Management

Renny Ponvert

President & CEO, Director of Research

Renny has an extensive background in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and investment analysis complemented with senior operating roles. Prior to founding Management CV, Renny spent several years in the private equity industry where he identified and led the leveraged buy-out of Media General Financial Services in 2003 and subsequently served as the Company's CEO and later as the President of combined roll-up entity Hemscott, Inc. until its eventual sale in 2006. Prior to his private equity experience, Renny was a co-founder and CEO of DataJungle Software and served as the Managing Director of the Worldscope financial database before it was acquired by Thomson Financial in 2000. Early in his career, Renny worked at the Value Line Investment Survey whose influence is evident in Management CV's ranking system approach. Renny is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the advisory board of FirstRain, a news and information search company.

Jeff Burnett

VP Sales & Client Services

Jeff heads institutional sales and has 15 years experience in investment research. Prior to joining Management CV, Jeff had been Director of Research for GARP Research & Securities. Previously, Jeff was an investment analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer mainly covering the Software industry. In earlier associate positions at Oppenheimer, Smith Barney and Nat West Securities, Jeff covered the automotive and consumer products industries. Early in his career, Jeff spent several years in the consumer products industry in sales and marketing at the Gillette Company and market research at ACNielsen. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate Business School at Wake Forest University and the University of Richmond.

John Delta

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

John has an extensive background in private equity and venture capital where he has held senior finance and operating roles in portfolio companies. Prior to joining Management CV, John spent several years in the private equity industry where he served as the COO of Media General Financial Services and later as the EVP of Global Operations for the combined roll-up entity Hemscott plc. After Hemscott, John served as the CFO of venture backed DoublePositive Marketing Group. Most recently, he was a co-founder and the CFO of private equity backed E-Zone Direct which was sold in February 2011. Early in his career, he served as the VP of Interactive Services at The NASDAQ Stock Market where he launched and ran the NASDAQ.com website. He also has extensive consulting experience having previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Deloitte & Touche. John is a graduate of The University of Virginia where he received both his undergraduate degree and MBA.

Advisory Board

Logan Chandler

Managing Partner at LMC Advisors

Logan has extensive experience in designing and facilitating strategy offsites for senior executive teams and Boards in a diverse range of industries, including financial services, technology, food service, professional services and manufacturing. He has an encyclopedic mind for management theory and practice. His areas of expertise include strategy formulation and execution, strategic alignment and growth best practices. He is a co-author of "Off-Sites that Work" in the June 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Logan previously practiced corporate law for several years with Wilkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. He has a BA and a MBA from Penn and a JD from Northwestern.

Richard Leggett

CEO at Frontier Strategy Group

Rich Leggett has worked as an executive in the financial services industry for 20 years in a number of leadership roles- as the CEO of two private equity backed companies, head of a major division of a publicly traded data and analytics company, and as an investment banker and lead research analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. He is currently the CEO of Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), a leading Emerging Markets-focused information services firm that serves blue-chip multi-national corporations. From October 2008 until September 2011, Mr. Leggett served as the Chairman & CEO of Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), a private equity-owned, investment research, advisory and analytics firm serving institutional investors. Prior to joining BIA, Mr. Leggett was the Head of the Governance Business (formerly ISS) at RiskMetrics Group (NYSE: RMG). Previously, Mr. Leggett was President & CEO of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA), a leading independent research firm that he sold to RiskMetrics in 2007. Mr. Leggett currently serves on the Board of Investorside Research, a non-profit trade association representing the independent research industry, having previously served as Chairman from 2008 to 2011. Mr. Leggett also serves on two non-profit Boards focused on education reform and the well-being of children in inner cities -- New York City Outward Bound (NYCOB), a non-profit that opens and operates small public schools in New York City in partnership with the Department of Education; and, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington D.C. Mr. Leggett holds a BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Gary Mitchell, J.D.

Portfolio Manager

Gary is an active equity portfolio manager and analyst for an established investment advisory firm in Baltimore, Maryland. As an investment practitioner, he spends a good deal of his time evaluating public-company management teams and interacting directly with CEOs and CFOs. Gary is a self-described "process person" and is helping MCV refine our rigorous due diligence methodology for evaluating and analyzing public company management teams. His legal background is particularly valuable in understanding the complexities and nuances of SEC filings and the regulatory environment for public companies. Prior to joining his current investment advisory firm in 2005, Gary practiced law for thirteen years. He has served as a corporate attorney for two S&P 500 companies in New Jersey (Lucent Technologies and then C.R. Bard) with a particular focus on corporate, securities and regulatory law, as well as mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He previously practiced at the law firm Sidley & Austin (now Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood) in New York. Gary received an A.B. from Harvard College in Economics and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Doug Holmes, CFA

Portfolio Manager

Doug is an experienced portfolio manager with an unusual blend of fundamental and quantitative asset management experience. Doug was formerly a senior manager at Rydex Investments, in Rockville, Maryland, where he managed the Stock Selection Group, Asset Allocation, and was a member of the investment leadership team and the Risk Committee. Prior to Rydex, Doug was the department head for State Street Global Advisors' Global Enhanced Equity Group. He worked at SSGA from 1984 to 2003 and was a member of the investment oversight committee. He also spearheaded the product creation of SPDRs, was the department head of the Active Quantitative Group ('92-'95), and chaired the ethics committee while at State Street. Doug holds a BS in mathematics (High Honors) from Northeastern University and has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Extension Program and at Boston University.