An independent team. A single goal.
T. Kirkham ‘Kirk’ Barneby
Mr. Barneby joined AIFS in 2008 as Chief Strategist & Portfolio Manager, Taxable Fixed Income. At AIFS he utilizes a proprietary discipline, grounded in the economic theory of interest rate behavior, to manage interest rate exposure or risk. Prior to AIFS Mr. Barneby was a Managing Member of Old Iron Hill Capital Management, LLC employing quantitatively-oriented fixed income and multi-strategy investment approaches. Previously, he headed an investment group at UBS in New York that managed equity and bond portfolios with roughly $7 billion in assets. Earlier, in the 1980s, Mr. Barneby was part of a team at Continental Can that made asset allocation decisions for the company's pension plan. He began his career in the Economics Department at First National City Bank (Citibank).
Robert A Campbell
Mr. Campbell is president of American Independence Financial Counselors and is responsible for management of certain of the fixed income portfolios of the American Independence mutual funds. He joined American Independence upon its inception in March 2006. Mr. Campbell has been a fixed income portfolio manager for over 30 years. He has managed a variety of bond portfolios during this time period and has managed both taxable and tax-exempt portfolios. Mr. Campbell has managed bond portfolios for a variety of mutual fund complexes, insurance companies, banks and private clients. At different points in his career he has managed portfolios with different maturity orientations from money markets to long maturity bonds.
Richard Catts
Mr. Catts joined AIFS in 2010. Most recently, a Portfolio Specialist with Alliance Bernstein, he was the communication liaison between the portfolio management teams and the firm's clients, prospects and internal sales force. Rick has individually raised over $5 billion in assets from sales positions in his career. Prior to Alliance Bernstein, Rick was a Regional Director for Palley-Needleman Asset Management and a Portfolio Manager for Wolf, Webb, Burk and Campbell. He was a Private Bank Officer with Mellon Bank and a Portfolio Manager with the Bryn Mawr Trust Company. He holds a BS in Economics from the University of Delaware, a MS in Finance from Temple University and was a member of the Adjunct Faculty for St. Joseph's University MBA Program where he taught Entrepreneurship . Mr. Catts has been in the financial services business for over 30 years and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Tammy Dalton
Ms. Dalton is Vice President of Research, responsible for research on nonlife insurance, energy, and healthcare sectors. Prior to joining in 2005, Ms. Dalton was a Vice President of Mizuho Corporate Bank. Employed by the bank for 10 years, she served as a Portfolio Manager for Mountain Capital Advisors, an asset management group which managed assets exceeding $1.5 billion. Previously, Ms. Dalton was Vice President & Team Leader of Mizuho's Asset Recovery Group, with prior experience in Fuji Bank's Leveraged Finance Group and the Americas Division overseeing credit and risk management functions of Heller Financial. Ms. Dalton received a BA in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from Cornell University in 1994.
Theresa Donovan
Ms. Donovan joined AIFS in May 2005 as head of Corporate Secretary and Compliance. Prior to joining AIFS, Ms. Donovan was the Senior Corporate Paralegal at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP working in both the private equity and public fund divisions, where she was responsible for all investment advisor registration filings with the SEC for the firm. She also prepared and/or reviewed all SEC filings for the firm's mutual fund clients and blue sky filings for all private equity funds. Ms. Donovan was responsible for supervising and assigning work to all paralegals in the private fund division. Prior to that, she was director in the compliance department of the mutual fund division of Furman Selz LLC.
Glenn Dorsey
Mr. Dorsey joined AIFS in January 2009 as Portfolio Manager and is responsible for the day-to-day management and trading of the Active Treasury Management and Active Treasury Management Long/Short strategies, as well as the fixed income portion of the AIFS NestEgg Fund family. He co-manages, along with Mr. Barneby, the Tactical Fixed Income discipline and the Interest Rate Scorecard. Prior to joining AIFS, Mr. Dorsey was the founder of Reveille Asset Mgt. Prior to starting Reveille, Mr. Dorsey was a portfolio manager with Jamison Prince Asset Mgt, Lyon Stubbs & Tompkins, Mitchell Hutchins and Bankers Trust Company. Mr. Dorsey has been in the financial services industry for 26 years and is a Chartered Financial Analyst
Ariel Fromer
Ms. Fromer is Vice President, Assistant Portfolio Manager responsible for research on the life insurance, asset management, and consumer sectors, having previously worked at the Firm as a trader. Prior to joining the Firm in 2005, Ms. Fromer was a Research Assistant at James River Capital Corporation. Ms. Fromer graduated Cum Laude with dual BA degrees in Economics and Environmental Studies from Tufts University
Joseph M. Fuschillo
Mr. Fuschillo joined American Independence in May 2010 as Chief Distribution Officer responsible for sales and marketing in the Retail and the Institutional marketplace. Prior to joining AIFS he was Executive Vice President, a member of the Executive Committee and responsible for third party distribution at Prudential Annuities. Mr. Fuschillo also spent 22 years at UBS Financial Services as Managing Director responsible for the distribution of retail products in North America. He led PaineWebber's move into the managed account business in 1985 and worked closely with high net worth investors and institutions in delivering investment policy, asset allocation, manager selection, and performance evaluation. Mr. Fuschillo earned a BS degree in Finance from St. Johns University an MBA from Adelphi University and the Certified Investment Management Analyst designation.
Jeff Miller
Mr. Miller is Portfolio Manager of the Stock Fund. He was the co-Founder of and co-Chief Investment Officer at Miller & Jacobs Capital, LLC. Previously Mr. Miller was Vice President of Equity Research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. Mr. Miller was instrumental in developing valuation models for KBW's recommended list, and was also a key proponent of focusing on capital management for banks and thrifts as a primary driver of shareholder value creation.
John J. Pileggi
Mr. Pileggi is Managing Partner of AIFS. Previously Mr. Pileggi was President and CEO of Mercantile Investment & Wealth Management and President of Mercantile Capital Advisors and Mercantile Securities until March 2004. In 2001, Mr. Pileggi was President and CEO of PlusFunds. From 1997 to 2000, he was Chairman and CEO of ING Funds and CEO of ING Investment Products Distribution, overseeing the launch of a mutual fund operation in January 1999 that grew to $1.5 billion in assets and 18 funds in its first year. Prior to 1997, he was Senior Managing Director and Member of the Board of Furman Selz LLC. Mr. Pileggi began his career at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.
Emil Polito
Mr. Polito joined AIFS in 2008 and is responsible for business development and operations. Prior to joining AIFS, Emil was Director of Citibank's Investment Advisory Services and was responsible for front, middle and back office operations for money managers in retail and institutional outsourcing. Mr. Polito started his career with PaineWebber in 1978 and rose to the position of Executive Director at successor firm UBS Global Asset Management, where he was a member of the firm's operating committee and a Vice President and Board Member of the firm's mutual funds. Mr. Polito was nominated to attend the SIA's Future Business Leaders at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business where he completed a 3 year program in 1997.
Eric Rubin
Mr. Rubin is President of the AIFS. Before joining AIFS, Mr. Rubin was with ING Financial Partners as a sales executive. At ING he played an integral role in ING's successful launch of ING Funds, a start-up mutual funds effort for ING in the United States. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President of Mercantile Capital Advisors, an affiliate of Mercantile Bankshares and a registered investment adviser, where he managed and coordinated the sales of Mercantile's investment products to independent financial advisors, consultants and institutional investors. Before joining Mercantile, Mr. Rubin was an executive of DST Systems International, a software provider to the investment management community. Mr. Rubin has also held various senior sales and sales management positions with ING Mutual Funds, Furman Selz LLC (Institutional Brokerage, Investment Banking and Asset Management firm) and Banc One Investment Advisors.
Mark Thoma
Mr. Thoma joined AIFS as Senior Managing Director of Business Development in 2010. Prior to joining AIFS, he spent four years with AFBA 5Star Funds as Vice President of National Accounts and Officer of the Investment Management Company. Under his direction, AFBA was recognized in 2007 as one of the fastest growing fund families in the industry. Previously, Mr. Thoma was Vice President of National Accounts and Director of 529 programs for Strong Capital Management. Before joining Strong, he was the President of Obstructed Views, an indoor advertising company he founded. Mr. Thoma began his career as a Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch in 1991.

