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Craig Sawin - President Craig Sawin joined Medley Global Advisors LLC with 27 years of diverse executive and financial experience. He served as CEO of Harcourt General's Corporate and Professional Services Group, and later led the start up of the consulting firm Novations Group Inc. During Mr. Sawin's tenure at Harcourt General he traveled extensively throughout the world and led the global expansion of its subsidiary, Drake Beam Morin. Prior to that, as Harcourt's Corporate VP of Planning and Analysis, he participated in more than 30 mergers and acquisitions and led the budgeting function for their $4 billion+ portfolio of companies. Mr. Sawin earned his CPA while working for Deloitte & Touche. He holds a B.S. from Bentley University and a M.B.A from Babson College. Mr. Sawin was an adjunct professor of business at Boston University for ten years. Kevin Muehring - Director of Content and Special Projects Kevin Muehring joined Medley Global Advisors LLC after a distinguished career in financial journalism. Mr. Muehring was well known for his byline in Institutional Investor magazine, where he was senior correspondent for macroeconomic and monetary policy. He also served as European bureau chief for Institutional Investor in London, covering European central banks and EMU issues. The winner of a number of journalism awards including the Overseas Press Club Award, Mr. Muehring holds a B.A. in philosophy and English literature from Washington University in St. Louis. He attended graduate school in journalism at New York University before beginning a four-year stint as a journalist based in Saudi Arabia. Tracey Bennett - Head of Client Services Tracey Bennett brings over twenty years of experience in global exchange traded derivatives (ETD) markets to Medley Global Advisors LLC. Prior to MGA, Mrs. Bennett was a senior manager at both UBS Warburg and Bank of America. She started her career at Bank of America in money market trading before moving to ETD at the opening of the LIFFE exchange. After running their floor operation for several years, she moved to off-floor ETD sales, providing both macro- and technically-based strategies to a wide variety of clients. She managed that desk before being promoted to head Bank of America’s European ETD division. In 1998 she moved to UBS Warburg in London and was subsequently transferred to the United States as an executive director to establish and manage the North American ETD sales desk, serving institutional clients. Regina Schleiger - Director of G7 Research Regina Schleiger heads the firm's G7 central banking analysis with primary focus on the US Federal Reserve. Ms Schleiger joined MGA after more than a decade of financial and political coverage with various media organizations where she held chief editing and reporting positions specializing in real-time international capital markets and policy news. Prior to MGA, Ms.Schleiger worked for Knight-Ridder Financial News and Bridge News where she received an award of excellence for central bank, G7 and international policy coverage. Before transferring to New York in 1994, Ms. Schleiger covered economic policy and finance for leading media in her native Australia during which time she won a joint Australia-Japan government scholarship to work in Japan. Daniel Sternoff - Director of Emerging Markets and Energy Research Daniel Sternoff heads MGA's Emerging Markets and Energy research, with a primary research focus on oil markets, geopolitics and China. Prior to joining MGA in 2002, Mr. Sternoff covered Middle East politics as a Jerusalem-based correspondent with Reuters, and subsequently led coverage of global macroeconomics and international capital markets as director of Reuters' Foreign Exchange Group in New York. Mr. Sternoff contributes to policy roundtables with groups including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs and the Council on Foreign relations, and has also worked as a researcher for CFR's senior fellow for Muslim politics. Mr. Sternoff received a Fulbright Scholarship after completing his M.A. in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University. Brendan Fitzsimmons - Head Strategist Brendan Fitzsimmons, is responsible for integrating global market intelligence with MGA's policy intelligence. He brings more than 10 years of strategy, intelligence, and policy analysis experience from trading, banking, consulting, and government service. Mr. Fitzsimmons began his career at Manufacturers Hanover in London working on North Sea energy and policy risk issues, subsequently consulting at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Petroleum Finance, and McKinsey & Company, before serving in the International Affairs Division of the President's National Security Program at OMB. Prior to joining MGA, Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Senior Market Specialist at Enron Global Markets, working with the Financial Trading Group covering global interest rates, FX, and commodities. Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow at Harvard University, pursued graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Economics, International Relations, and Emerging Markets Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University. He has worked and studied in the UK, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Russia, and the Czech Republic. Sassan Ghahramani – Consultant Sassan Ghahramani was born in Iran and lived in Canada, Russia, and Spain before moving to the United States. He obtained a BA in International Relations, a combination of political science, economics, and history, from Brown University and an MBA in Finance from New York University. He spent 12 years in the foreign exchange markets trading for major institutions: Chemical Bank (now part of JP Morgan), UBS, AIG, and Lehman Brothers. His responsibilities included making markets, taking proprietary risk, managing a trading desk, and advising clients.
In February of 1998 Ghahramani joined MGA. From initially helping collect and analyze information for hedge funds and proprietary trading teams his responsibilities expanded over time to running and building a core G10 macro service to, as CEO, overseeing all client, content, and strategic aspects of the firm. He has been a contributor to various publications and has appeared on numerous media programs, both nationally and internationally, to discuss major macro policy events and their impact on financial markets. |
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