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Duane Castles
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
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Duane founded Prime Advisors, Inc® in 1988. He has overall responsibility for implementing investment policies for clients and supervising investment operations. Duane has been actively involved with both individual and institutional clients since 1983. Prior to founding Prime, Duane was at Seattle-Northwest Securities. He also managed the Municipal Bond Department at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon where he had overall responsibility for trading and underwriting. During his tenure, the bank’s bond trading earnings were consistently at record levels. Along with Vince Rowland, Duane developed the theory of Dynamic Cash Flow Risk Reward AnalysisSM, and the return on surplus portfolio analysis methodology for insurance company portfolios. Duane graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Business Administration (Finance and Economics), and was both an MSRB (Municipal Securities) Registered Representative and an MSRB Principal.
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Vincent R. McDonough, JD
General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer
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Vincent is responsible for Prime’s legal and risk management issues. In addition, he serves as Prime Advisors’ Chief Compliance Officer, and in that role he is responsible for the company’s culture of compliance. Prior to joining Prime, Vincent was Director of Administration and Operations for Mellon Growth Advisors LLC; and he was Senior Counsel to Mellon Financial Corp., where he counseled several of Mellon’s investment adviser subsidiaries on regulatory issues and advised management regarding corporate governance and transactional issues. Vincent also has experience as a securities litigator, a state prosecutor, and as a clerk to a federal judge. Vincent graduated from Holy Cross College with a BA in English, received his law degree from Suffolk University Law School, and is a Member of the Massachusetts and Washington State Bars.
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Vince Rowland, ACAS, MAAA
Board of Directors
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Since joining Prime Advisors in 1992, Vince has been responsible for the development and oversight of financial strategies for clients, including actuarial investment policy parameters and objectives. Prior to joining Prime, Vince was a principal for the actuarial consulting firm Tillinghast - Towers Perrin. Vince was responsible for a variety of client relationships, most of which included evaluation of investment policy. He was the also the principal involved in Tillinghast’s property/casualty financial model development called InvisionTM. Before Tillinghast, Vince was Chief Financial Officer for Merchants Insurance Group in Buffalo, New York, where he was directly responsible for both investment policy and supervision of external investment managers. Vince has been active in financial and investment management since 1971, and has written and spoken widely on such topics as optimal tax strategy and investment strategies for the insurance industry. Vince graduated from St. Mary’s university in Winona, Minnesota, with a BA in mathematics. He is an Associate of the Casualty Actuary Society (ACAS) and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).
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Blaine O'Kelley, CPA
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
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Blaine joined Prime Advisors in 2007, and is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, operations and administrative matters. He has over 20 years experience in various positions within Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation, including serving as its Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. His responsibilities at SNW included oversight of the compliance, administrative, finance and information technology groups as well as administration of the company Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Blaine has held various licenses and registrations, including the Series 24 – General Securities Principal, Series 7 – General Securities Representative, Series 53 – Municipal Securities Principal, Series 52 – Municipal Securities Representative, Series 63 – Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination, and Series 27 – Financial and Operations Principal. Blaine graduated from Gonzaga University with a BA in Business Administration with a focus on Public Accounting.
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Les Berthy
Board of Directors
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Les Berthy has been a managing director at Prime Advisors, Inc. since 2004. Mr. Berthy retired in 2003 from Forum Financial Group where he served as Director of Investments. He currently oversees his own portfolio of private investments. Mr. Berthy is also a director of two other privately held companies.
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Lewis Leon, MBA
Senior Vice President, Investment Accounting
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Lewis joined Prime Advisors in 1997. He manages client accounting and reporting, including Schedule D, new client conversions, and portfolio performance. In addition, he acts as a consultant to clients on related accounting issues and also oversees internal data quality and controls in support of Prime’s asset management and actuarial functions. Prior to joining Prime, Lewis was the accounting manager for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was responsible for all marketable securities portfolios, securities related statutory and GAAP reporting and performance measurement. Lewis has over 20 years experience in investment accounting and statutory reporting for securities. Lewis graduated from The University of Connecticut with a BS in Accounting and, received his Masters in Business Administration from The University of Hartford.
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Frank Conde, CFA, FCAS, MAAA
Chief Investment Strategist, Board of Directors
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Frank Conde is Prime’s Chief Investment Strategist. Frank joined Prime in 1994 and is a member of its Investment Committee. Additionally, Frank oversees the Investment Strategy Group in Windsor, CT, which combines professionals with actuarial, insurance and investment backgrounds to develop strategies addressing the constrained needs of insurance companies. The Investment Strategy Group focuses on integrating capital market investment opportunities with insurance operational requirements. Frank’s specific areas of expertise include dynamic financial modeling, risk management, after-tax performance attribution, and the development of yield maximizing portfolio strategies. Frank has co-authored a paper titled, “Dynamic Financial Analysis Issues in Investment Portfolio Management” and is a regular contributor to “The Prime Advisor” series. Prior to joining Prime, Frank worked in actuarial consulting at Tillinghast – Towers Perrin. Frank graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Frank is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).
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Robert MacMillan
Senior Vice President and Portfolio Strategist
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Bob joined Prime Advisors in 1997, and has direct responsibility for municipal investments, including working with dealers on new issue structuring, and bidding bonds in the secondary market. Prior to joining Prime, Bob was the Vice President and manager of the municipal bond trading desk at the Seattle offices of both Dain Bosworth and U.S. Bank. During his 14 year tenure as the lead trader and underwriter, Bob traded bonds in the secondary markets, took significant risk positions to achieve profit objectives, and led primary municipal bond underwriting via the competitive and negotiated processes. Licenses and registrations held were Series 24 – General Securities Principal, Series 7 – General Securities Representative, Series 53 – Municipal Securities Principal, Series 52 – Municipal Securities Representative and Series 63 – Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination. Bob graduated from Seattle University with a BA in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance.
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Doug Clark
Chief Portfolio Strategist, Board of Directors
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Doug joined Prime Advisors in 1992, and as Chief Portfolio Strategist is responsible for the development and implementation of client investment strategies and oversight of the trading desk. In addition, Doug manages the mortgage-backed investment portfolios, which includes mortgage pass-throughs, asset-backed and commercial mortgage-backed investments. Doug’s background at Prime includes investment accounting and extensive work with state and regulatory deposit requirements. Doug received a BA in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance, Economics, and Information Systems from the University of Washington.
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Hope Maxwell
Senior Vice President
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Hope joined Prime Advisors in 1999. Her responsibilities include financial modeling and developing customized investment strategies for clients. Additionally, Hope assists clients with rating agency issues and capital adequacy models. She is a frequent speaker at various medical malpractice seminars and is a member of the PIAA Rating Agency Relations Committee. Prior to joining Prime, Hope was a Managing Senior Financial Analyst in A.M. Best’s insurance rating division, specializing in the analysis of professional liability companies, excess and surplus line carriers, captives and small property companies. In addition, Hope participated on special research projects and has authored articles on various insurance topics. Before A.M. Best, Hope worked for the Everest Reinsurance Company, in several accounting and financial analysis positions. She has a BS degree in finance and accounting from the University of Richmond.
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Larry Ventura
Senior Vice President, Technology and Board of Directors
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Larry joined Prime Advisors in 1999. He manages Prime’s computing and telecommunications infrastructure. Larry also manages Prime's development team. Prior to joining Prime, he worked for 13 years at The Boeing Company's Defense and Space Group. Larry graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a BS in Aerospace Engineering.
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Ryan Leahy, MBA
Vice President of Business Development
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Ryan is responsible for developing business in the property/casualty and life/health insurance markets. Before joining Prime Advisors, Ryan worked at ABN Amro trading municipal bonds, private placements, VRDN’s, and municipal derivatives. From 2001-2006, ABN Amro’s municipal bond desk was consistently ranked in the top 10 of municipal competitive underwritings and the municipal floater program grew to over $8 billion. Prior to joining ABN, Ryan played football professionally for the Amsterdam Admirals, Arizona Cardinals, and Green Bay Packers. Ryan received his BA in economics from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. He holds both a Series 7 license and a series 65 license.
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Marc W. Tollefson
Chief Investment Officer
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Marc joined Prime Advisors in 2004 and is responsible for all corporate investment portfolios. Prior to joining Prime, Marc was the Manager of Long Municipal Portfolios for Quellos Fixed Income Advisors. His responsibilities included long tax efficient core fund and separate account management. Before Quellos, Marc was Vice President and Head Bond Trader with GE Financial Assurance, where he managed corporate bond trading positions in both High Yield and Investment Grade Corporates and executed over $30 billion in trades. Marc was also a Principal with the Gelber Group, focusing on proprietary trading in U.S. Treasuries, Strips, Agencies and Futures, and worked for Benaroya Securities, Seattle First National bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. Marc has been active in securities trading since 1982 with experience in multiple markets including Municipals, Corporates, US Governments, Agencies, Swaps, Money Markets and Futures Contracts. Marc received a BA in Business Administration from the University of Puget Sound.
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