Our employees are our most valued assets.
Below, you'll find short biographies of our key personnel.
EUGENE
A. PROFIT
PRESIDENT & PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Eugene Profit founded
Profit
Investment Management in 1996 and has overall management responsibility
for the
firm and client portfolios. Mr. Profit’s unique investment management
philosophy and approach to valuation-sensitive growth investing has
made him
the subject of many profiles in the financial media including Business
Week,
Smart Money, Black Enterprise, Pension & Investments and Investors
Business
Daily. He has also been a guest on Wall Street Week, Money Line, CNBC,
CNN, and
other financial news programs. Prior to founding PIM, Eugene was a financial
consultant with a
regional broker/dealer. Eugene graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in
Economics. Eugene is a financial and
operations
principal, a graduate of Leadership Washington and a former National
Football
League Player with the New England Patriots and Washington Redskins.
MICHELLE Q. PROFIT,
ESQUIRE
SENIOR
VP & CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER
Michelle Profit serves
as Senior
Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Profit
Investment Management. Ms. Profit is
responsible for regulatory filings with the Securities Exchange
Commission and
reviewing all legal documents, including advisory contracts and leases.
Previously, Michelle was Assistant General Counsel for the Credit Union
National Association and a senior attorney with the Federal Reserve
Board where
she worked on the landmark CitiBank-Travelers merger. Michelle holds a
law
degree from Harvard University and a Master’s in
Public Policy
from the Kennedy School of Government. She holds a B.A. in Economics
&
Political Science from Yale University.
CARMEN JOHNSTON COLT
VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS
Carmen Johnston Colt
joined Profit Investment Management in July of 2005 as head of
operations and trading. Her responsibilities include quarterly client
reporting, portfolio recordkeeping and proxy voting. Prior to joining
Profit, Carmen was a senior head equity trader for ING which she joined
in 2000. She has also worked as an equity and fixed income trader for a
registered investment advisor in Orlando and as a trader and sales
assistant for Drexel Burnham, Prudential and Smith Barney. In total,
Carmen brings more than 20 years of investment experience to our
trading desk. Carmen has a B.S. in Biology from Rollins College.
MICHELLE RHODESBROWN,
CFA
SENIOR EQUITY
ANALYST
Michelle
RhodesBrown, CFA joined Profit Investment Management in July of 2006 as
a
Senior Equity Analyst, covering consumer discretionary stocks and
consumer staples. She has also worked as consumer analyst with Holland
Capital
Management and as a Manager in the Business Valuation and Real Estate
Group of
Deloitte and Touche, LLP. She graduated
from University
of Pennsylvania’s
School
of Engineering
and Applied Science with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical
Engineering and
Applied Mechanics. She also holds a
Masters of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of
Management at Northwestern
University
in Evanston, Illinois. Ms. RhodesBrown
is a CFA Charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute and a member of
the CFA
Society of Chicago. In addition, she is a Director of the Delta
Research and
Educational Foundation.
JEANNIE HSU, MD
EQUITY ANALYST
Jeannie Hsu, M.D.
joined Profit
Investment Management in April of 2005 as a Research Analyst, focusing
on the
healthcare sector. Previously, Dr. Hsu was a senior research associate
with the
investment firm Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. where she
covered
specialty pharmaceutical stocks. She has also worked as an investment
analyst
with Banc of America Asset Management; as a strategy consultant for
healthcare,
telecommunications and internet businesses; and as a physician. Dr. Hsu
holds a
medical degree from the University of Texas and a B.S. in
molecular biology,
also from the University of Texas.
MANPREET
SINGH, CFA
EQUITY ANALYST
Manpreet Singh
joined
Profit Investment Management in September of 2000 and has held
various positions
since joining the firm. He is currently an Equity Analyst and is responsible
for
equity research and assisting the portfolio manager. He graduated in
the Honors
Program Cum Laude with a B.S. in Finance and citation in
Entrepreneurship from
the University of Maryland at College Park. Mr. Singh is a CFA
Charterholder, member of the CFA
Institute and a member of the Washington Society of
Investment Analysts. In addition, he is a Director of the LK Foundation
and
founding member of Sikh Caucus.
GUAYLON ARNIC
EQUITY ANALYST
Guaylon Arnic joined Profit Investment
Management in March of 2007 as an Equity Analyst. His duties include
fundamental research in the telecom, aerospace, energy and
the industrial sectors of the market. Prior to joining Profit Investment
Management, Mr. Arnic served as the Director of Corporate
Development and Investor relations for MDC Holdings, where he worked
on the company's mergers and acquisitions, as well as heading up the
Investor Relations efforts. Mr. Arnic also worked at US Bancorp
Asset Management from 2001 to 2004 as an Equity Analyst where he
covered the consumer discretionary sector. Mr. Arnic holds an M.B.A.
in Finance from the
University of
Minnesota and a B.A. in Management from
Tennessee
State
University.
Guaylon is
currently a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
candidate.
MATTHEW KO
EQUITY ANALYST
Matthew Ko joined Profit Investment Management in March of 2008 as an Equity Analyst,
covering financial stocks. He previously worked as an Institutional Broker in the
High Yield and Equity groups at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and as an investment banker
in the Leveraged Finance and Private Placements groups at Banc of America Securities.
He graduated magna cum laude from James Madison University with a degree in finance.
Mr. Ko is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidate.
LINDA SHESTO
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Linda Shesto is managing Director of Profit Investment Management.
Prior to joining Profit Investment Management, Ms. Shesto traded derivative
securities for herself and was Managing Director of a minority broker dealer where
she was responsible for new business development and trading. She has over 16
years of investment management and trading experience. She has consulted for
several international banks, such as Barclays Global and DeutscheBank on
global financial derivative projects.
Ms. Shesto worked with Lehman Brothers in Chicago where she
served the firm's institutional clients in the Derivatives and Swaps Division.
Ms. Shesto holds a B.A. in Finance from Loyola University
in Chicago.
JOEL MACASAET
MARKETING ASSOCIATE
Joel
Macasaet joined Profit Investment Management in July of
2006 as a Marketing Associate. His
responsibilities include database reporting, producing RFP’s and client
relations with the existing institutional accounts.
Prior to joining Profit, Mr. Macasaet was an
institutional marketing associate with James River Financial Corp.
which he
joined in 2001. He also worked at
Wachovia Securities as a research analyst and a mutual fund trader. Mr. Macasaet has over ten years of industry
experience. He holds a B.A. in Political
Science from Virginia
Commonwealth University.
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