BLUE EDGE CAPITAL - Key Persons


Ellen E. Spong - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Ellen is responsible for client relationship management, cultivating new partnerships, and overseeing the firm's key marketing initiatives. She has over 30 years of financial industry experience with a focus service to non-profit organizations, foundations and endowments and the development of charitable strategies for individuals. Ellen has been a featured speaker throughout the mid-Atlantic on non-profit governance, policy development and planned giving.

M. Bagley Reid - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Margaret P. Fretz - Chief Compliance Officer, COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer

Meredith W. DeGuenther

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Service Specialist

Peter H. Bowles - CFO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Founding Member
  • Managing Director
Peter serves on BEC's Investment Committee, participates in portfolio management and research, oversees a number of client relationships, and acts as CFO. Peter has over 30 years of industry experience in equity research, investment management, and investment banking. He lives in Richmond with his wife and three children.

Virginia Gift - President

Job Titles:
  • President