MICHAEL ASHLEY SCHULMAN, CFA

michael. schulman @ sloan. mit. edu

 

PROFILE

 

·         Investment professional with 11+ years of portfolio management and CDO experience

·         Strong strategy, modeling, new business development, and client interaction skills

·         MBA from MIT Sloan & CFA designation

·         Effectively managed hedge fund, fixed income, and small, mid & large cap equity strategies

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Jun’05 - present    HOLLENCREST CAPITAL MANAGEMENT   Newport Beach, CA

High-end boutique asset and wealth management firm

                        Director, Senior Portfolio Manager

·         Manage the hedge Fund: a fixed-income arbitrage, low volatility, long/short, market neutral strategy

·         Built the hedge Fund’s Quantitative Arbitrage Strategy (QAS) which accounts for approximately 74% of its exposure

·         Created the three data models used to manage the hedge fund and dashboard our investable universe

·         Write the Fund’s monthly investment commentaries

·         Responsible for client asset allocation models and share responsibility for equity and high yield strategies and security decisions

 

Mar’02 – May’05  DEUTSCHE BANK   Santa Ana, CA

Brought fresh processes, efficiencies and strategic insight to a newly formed group at the bank

                        Vice President, Quantitative Analysis Specialist – US CDO Unit

·         Successfully ran and modeled compliance and payments for 19 CDOs, CLOs, and CBOs totaling over $5.7 billion; set up securities, proposed legal Indenture changes, reconciled with auditors and managers

·         Created a business case that showed a new commercial venture to have high relative risks and negative margins, thereby winning management approval to not enter the market

·         Effectively enhanced client relationships and service and set the standards for others by surveying collateral managers and delivering what they wanted; additionally helped standardize client processes and department models by working closely with department head and entire team.. Result: Continue to win deals from existing clients and garnered new deals from a client that was previously ready to leave

·         Led a Six Sigma Pilot that improved efficiencies for the entire 33 person CDO unit, taught a CDO training class, and individually developed staff

·         Analyzed deal life expectancy to improve prioritization of rework, thereby saving six months revenue

 

Mar’01 - Sep’01    ACCENTURE LTD.  Boston, MA

Developed effective management and technology solutions for start-ups, financial services and biotech

                        Manager, Strategic Information Technology EffectivenessFinancial Services

·         Developed complete technology strategy model for clients to best manage new and emerging technologies to protect and gain market share and improve product development pipeline 34%; Accenture used this model to win new clients and develop new business with existing clients

 

Sep’99 - Jan’01     OPEN RATINGS, INC. (Dun & Bradstreet funded)  Boston, MA

Joined MIT start-up team at ratings and analysis company

                        Director of Strategy

·         Defined the market strategy and new customer focus with founders and senior management, presented to VCs, and co-wrote a behavioral analysis white paper on the factors that affect a company’s ratings and perception amongst investors, clients and suppliers. Result:  Received second round financing from VCs based on our developed strategy; first customers came out of our new customer focus

 

Oct’91 - Jan’98     PACIFIC INCOME ADVISERS, INC.  Santa Monica, CA

Assisted in growing boutique money management firm from 5 to 50 people and $0.9 to $8 billion in managed assets

      Portfolio Manager 1993-1998, Investment Officer 1991-1993

·         One of three on investment committee for 5 equity styles (core, rotational, large cap enhanced index, small/mid cap) totaling $930 million for companies, managed accounts, union pension funds, group trusts and high net worth

·         Developed ‘QES’, a quantitative, real-time system with momentum algorithms that ranked 3,000 stocks across 37 fundamental factors; having ‘QES’ confidently enabled the firm’s expansion from 1 equity strategy to 5

·         Structured and led the managed accounts/wrap department for fixed income and equity. Result: Fastest growing department, from $0 to $1.2 billion under management; $5 million annual revenue

·         Analyzed convexity, duration and risk on CMOs, ABSs, pass-throughs, corporates, illiquid securities and whole portfolios, resulting in a consistent and effective methodology applied across all portfolios

 

EDUCATION & DESIGNATIONS

 

1998 - 2000          MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT  Cambridge, MA                              GPA 4.8/5.0

                        MBA, including work in Information Technology, Entrepreneurship, mechanical engineering, nano tech

·         Teaching Assistant for two New Product & Venture Development graduate courses

·         Interned at World Federation of Exchanges (formerly FIBV)

 

1994                 CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYST (CFA) designation awarded in 1994

 

1987 - 1991          UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AT BERKELEY  Berkeley, CA

                        BA in Economics, Dean's Honors List             Sr. GPA 4.0/4.0

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

 

2004 - present       CFA society of Orange County (CFAOC)                                                         Orange County, CA

Elected President and Board Member.  Previously Vice President – in charge of showcase Annual Forecast Dinner; and Education and Career Planning Chair – developed a revenue sharing and marketing agreement; restructured the Scholarship Fund’s grant request letter and won $10K from the PIMCO Foundation; formed a joint venture with UC Irvine Extension

 

2002 - present       National Kidney Foundation of Southern California  Orange County, CA

Events Committee:  Team increased net contributions 300% year over year

 

2003                  Bolsa de Valores de Colombia  Bogota, Colombia

Consultant:  Recommended action based on in-depth analysis that led Board of Directors to accept my conclusion over their initial opinion

 

2002                  World Federation of Exchanges, Emerging Markets Forum  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Invited by the WFE to present on the economics of listing to an audience of leaders of exchanges; developed a new framework for exchange economics                                       

 

2001 - 2002          Boston Security Analysts Society  Boston, MA

Education Committee – led and designed a four-part program on Career Development

 

1999                  IAE, Business and Management School  at Universidad Austral, Pilar – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Invited by IAE, as an opinion leader, to present to faculty, benefactors, students, local entrepreneurs and the Board on the benefits of fostering an Entrepreneurship Center and entrepreneurship competition (both currently in operation)

 

INTERESTS

·         Adventure:           Mountain biked Kauai; trekked the Amazonas; horse backed Patagonia

·         Extensive travel:   Fiji, New Zealand, Russia, Turkey, Western Europe, Cambodia

·         Art:                     Reading, theater, painting

·         Languages:          Russian (basic); Spanish (basic)

 

PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS

·         “Small And Medium Size Businesses on Your Exchanges – the Economics of Listing,” World Federation of Exchanges, Emerging Markets Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2002

·         Schulman, Michael A. and Margaret M. Denniston, edited by Pattie Maes, “B2B Performance Ratings: Building Trust and Enabling Confident Decision-making Online” Open Ratings, Inc., September 2000

·         “Entrepreneurship Programs,” IAE - Escuela de Dirección y Negocios de la Universidad Austral, Pilar – Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1999

·         Schulman, Michael A., Small and Medium Size Business Markets, An FIBV Working Committee Focus Group Study,” FIBV – International Federation of Stock Exchanges, August 30, 1999

·         Business plans: Wrote, edited and helped develop business plans for several high-tech startups

·         Quoted in BusinessWeek, Fortune, and DigitalMass

 

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