Sheryl Pressler is an investment and strategy consultant based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Pressler is the former Chief Executive Officer of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Inc.
Prior to joining Lend Lease, Ms. Pressler was the Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund. While at CalPERS, Ms.Pressler was responsible for the investing of a $172 billion portfolio of stocks, bonds, private equity, and real estate.
Prior to joining CalPERS, she was Director of Retirement Funds Management for McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now part of Boeing).
Ms. Pressler has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Richard L. Stoddard Award presented by the National Association of State Investment Officers (NASIO) in recognition of “Outstanding Contributions to the Investment of Public Funds,” and the Annual Bob Toigo Award which recognizes important contributions to the pension and investment community from a plan sponsor. She has also been named as one of the “50 Smartest Women in the Money Business” by Money for Women magazine, and named to the “List of the Next CEOs” to run a Fortune 1000 company by Working Women magazine.
Ms. Pressler currently serves on the board of directors of Centerra Gold and the Voya Mutual Funds. She has served on board of directors of Nuevo Energy, Stillwater Mining Company, the Robert A. Toigo Foundation, and the California HealthCare Foundation. She was a member advisory committee of Sterling Capital Partners Buyout Fund I. Ms. Pressler received a BA in philosophy from Webster University and her MBA from Washington University.
Mr. Siegel is Director of Research at the CFA Institute Research Foundation and an independent consultant. Previously he was Director of Investment Policy Research at the Ford Foundation in New York, where he worked from 1994 until his retirement in 2009. Before that, he was a managing director of Ibbotson Associates, an investment consulting firm that he helped to establish in 1979.
Mr. Siegel is on the board and program committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (the Q Group) and is investment thought leader for Foundation Financial Officers Group. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Investing. He has assisted many nonprofit organizations in advisory and board roles.
Mr. Siegel received his BA in urban studies from the University of Chicago in 1975, and his MBA in finance from the same institution in 1977.
Mr. Kogelman has been active in the financial industry since 1985, during which time he has advised pension funds, endowments, foundations, and ultra-high net worth individuals on a wide range of issues related to asset allocation, manager selection, portfolio construction, and equity valuation. Prior to APM, he held senior positions at several Wall Street firms including JP Morgan Private Bank, where he was Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer in the Multi-manager Investment Advisory Group, and Goldman Sachs where he was Head of the Private Client Research and Strategy Group. Mr. Kogelman began his career in finance at Salomon Brothers where he was Director of Quantitative Research at Salomon Brother Asset Management and a member of the Bond Portfolio Analysis Group.
Mr. Kogelman has authored or co-authored more than 70 professional articles on asset allocation, fixed income management, and equity valuation. Some recent publications include “Bond Ladders and Rolling Yield Convergence,” Financial Analysts Journal, March/April 2015, and “Forward Curve Shifts and Return Convergence,” Journal of Portfolio Management, Fortieth Year Anniversary Issue, September 2014. He has received the prestigious Graham and Dodd Award twice from the Financial Analysts Journal and has co-authored several books including Inside the Yield Book (Third Edition, Wiley, 2013), Return Targets and Shortfall Risks: Studies in Strategic Asset Allocation (Irwin, 1996), and Franchise Value and the Price/Earnings Ratio (Research Foundation of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, 1995).
Prior to working on Wall Street, Mr. Kogelman was an educator and published in scholarly mathematics journals. He was on the mathematics faculty at New York University’s Courant Institute, City University of New York (Baruch College), State University of New York (College at Purchase), and Delft Technical University (The Netherlands). He received his BS, MS, and PhD in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MSW from Smith College.