Face the Membership

Kevin Mahn is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Hennion & Walsh Asset Management. Mr. Mahn is responsible for the Wealth and Asset Management products and services offered at the Firm including the SmartTrust® platform of Unit Investment Trusts (UITs). Mr. Mahn also was the Portfolio Manager of the SmartGrowth® family of Mutual Funds.

Mr. Mahn is the author of the quarterly “CEF and ETF Insights” and "Market Outlook" newsletters as well as a co-author of the book, Exchange Traded Funds: Conceptual and Practical Investment Approaches, © 2009 Riskbooks. Articles written by Mr. Mahn have been published in The Journal of Investing and The Journal of Index Investing. Mr. Mahn is a contributor to Forbes, Talk Markets and Seeking Alpha.

Prior to Hennion & Walsh, Mr. Mahn was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers where he held several senior management positions, including CAO of the High Net Worth Product and Services group within Lehman’s Wealth and Asset Management division as well as COO of Lehman Brothers Bank.

Mr. Mahn received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Muhlenberg College and his M.B.A. in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). Mr. Mahn has also served as an adjunct professor at FDU within the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business. In 2015, Mr. Mahn received the "50 Under 50" award from the Silberman College of Business at FDU.

Mr. Mahn currently serves on the Board of Directors of NICSA and was formerly a Co-Chair of the NICSA UIT Industry Committee, winning the 2014 and 2016 NICSA MVP Awards for his accomplishments in that role. Kevin also won the Rising Stars of Mutual Funds Award from Institutional Investor in 2009.

Mr. Mahn has appeared in/on CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, Reuters, Nasdaq and Yahoo! Finance.

Jim Bumpus oversees the internal and external Independent Advisor and Broker/Dealer divisions, Strategic Beta wholesaling, Business Development, and Sales Governance and Administration teams. He joined one of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments firms in 2015. He's held several roles at Putnam Investments, including head of strategic accounts and served as a regional investment sales manager at Citizens Investment Securities and a financial advisor at Shearson Lehman Hutton. He's been a member of the investment community since 1989 and holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst® designation.

Stephanie M. Pierce is the Chief Executive Officer of Dreyfus, Mellon & Exchange-Traded Funds at BNY Mellon Investment Management. In this role, she has responsibility for the development of the firm’s sponsored ETF offering as well as the index and money markets businesses, with nearly $853 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2021. Stephanie is an entrepreneurial investment management veteran with extensive leadership experience driving strategic change and commercial innovation. Over the course of her nearly three-decade career, Stephanie has proven especially adept at spearheading the conceptualization, launch and growth of businesses and cross-platform initiatives that touch multiple business lines across large enterprises.

Prior to BNY Mellon, Stephanie served as Executive Vice President, Investment Product Group at Fidelity Investments, where she led product strategy for Fidelity’s $2T asset management business. Before Fidelity, Stephanie was Senior Vice President, Product Management, Business Development and Client Portfolio Management at Janus Henderson. Stephanie, who resides in Boston with her husband and 12-year-old daughter, has a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and holds the Series 24, 7 and 3 certifications. She is a member of the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a member of the Board of Advisors for the Boston Ballet, a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management, a member of the Speakers’ Bureau of Women in ETFs and a Trustee for the US Ski and Snowboard Foundation Board.

Joseph (Joe) Sullivan is executive chair and chief executive officer at Allspring Global Investments.

Prior to his current role, Joe served as chairman and CEO of Legg Mason from 2012 until its acquisition by Franklin Templeton in July 2020. Prior to being CEO, he was Legg Mason’s head of global distribution and chief administrative officer. Earlier, Joe served as a member of the board of directors, executive vice president, and head of fixed income capital markets at Stifel Financial. Joe also served on the board of governors for the Investment Company Institute and previously served as chair of the Securities Industry Institute, as chair of the Fixed Income Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers, as a board member of the Bond Market Association, and as a member of the New York Stock Exchange Hearing Board. He also held prior executive roles at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Dain Bosworth, and Piper Jaffray.

Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. John's University in Minnesota and is a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.