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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.

Ms. Formato oversees Foreside’s distribution consulting efforts and is responsible for managing strategic relationships with Intermediaries. In her role she works with both U.S. and Non-U.S clients across all product types in their product development and distribution efforts. She is passionate about assisting clients in navigating, positioning, and building awareness of their strategies in the marketplace. Prior to joining Foreside, she worked as a Relationship Manager with Fidelity Investments where she managed multiple strategic relationships, consulted on product, positioning, and marketing strategies and led the build-out of Fidelity’s FundsNetwork Distributor Service Model. She holds the FINRA Series 7 registration and has over 30 years of experience within the financial services industry

Mr. O’Brien, CEO and President of O’Shares ETFs, leads the development and management of O’Shares ETFs.

The O’Shares team applies financial measures for quality, including measures for profitability, balance sheet strength and cash earnings. These quality measures are combined with a rules-based approach to develop ETFs designed for investors with objectives ranging from wealth preservation and income to growth and capital appreciation.

Mr. O’Brien has over 25 years of experience in financial markets, including 15 years in New York, at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, followed by investment management across a range of equity and fixed income strategies, building a mutual fund business and more recently leading the successful development and growth of O’Shares ETFs. Mr. O’Brien is a graduate of Dartmouth College (MBA) and Middlebury College (BA in Physics and Economics).