Previously, Ken was a senior municipal portfolio manager at Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Asset Management group, where he joined in 1997.  From 1999 to 2005 Ken was one of three senior portfolio managers on a team which managed $12 billion in tax-efficient bond portfolios for mutual fund, high net worth individual and institutional clients, such as insurance companies.  In this capacity, Ken was responsible for portfolio management and trading decisions for over $5 billion of client portfolios.  During this time Ken also developed significant expertise in credit analysis, portfolio return attribution and risk management.  Ken was the team’s municipal derivatives specialist and studied and modeled the relationships between municipal bonds and derivatives markets. 

From 1997 to 1999 Ken led a team which managed the firm’s four tax-exempt money market funds with over $7 billion in assets. 

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ken worked for the Prudential Insurance Co, where he served first as a portfolio manager in the money market group and subsequently as a risk manager, trading a $10 billion direct issue commercial paper program. 

Ken holds a B.S. in Business from Skidmore College and a MBA in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business.