman
School, as well as a lecture series focused on integrity in business
practice. During her tenure, the school opened its Trading Room,
complete with the data feeds from Bloomberg L.P. In 2005, the school
opened its Seton Hall Sports Polling Center, which now conducts national
polls on sport issues of the day. This past September, the Stillman
School was cited again by the U.S. News and World Report as among
the top 100 programs among all the US business programs nationally. In
January 2008, the school earned the Council on Higher Education
Accreditation’s award on Institutional Outcomes Assessment.
Joining the Stillman School faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in
the Department of Management, Boroff was promoted to associate professor
in 1995 and five years later was named a full professor. She served as
acting dean of the Stillman School for more than a year before being
appointed dean. Boroff earned a PhD in business from Columbia
University, an MBA from Lehigh University and a BS in industrial and
labor relations from Cornell University.
• Mary Jane McQuillen
ClearBridge Advisors
Mary Jane McQuillen is the director
and portfolio manager for the Environmental, Social, and Governance
(ESG) investment program at ClearBridge Advisors, the largest
equity affiliate of Legg Mason. Her responsibilities include
integrating ESG research into the stock-selection process for
the multiple ESG strategies at ClearBridge. She has been with the
program since 1996. She is a long-standing member of the United Nations
Environment Program Finance Initiative Asset Management Working Group.
She serves on the board for the Social Investment Forum and
is a Steering Committee member of the Social Investment Research
Analyst Network. For her work as chair of NYSSA’s Socially
Responsible Investing Committee, she was named a Volunteer of the Year
in 2006. In 2008, McQuillen was named a “Rising Star of Corporate
Governance” by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and
Performance at the Yale School of Management. McQuillen holds an
MBA from Columbia Business School. She holds a BS in finance from
Fordham University. She is also a member of Bpeace, a volunteer
organization that works to introduce sustainable business skills to
women in Rwanda, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.
• Andrew J. Melnick, CFA
Melnick Investment Partners
Andrew J. Melnick, CFA, is
managing partner of Skyview Investment Advisors which is an advisory
firm and the general partner of fund of hedge funds. From 2002 until
2004, he was co-director of the Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment
Research Division and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he was senior vice president and
director of the Merrill Lynch’s Global Securities and
Economics Research Group. During his 13 years at Merrill Lynch, he
expanded the research group from primarily a domestic effort to one with
research offices in 26 countries around the world. During that period,
Merrill Lynch Research was ranked as the top research department in
nearly all regions of the world. Melnick's previous positions
include president of Woolcott & Co., a boutique research and
investment banking firm; director of research and partner of L.F.
Rothschild; and senior vice president in the investment
research department of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Melnick
served as a US Army signal corps officer which included a tour in
Vietnam.
• Katherine Nukk-Freeman
Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.
Katherine Nukk-Freeman is a founder and principal of
Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C., an employment law firm, which
exclusively represents employers in New Jersey, New York, and throughout
the metropolitan area. Nukk-Freeman and her firm devote their practice
to the counseling, training and litigating on behalf of clients of all
sizes—from start-up companies to Fortune 50 corporations—on
diverse employment issues. Nukk-Freeman has been an active board member
of Susan G. Komen, North Jersey Affiliate, the Healthcare
Businesswomen’s Association, and the New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra. In 2008, her firm received the award for “Outstanding
Women Business Enterprise in the New York Metropolitan Area” from
the Women’s Business Enterprise National Counsel (WBENC).
Nukk-Freeman has received the highest rating (AV) from Martindale
Hubbell and was named a “Superlawyer” in 2010 by
SuperLawyer Magazine. Nukk-Freeman graduated from Pennsylvania
State University’s Scholars Program in 1990 with a double major in
finance and accounting, and from the Boston College Law School in
1993.
• Barry M. Sine, CFA, CMT
CapStone Investments
Barry M. Sine, CFA, CMT, is the director of research
of CapStone Investments, a boutique investment bank headquartered in San
Diego. He utilizes fundamental, quantitative, economic and technical
tools to identify promising investment opportunities. He has frequently
been a top-ranked analyst in The Wall Street Journal Best on the
Street analyst rankings. Sine has also held positions with JP Morgan,
Prudential Securities, and Oppenheimer. He is a director of the New York
Society of Security Analysts and a past director of the Market
Technicians Association. He founded and was the first director of the
CMT Institute. He was awarded both the Chartered Market Technician (CMT)
designation for technical analysis and the Chartered Financial Analyst
(CFA) designation for fundamental analysis. Sine holds an MBA in finance
and international business from New York University’s Stern School
of Business and a BA in finance and economics from Fairleigh Dickinson
University.
• Karen Sterling, PhD, CFA
Avalon Group Ltd.
Karen Sterling, PhD, CFA, is the managing
director of healthcare investment banking at Avalon Group, a Manhattan
boutique, where she offers fundraising and strategic advisory services
to companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices,
healthcare services, and healthcare IT sectors. Previously, she was vice
president and senior analyst at Fridson Investment Advisors, an
investment management firm specializing in corporate credit
opportunities, and prior to that quantitative and fundamental analyst at
Martin Fridson’s FridsonVision. Until 2009, she also published
equity research reports and financial analysis of life sciences
companies through Karen Sterling Bio-Pharma Insight. An active NYSSA
member since 2003, Sterling was a founding member NYSSA’s
Toastmasters group, and a founding member of the editorial board of
The Investment Professional, to which she contributed a
peer-reviewed research article. In addition to being awarded the CFA
designation in 2006, Sterling earned two master’s degrees and a
PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from Columbia
University. In 2005, while deployed to Antarctica as a research
scuba diver on an NSF-funded project, she became the only financial
analyst in history to update her equity research coverage via satellite
from a remote field camp on the Antarctic continent.
• Victor Ugolyn
Wisdom Tree Trust
Victor Ugolyn is a private investor and is the
independent chairman of the board of trustees of WisdomTree Trust. He
retired in 2004 from The MONY Group after the company was acquired by
AXA Financial. While at MONY, he was chairman of MONY Securities
Corporation and chairman, president, and chief executive officer of
Enterprise Capital Management, also serving on the boards of MONY
Life Insurance Company of the Americas, MONY International,
and MONY Bank & Trust. Under his leadership, MONY Securities
was ranked by USA Today as one of the nation's top
ten major brokerage and mutual fund companies based on
investor satisfaction and Enterprise was recognized by Bloomberg Wealth
Manager as one of the nation's top five subadvised
manager-of-managers mutual fund companies based on investment
performance. Prior to joining MONY, Ugolyn served as corporate vice
president of Value Line Inc. where he was chief marketing officer.
Ugolyn is a member of the board of governors of the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the board of overseers of Stanford
University's Hoover Institution. He is a former member of the
Independent Directors Council, the European Institute, and the
ICI's Marketing Committee. Ugolyn is a magna cum laude graduate of the
Honors Program at Boston College with a BS in
economics and received his MBA from Dartmouth College's Tuck
School of Business where he presently serves as an advisory board
member of the Tuck Club of NYC.
• Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA
American Economic Planning Group Inc.
Mark Ukrainskyj, CFA, is chief investment officer of
American Economic Planning Group Inc. (AEPG), a private wealth
management firm located in Watchung, NJ. His responsibilities include
management of the firm's investment operations, investment research,
portfolio analysis and design, monitoring of client portfolios, and
formulation of investment strategy. He is the chairman of the
firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining AEPG in 1999, he
spent over four years as a securities analyst and portfolio manager at
Capital Builders Advisory Services Inc. in New York. Previously he
was a securities analyst at Amas Securities and a financial analyst on
the chief investment officer’s staff at Mutual of New York.
Ukrainskyjholds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business at
the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Haas School of
Business at the University of California. He is a CFA charterholder and
served as the chairman of the Private Wealth Management Committee of the
New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA). He was named a NYSSA
Volunteer of the Year in 2009.
Ex-Officio
• Mark J.P. Anson, CPA, PhD, CMA,
CIA, CFA
Oak Hill Investment Management
Mark J.P. Anson is managing partner at
Oak Hill Investment Management. Prior to joining OHIM, Anson was
president and executive director of investment services at Nuveen
Investments, an asset management firm with nearly $145 billion assets
under management. Prior to Nuveen, Anson served as CEO of Hermes
Pensions Management Ltd., an institutional asset management company
based in London with $80 billion AUM, where he was also the CEO of the
British Telecom Pension Scheme. Prior to joining Hermes, he served as
the CIO of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the
largest pension fund in the United States. Currently, he is a member of
the board of governors of the CFA Institute and the SEC Advisory
Committee to SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro. He has published over 100
research articles in professional journals, has won two Best Paper
Awards, is the author of five financial textbooks including the
Handbook of Alternative Assets, which is the primary textbook
used for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst program, and sits
on the editorial boards of several financial journals. Anson earned a BA
in economics and chemistry from St. Olaf College, a JD from Northwestern
University School of Law, and a masters and a PhD in finance from
Columbia University Graduate School of Business, all with honors.
• Kathryn R. Booth
Kay Ryan Booth has been a highly
successful senior executive on Wall Street for over 30 years. Most
recently, Booth was managing director and vice chairman of global
research at J.P. Morgan where she successfully integrated and managed
four businesses to profitability. Prior to that, Booth was a senior
managing director and global director of equity research at Bear Stearns
& Co., Inc. driving the department to a world-class, award winning
status, ranking first or second in a variety of surveys and polls. Booth
also led hard dollar, alternative research products and commission
sharing arrangements. In addition to her other responsibilities, she
managed the Bear Stearns Focus List, a stock picking list, ranking first
among all brokers in the Barron’s/Zach’s survey with over
21% return. Booth serves on the board of governors at CFA Institute,
chairing its Audit and Risk Committee. She is also dedicated to her alma
mater Indiana University where she serves on two boards and is
vice-chair on the foundation’s Investment Committee. Booth is also
a board member and committee chair for other not-for-profit
organizations.
• Stanley G. Lee, CFA
Neuberger Berman
Stanley G. Lee, CFA, senior vice president joined
Neuberger Berman in 2008 when David J. Greene and Company was acquired
by Neuberger Berman. Lee is a portfolio manager whose responsibilities
include advising both taxable and institutional accounts, in addition to
marketing the team’s strategies. Prior to the acquisition, he was
a principal and portfolio manager at David J. Greene and Company, LLC,
where he had a similar role. Before joining David J. Greene, Lee worked
at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Paine Webber. He is on the board of
governors of the CFA Institute and previously was the New York
region’s president council representative for the CFA Institute.
Additionally, he has served as a member of the private Wealth Advisory
task force and the Professional Development Committee for the CFA
Institute. He is also on the board of directors of the New York Society
of Security Analysts where he co-founded and was a former chair of the
Private Wealth Management Committee. Lee has served as frequent chair
and speaker at industry conferences across the country. He holds a BS in
business management with a minor in economics from Ithaca College.
