FLEET WEALTH MANAGEMENT GROUP - Key Persons


Barry Giske - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Director
Barry Giske is the Managing Director and Founder of Fleet Wealth Management Group. He is responsible for the strategic and directional outlook of the firm with the vision of creating a truly world-class experience for his clients.

Leon Cherniavsky - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Investment Officer
  • Portfolio Manager
  • Citi Group As a Senior Vice President
With nearly 30 years of Wall Street experience, Leon is a professional with extensive knowledge in financial markets, computer systems, market and credit risk analysis, and conventional counterparty risk. As a Chief Investment Officer of Fleet Wealth Management Group, Mr. Cherniavsky is responsible for the firm's critical elements of the asset management process: research, methodology selection, data collection and analysis, prototyping, back-testing, risk-scaled product development, trading platform selection, transacting in capital markets, and performance monitoring. During the last ten years, Mr. Cherniavsky developed and successfully implemented systematic and scalable trading strategies for equity and fixed-income products. Leon started his career in financial services in 1985 with Swiss Bank. He was a credit analyst and a developer of analytical models for systematic and standardized credit scoring. In 1993, Mr. Cherniavsky moved to Deutsche Bank and continued as a credit risk manager. He was in charge of evaluating derivatives and other capital market transactions, and also was responsible for Energy and Commodity portfolios. After Deutsche Bank, Mr. Cherniavsky joined Citi Group as a senior vice president. He concentrated on analysis, approval, and risk management of capital market transactions for Energy, Commodity, Mortgage REIT's Hedge Fund client portfolios. He also advanced to credit due diligence and documentation, modeling, and stress testing of derivative portfolios.

Merrill Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Financial Advisor

Sara Hunter Hudson

Job Titles:
  • Financial Advisor
Ms. Hudson came onboard with Fleet Wealth Management as a Financial Advisor in 2010. She brings 30years of Wall Street experience of building relationships while holding positions at the most prestigious financial institutions: Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor; The Bank of New York, as a Vice President/ Senior Business Development Officer; DMC Management Company as a Vice President/Director of Marketing. Manufacturers Hanover Trust, as a Vice President/ Team Leader; Chemical Bank, as an Assistant Manager/ Credit Analyst. During her career, Sara served as a Private Banker and Financial Advisor to individuals, families in transition, executives, partners in professional services firms, and multi-generational recipients of inherited wealth. Sara is currently a Financial Women's Association and Women in Development member. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.