Mr. Fitze is a member of the investment team at EARNEST Partners. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a BA in Economics from Emory University, where he was an Academic All-American in golf and a member of the International Economics Honor Society. His graduate studies concentrated on the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on interest rates along with other areas of finance and economics. He is also a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Atlanta.

Thomas Venezia, CFA, Associate Director, has been with EARNEST since 2014. His prior experience includes seven years with GenOn Energy Management (acquired by NRG) where he was responsible for hedging the company’s fuel liabilities and utility assets and managing risk with respect to the company’s proprietary trade books.