Don Hunter - Chief Executive Officer & President of Westrock Group and Westrock Advisors
Having first met the Lower Brule Tribe more than three years ago, Don Hunter was an integral part of making Westrock the first Native American owned broker dealer and asset management company. He joined Westrock as a Managing Director in 1995 when the firm was formed and became Partner and Chief Operating Officer in 1997. Mr. Hunter began his career with Drexel, Burnham, Lambert. He then worked at major investment houses, including Oppenheimer & Co. and Shearson Lehman. Since joining Westrock, Mr. Hunter has been involved in every area of day-to-day business operations. Mr. Hunter received a B.A. in Psychology from Colgate University in 1989.
Doug Sherman - Managing Director, Westrock Institutional Group
Most recently, Doug Sherman oversaw trading at an international hedge fund he helped found in 2000 with other international traders from SAC Capital. Doug joined SAC capital in 1998 as Head Trader - International Desk. From 1989 until leaving SAC Capital, Doug was a Partner at Israel Englander, Inc. where he worked for 10 years co-running floor operations. He began his career in 1985 as an options trader at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Doug had been advising Westrock on strategic developments for one year prior to joining as Head of Westrock Institutional Group.
David Brown - Head of Institutional Trading, Westrock Advisors
David Brown brings over 15 years of trading experience to Westrock. Most recently Dave was a senior proprietary trader at the Abbey Bank subsidiary of Banco Santander, where he built a proprietary pairs trading desk. From 1999-2002, Dave was a market maker at Herzog, Heine and Geduld, and from 1995-1999 served various trading and trading technology development roles with Merrill Lynch. From 1990-1995, he helped build an agency equity and option business at Jonathan Foster & Co. Dave holds a S.M. in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Economics from New York University.
Dennis Ickes - Head of Tribal Services, Westrock Group
Mr. Ickes is the Chairman of the Lower Brule Farm Corporation and Lakota Foods. He is the principal architect of the legal concept that leverages the Indian Reorganization Act and other federal and tribal sovereign rights. Mr. Ickes co-founded the Office of Indian Rights in the US Department of Justice in 1973. In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed him Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior. In private law practice, Mr. Ickes has served as general counsel to tribes, individual Indians and to companies doing business in Indian Country. He is admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, Utah Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for Utah, U.S. District Court for Arizona, the 8th, 9th, & 10th Circuit Courts of Appeal, U.S. Tax Court, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and Indian tribal courts - including the Navajo Nation, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Ute, and Hualapai . He received a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of Utah.
Tony Fenton - Chairman, Westrock Group
Mr. Tony Fenton is the driving force and visionary of the Company. First associated with Windwright, LLC, Mr. Fenton was also first to architect a Tribal entity owning a Wall Street Broker Dealer — which efforts have become what the Company is today. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Fenton grew Wachovia’s insurance group from start-up to over $100 million through acquisitions and organic growth. He was responsible for 7 national agencies and over 200 licensed sales professionals attached thereto. Prior to the Wachovia assignment, he served as SVP at First Security Insurance Services, a division of First Security Bank, NA (now Wells Fargo Bank, NA). Prior to First Security, Mr. Fenton owned and managed his own full-service insurance brokerage firm for 15 years.
Paul Krake - Head of Westrock Asset Management
Paul Krake has 17 years of asset management and trading experience. Prior to joining Westrock, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Corus Capital Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund with offices in New York and Sydney. Before forming Corus in 2005, he was a global macro Portfolio Manager with Caxton Associates from 2000-2004 and a macro-Asian Analyst with Moore Capital Management from 1998-2000. His earlier sales experience was in equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, and with Macquarie Bank in Sydney where he began his career. Paul has a Bachelor of Economics and Politics from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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Dana Reed - Head of Marketing & Business Development, Westrock Group
Most recently, Dana Reed was a Vice President in Institutional Sales at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, where she began working in 2002. She earlier held positions in the Investment Banking divisions of J.P. Morgan and Utendahl Capital Partners, where she helped start the firm’s corporate finance and advisory practice. Dana began her career in 1996 in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs where she executed debt, equity, and both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions. She received her M.B.A. and B.B.A from Howard University.
Dr. Gavin Clarkson - Director of Tribal Finance, Westrock Advisors
Dr. Gavin Clarkson is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston Law, where he conducts research in tribal economic development, including tribal access to capital markets. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and has consulted, written, and published on tribal sovereignty, tribal governance & court systems, tribal economic development, and tribal asset management. Dr. Clarkson was a contributing author for the most recent edition Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Dr. Clarkson was on the faculty at Rice University from 1991-1998 and was a KPMG Fellow at the Harvard Business School from 1998-2003 and held the 1665 Harvard University Native American Program Fellowship. From 2003-2008, Dr. Clarkson was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan where he grew the Indian Law program from 5 students in 2003 to 60+ by 2008. He holds a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Rice University, a Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.