Brian Mann

Experience

1. Principal, Director of Operations Portfolio Management Operations

   Pzena Investment Management

   Aug 2002 — Present

   Responsible for managing Front Office personnel including the following teams: Portfolio Implementation, Trading, and Trade Settlements.•Oversee all aspects of the firm’s Portfolio Implementation process including order generation, portfolio compliance, trade execution and trade settlement. •Work with internal and external IT staff to help manage firm-wide infrastructure including: network construction, application development, disaster recovery systems, and system introduction and testing.• Member of the firms Best Execution Committee responsible for overseeing trading activity, transaction cost analysis, counterparty exposure, and soft dollar budgets.•Liaise with internal and external audit teams to develop, maintain, and test policies and procedures to mitigate risk for ongoing Sarbanes Oxley, SSAE16, and SEC audits.•Supervise management of separate commingled funds, including Irish UCITS, Australian Trusts, US Delaware Statutory Trusts, Collective Investment Trust, Illinois Group Trusts, and 40 Act Mutual Funds.•Hire, train, and mentor staff as well as provide semi-annual evaluations.

Skills

• Hedge Funds
• Asset Management
• Equities
• Alternative Investments
• Bloomberg