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815 Colorado Avenue, Stuart, FL 34994 Tel: [772] 221.2651 Fax: [772] 221.2656 email: nfalcone@nmfasset.com www.nmfasset.com |
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Nola Maddox Falcone, CFA
Managing Principal |
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Brian Yacko
Vice President, Trading |
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William J. Gilcher
Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst |
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Rachel Satterfield
Portfolio Assistant |
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| NMF maintains an Advisory Board which, as part of the firm’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan, would assume the role of making business decisions relating to NMF, as part of a succession plan in the event of the illness or death of Nola M. Falcone, Managing Principal. In addition, the role of the Advisory Board includes providing advice concerning certain economic issues, reviewing the periodic investment letter to clients, providing guidance with regard to employee hires, helping to build clientele, assessing the investment risk of the clientele and generally assisting the firm in implementing changes, when necessary. |
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Peter Buffington |
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Peter Buffington retired in 2001 after a thirty eight plus
year career with Chase Manhattan Bank primarily in the high
net worth and trust investment advisory units. He was a vice
president and senior portfolio manager. Earlier in his
career, he was a security analyst and junior portfolio
manager in the institutional advisory unit. After
graduating Harvard, (AB 1958) and Columbia Graduate
Business School, (MBA 1962) he joined the New York
Society of Security Analyst and became a CFA.
In the major part of his career he managed individual taxable accounts for some of Chase Manhattan Banks major client families and some of their related charitable foundations. Peter also served for most of this period on the Investment Review Committee overseeing individual investment advisory accounts, trusts, and estates. His community and educational service roles have been in fund raising for Harvard, Columbia University, Phillips Exeter Academy, and The Professional Childrens School in New York City. For this last organization, he served on the Finance Committee and the Board of Directors for almost 30 years. In New York City he served on the Board of Managers and various committees of the Harvard Club of New York City, on the board of the English Speaking Union of the U.S., and on the St. Georges Society Executive Committee. |
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Charles Falcone, D.Eng. |
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Dr. Falcone is a retired senior vice president and board
member of American Electric Power Service Corporation,
the management arm of AEP, a large electric utility
holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. After
heading AEPs wholesale power marketing, system operation
and transmission policy functions for 11 years, from
1986 to 1997, he elected early retirement. He had
previously served as the companys data processing
executive. He served AEP for 30 years.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Falcone was an economic consultant with Stanford Research Institute. He was also a regulator and division manager, Division of Power Supply and Reliability, Economic Regulatory Administration, with the US Department of Energy, Washington, DC, in the late 1970s. Since retirement, Dr. Falcone has been an independent consultant providing expert management and technical services for a variety of domestic and foreign clients, including AEP, Duke Energy, Columbia Gas, Commonwealth Edison Corp, Amtrak Corp, Salomon Smith Barney, and the New York Power Pool. He has presented numerous speeches and papers related to electric utility deregulation before a variety of audiences. Charles Falcone holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as a Masters degree from the same institution and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Lehigh. From time to time he has taught graduate courses at universities. He has a keen interest in energy policy - world energy supply and use and studies it carefully. |
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Leonard S. Hyman |
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Leonard S. Hyman is an economist and financial analyst
specializing in the utility, energy, and telecommunications
sectors. He headed Merrill Lynch's utilities research
group from 1977 to 1994, leaving the firm as a first vice
president. At Merrill, he supervised equity research
coverage for the utilities sector and participated in
numerous privatization efforts in Europe and Latin
America. Afterwards, at Salomon Smith Barney, he served
as a senior industry advisor to the Global Power Group,
specializing in industry restructuring. He presently
heads his own consulting firm and also acts as a Senior
Consultant Associate to R. J. Rudden Associates, a
consulting firm specializing in the utility sector.
Mr. Hyman has served on advisory boards for the U. S. Congress, Electric Power Research Institute, EnerTech Capital and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics. He is author or co-author of four books on the public utility sector and one on energy risk management, editor of a book on privatization, and contributor to numerous other books and periodicals. Mr. Hyman is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Wall Street Utility Group. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a graduate of New York University (Phi Beta Kappa), and received a graduate degree in economics from Cornell University. |