Denis J. Amato
began his investment career in 1969 as a portfolio manager in
the Trust
Department of a major banking institution based in Cleveland,
Ohio. There, Mr. Amato
managed both pension and profit sharing portfolios. Subsequently
he served as the Bank’sResearch Director and Chief Investment Officer.
Mr. Amato joined Gelfand Partners Asset Management in 1991 as
the firm’s Chief Investment
Officer. Mr. Amato remained the company’s lead equity portfolio
strategist through the firm’s
merger with Maxus in 1997. At Maxus Mr. Amato managed individual
high net worth client
portfolios as well as the Maxus Ohio Heartland Fund, which
focused primarily on the buying
and selling of securities in Ohio based companies.
After the sale
of Maxus Asset Management to Fifth Third Bank in 2001, Mr. Amato
served
as the Chief Investment Officer for the Bank’s Northeast Ohio
region. In addition, Mr. Amato
continued to manage both individual and institutional portfolios
as well as two of Fifth
Third’s Value Mutual Funds.
Mr.
Amato has a BBA Magna Cum Laude and MBA from Case Western
University. He
is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a former President of
the Cleveland Society of
Security Analysis. Mr. Amato is a board member of the Cleveland
Alzheimers Association,
and the Cleveland State University Foundation. |
