HERMES - Key Persons
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- Head of Wholesale Distribution, Asia
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- Director, Consultant Relations
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- Head of Germany & Austria Distribution
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- Director - Distribution, Korea
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- BTPS Director
- CEO of Real Estate & Head of Private Markets
Chris is CEO of Real Estate & Head of Private Markets and a member of the Senior Management Team for Federated Hermes Limited. Chris joined in 2010, having successfully established Australian fund manager QIC's European office in London. Prior to that, he was Head of European Property at HSBC. Chris spent the majority of his career as a fund manager at Prudential, where he led the diversification of its UK real estate exposure into overseas markets in 2001.
Under his leadership, the Real Estate business has led a number of landmark real estate transactions, including the largest regeneration project in Europe at King's Cross, the development of the iconic Silverstone circuit, the major regeneration at Paradise Circus Birmingham, and the rejuvenation of central Milton Keynes. Chris is currently the Chairman of MEPC, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the senior non-executive director of NewRiver Retail Plc, a member of the Bank of England Commercial Property Committee and a Founding Board Member of INREV. As immediate past President of the British Property Federation, Chris has engaged actively with Central and Local Government to recognise the pivotal contribution that real estate and infrastructure make as conduits for growth and regeneration.
Chris is also the BTPS Director on the Argent Board and has taken a lead role in promoting responsible investment with major regeneration schemes at King's Cross and Paradise Circus, Birmingham.
Chris holds a BSc (Hons) in Land Management from Reading University.
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- Executive Director - Head of Distribution, UK & Ireland
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- Head of UK Wholesale Distribution
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- Chairman
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Chairman of IMM Associates
David is currently Chairman of IMM Associates, Chairman of Caledonia Investment Trust, and a Non-Executive representative on the MacMillan Cancer Care Investment Committee. His prior experience includes nine years at Odey Asset Management, initially as CEO and latterly as a Non-Executive Director until standing down in December 2014. Before that, David's career encompassed Fidelity Investments (1994-2005), James Capel (1986-1994) and Swire Pacific Ltd, Hong Kong (1981-1986).
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- Chief Investment Officer, Global Liquidity Markets, Senior Portfolio Manager, Executive Vice President, Federated Hermes, Inc
Debbie Cunningham is Chief Investment Officer of Global Liquidity Markets. She joined Federated Hermes in 1981 as a performance analyst and has more than 30 years of investment experience. Since 1990 she has been a portfolio manager for all government and prime liquidity products. In 1994 she took over the management of the taxable liquidity group. In addition to the domestic taxable liquidity portfolios, Debbie also oversees the management of the domestic tax-exempt liquidity portfolios, as well as the offshore liquidity products. She is a current member of the CFA Society of Pittsburgh and previously held the title of Director and President.
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- Head of Consultant Relations
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Head of Investment
Eoin is Head of Investment and a member of the Senior Management Team for Federated Hermes Limited. Eoin also leads the Investment Office, which is responsible to clients for the investment teams' consistent delivery of responsible, risk-adjusted performance and adherence to the processes which earned them their ‘kitemarks'. He is also the Executive sponsor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Eoin joined in January 2015 with almost 30 years' investment experience. Eoin joined from GSA Capital Partners, where he was a fund manager. Before this, he was Chief Investment Officer at Old Mutual from 2004 to 2008 and also held senior positions at Callanish Capital Partners LLP and Northern Trust Global Investments. He began his career as a graduate trainee at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JPMorgan Chase) and subsequently performed senior portfolio manager roles at Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors (now BlackRock), PanAgora Asset Management and First Quadrant. Eoin earned an MA (Hons) in Economics and Law from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Warwick Business School. Additionally, he has a Certificate in Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies from Stanford University and a Diploma in Specialist Rescue from Coventry University. Eoin is currently studying for a Masters in Sustainable Aquaculture at St Andrew's University.
Eoin is a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, Master of the Guild of Investment Managers, and a Fellow of the RSA. He is a member of the Exmoor Search and Rescue team, a fully qualified Swift-water Rescue Instructor, a Powerboat Rescue Operator and a Flood Water Incident Manager.
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- Fiorino Fixed Income / Constant Chaos: 4.669 Reasons Why Car - Tech Could Outpace Insurers
- Fiorino Fixed Income / Fiorino: Fighting Disorder: How Finance Is Working Against Climate Change
- Fiorino Fixed Income / Re - Entanglement: Why Debt and Reality Must Reconnect
- Fiorino Fixed Income / Signal Changes: Why Finance Is Warming to AI
- Fiorino Fixed Income / Why Banks Get Butterflies When Fintechs Have Wings
- Head of Financials ( Credit )
Filippo joined in 2011 and is Head of Financials in the Credit team. He is responsible for researching global financials. Prior to this, he served in a similar capacity at Fortis Investments in the global credit and hybrids group and subsequently at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Paris. Other roles at Fortis included securitisation analyst and regulated utilities and property analyst. Filippo began his career in Germany at Sal Oppenheim & Cie and Berenberg Bank, where he was responsible for derivatives trading and M&A financing. Filippo holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics & Business Administration from the Universita' La Sapienza in Rome.
Fiorino begins a short series of articles examining how mainstream banks and insurers are faring as a flurry of start-up enterprises disturb the competitive atmosphere...
Coming to you from the future, Fiorino looks back and forward at 2021 and 2022 in an alternative take on financial markets...
The long-term relationship between credit quality and the global unemployment rate appears to have broken down of late. But why? Fiorino once again probes the debt universe in search of deeper meaning...
With the Glasgow UN Climate Conference (COP 26) talks in the headlines, Fiorino examines how the European financial sector is already rising to the biggest challenge of the times - and why the industry must apply energy to maintain order...
Climate change is pushing the boundaries of financial risk disclosure into unknown territory.
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- Director - Distribution, Germany & Austria
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- Credit Pulse Fixed Income / Credit Pulse: Market Update - 10 December 2021
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- Director, Head of Distribution - Australia & New Zealand
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- Northern Trust International Fund Administration Services ( Ireland ) Limited
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- Vice Chairman, Federated Hermes, Inc. and President, Federated International Management Limited
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- Head of Business Development
- Member of the Executive Committee
Harriet is Head of Business Development, a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) and an Executive Board Director of Federated Hermes Limited. Harriet is also a member of the Federated Hermes Research Committee. She joined the firm in 2011 with responsibility for sales, client service, marketing, communications and product strategy. Under her leadership, we have built a fast-growing and profitable third-party business comprising many of the world's leading institutional and wholesale investors. As a member of the SMT, her responsibilities include development of corporate strategy and delivery of profitability. Appointed to the board of Federated Hermes Limited in 2013, Harriet became the company's first female executive director. Harriet chairs the Corporate Strategy Group, which develops the company's organic and inorganic growth plans.
Harriet has more than 25 years' experience in finance. In 1990 she joined the global trading team at Bankers Trust, initially trading currency options and subsequently holding senior derivatives sales roles in Paris, London and New York before joining Morgan Stanley's fixed income group in 1996. In 2003, Harriet established Portico Advisors, an asset raising and marketing advisory firm for alternative investment managers, including hedge funds, private equity and real estate strategies, which she ran until joining Federated Hermes.
Harriet acts as a mentor to female executives at the company, encouraging them to fulfil their potential and providing practical insight and guidance on how to achieve success in the City. Harriet is a regular commentator in the print and broadcast media on business, economic and diversity issues and, for the last five years, has been recognised as one of the top 100 women in European finance by Financial News.
Harriet holds a BA in Architecture from Princeton University.
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- Chief of Staff
- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff and a Member
Ian Kennedy is Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff and a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) for Federated Hermes Limited. Ian joined in 2015, taking responsibility for finance, IT, legal, HR, operations and facilities. As COO, Ian's role is to ensure that we operate a best-in-class organisational infrastructure to support our clients, investment teams and business development activities. As a member of the SMT, his responsibilities include development of corporate strategy and delivery of profitability. In 2020, Ian also became Chief of Staff for Federated Hermes Limited to support the Chief Executive in certain day-to-day responsibilities.
Ian entered the City in 1992, joining Prudential Bache Ltd, initially as European accountant and subsequently as regional risk and control manager. In 2002, Ian joined Dryden Wealth Management as Finance Director, joining Fortis in 2005 when they acquired the firm. Ian became COO for the UK wealth management and private banking division, ultimately acting as interim CEO and leading its sale to BNP Paribas in 2009-10, where he then became Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of BNP Paribas Wealth Management UK.
In 2012, Ian established InvestMe Financial Services LLC, one of the earliest firms in the UAE to be approved for investment advisory business activities by the Securities and Commodities Authority in Abu Dhabi. The firm was an active supporter of disadvantaged children in India, funding the creation of 11 schools in some of the poorest areas of the country.
Ian qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co and holds a BSc in Biochemistry from King's College London.
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- Executive Director - Head of Distribution, Asia Pacific
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- Senior Vice President, Regional Sales Consultant, Federated Hermes, Inc
Jane Lambesis joined Federated Hermes in 1987 and is Senior Vice President of Sales. She specialises in consulting to individual financial advisors and their teams regarding income planning, manager search and selection, investment portfolio design and monitoring.
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- President and Chief Executive Officer of Federated Advisory Companies
John Fisher is President and Chief Executive Officer of Federated Advisory Companies. In this role since 2006, John provides overall leadership to Federated's investment management organization, which employs more than 225 investment professionals. Joining the firm as a regional marketing representative in 1979, John rose through the distribution channel, serving in a variety of positions, culminating with him being named president of Federated Securities Corp., Institutional Division. John is a member of the firm's seven-person executive committee, vice president and director of Federated Investors, Inc., and either principal executive officer or a board member of a number of Federated mutual funds.
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- Director - Business Development, UK
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- Head
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chief Risk & Compliance Officer / MLRO
Keith Davies joined as Head of Strategic Risk & Compliance in July 2020, and became Chief Risk & Compliance Officer in September 2021. Within this role he is responsible for ensuring that the risk and compliance frameworks support the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives in a risk controlled and regulatory compliant manner. Keith is a member of the Federated Hermes Limited Senior Management Team and advises the board on risk, compliance and regulatory matters.
Prior to joining, Keith had a long, varied and successful career within the M&G/Prudential Group, where he was a member of the Executive Committee that successfully prepared M&G for de-merger from Prudential and listing as a stand-alone FTSE 100 company. His most recent role at M&G was Chief Risk & Resilience Officer, where he transformed the function to increase its focus on financial and operational resilience and on a variety of emerging risk types including reputational, behavioural and sustainability risk. Before that, Keith was M&G plc's Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, and the Head of Internal Audit for the Prudential Plc Group, where he was responsible for audit services across the group's insurance and asset management businesses globally. He also served as the Chief Risk Officer for Prudential's Treasury and Portfolio Management entities.
Before joining the Prudential Group, Keith had a long career across financial services, including roles in risk management and audit at Standard Chartered, Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank. He was also Lead Economist for the Americas for Standard Chartered (based in the US), and spent two years within the Policy team at the Financial Services Authority.
Keith has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Bristol, and passed the FT Non-Executive Diploma in 2019. He is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee for Admiral Insurance's UK underwriting subsidiaries.
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- Director - Distribution, Switzerland
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- Manager - Distribution, UK & Ireland
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- Director - Distribution, Nordics
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- Director - Distribution, Asia Pacific
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- Director - Distribution, Switzerland
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- Director - Distribution, UK & Ireland
Pars was appointed Non-Executive Director of Federated Hermes Limited in June 2020 and Chair of the Audit Committee in July 2020. Pars retired as a senior partner from PriceWaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") in June 2019 after a 36-year career at the firm. Pars' experience included being PwC's UK Asset Management Leader for 10 years and Finance Partner for both Asset and Wealth Management. Pars also spent three years as People Partner; three years as Sales and Markets Partner for the PwC's Insurance and Asset Management sectors; and a year as Executive Assistant to the UK Managing Partner with responsibility for the firm's UK operations. Pars is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
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- Non - Executive Director
- Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President of Federated Hermes, Inc
Richard A Novak - Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President of Federated Hermes, Inc. Rich is a director and President of Federated Investors Trust Company; director and Vice President of FII Holdings, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Federated Investors Management Company. Rich is also a director, treasurer, assistant treasurer and/or assistant company secretary of various subsidiaries and offshore funds managed by Federated Hermes, Inc.
Prior to this appointment, Rich was the Fund Treasurer of Federated's domestic funds from January 2006 until April 2013. In this role, he had the responsibility for all financial aspects of the funds, including financial reporting, security valuation, fund accounting, fund tax, client compensation and expense projection and approval. Rich was the Controller of Federated Investors, Inc. from 1997 through 2005. In this capacity, Rich had responsibility for overseeing Federated's domestic and international internal and external reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, client compensation and treasury functions. Rich joined Federated in 1995 as Vice President of Finance for Federated Services Company.
Prior to joining Federated, Rich was an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Company and held various finance‑related positions at The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh. Rich is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. Rich was awarded his Master of Business Administration degree from Robert Morris College. Rich is a Certified Public Accountant.
Sally was appointed Non-Executive Director of Federated Hermes Limited in April 2017. Sally served as Managing Director and General Counsel of UBS Investment Bank EMEA from 2001 to 2008. Previously she held a number of senior legal roles in investment banks in London and Chicago. She has been a Non-Executive Director of Moneysupermarket.com Group plc since April 2013 and now Senior Independent Director; a Non-Executive Director of Rotork plc since May 2012 and now Senior Independent Director; and a Non-Executive Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited since February 2016 (now merged into Bank of America Merrill Lynch International DAC). Sally is also a Trustee of the Legal Education Foundation.
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- President - Administration, Federated Services Company
Ted manages a number of businesses at Federated, including Business Information Services, Investor Services, Literature Publishing and Fulfilment Services, Decision Support, Corporate Procurement, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Ted began his career at Federated in 1994.
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- Vice President
- President, FII Holdings, Inc., Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Federated Investors, Inc. and Director, Federated Investors, Inc
Tom Donahue joined the firm in 1993 as a Vice President and currently serves as the company's Director and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Federated Hermes, Tom was in the venture capital business, and from 1983 to 1987 was employed by PNC Bank in its Investment Banking division.