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Biographies
Our Staff:
Charles Nichols II: Chief Investment Officer
Charles Nichols has over 25 years experience in the investment business and technology fields. In early 1992, Mr. Nichols founded Nichols Asset Management (NAM). From 1982-1990, Mr. Nichols was a Wall Street telecommunications and technology analyst. In 1988-1989, Mr. Nichols was Vice President and telecommunications analyst at Prudential Securities. During 1988-1989, Mr. Nichols was a Vice President and equity analyst at Bear Stearns & Company responsible for research of the long distance, telecommunications equipment, and networking industries. From 1983 through 1987, Mr. Nichols was First Vice President and equity analyst at E.F. Hutton, responsible for coverage of the telecommunications equipment, networking, and long distance services industries. Mr. Nichols has also worked for Montgomery Securities and Wood Gundy as an analyst. Mr. Nichols has been involved in venture capital and investment banking activities during his career. As a Wall St. analyst, Mr. Nichols was frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, and numerous trade publications and appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, and FNN. Providing industry commentary. Mr. Nichols was a member of the prestigious Institutional Investor magazine "All Star" research team. From 1979-1981, he was a systems engineer at AT&T and StorageTek. He is a director of Ektron Inc., an Internet infrastructure software company he helped fund. Mr. Nichols received a B.S. in Economics & Finance from the University of Denver in 1978.
Patricia M. Nichols: President & Chief Compliance Officer
Patricia M. Nichols has over 22 years experience in various aspects of the money management field. Currently Ms. Nichols co-manages NAM’s diversified portfolios. Prior to joining NAM in 1994, Ms. Nichols was a fixed income investment and marketing manager at PanAgora Asset Management. Since 1983, she has managed institutional money ranging from money markets and derivatives to mortgages, corporate, and treasury bonds as well as equity futures. At Back Bay Advisors from 1988-1990, she consistently outperformed her benchmark. At E.F. Hutton Asset Management from 1983-1987, she shared responsibility for redirecting the hedging strategy to profitability. In addition, she successfully expanded the reverse repo and bonds borrowed portfolio to $2.2 billion; accounting for 12% of the daily portfolio income which helped boost the $ 6.6 billion fund to the top of the Lipper Large Government fund rankings. Ms. Nichols also authored the quarterly economic commentaries on the outlook and activity of the E.F. Hutton fixed income, municipal, short-term, and equity portfolios. Ms. Nichols has extensive experience in the area of portfolio analytics and derivative products. Ms. Nichols has passed the series 7, 3, and 63. Ms. Nichols received her B.A. in Economics in 1979 from the University of Denver.
Christopher R. Ely, CFA: Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager & Analyst
Chris Ely has more than 25 years of investment experience as an analyst and portfolio manager. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Loomis Sayles & Co., LP, and a member of its Board of Directors. Chris Ely led the Specialty Growth team managing portfolios of small and mid-sized growth companies for institutions, mutual funds and high net worth clients. Mr. Ely and his team grew this business from its inception in July 1996 to a peak of over $3 billion of assets under management. Prior to Loomis Sayles, Ely was a portfolio manager and analyst at Keystone Investments (Evergreen) where in his last position he was lead portfolio manager of the firm’s small cap growth fund, S-4, and separately managed accounts utilizing the same investment style. He has appeared on CNBC and is an occasional guest on Bloomberg Radio's "On The Money". Mr. Ely began his investment career at Sun Life of Canada and continued in his analyst role at Fleet National Bank prior to joining Keystone in 1986. Mr. Ely earned his B.A. in Mathematical Economics from Brown University in 1978 and his M.B.A. from Babson College in 1984. He holds a CFA and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.
Roland W. Gillis, CFA: Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager & Analyst
Roland Gillis has 30 years of investment experience, most recently as a Partner of Putnam Investments where he was Managing Director and Director of their Specialty Growth Equity team. He was the lead Portfolio Manager on the Putnam Voyager Fund from 1995-2000. He was responsible for investments in high-quality, rapidly growing small- and mid-cap companies. Mr. Gillis was the Portfolio Leader of the Discovery Growth and OTC & Emerging Growth Funds, and a Portfolio Member on the Small Cap Growth Fund. Additionally, he managed Putnam Information Sciences Trust, an offshore small cap technology fund, since 1996. Prior to joining Putnam in 1995, Mr. Gillis was a Vice President, Portfolio Manager, and analyst with the Keystone Investments (Evergreen) from 1982-1994. From 1980-1982 Gillis was an analyst with Loomis Sayles & Company. Between 1978-1980 Mr. Gillis was an analyst at American Mutual Insurance. Mr. Gillis started his career as a trust officer at South Shore Bank & Trust Co. in 1975. Mr. Gillis received his MBA from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Business, and his B.A. from Northeastern University. Mr. Gillis has a CFA and Series 7, 65 and 63 registrations with the NASD.
David L. Smith, CFA: Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager & Analyst
Dave Smith has more than 23 years experience as a securities analyst and portfolio manager. He comes to Nichols Asset Management, LLC, from Sirios Capital Management, LP where he was Director, Technology Sector. Prior to joining Sirios, Smith served for nine years as a vice president and portfolio manager on the Specialty Growth team at Loomis Sayles & Co., LP. There, he was instrumental in helping to build Loomis Sayles' specialty growth group to a peak of $3 billion in assets under management. From 1990 through 1996, Smith was a vice president, portfolio manager and analyst at Keystone Investments (Evergreen) working on the small cap growth team and its flagship Keystone S-4 Fund. Before Keystone, Smith was an analyst at Fidelity Investments from 1986 to 1988, focusing on the savings and loan industry and assisting on Fidelity's thrift sector fund. Smith started his career at Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company as a trust services specialist in 1983. Smith earned an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University in 1990 and a BA in Political Science (honors) from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in 1982. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
03 Mar 2008