Founding Principal  

Carolyn is a Portfolio Manager and serves as a member of the Executive Committee and the Investment Committee.  She is also the Chairman of the Operating Committee. 

She was previously a cofounder of OFFITBANK, which in 2002 after the firm’s merger with Wachovia, was restructured and changed to OFFIT Investment Group.  At Wachovia, Carolyn was a Senior Vice President and was the Senior Managing Director of OFFIT Investment Group.  In this role, she was responsible for managing the 25 person Tax Sensitive Fixed Income management team.  Prior to OFFITBANK’s purchase by Wachovia, Carolyn was responsible for the firm’s high net-worth investment group and was a member of the Management Committee.  She was integrally involved in the management and analysis of taxable and tax-exempt portfolios and managed OFFITBANK’s New York Municipal Bond Fund, which achieved a Morningstar 5 star rating during the five years that Carolyn managed the account.  Carolyn was on the firm’s investment strategy committee and portfolio review committee.  Also, she represented OFFITBANK as a trustee on various fiduciary accounts and worked extensively with clients on asset allocation and manager selection decisions.

From 1978 to 1983 she was associated with Julius Baer Securities, Oppenheimer Capital Corporation and Equitable Life Assurance as a portfolio manager, investment analyst and quantitative analyst.  At Equitable, she was a senior team member in the restructuring of a multi-billion dollar Taft-Hartley Fund.

She currently serves as a trustee of Fordham University and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive Committee.  She has served on the boards of the Cathedral School of St. John the Divine and Marymount College.  Carolyn is presently on the board of Mutual of America Institutional Funds, Inc. and is a member of The Economic Club of New York.

Carolyn received an MS Degree from the Columbia School of Social Work in 1977 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1978.  Carolyn graduated from Marymount College in 1968 and was a social worker for seven years.  She is also a CFA charterholder.