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Institutional Asset Management

Our team

Joseph Bellantoni, CFA, Managing Director
Joe is lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Small-Cap Core portfolios. He also serves as chair of the firm’s Corporate Governance Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, he was Chief Financial Officer of Execulease Corporation, a diversified asset-backed lender. Previously, he worked for 15 years in public accounting and financial management and became a CPA in 1983. He earned a BS and MBA from Fordham University.
Roger Bos, CFA, Senior Vice President
Roger is responsible for quantitative research. He is also a member of the firm's Quantitative Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, he spent six years at Standard & Poor’s focusing on quantitative research projects and two years at Value Line as an equity analyst. Roger earned a BS from Rockhurst University, an M.Phil. from the University of the West Indies and an MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.
Corey Brodsky, Vice President
Corey joined the firm in 2007 as sales coordinator for the managed account business. In 2010, he assumed additional responsibility for business development of the firm's sub-advisory business. In these roles, he supports the firm's management, sales and marketing initiatives on behalf of the sub-advisory and managed account platforms through which the firm's products are available. Previously, he worked at U.S. Trust as a regional sales coordinator and financial officer in its financial institutions group. He also worked for almost six years at MetLife/New England Financial in various roles in the firm’s broker-dealer and annuities divisions. He earned a BS from Keene State College.
Mary Jane Cullinan, CFA, Managing Director
Mary Jane joined Rothschild Asset Management in 2003 as client relationship manager and product specialist. She has more than 30 years of experience in investment management, holding executive positions in portfolio management, marketing and client service. Previously, Mary Jane served as Senior Managing Director for Institutional Services at Rorer Asset Management and Director, Marketing and Client Service at MacKay Shields. Prior to 1996, she held senior positions in equity and fixed income portfolio management and research, including Chief Investment Officer at Capital House Investment Management, NA. Mary Jane earned a BA from Vassar College.
Luis Ferreira, CFA, Managing Director
Luis is a portfolio manager and analyst on the Large-Cap team. He is responsible for implementing the team’s ideas into portfolios benchmarked to the S&P 500 and has analytical coverage of the commercial services and consumer durables. He has been with the firm for five years and has 19 years of industry experience. Prior the joining the firm in 2006, Luis worked for three years at Bear Stearns as an associate director responsible for a broad set of equity strategies. He also served as a senior portfolio manager in charge of global equity and balanced portfolios at State Street Global Advisors, where he started his investment management career in 1993. Luis earned a BS from the Universidad de Los Andes and an MBA from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
T. Radey Johnson, CFA, Chief Executive Officer
Radey is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Small/Mid-Cap Value portfolios. In addition, he is a member of the firm’s Investment and Quantitative committees. He joined the firm in 1988. From 1980 to 1987, Radey worked at Value Line, where he managed more than $400 million in small-capitalization equity accounts. Immediately prior to joining Rothschild Asset Management, he was Director of Equity Strategy for ABD Securities, the US investment arm of Dresdner Bank. He earned a BA and M.Phil. from Yale University.
Tina Jones, CFA, Managing Director
Tina is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Small-Cap Value portfolios. She is also the chair of the firm’s Quantitative Committee, as well as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. She joined the firm in 1995 as an analyst and became a portfolio manager in 1998. She earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris R. Kaufman, Managing Director
Chris is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Large-Cap Value portfolios. He is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Chris joined Rothschild in 2004 after three years at BlackRock and five years at the Retirement System Group as a large-cap value portfolio manager. He also worked for eight years in private placements as an investment officer for MONY Financial Services before focusing entirely on publicly traded equities. Chris earned a BA from Hunter College and an MBA from Columbia University.
Michael Kehoe, Senior Vice President
Michael joined Rothschild Asset Management in 2008 as a vice-president and healthcare analyst for our Small-Cap Growth strategy. Previously, he served as a research analyst covering medical technology at both Cowen & Company and CIBC. He has also worked as an options trader at Knight Securities. He earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Yale University.
Douglas J Levine, CFA, Managing Director
Doug is lead portfolio manager of the firm’s new Small-Cap Growth initiative. He joined the firm in 2007 from Kern Capital Management, where he served as an analyst and member of the portfolio management team for small- and micro-cap growth stocks, including both traditional long-only and long/short portfolios. He has also served as an analyst on the buy/sell side at such firms as Highbridge Capital Management, Citadel Investment Group and Morgan Stanley with broad sector responsibilities, including information technology, business/consumer services, basic materials, industrials, power utilities/energy and financial services. Doug began his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young. He earned a BS from Penn State University and became a CPA in 1998.
Anthea Mikstay, Senior Vice President
Anthea is the lead portfolio manager of large-cap accounts for the firm’s high-net-worth clients. In addition, she is a portfolio manager for Large-Cap Core accounts. Anthea joined the firm in 1997. She earned a BA from SUNY Buffalo.
Matthew Narlinger, CFA, Senior Vice President
Matthew joined the firm in 2004 as a member of its Balanced team. He is responsible for the analysis and portfolio management of fixed income securities as well as working on asset allocation for balanced accounts. Previously, Matt worked in fixed income with KLS Professional Advisors Group for four years and spent two years as an analyst with Lehman Brothers. He earned a BBA from James Madison University.
R. Daniel Oshinskie, CFA, Managing Director
Dan is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Small/Mid-Cap Core portfolios. He also serves as chair of the firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2001, he worked for more than six years as a securities analyst at Palisade Capital Management, Schroders and Value Line. Before that, he was a consultant with M.E. Nelson Company and an Investment Officer with Crestar Bank. Dan earned a BS from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MBA from Rutgers University.
Tom Rawlings, Head of Investment Operations
Tom Rawlings, Managing Director, joined Rothschild Asset Management in 2009 as Head of Investment Operations with responsibility for the operations and administration of the firm’s institutional and wrap businesses. He previously worked as a member of the executive leadership team of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations, technology, implementation and trading. In addition, he managed the transition of client accounts, as well as infrastructure build-out, required by O’Shaughnessy’s spin-off from Bear Stearns Asset Management, where he had handled similar duties as manager of that firm’s Systematic Equities group since November 2005. From December 1996 to October 2005, he held a number of positions such as portfolio manager, business/systems analyst and fund accountant at State Street Global Advisors. He earned an MBA from Boston University and a BS from the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Paul Roukis, CFA, Managing Director
Paul works with Chris Kaufman in managing the firm’s Large-Cap Value strategy. He also oversees the firm’s Large-Cap Value socially responsible portfolios and is a member of the firm’s Quantitative Committee. He has been with the firm for five years and has 18 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm in April 2005, Paul was a research analyst for more than 12 years with Sidoti & Company, Schroders, NatWest Securities and Value Line. He earned a BBA from Hofstra University.
Eric Rowan, Vice President
Eric Rowan is a member of the firm’s Sales & Marketing team, with responsibility for building strategic partnerships, including sub-advisory relationships. Prior to joining Rothschild Asset Management in June 2011, he spent nearly three years at ING Investment Management, serving as a member of that firm’s key accounts team. He previously worked as director of business development at IndexIQ, a start-up financial services firm focusing on quantitative hedge fund replication models, and as a member of the intelligence group of U.S. defense contractor Raytheon. Earlier in his career, he served as an investment manager for high-net-worth investors of Comerica Private Banking. Eric earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Georgetown University.
Michael A Tamasco, CFA, Chief Marketing Officer
Mike Tamasco is Chief Marketing Officer of Rothschild Asset Management with responsibility for sales and marketing. Prior to joining the firm in January 2011, he spent 10 years at Lazard Asset Management where he was responsible for a variety of business development activities. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice-President in Lazard’s Financial Institutions Group where he worked with plan sponsors, consultants and retirement platforms to promote the firm’s Defined Contribution Investment Only business. In addition to his direct involvement with clients, his experience includes product positioning, vehicle development, public speaking and brand and message development. Earlier in his career, Mike also served as Divisional Vice-President — Investment Consulting and Fixed Income Trading Manager at PaineWebber Incorporated and as a Proprietary Fixed Income Trader at Sanwa Securities (USA) Ltd. He earned a BA from Syracuse University.
David Tang, Chief Compliance Officer
David Tang was appointed Chief Compliance Officer for Rothschild Asset Management in October 2011, with overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the firm’s compliance policies and procedures. Mr. Tang, who joined Rothschild in August 2011, previously served, beginning in 2006, as Associate Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm in New York City. His responsibilities at Quadrangle included, among other things, oversight of the firm’s compliance program, as well as general legal matters, including offering and fund documentation, transactional documentation, fund operations, investor relations and communications, litigation and employee-related issues. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Tang served as an Associate in the Investment Management group of Seward & Kissel LLP in New York City. His duties there included structuring, formation and ongoing representation of U.S. and offshore investment funds, registration and advising of Securities and Exchange Commission registered investment advisers, and representation of issuers in initial public offerings, shelf registrations and follow-on offerings. Mr. Tang received his JD from the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, CA and a BA, magna cum laude, in economics and history from Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
Mark K. Tavel, Managing Director
Mark is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s Large-Cap Core portfolios, as well as lead portfolio manager of its Balanced team. He is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Mark joined Rothschild Asset Management with Radey Johnson in 1988 following 20 years at Value Line, where he was President of the asset management division. At Value Line, he managed more than $1 billion in institutional and mutual fund assets. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from Columbia University.
John C. Thomas, Esq Managing Director
John joined the firm in 2003 with responsibility for marketing and client service, primarily for Taft-Hartley funds. Previously, he was responsible for business development at Rorer Asset Management for seven years. He was counsel to Willig, Williams & Davidson for six years and the standing arbitrator for the TVA. John was also a labor relations director at Philadelphia Electric and Bechtel for five years each. He started his career as a construction worker for Laborers Local 158 and Roofers Local 30. John earned a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and a JD from Villanova University School of Law.
Christopher Travers, Managing Director
Chris joined the firm in 2002 with responsibility for managed account business development and adviser relations, focusing on the high net worth market. In 2010, he assumed additional responsibility for business development of the firm's sub-advisory business. In these roles, he supports the firm's management, sales and marketing initiatives on behalf of the sub-advisory and managed account platforms through which the firm's products are available. He began his career in 1986 with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Pershing Division. In 1988, he joined Alliance Capital and spent five years working in a variety of sales positions. In addition, Chris has worked in marketing/ relationship management roles with CJ Lawrence Asset Management, Deutsche Bank Securities and Ashland Management. He earned a BS from Syracuse University.
Richard Vasquez, Senior Vice President
Rich is responsible for institutional trading at Rothschild Asset Management. He joined the firm in 2005 after 15 years with Palisade Capital Management and the Bank of New York. He earned a BA from New York University.
Michael Welch, Managing Director
Mike is a Managing Director with responsibility for institutional business development (excluding Taft-Hartley plans) in the Western United States. He joined the firm in January 2012 and has nearly 20 years of investment experience. Most recently, he worked at Robeco-Sage in San Francisco, where he co-managed a team of marketing professionals with responsibility for fund of hedge fund sales to a variety of institutional clients. His experience also includes a number of sales and management positions at Coast Asset Management, where he sold single-strategy, multi-strategy and fund of hedge funds; at Lazard Asset Management, where he worked with institutional and high-net-worth clients in the Western Region, and at Merrill Lynch, where he served as a financial advisor and sales manager. Mike earned a BA from the University of Arizona. He is based in California.