HANOVER STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Bruce C. Baird is a Co-Founder of Hanover Strategic Management. Prior to founding Hanover Strategic Management, Mr. Baird provided consulting and financial services through The Bremcy Group, which he founded in 2003. Mr. Baird was a founding member of a software company, Adlex Corporation which was acquired by Compuware Corporation in 2005. Mr. Baird was responsible for business development and marketing at Adlex between 1998 and 2002. Mr. Baird also worked from 1987 to 1998 at Compaq/Digital Equipment in finance and marketing roles for the storage business group. While at Compaq/Digital, he was responsible for creating the market for StorageWorks products on PC servers and networks, which is now a billion dollar business for Hewlett Packard Corporation.
Mr. Baird also spent five years at the Cigna Corporation as an Assistant Director of Underwriting where his responsibilities included credit risk analysis, pricing and business retention. Mr. Baird holds a BA in mathematics from Colgate University. He also holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. Mr. Baird is on the Board of Directors, Lyman Orchards Farm and Golf Course, Middlefield, CT.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Financial Analyst
Caleb F. Aldrich, a Chartered Financial Analyst, is a Co-Founder of Hanover Strategic Management. Prior to founding Hanover Strategic Management, Mr. Aldrich had extensive experience in the investment management business as a Managing Director of Standish, Ayer and Wood's Fixed Income Department. Standish, Ayer & Wood was an investment management and counseling firm with approximately $40 billion in assets when it was purchased by Mellon Financial in 2001. During his 15 year tenure from 1986 to 2001, Mr. Aldrich's responsibilities included co-managing the Fixed Income Department as well as leading the firm's Credit Research Department from 1987 to 1999. He also chaired the firm's fixed income strategy committee for approximately ten years. Other firm-wide responsibilities included serving as a permanent member of the firm's Executive Committee as well as the firm's Compensation Committees for the Directors and investment professionals of the firm.
Mr. Aldrich received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BBA from Bucknell University. Mr. Aldrich serves on the Board of Overseers for the Newton-Wellesley Hospital and is the Secretary of the Wellesley Free Library Foundation Investment Committee.
George is currently an employee and the Chairman Emeritus at Longfellow Investment Management Company, an institutional money manager in Boston. He has been an adviser to the Hanover Strategic Management LLC since April of 2008. George served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Standish Asset Management, an institutional money manager in Boston with approximately $170 billion in assets under management. At Standish, George co-managed the Core Plus bond strategy, he served as liaison to a number of important fixed-income clients, and he managed the stock and bond assets and asset allocation of several high profile family and corporate mandates. Prior to his assignment at Standish, he served as Vice Chairman of Standish, Ayer & Wood, Inc, where he was a Partner and Chaired the Executive Committee. SA&W was merged with Mellon Financial in 2001.
George formerly served on the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute, where he was on the Executive and Planning Committees, and was also a Trustee Emeritus of the CFA Institute Research Foundation. He co-founded the Bond Analysts Society of Boston with another Partner of SAW. George received a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont, and an MBA from Babson College. George is a member of the CFA Society of Boston and the CFP.