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Our Team Senior Executive Officers Andrew M. Rosenfield Mr. Rosenfield is an economist and lawyer. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors and a member of its Investment
Mr. Soderberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors and he is a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Soderberg started his professional career with McKinsey & Company, an international
Mr. Stucke is the Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors and head of its Investment Committee and Portfolio Management Group. Prior to joining Guggenheim
Guggenheim Investment Advisors has more than thirty professionals on its investments team to support creative, insightful and global investment research and to work in portfolio management. Members of this group also serve as “Chief Investment Officers” for our clients when asked to do so. The team includes professionals who have lived and worked in twelve countries and speak nine languages. The members of the team bring a wide range of professional experiences to our practice. Their backgrounds include working in and covering private equity and hedge funds, experience in portable alpha, as well as in behavioral finance and cognitive science. The most senior professionals in this group include the following: Michael Christ Mr. Christ is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset Consulting Group, LLC,
Philip H. Sharkey II
SENIOR LEADERSHIP OF THE PRIVATE BANKING GROUP AND FAMILY OFFICE SERVICES: Edmund (Ned) A. Moulton
Donald J. Mueth
Gary S. Becker Dr. Becker is one of the preeminent economists in the world. A leading labor economist, Dr. Becker created the modern field of human capital theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 for his work in human
Dr. Kahneman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a Professor of Public Affairs at its Woodrow Wilson School. Dr. Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in
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Committee. He also is Senior Lecturer in Law at The University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught for 24 years, teaching such courses as Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Securities Regulation, Antitrust, Mergers and Acquisitions and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets. In 1977, while still a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Mr. Rosenfield founded Lexecon Inc., a leading law and consulting firm, of which he was CEO for more than 20 years, until its sale. In 1998, he founded UNext Inc. and Cardean University (now part of Cardean Learning Group), which he led for more than six years. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago and Vice Chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a past member of the Board of the Lyric Opera and the Steppenwolf Theatre among other Chicago institutions. Mr. Rosenfield was educated at Kenyon College, Harvard University, The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School.
management consulting and strategy firm, where he was a partner. During his fourteen years at McKinsey, he worked on a range of marketing, strategy and operational assignments with clients in industrial and electronic industries. He then spent 12 years at Motorola Inc., as a corporate officer in a variety of operating and staff roles. This included running the Network Services Business which operates the two-way radio networks owned and run by Motorola around the world, serving as Group General Manager with responsibility for the design, manufacture, sales and distribution of Motorola’s two-way radios in the North and Latin America markets; and running the Systems Solutions Group—Motorola’s Defense business that was subsequently sold to General Dynamics. Immediately before he became affiliated Guggenheim in 2005, he was Senior VP of Motorola’s Global Strategy and Corporate Development organization. Mr. Soderberg was educated at Harvard (from which he received his undergraduate degree in economics) and MIT (where he received his graduate business degree from its Sloan School of Management).
in 2006, Mr. Stucke served as an Executive Director on the Portable Alpha Team at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (Morgan Stanley AIP) where he opened and managed the firm’s London-based European alternative investments research office. Mr. Stucke has worked in the alternative investments, private equity, mezzanine, structured debt (public and private, taxable and tax-exempt) and interest rate derivative markets in London, Philadelphia, New York, Berlin and St. Louis. He holds an A.B. and an M.B.A. (first in class) from the University of Missouri. He also holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
which is a registered investment advisor included within Guggenheim Investment Advisors. Mr. Christ joined Guggenheim Partners in 2001, when Guggenheim Partners acquired Asset Consulting Group, where Mr. Christ was a senior executive and owner and had worked since 1991. Mr. Christ received degrees in Engineering Management and Applied Mathematics from Southern Methodist University and is a member of the St. Louis Society of Financial Analysts and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Mr. Sharkey is a senior portfolio manager. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2007, Mr. Sharkey was a director and equity partner at San Francisco-based Stone & Youngberg LLC. Before joining Stone & Youngberg, he was at A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., where he worked in debt, capital markets and research. Mr. Sharkey holds a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the New York Society of Financial Analysts and the CFA Institute.
Mr. Moulton is head of Guggenheim Investment Advisors’ Private Banking Group. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2000, Mr. Moulton was the managing partner of EAM Investment Corp. He began his career with The Bank of New York in its corporate banking division. Mr. Moulton received a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Ms. Nilles is a senior member of the Guggenheim Investment Advisors private banking team, based in its New York office. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2000, Ms. Nilles worked at Gerschel & Co., a family office in New York, in private investments, and previously, at Lazard in London and New York in Mergers & Acquisitions, where she focused on cross boarder transactions. Ms. Nilles received a B.S. from the University of Southern California and her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She divides her time between New York and California.
Ms. Hill is a senior member of Guggenheim Investment Advisors private banking team, focusing on servicing foundations and endowments. Before joining Guggenheim Investment Advisors, Ms. Hill spent nine years in Guggenheim Partners’ Institutional Finance business. She was previously affiliated with Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. Ms. Hill began her career as a rating agency analyst at Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., where she rated and analyzed asset-backed securities. Ms. Hill holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mr. Fedoris is Chief Executive Officer of Guggenheim’s Private Family Office, LLC. (PFO) and heads Guggenheim’s family office services practice. Mr. Fedoris joined Guggenheim in 2003, when the predecessor of PFO was acquired by Guggenheim. He has been in the family office industry since 1988. Mr. Fedoris’ specialization is in individual, corporate, non-profit and fiduciary taxation, with a concentration in federal estate and state inheritance taxes. Prior to joining the PFO business, he held numerous positions in the fields of accounting and law, including a tax consulting position with Ernst & Whinney in Philadelphia and a judicial clerkship in Ohio. Mr. Fedoris holds a B.S. and a J.D. from the University of Dayton and a LL.M. in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law. He is also a member of several non-profit boards.
Mr. Cherny is the Accounting Manager at PFO, with ten years of experience in the family office industry. He is responsible for the review of financial statements, client reports, and cash flow statements. Mr. Cherny is a graduate of Salisbury University and holds a Masters in Taxation from Villanova University.
Mr. Boles is a senior executive at PFO, specializing in estate and family wealth planning. Prior to joining PFO, Mr. Boles worked for SEI Investments and a private wealth advisory firm that specialized in comprehensive financial and estate planning for high net-worth families. Mr. Boles holds a B.A. in History and Business from James Madison University and a J.D. and Masters in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law.
Mr. Mueth is the Chief Financial Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors. He became affiliated with Guggenheim in 2001, when Guggenheim acquired Asset Consulting Group, where he was a principal and led the investment management and research divisions. Mr. Mueth holds a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and a member of the St. Louis Society of Financial Analysts.
Ms. Factor is the General Counsel of Guggenheim Investment Advisors. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2008, Ms. Factor was a partner with Perkins Coie and previously had been a partner at Jenner & Block, LLP and Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. She also served as Executive Vice President and General Council of UNext, an Internet education company. Ms. Factor holds a B.A. and a B.S from Washington University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.
Ms. Karras is Chief Marketing Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2005, she ran brand marketing and communications for UNext, a pioneer in the field of online education. Ms. Karras has held senior strategic marketing and communications positions at Burson Marsteller, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., and the Chicago Park District. She began her career in Washington, D.C. at Murphy & Demory, Ltd. Ms. Karras received a B.A. degree in Political Science from Ithaca College.
Ms. DiLorenzo heads Client Services and Transaction Management for Guggenheim Investment Advisors. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2005, she was a member of private wealth management teams at UBS and JPMorgan, where she served many high net worth and institutional clients. Her practice focused on restricted stock transactions, hedging and monetization strategies, and stock option divestments. In 2000, Ms. DiLorenzo relocated to San Francisco to become a partner of a wealth management team at Smith Barney. Ms. DiLorenzo received her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lehigh University.
capital and for his use of economics to investigate the family, to study crime and deterrence, and in general to extend the study of rational behavior and incentives. Dr. Becker has taught at Columbia University and, since 1972, at The University of Chicago, where he is a Professor of Economics and Sociology as well as a Professor of Economics in The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Dr. Becker is the author of many books, including seminal texts such as Human Capital, The Economics of Discrimination and The Economics of Life. In addition to his academic writings, Dr. Becker wrote a monthly column for Business Week for almost 20 years. Dr. Becker is the leading expert on economic incentives and compensation and is, according to the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index, the most cited social scientist in the world. Dr. Becker was educated at Princeton University and The University of Chicago (from which he received his Ph.D.)
Economic Sciences in 2002. He is the first psychologist to win a Nobel Prize. Prospect Theory, for which Dr. Kahneman was awarded the prize, challenges the assumption that people are purely rational when making financial decisions, suggesting rather that psychological motives, including emotions and biases, determine their economic behavior, causing them to make flawed but human choices. He was a professor at Hebrew University, the University of British Columbia and the University of California at Berkeley before joining Princeton in 1993. He has received all the most prestigious awards in the Psychology field, including the Hilgard Award for Lifetime Contribution to General Psychology, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the APA and the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Dr. Kahneman earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.
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