29 Apr PUBLIC PENSION CORNER — Announcement
Just a reminder:
The State Financial Officers Foundation* and its Public Fiduciary Network will be hosting an online meeting for all public fiduciaries and other interested parties Tomorrow, April 30th at 3:00 PM EDT. Anyone connected to or interested in the public pension world is invited.
The meeting this month will feature a distinguished guest speaker, Bob Doll, the CEO of Crossmark Global Investments.
Bob joined Crossmark in May 2021 as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and assumed the additional role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in January 2024. Bob provides strategy for the firm, oversees the management team, guides the investment teams at Crossmark, and serves as portfolio manager for multiple Crossmark large cap strategies. He uses his more than 40 years of industry experience and expertise to provide weekly and quarterly investment commentaries as well as annual market predictions. Bob is a regular guest and contributor to multiple media outlets, including Bloomberg TV, Fox Business News, CNBC, and Faith & Finance Live Radio. Prior to arriving at Crossmark, he held the roles of Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Equity Strategist at Nuveen (2012-21) and Blackrock (2006-12), President and Chief Investment Officer at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (1999-2006), and Chief Investment Officer at Oppenheimer Funds Inc. (1987-99).
Bob graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Accounting and a B.A. in Economics. He later went on to earn an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation, as well as the FINRA Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.
Bob dedicates his free time as choir director at his local church and also serves on a number of boards, including the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Cairn University, Christianity Today, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Kingdom Advisors, The Lausanne Movement, Movement.org, New Canaan Society, and Word of Life Fellowship.
Bob and his wife, Leslie, currently reside in Princeton, New Jersey, and have three children and three grandchildren.
Please join us, and please pass along this message to anyone you think may also be interested and register here.
*The State Financial Officers Foundation is a sponsor of the Public Pension Corner. Stephen Soukup (the author of the Public Pension Corner) is the Scholar in Residence at SFOF’s Public Fiduciary Network.
