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James Kauffmann
Head of Fixed Income
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Jim Kauffmann is the Head of Fixed Income for ING Investment Management. Under his leadership assets managed by his group have grown to over $40 billion in over two dozen strategies that include hedge funds, currency overlay, and global bond funds. He is the portfolio manager for several of ING’s flagship funds. In 1996 he developed ING’s proprietary valuation algorithms, the investment methodology used to identify value in fixed income markets. Prior to joining ING in 1996, he was a Vice President and senior portfolio manager at Alfa Investments Inc. He began his career in 1986 in the capital markets securities group of Drexel Burnham Lambert where he was responsible for developing fixed income strategies for clients. Jim has over 21 years of investment experience and received his B.S. in industrial management from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He is a frequent commentator for several news organizations, including “The Wall Street Journal,” “The Financial Times,” “Barron’s,” “Credit Magazine,” “Financial Advisor,” and is also a featured speaker at various industry conferences.
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Todd Bates, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Money Market
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Todd Bates is an Assistant Portfolio Manager for all of the ING Money Market Funds and several cash management accounts. He has over 11 years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, he was associate director for taxable money market research at Evergreen Institutional Asset Management. He has also held analysts positions with Mariner Post-Acute Network, Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank. He received his B.A. in political science and certificate in market and management studies from Duke University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Gretchen Bishop
Analyst, Mortgage-backed
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Gretchen Bishop is an Analyst on the mortgage-backed securities team. She joined ING Investment Management in 2001 as part of the middle office and operations departments. Gretchen earned a B.S. in economics from Boston College, and an M.B.A. in finance from Georgia State University.
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William Daley
Head of Credit Research
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Bill Daley is Head of Credit Research and brings over 23 years of investment experience. He manages the research activities in all credit sectors. His previous experience includes positions as head of investment-grade research at Zurich Scudder Investments and head of credit research at Allstate Insurance Corporation. Most recently he was with Deerfield Capital Management where he was director of corporate bond research. Early in his investment career, Bill held analyst positions at The Bank of New York and Moody’s Investors Services. He earned a B.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. in finance from Rutgers University.
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Chris Daniel, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Investment Grade Credit
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Chris Daniel is a Portfolio Manager with seven years of investment experience. He is responsible for the investment-grade component of separately managed institutional accounts, mutual funds, and several proprietary portfolios. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, he was a portfolio manager with The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System. Chris began his career with Jumper Securities. He received a B.S. in business administration from the University of Tennessee. Chris also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Greg Daniel, CFA
Senior Credit Analyst, High Yield
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Greg Daniel is a Senior Credit Analyst on the high yield fixed income research team, covering the chemicals, aerospace/defense and industrials sectors. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2005, he held analyst positions with Bear Stearns Asset Management and W.R. Huff Asset Management. His earlier work experience included various roles at Lucent Technologies and Ashland Oil. Greg received a B.S. in mathematics and economics from Centre College and a M.S.I.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Cynthia Dempsey, CFA
Senior Portfolio Specialist
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Cynthia Dempsey is a Senior Portfolio Specialist with over 15 years of investment experience, which includes designing and implementing portfolios. Previously, Cynthia consulted to ERISA clients for Wachovia (then First Union). Her earlier experience includes work as an analyst for both Goldman Sachs' Equity Division and Calibre Financial Securities, a boutique fixed income manager. She earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Alabama and is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Matt Diamond
Analyst, Quantitative Risk Management
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Matt Diamond joined ING Investment Management in 2000 and has nine years of experience. Prior to joining the quantitative risk management group, he has held the position of analyst in the performance measurement group and in fixed income operations. He began his career at Cigna Retirement Services. Matt graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in finance.
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Chris Diaz, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, Interest Rate Strategy
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Chris Diaz is a Senior Portfolio Manager with over nine years of investment experience and is primarily responsible for the Treasury and agency securities component of ING Investment Management’s institutional, mutual fund and proprietary portfolios. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2000, Chris was a fixed income portfolio analyst for SunTrust Equitable Securities Corporation. He received a B.S. in finance from the University of South Carolina and M.B.A. from Emory University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Jorge Espinoza, CFA
Emerging Debt Specialist, Latin America focus
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Jorge Espinoza is a Research Analyst responsible for the analysis of Latin American Credits (countries and corporates), Latin American Currencies and Local Fixed Income, research and recommendations. He joined ING Investment Management in 2004, and has 11 years of investment experience. Previously, he was a Pension Fund Portfolio Manager at ING AFP Santa Maria, Chile. He was responsible for managing more than $5 billion in a global balanced Pension Fund Portfolio, as well as asset decisions, and was a member of the Investment Committee. Jorge received his B.A. degree in corporate finance in 1996 from the Catholic University of Chile. He also completed an M.B.A. with a specialization in investments in 2001. He has been a Chartered Financial Analyst designation holder since 2006.
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Daniel Eustaquio
Emerging Debt Specialist, Latin America focus
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Daniel Eustaquio joined ING Investment Management in October 1998 and has 20 years of investment experience. He is a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for managing emerging markets portfolios. Previously, he was at DEKS Management and Banco Rio de la Plata. Daniel attended Northwestern University where he received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. (Kellogg).
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Scott Frost, CFA
Senior Credit Analyst, High Yield
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Scott Frost is a member of the high yield fixed income research team, covering the gaming, lodging, homebuilding, technology, health care, and finance sectors with over 14 years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, he was a high yield analyst at PNC Capital. Scott received a B.S. in business administration from Bowling Green and M.S.I.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Brian Geller
Portfolio Manager, Mortgage-backed Securities
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Brian Geller is a Portfolio Manager with 11 years of experience in mortgages. He joined ING Investment Management in 1996 as an analyst within the CMO derivatives group. After serving as the manager of the analytics and reporting for this group, he joined the mortgaged-backed securities team. Prior to ING, Brian worked for MetLife as a separate accounts analyst. He has a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from Georgia State University.
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Bud Hancock
Head of Stable Value and Senior Portfolio Specialist
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Bud Hancock is a Senior Portfolio Specialist and Head of Stable Value. He has over 20 years of investment experience. Prior to his current role, Bud was head of product development. Before joining ING Investment Management in 1997, he was head of fixed income at Banque Indosuez. Earlier, he was with Westdeutsche Landesbank with various capital market responsibilities. He began his career at Manufacturer's Hanover Bank. Bud received a B.A. in economics from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management.
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Ken Hessel, CFA
Senior Analyst, Emerging Market
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Ken Hessel is a Senior Analyst on the Global Emerging Markets Debt team with 12 years of investment experience. He focuses on non-sovereign fixed income investments within emerging markets. Prior to joining Global EMD, he was responsible for bank, finance and broker credit research for ING’s Proprietary Fixed Income group. Before joining ING Investment Management in 2004, Ken covered bank and finance companies as a Research Analyst and Vice President at Trusco Capital Management in Atlanta. Ken holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from Goizueta Business School of Emory University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Kenneth Hockstein, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Synthetic CDO
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Ken Hockstein is a Portfolio Manager responsible for managing ING Investment Management’s synthetic CDO portfolios. Ken has over 12 years of investment experience. Previously, he was a member of the investment-grade fixed income research team. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 1997, Ken was with SunTrust Banks. He received a B.S. in economics from the University of Delaware and an M.B.A. from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Courtney Hollar, CFA
Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Corporate Securities
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Courtney Hollar has nine years of investment experience with investment grade corporate and convertible debt as well as the private placement debt market. He is responsible for research in the media, technology, gaming/lodging and finance company sectors. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2001, he worked for AmerUs Capital Management as a research analyst in investment-grade corporate and convertible debt markets. Courtney holds a B.A. in political science from Virginia Tech, an M.B.A. from Georgia Tech and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Greg Jacobs, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade
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Greg Jacobs has over 12 years of investment experience and is a member of the investment grade team. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 1998, Greg was an associate portfolio manager at Equitable Investment Services. He received a B.A. in economics from Depauw University and M.B.A. from the University of Illinois. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Denis Jamison
Portfolio Manager
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Denis P. Jamison is a specialist in government, corporate and municipal bonds and is responsible for GNMA portfolio management at ING Investment Management. He has over 35 years investment experience. Before joining ING in 2000, he was senior vice president and director of fixed income investment strategy at Lexington Mutual Funds. He joined Lexington in 1981. Before Lexington, Denis spent nine years at Arnold Bernhard & Company, an investment counseling and financial services organization. At Bernhard he was a vice president supervising the security analyst staff and managing investment portfolios. He is a graduate of the City College of New York with a B.A. degree in economics. He has received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.
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Aprille Johnson
Portfolio Manager, Money Market
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Aprille Johnson has over 18 years of investment experience and a Portfolio Manager on the money market desk. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities, she was head of U.S. equity trading. Before joining ING Investment Management in 1998, Aprille was with CIBC and Kidder Peabody. She received a B.A. in chemical engineering technology from Trident College.
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John Johnson
Senior Credit Analyst
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John Johnson is a Senior Credit Analyst on the high yield fixed income research team. He has over 12 years of investment experience and is covering the media and telecommunications sectors. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2007, John held analyst positions with Oppenheimer Funds, Aladdin Capital Holdings and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. He previously worked as an attorney with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden, Arps. John received a B.S. degree from St. Peter’s College and a J.D. from New York Law School.
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Anil Katarya, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit
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Anil Katarya is a Senior Portfolio Manager with ING Investment Management’s investment grade team. He has over nine years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2000, Anil was a financial analyst for Mirant Inc. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Kurukshetra University, India and an M.B.A. from Georgia State University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Travis King
Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit
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Travis King is a Portfolio Manager with seven years of investment experience. He is responsible for the investment-grade component of separately managed institutional accounts, mutual funds, and several proprietary portfolios. Prior to joining ING Investment Management he was a senior fixed income analyst with Reams Asset Management. Travis received his B.B.A. from James Madison University and M.B.A. from Memorial University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Corinne Krincek
Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit
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Corinne Krincek is a Credit Analyst on the investment grade fixed income research team and has 10 years experience in the investment industry. She is responsible for research in the telecom and media sectors. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in June 2006, she held various positions at Moody’s Investor’s Service. For three years she monitored and maintained credit ratings for telecommunication companies, provided business risk assessment and monitored changes in credit quality. Before that she was a market research associate focused on syndicated loan ratings. Her experience also includes three years at Mizuho as assistant vice president in the Syndication Department "supporting primary and secondary trading activity as well as" coordinating credit derivative transactions and four years as an economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Corinne holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of International Business from the University of South Carolina and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She has also received the Moody’s Corporate Credit Training Certification.
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Kurt Kringelis, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade
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Kurt Kringelis has 11 years of investment experience and is a member of the investment grade team. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 1998, Kurt was at Equitable Investment Services. He received his B.S. degree in finance, M.B.A., and Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois. Kurt is a Certified Public Accountant and also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Alfredo Larrea
Portfolio Specialist
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Alfredo Larrea is a Portfolio Specialist for the fixed income group. Prior to joining the fixed income group, for three years his focus was expanding the operations of ING Investment Management throughout Latin America. Previously, he worked with the National Banking and Securities Commission in Mexico. Alfredo received a B.A. in finance from ITAM, in Mexico City, and M.B.A. from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
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Jake Lowery
Analyst, Investment Grade
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Jake Lowery is an Analyst on the portfolio management team for investment grade corporates. He is responsible for assisting portfolio managers with research, reporting, and data analysis. Jake joined ING Investment Management in May 2006. He began as an intern in May 2004 and for a second internship in 2005. He received a B.A. in economics with honors from Vanderbilt University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst level two candidate.
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Raj Makhija
Quantitative Analyst, Quantitative Risk Management
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Raj Makhija is an Analyst on the quantitative risk management team. Raj holds a B.Eng . in computer engineering from the University of Bombay, India and a M.S. in quantitative and computational finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in May 2005, Raj was a market risk analyst for SunTrust Capital Markets Inc.
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Jose Marquez
Portfolio Manager, Synthetic CDO
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Jose Marquez is a Portfolio Manager responsible for managing the synthetic CDO portfolios for ING Investment Management. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in September 2007, he worked for Deerfield Capital Management as a Portfolio Manager/Quantitative Analyst, where among other things he was responsible for managing synthetic CDO tranches. Jose was also involved with the quantitative analysis and development of a credit derivatives product company. His previous experience includes positions at ABN AMRO Bank and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the area of quantitative risk management. Jose received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami and a M.S. in financial mathematics from the University of Chicago.
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Michael Mata
Head of Quantitative Risk Management
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Michael Mata is Head of Quantitative Risk Management for the fixed income group, responsible for the design and development of sophisticated risk models and their application in the portfolio construction process. Michael has over 18 years of experience and joined ING Investment Management in 2004 from Putnam Investments where he was the senior risk manager for fixed income portfolios. His previous experience includes risk management for fixed income derivative and bond arbitrage trading at Lehman Brothers. He earned a B.S. in finance from Florida International University and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.
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Brian Matthews
Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Fixed Income
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Brian Matthews has four years of investment experience and is a member of the investment grade fixed income research team responsible for the Aerospace/Defense, Building Materials, Homebuilders, Construction Equipment and Diversified Manufacturing sectors. Brian joined ING Investment Management in 2005 as a private placement associate. Prior to that, he was the managing director for the Carlson Growth Fund. Brian holds an M.B.A. from University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Geology from Colorado State University.
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Roseann McCarthy
Portfolio Manager
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Roseann McCarthy is responsible for the management of the ING GNMA Income Fund. She has over 10 years of investment management experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2000, Roseann held similar responsibilities at Lexington Mutual Funds. She joined Lexington in 1990. She has a B.A. from Hofstra University and an M.B.A. from Seton Hall University.
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Tim McCrady, CFA
Portfolio Manager
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Tim McCrady is a Portfolio Manager in Structured Finance and has 17 years of investment experience. Since joining ING Investment Management in 1998, he has managed collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities and has also been involved in Product Development. Previously he was a portfolio manager at Banc One Capital Corporation and an asset-backed securities analyst at Banc One Corporation. Tim received his B.S. in business administration from The Ohio State University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Kevin Moose
Research Analyst, Mortgage-backed Securities
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Kevin Moose is a Research Analyst on the mortgage-backed securities team. Since joining ING Investment Management in 1999, he has held both actuarial and risk management positions. Kevin earned his B.S. in mathematics from Southern Polytechnic State University.
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Ali-Antoun Nakhle
Portfolio Construction Analyst
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Ali-Antoun Nakhle joined ING Investment Management in March 2007. He has over seven years of investment experience and was previously a risk and performance analyst for fixed income portfolios at Putnam Investments. Prior to that, he was a consultant in the risk management division of California Public Employees' Retirement System. He began his career at Accenture as a junior analyst. He received a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degree in electrical and communications engineering from the Ecole Centrale Paris. He gained a Masters of Science degree from Stanford University. He also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Jeff Nicholson
Senior Credit Analyst, High Yield
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Jeff Nicholson is a member of the high yield fixed income research team covering the metal, paper, energy, mining, packaging and transportation sectors. He has nine years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2001, he was a high yield analyst at PNC Capital. Jeff received a B.S. in management from West Virginia Wesleyan College and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
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Tad Nygren, CFA
Research Analyst, Interest Rate Strategy
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Tad Nygren is a member of the Treasury and agency securities fixed income investment team, with responsibility for portfolio analytics. He has five years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2003, Tad worked as an engineer for Intel Corporation. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota and his M.B.A. from Emory University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Luis Olguin
Senior Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit
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Luis Olguin is a Senior Credit Analyst covering the oil and gas industry for both investment grade and high yield portfolios. Luis has five years of investment experience. He began his career at ING in 2002 as a trading assistant for the investment-corporate team. Luis received a B.B.A. in finance from Emory University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Randall Parrish, CFA
Portfolio Manager
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Randall Parrish is a High Yield Portfolio Manager with over 14 years of investment experience. For the past 6 years, Randy has been a senior analyst on the high yield team focused on the media and retail/consumer sectors. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2001, he was a corporate banker in leveraged finance with SunTrust Bank and predecessors to Bank of America. Randy received a B.B.A. in business administration from the University of Georgia. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Bill Peck, CFA
Senior Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit
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Bill Peck is a Senior Credit Analyst on the fixed income research team, covering transportation, basic industry and industrials with 16 years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2001, he was a fixed income analyst at First Union National Bank of North Carolina and held investment analyst and mutual fund administrator positions at Boston Security Counselors. He began his career as a portfolio accountant at State Street Bank. He received a B.S. in finance from Babson College and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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J.D. Rieber, CFA
Senior Credit Analyst
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J.D. Rieber joined ING Investment Management in May 2007 as a Senior Credit Analyst on the high yield fixed income research team, covering the consumer and retail sectors. Prior to joining ING, he held analysts positions with AEGON USA Investment Management and Principal Global Investors. He received a B.A. in Finance from University of Northern Iowa and an M.B.A. in Finance from University of Iowa Tippie School of Management. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Todd Schomberg, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit
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Todd Schomberg is a Portfolio Manager for ING Investment Management's investment grade team. He has 7 years of investment experience. Prior to joining ING Investment Management, Todd worked as a Senior Fixed Income Investment Analyst for Wells Capital Management. Todd received a B.S. degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Brian Timberlake
Quantitative Analyst, Quantitative Risk Management
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Brian Timberlake joined ING Investment Management in 2003. Brian received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, M.S. in quantitative and computational finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Gorky Urquieta
Global Head Emerging Markets Debt
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Gorky Urquieta, head of the Emerging Market Debt Team since May 2007, is responsible for global emerging market debt portfolios. Prior to becoming head, he was Deputy Head of the EMD team since 2002, with broad asset allocation, research and trading responsibilities. Gorky joined ING Investment Management as a member of the Emerging Markets Debt team based in Atlanta in June 2000. He joined ING in 1997 as a member a member of Emerging Market Investors, a hedge fund manager affiliated with ING Furman Selz Asset Management. His experience there included analysis of sovereign and corporate bonds and loans, local currency investments and equities. Previously with Dart Container Corporation, he formed part of a research and trading team active in emerging and developed markets. Gorky received a masters degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin in 1993.
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Davic Vuchinich, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit
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David Vuchinich is the lead Portfolio Manager for the investment grade component of separately managed institutional accounts, mutual funds, and several proprietary portfolios with over 11 years of investment experience. Before joining ING Investment Management in 2002, he held senior analyst/portfolio manager roles at Reams Asset Management Company and The Public Employee Retirement System of Ohio. David earned a B.S. in finance from Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Management. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Allison Weed
Analyst, Interest Rate Strategy
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Allison Weed is an Analyst on the fixed income interest rate strategy team, responsible for the Treasury and agency securities component of ING's institutional, mutual fund, and proprietary portfolios. Allison joined ING Investment Management in 2005. She received her B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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Fitz Wickham, CFA
Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit
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Fitz Wickham has 18 years of credit and investment experience and is a member of the investment grade fixed income research team. His coverage responsibilities include electricity and natural gas utilities, project finance, midstream energy, REITS and tobacco. Prior to joining the Investment Grade team, Fitz spent six years with ING’s private placement group, where he managed privately negotiated investments in the energy, utility, banking/brokerage and project finance sectors. Prior to joining ING, Fitz was a corporate banking relationship manager with Wachovia Securities where he was responsible for credit underwriting and corporate finance transactions for clients in a wide range of industries. Fitz holds an M.B.A. with a finance concentration from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School at the University of Virginia. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Katy Wojciechowski
Senior Portfolio Manager, Mortgage-backed Securities
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Katy Wojciechowski is Senior Portfolio Manager primarily responsible for the mortgage-backed securities/collateralized mortgage obligations component of ING Investment Management's institutional and mutual fund portfolios. She joined ING in 1996 and has over 18 years of investment experience. Previously, she was mortgage strategist with First Union Capital Management Securities and a senior trader at Household International. Katy received a B.S. in finance and B.A. in economics from Drake University.
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David Yealy
Senior Portfolio Manager, Money Market
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David Yealy has over 21 years of investment experience and is responsible for managing the ING money market mutual funds and cash management accounts. Prior to joining ING Investment Management in 2004, he was a managing director and fixed income portfolio manager with Trusco Capital Management where he was responsible for managing over $9 billion of assets under management. He received a B.A. in economics from Wake Forest University.
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Rick Kilbride
Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager
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Rick Kilbride has 26 years of fixed income investment experience. He joined ING Investment Management's predecessor firm Furman Selz in 2001 as head of fixed income. Upon integration into ING Investment Management he assumed responsibility for the investment grade managed account business. Previously, he spent 12 years at Merrill Lynch, most recently leading an investment team managing leveraged loans and high-yield bonds. He also was the London-based managing director of Merrill's global institutional separate account fixed income portfolio management business. Before that, he was responsible for Merrill's initial efforts to build a U.S. institutional fixed income separate account presence, served as chief investment strategist of its captive insurance company, and was the asset-liability manager of Merrill Lynch Bank and Trust. He served on the board of directors of that bank for five years. Previously, he was a vice president in Paine Webber's institutional fixed income sales and trading business and began his career as an analyst on General Motors' New York treasury staff. Rick holds a B.A. from Colorado College (where he has also taught) and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.
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Dan Norman
Senior Vice President and Group Head
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Dan is Senior Vice President and Group Head of the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He co-manages the Group with Jeff Bakalar, and he is co-chairman of the Group’s Investment Committee and the Loan Pricing Committee.
Dan has over twenty years of investment experience. He began managing senior bank debt portfolios in 1995 when ING’s predecessor acquired the management rights to ING Prime Rate Trust. Dan became the co-head of ING’s senior bank loan business in January of 2000 and with Jeff Bakalar created and implemented the ING Senior Debt Strategy and the ING Senior Debt Group in January of 2001.
Dan has a wide variety of business and investment experience, having begun his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1981. He joined ING’s predecessor in 1992.
Dan received his B.A. degree in 1980 from the University of Nebraska and completed the University of Nebraska M.B.A. program in 1981. He maintains several NASD securities licenses including: Financial and Operations Principal (Series 27), General Securities Principal (Series 24), Registered Options Principal (Series 4), and General Securities Representative (Series 7).
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Jeff Bakalar
Senior Vice President and Group Head
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Jeff is Senior Vice President and Group Head of the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He co-manages the Group with Dan Norman, and he is co-chairman of the Group’s Investment Committee and the Loan Pricing Committee.
Jeff has over nineteen years of investment and banking experience. Jeff joined ING’s predecessor in 1998 and became part of the investment team for what is now ING Prime Rate Trust. He became the co-head of ING’s senior bank loan business in January of 2000 and with Dan Norman created and implemented the ING Senior Debt Strategy and the ING Senior Debt Group in January of 2001.
Jeff began his career as an associate with Continental Bank in 1987, serving in various credit and corporate finance roles, including establishing and managing derivatives trading lines with international bank counterparties, and structuring and monitoring various classes of asset-backed transactions. In 1994, Jeff joined the Communications Division within The First National Bank of Chicago, ultimately serving as a senior underwriter responsible for structuring and managing leveraged transactions for issuers in the broadcasting and media sectors.
Jeff received his B.S. degree with honors in finance from the University of Illinois Chicago, and his M.B.A. in finance with highest distinction from DePaul University.
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Curtis Lee
Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer
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Curtis serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. His primary responsibilities are to approve senior loan credit limits, oversee the problem loan management function and serve as valuation manager. Curtis is also a member of the group’s Investment Committee and Loan Pricing Committee. Curtis joined ING’s predecessor in 1999.
Prior to joining ING, Curtis held a series of positions with Standard Chartered Bank in the credit approval and problem loan management functions starting in 1992. In his last position at Standard Chartered Bank, he served as the Regional Head of Risk for the bank’s Global Special Asset Management unit where he approved workout strategies, restructuring proposals and loan loss provisions for the bank’s troubled assets throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East and South Asia.
From 1984 to 1992, Curtis lived and worked in Guayaquil, Ecuador, initially as a credit officer with Citibank and later providing consulting services to various Ecuadorian banks on credit analysis techniques in an inflationary environment. Curtis started his banking career in 1982 at United New Mexico Financial Corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Curtis holds a B.A. degree in journalism, a M.A. in Latin American Studies and an M.B.A. in International Management from the University of New Mexico, where he graduated with honors. Curtis is also fluent in Spanish.
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Robert Wilson
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader
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Robert is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. Robert joined ING’s predecessor in June 1998 and became a Senior Vice President within the Group in March of 2003. Robert covers the technology and telecommunications sectors for the Group.
Robert began his financial services career in 1987 as an Associate National Bank Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the federal bureau that regulates national banks. From 1990-1994, Robert served as a Vice President of Strategic Planning for Bank of California, an $8 billion regional bank in San Francisco, California. From 1994-1997, Robert was a Vice President with Union Bank of California’s Corporate Banking Group, charged with underwriting and syndicating senior debt transactions for media and telecommunications companies. From 1997 to 1998, Robert served in a similar debt origination capacity with the Bank of Hawaii in Phoenix, Arizona.
Robert received his B.S. degree in finance in 1986 from Golden Gate University.
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Michel Prince, CFA
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader
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Michel is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He joined ING’s predecessor in May 1998 and became Senior Vice President in March 2005. Michel primarily covers the healthcare and agriculture industries.
Prior to joining ING, Michel was a Vice President of Rabobank International, Chicago branch (from 1996 to 1998) and The Fuji Bank, Chicago Branch (from 1992 to 1996). During his tenure at Rabobank, Michel was involved in the marketing, structuring and syndication of various types of corporate transactions, including asset-based lending, cash-flow lending and off-balance sheet financing.
Michel graduated from the Université de Toulouse Paul-Sabatier with a business degree in 1980. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1990. He has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1996. Michel is also fluent in French.
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Charles Lemieux, CFA
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader
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Chuck is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group, and joined ING’s predecessor in in 1998. Chuck’s industry specialization includes chemicals, packaging, metals and mining, oil and gas and utilities.
Chuck has a wide variety of business and investment experience across several major industries. He began his career with Ernst & Whinney in 1987. He continued in corporate finance with progressively more responsible positions, working as a Controller for a small chemical company, a Senior Metals Trader for a global mining company and then as an Assistant Treasurer for a local power and water utility where he managed a staff of 15 professionals and was in charge of investing working capital funds of over $1 billion.
Chuck is a 1985 graduate of the University of Arizona, and received his M.B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1987. Chuck is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) since 1997 and has been very active in the local Phoenix Society of Financial Analysts, acting as its President in 2002/2003.
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Brian S. Horton
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader
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Brian joined the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group in September 2001 and serves as a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Team Leader in the Group. Brian manages investments in the retail, consumer products, restaurants and financial services sectors. Prior to joining ING, Brian was a Vice President in the Corporate and Investment Banking group at Banc of America Securities LLC, where he worked in the Consumer and Retail Industry Group, providing clients in those industries with services including debt and equity capital funding, mergers and acquisitions, credit, derivatives, and other corporate and investment banking products. Brian also served in various other corporate finance and relationship management positions during his seven years at Banc of America Securities.
Brian received his M.B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1990, and is a 1988 graduate of Arizona State University. Brian has his Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.
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Jim Essert
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
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Jim is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He covers primarily the real estate and technology sectors. Prior to assuming his portfolio management duties, Jim was a senior analyst on the Group’s Structured Finance team. Jim began working with structured finance when he joined ING’s predecessor in 1999. Jim has a variety of treasury investment experience. He began his career with two financial software companies: Bennett Management Services and later IPS Sendero Corporation. Both companies developed software applications that managed treasury risk for financial institutions around the world.
Jim is a 1988 graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in finance and a secondary emphasis in mathematics.
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Mohamed Basma, CFA
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
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Mohamed is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He covers the cable broadcasting and other media sectors. Prior to joining ING in January 2000, Mohamed was a Senior Auditor/Consultant in the audit and business advisory group with Arthur Andersen, LLP (1995-1997) where his primary responsibilities included executing corporate financial audits and performing financial consulting engagements.
Mohamed received an M.B.A. from Arizona State University in 1999 and a Bachelor of Business Administration from American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1995. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in August 2001 and is currently a member of the CFA Institute and Phoenix Society of Financial Analysts. Mohamed is also fluent in Arabic.
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Mark F. Haak, CFA
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
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Mark is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He covers the automotive and aerospace/defense sectors. Mark joined ING’s predecessor in 1999. Prior to that, Mark was an Assistant Vice President in the Corporate Banking Group of Norwest Bank in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1997 to 1998. He was a lead financial analyst and Portfolio Manager with Bank One in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1996 to 1997 and a Credit Manager with Norwest Financial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, and Phoenix, Arizona, from 1994 to 1996.
Mark is a 1994 graduate of Marquette University with a B.S. degree in business administration with majors in finance and human resource management. He received his M.B.A. in 1999 from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated cum laude. Mark also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, which he received in September 2001.
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Theodore M. Haag
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
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Ted is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the ING Investment Management Senior Debt Group. He covers the building products, transportation and general manufacturing sectors. Ted joined ING's predecessor in June 2000 as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager, responsible for managing high yield bond investments in ING’s legacy structured finance vehicles. Ted has served ING’s senior debt business as a workout officer on non-public transactions since early 2001, and currently also serves as a portfolio manager.
From 1997 to 2000, Ted was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Gen Re-New England Asset Management where he served as co-manager and investment committee member, responsible for managing the high yield investment activities of insurance clients. From 1995-1997, Ted was |
