Schweser’s CFA® Program Instructors and Faculty
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Prior to that, he spent six years with the brokerage firm of Dean Witter. He has published articles in both academic and professional journals, including the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Investing, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and the Financial Services Review. His work has been cited in the CFA Digest and won an award from the CFP Board of Examiners.
Doug also has many years of experience teaching financial professionals, including CFA exam review courses for the Dallas Society of Financial Analysts (DSFA) and JKE (Excel) Exam Review, as well as seminars for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in finance, accounting, and funds management. Doug’s education includes a master’s degree in economics and a doctorate in finance, both from the University of Washington.
Greg is the recipient of the Penn State 2010 and 2012 Outstanding iMBA faculty member, 2011 Council of Fellows Outstanding Research Award, and 2013 Outstanding Service Award.
His research studies are focused within the investments, portfolio management, and behavioral finance areas. In addition to ten years of experience in academia (Miami University and the University of Toledo), he has seven years of experience as senior vice-president of Schweser, a division of Kaplan, Inc. At Kaplan, Greg headed the content and curriculum areas and started and led the marketing and sales areas. He has trained candidates for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations on a worldwide basis. Greg earned his Doctorate in Finance from the University of Kentucky, his Master’s in Applied Statistics from Penn State University, and a Bachelor of Science in in Engineering Physics from Murray State University.
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His teaching experience includes graduate, undergraduate and executive courses in finance, economics, and statistics plus 10 years developing and teaching the CFA and FRM curriculum.
Andrew received his BS, MBA, and PhD from SUNY–Binghamton and his MS from Indiana University. He has had over 30 research papers presented at national and international conferences, receiving 2 Best Paper Awards from the American Real Estate Society. Andrew has successfully completed five actuary exams administered jointly by the ASA and CSA. He is frequently interviewed and quoted by the financial media and regularly consults with hedge funds, quantitative mutual funds, and law firms. He is the former research director for the IRAA, a shareholder advocacy group.
He is currently the Chief Compliance Officer at Black Swan Dexteritas, Inc. Bruno is experienced in money market, fixed income, and foreign exchange trading and sales, including intra-day risk and position monitoring.
Bruno earned his CFA Charterholder in 2001, and holds a master’s degree in economics from York University. For the last 15 years, he has focused his teaching on economics and the capital markets at all three levels of the CFA curriculum. When he's not busy at work, Bruno teaches wine studies for the Wine & Spirits Education Trust Guild and is an accredited Wine Judge in Canada.
Prior to that, he spent six years with the brokerage firm of Dean Witter. He has published articles in both academic and professional journals, including the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Investing, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and the Financial Services Review. His work has been cited in the CFA Digest and won an award from the CFP Board of Examiners.
Doug also has many years of experience teaching financial professionals, including CFA exam review courses for the Dallas Society of Financial Analysts (DSFA) and JKE (Excel) Exam Review, as well as seminars for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in finance, accounting, and funds management. Doug’s education includes a master’s degree in economics and a doctorate in finance, both from the University of Washington.
Jeff started his career at the World Bank in its East Asia Pacific sector, and he continued on at Freddie Mac and Primatics Financial Consulting.
He also worked for FBR, a middle market investment bank, working with their trading platform. Jeff is currently a CFA charterholder. He was also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and held Series 7, 24, and 63 securities licenses. He attended the United States Naval Academy and Georgetown University.
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Jeff started his career as a NASDAQ market maker assistant, and shortly thereafter decided to make the jump to running his own hedge fund which he successfully managed for over 10 years. He has worked in a variety of roles within the securities industry including portfolio manager, buy-side analyst, sell-side analyst, market technician and sales trader.
Jeff is also currently employed as an adjunct professor of finance at Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business where he teaches FINC 335–“Investments” in the undergraduate program, and FINC 452 --“Investment Management” and FINC 553–“Applied Portfolio Management” in the graduate program. In addition, Jeff is employed as an adjunct professor of finance at DePaul University Driehaus College of Business where he teaches FIN 380–“Cases in Financial Decision-Making,” a capstone course designed to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge acquired over their previous breath of finance courses.
Jeff earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California at Berkeley where he was accorded the summa cum laude designation in English Literature and the phi beta kappa designation in Sociology. Jeff earned his Master of Business Administration degree at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in Finance. He also holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.
Prior to working at FM Global, Patrick was a full-time faculty member at Bentley College. While at Bentley, he was the director of Graduate Programs in Finance and Managing Director of the Hughey Center for Financial Services. Patrick was the recipient of the Davis Fellowship, Masnicki Award, and Innovation in Teaching Award. Patrick is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and Boston Security Analysts Society (BSAS). He has an Advanced Certificate in Risk Management from the University of Chicago and holds a Master of Science degree from Bentley College and an MBA from St. Bonaventure University. Patrick is the co-author of Why Stocks Go Up and Down and author of two editions of Financial Management: A Guide to Value Creation. He has also appeared on CNN and CNBC and provided commentary to a number of news sources including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Boston Globe, and the LA Times.
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Prior work experience includes positions as an Institutional Portfolio Manager with Fifth Third Investment Advisors, and institutional sales for the Harbor Funds. Travis has worked with Kaplan Schweser since 2000.
Travis is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Toledo with a B.B.A. in Finance and is a CFA charterholder. Travis is also a past president of the Financial Analysts Society of Toledo.
The next 2 years of his career were spent in corporate finance with activities involving working capital management, cash flow management and risk management with Netafim Irrigation Private Ltd., an MNC of international repute. While at Netafim, he also won the prestigious annual award for Outstanding Young Managers. In his last assignment in the corporate world, he was a part of Group CFO’s office overlooking the operations of 12 businesses and 8 services.
He has spent the last 4 years in Education, an area he is very passionate about, with one of the leading academic institutions promoted by an academically inclined corporate organization, Arvind Mills. As an academician, he has taught finance related subjects in prominent programs such as CFA, ACCA, CIMA, CA, CMA & CS. He has also been invited as a visiting faculty for finance by various premier universities. Besides teaching he was also a part of the management committee and was instrumental in leading a path breaking initiative into e-learning for the organization.
He is a CFA charterholder and has Bachelors in Commerce from Gujarat University. He also holds a M.S. (Finance) from ICFAI University.
Greg is the recipient of the Penn State 2010 and 2012 Outstanding iMBA faculty member, 2011 Council of Fellows Outstanding Research Award, and 2013 Outstanding Service Award.
His research studies are focused within the investments, portfolio management, and behavioral finance areas. In addition to ten years of experience in academia (Miami University and the University of Toledo), he has seven years of experience as senior vice-president of Schweser, a division of Kaplan, Inc. At Kaplan, Greg headed the content and curriculum areas and started and led the marketing and sales areas. He has trained candidates for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations on a worldwide basis. Greg earned his Doctorate in Finance from the University of Kentucky, his Master’s in Applied Statistics from Penn State University, and a Bachelor of Science in in Engineering Physics from Murray State University.
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Dr. Temte started his professional education career in 1990, working with Dr. Carl Schweser to build Schweser Study Program into the leader in CFA exam review. Upon the acquisition of Schweser Study Program by Kaplan, Inc., in 1999, Dr. Temte assumed leadership of the Kaplan Schweser organization. Under his direction, Kaplan Schweser became a leading global provider of innovative, efficient, and effective financial education solutions.
In addition to his current role, Dr. Temte has served in the following professional positions:
- CEO of Kaplan Professional, a division of Kaplan, Inc., where he oversaw and leveraged assets, capabilities, and talent across its global footprint.
- Dean of Kaplan University School of Professional and Continuing Education, Interim President of Mount Washington College, President of Kaplan University College of Business and Technology.
- Outside of his professional career, Dr. Temte serves on the Board of Directors for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Foundation, his alma mater. He and his wife Linda, are also active in numerous fundraising events and committees in the community.
Darren has extensive experience in lecturing and grading activities related to professional finance and accounting programs. He has taught for Kaplan Schweser since 2004 and currently manages and teaches in the Schweser weekly CFA exam preparatory course in Toronto, as well as authoring/editing their CFA and FRM study materials. Darren has also taught business courses for the University of Toronto and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
Knowing that success on the CFA exams requires a good work-life balance, Darren continues to apply it in his life. He travels the world as a competitive and award-winning marathon runner who is always in search of the perfect race. Any other spare time is spent with his first love, the piano.