Archives: People
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David Eichhorn, CFA
David became CEO on Dec. 31, 2020, more than 20 years after joining NISA and developing the Investment Strategies Group. With more than 30 years of investment experience, he provides executive oversight for growth initiatives and new product development, which under his tenure as CEO have included high-yield fixed income, quantitative long-short equity and absolute…
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Matt Byron, CFA
Matt became chief operating officer on May 31, 2022, after spending 18 years as a member of NISA’s Portfolio Management Group. With more than 20 years of investment experience, including fixed income securities trading, he provides executive oversight of several key operating departments, including the back office, data solutions and information technology, and risk management.…
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Cheryl Hanson, CPA
Cheryl’s 30-plus-year career includes more than 20 years of delivering high-quality service to NISA’s clients with a focus on growth initiatives and implementation of customized investment strategies. She provides executive oversight of institutional client management teams, consulting relationships, requests for proposals and client reporting. Prior to joining NISA, she was employed by Great-West Life, General…
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Ken Lester
Ken oversees NISA’s Derivatives Portfolio Management team and jointly oversees the Rates Portfolio Management team. Having been with NISA since its founding in 1994, he has more than 35 years of investment experience. Ken implements and evaluates hedging and absolute-return-focused strategies that utilize derivative instruments. He also provides executive oversight of the derivatives portfolio management…
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Anthony Pope, CFA
Anthony oversees NISA’s Fixed Income Credit Portfolio Management team and jointly oversees the Rates Portfolio Management team. Having spent his entire 30-plus-year career at NISA, he provides executive oversight of the fixed income portfolio management functions, including model portfolio construction, investment-grade and high-yield credit securities trading, rates trading and credit research. Anthony holds a BSBA…
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Rick Ratkowski, CFA
With more than 20 years of investment experience, Rick drives growth initiatives while designing and implementing customized, derivatives-based investment hedging and absolute return solutions and strategies. Additionally, he oversees the Strategic Portfolio Management team and the Markets and Portfolios team, and develops NISA’s proprietary financial modeling tools. Rick is a frequent author and speaker on…
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Heidi Ridley, CFA
Heidi leads NISA’s business development, marketing and strategic growth efforts, drawing on more than 30 years of asset management leadership. Working in close collaboration with the Investment Strategies and Client Services Groups, she is responsible for business strategy, product positioning, marketing and communications, and cultivating the strategic relationships that expand NISA’s reach across the industry.…
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Ross Barthold
Ross joined NISA’s Client Services Group in 2011. He leads client relationships, primarily for defined benefit plans with an emphasis on liability-based solutions, including derivatives. Ross also supports NISA’s Strategic Portfolio Management team, which is charged with calculating hedge targets for completion mandates and other synthetic overlay programs. He earned an A.B. in economics and…
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Ali Briggs
Ali joined NISA in 2011. She supervises and develops the team responsible for preparing request for proposals, due diligence questionnaires and responses to other non-routine inquiries. Ali earned a B.A. in finance from the University of Central Missouri.
