Mr. Richard Damico serves as Senior Portfolio Manager & Head of Trading at Broadmark Asset Management. Damico joined Broadmark in March 2005. As a Senior Portfolio Manager, he participates in the implementation of portfolio management. He brings over 20 years of hands-on trading experience to the firm and, as Head of Trading, is responsible for all trading functions. Prior to joining Broadmark he was a Managing Director at ThinkEquity Partners, LLC where he established and was responsible for the institutional trading desk at their San Francisco headquarters. Prior to ThinkEquity Partners, from 1997 to 2002, he was a Vice President and Senior Institutional Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office covering West Coast institutional accounts. Additionally, Rick was an Associate Director and Senior Sales Trader at Bear Stearns in San Francisco from 1990 to 1997.

Ricardo L. Cortez, CIMA® Senior Portfolio Management Specialist and President, Global Distribution Mr. Cortez joined Broadmark in September 2009 as President, Global Distribution and is based in the New York office. He has over 25 years of investment experience in the investment management industry. Most recently, Mr. Cortez spent 8 years as President of the Private Client Group for Torrey Associates, LLC, based in New York City. Prior to that, he was Vice President at Goldman Sachs and Product Manager for the Goldman’s external money manager program, Global Multi-Manager Strategies. Before joining Goldman, Mr. Cortez spent 11 years at Prudential Investments as a Senior Vice President overseeing product development, communications, and sales for the Investment Management Services Division. Mr. Cortez graduated BA cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York and has been a guest lecturer on Investment Policy and Hedge Funds at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and at Harvard University. He was awarded the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation in 1993 and is the author of numerous published articles on hedge funds.

Adrian Helfert, Senior Vice President is Chief Investment Officer, Multi-Asset Portfolios at Westwood. Having originally joined Westwood in 2019, Mr. Helfert oversees multiple strategies with portfolio management and leadership responsibilities across the Multi-Asset continuum, including our flagship, Income Opportunity. Throughout his career, Mr. Helfert has developed a strong track record working on collaborative, global teams. Prior Westwood, Mr. Helfert served as Managing Director and Senior Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager at Amundi Smith Breeden in London, where he was responsible for Global Fixed Income strategies. During his 13-year Amundi tenure, he also was an investment team leader on absolute return, unconstrained and total return portfolios across multiple asset classes including equity and fixed income across multiple asset classes including equity and fixed income. Before joining Amundi, Mr. Helfert worked at Royal Bank of Scotland and JPMorgan's Asset Management Group. Mr. Helfert earned his MBA from Duke University and his BA in physics from the University of Virginia, where he was awarded a fellowship for his work in Solid State Physics. He also served in the U.S. Navy / Marine Corps as a Combat Medic.