John R. Snow is the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Broad Cove Partners advising the company in its strategic development and growth.A widely-respected leader in his field, John retired in 2003 as Vice Chairman of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), one of the world’s largest institutional investment managers. His management responsibilities included strategic and financial planning and human resources as well as oversight of the alternative asset classes (real estate, hedge funds, and private equity).
With a particular expertise in the area of international investment management, John was responsible for SSgA’s Global Alliance subsidiaries including its emerging markets specialist firms Rexiter Capital Management (London), Pallada Asset Management (Moscow), European Direct Capital Management (Warsaw) and Asian Direct Capital Management (Hong Kong and Bangkok). He also chaired the investment committees of the Arirang and Mukoongwha Corporate Restructuring funds (Korea), the Thai Recovery Fund, and the Korea Venture Fund. John was a member of the Executive Committee and Investment Committee at SSgA, and was an Executive Vice President and member of the Strategy Steering Committee of the parent company, State Street Corporation. Before joining SSgA in 1996, John was President of NatWest Investment Management, Inc., Director and Executive Vice President of NatWest Markets, Inc., and Deputy Chief Executive of NatWest Asset Managers. He was also a founding director and the Chief Executive Officer of PanAgora Asset Management, Inc. (Boston) and PanAgora Asset Management Limited (London). John began his career in banking and investments with The Boston Company, Inc. where he served in a number of senior management roles including Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning, Managing Director of the U.K. banking subsidiary and Director of Marketing for the institutional businesses.
John currently serves as a Trustee of the Universityof Vermont; he participates in all aspects of the board's supervision of the university with special emphasis on the investment committee and the budget and finance committee.
John received his B.A. in Classics from the University of Vermont in 1974 where he graduated summa cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of the Kidder Medal and the Corse Fellowship. He attended graduate school in Classical Philology at PrincetonUniversity. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone specializing in agricultural development.
Jim Brenner, Broad Cove's CEO, has twenty years of finance and investment experience in public and private sector organizations, with a particular focus on structuring partnerships between private fund managers and government and quasi-public institutional investors. Before helping found Broad Cove Partners, Jim was an executive in the Global Alliance group of State Street Global Advisors, one of the world's largest institutional investment managers. At SSgA, he managed business development, sales and marketing strategy for emerging markets investment products.
Previously, Jim led a Harvard University team working with international financial institutions, public and private sector experts on the development of technology and venture capital. During the same period, Jim was invited by a group of international financial institutions to undertake a benchmark study of emerging market investment funds.
Prior to that, Jim was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at AEW Capital Management, where he led the firm's efforts in assisting the government's Resolution Trust Corporation in the development of the innovative Multiple Investor Fund (MIF) program, designed to help divest failed thrifts' real estate assets. Prior to joining AEW, Jim spent five years as a senior staffer in the U. S. Senate and was responsible for major legislation covering international trade, tax, banking and finance issues.
Jim earned a BA degree (Phi Beta Kappa) at Wesleyan University, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. Jim is a member of the board of directors of CAL Bank and Ghana Home Loans. He also serves as chairman of the board of the Overseas Vote Foundation, a bipartisan non-profit organization dedicated to simplifying the voter registration process for military and civilian citizens living outside of the United States.
Todd Anderson is the chief operating officer of Broad Cove Partners, and has over twenty-five years' experience in financial services marketing and strategy, product management, and new business formation. Todd began his financial services career at Chase Manhattan Bank, where he held several product management and development positions in both retail and institutional marketing areas. He later joined Merrill Lynch as an internal business strategy consultant, and subsequently assumed responsibility for strategic planning for the firm's U.S. retail business, leading a team that provided industry and competitive intelligence as well as strategic guidance and consultation to senior management and the managers of all retail business areas within the firm.
After a brief stint at Fidelity Investments, Todd joined Scudder, Stevens & Clark, assuming a senior product development role. While at Scudder, he directed the launch of six US-registered mutual funds, which grew to over $1 billion in assets, as well as a variety of personal financial planning and asset allocation-based investment products and services.
Todd moved to John Hancock to build and lead a strategic planning group and later assumed responsibility for managing the company's new product introductions in the annuity product line. Before helping to found Broad Cove Partners, Todd provided marketing and strategic consulting support to financial services organizations ranging from a small money management start-up to one of the largest banks in the U.S.
Todd received his undergraduate degree in history from Dartmouth College, and an MBA in marketing, finance and international business from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Powell Holly is a managing director of Broad Cove Partners, and has been in the financial services industry for over 17 years, where he has gained extensive experience in fixed income portfolio management and investment banking. For seven years, Powell was a fixed income portfolio manager for Wedgewood Capital Management where he managed institutional investment grade portfolios with assets totaling $60 million. In this capacity, he actively managed portfolios with a goal of providing a total rate of return greater than a specific benchmark index while maintaining constraints dictated by clients’ investment guidelines.
Previously, Powell worked in the investment banking group of Pryor, Counts & Co., Inc. in their New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC offices. While at Pryor, Counts, Powell worked on numerous transactions both in the U.S. and Africa and worked in several divisions within the firm, including real estate and structured finance, public finance, and the international group. While with the international group, he participated in transactions integral to the establishment of the African financial institutions CAL Bank (Ghana) and the Securities Discount Company (Ghana). After the investment in CAL Bank, Powell provided technical assistance to the CAL Bank staff relating to back office operations, securities underwriting and syndication. Powell also providing underwriting support to the African Development Bank and consulting services to MBEA (Uganda) Ltd. during that firm’s appointment as the lead bank on the privatization and IPO of Uganda Clays Ltd.
In structured finance and real estate, Powell provided financial advisory services to public and private sector clients, one of which was the Resolution Trust Corp (RTC), with a specific focus on asset disposition. He evaluated and structured pools of real estate loans (both performing and non-performing) and real property held by various financial institutions throughout the U.S. which were part of the RTC’s portfolio. These loan portfolios were successfully marketed and sold to institutional investors.
Powell holds a BA degree in Managerial Studies and Political Science from Rice University in Houston, TX.
Associates
Robyn Riddle joined Broad Cove Partners as a Senior Associate to support OPIC and the EDN Program as well as the firm's other activities. Robyn brings over 15 years of experience in banking and advisory work, specializing in the area of credit risk across a variety of lending products.
Robyn previously worked for KPMG LLP's Financial Risk Advisory practice for over 8 years. In her role there, she worked on projects at numerous financial institutions - public, private, global and regional - with particular focus on reviewing individual loan transactions and evaluating overall credit risk management processes.
Prior to employment at KPMG LLP, Robyn worked as both an underwriter and a portfolio analyst at a national commercial real estate lender. She began her career as a Bank Examiner with the FDIC.
Robyn received her MBA from Boston College and a BA from Bryant University in Rhode Island.
Trevor Byrne joined Broad Cove Partners as an Associate in 2008 to help launch the EDN African Technical Assistance Initiative. Prior to this, Trevor worked for Broad Cove as an intern, focusing his efforts on the Enterprise Development Network, the Liberian Housing Finance Company, and EcoHomes Liberia.
Before joining Broad Cove, Trevor spent five years as a professional hockey player under contract with the Dallas Stars, Washington Capitals, and St. Louis Blues. During his tenure in the American Hockey League, he worked as a Player’s Representative for the Professional Hockey Players Association (PHPA) and was an active investor in real estate.
Trevor graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Mary Kenyon joined Broad Cove Partners in 2007 and is an Associate responsible for office administration.
Mary has been a consultant to a number of small businesses.Prior to this, Mary had a career in application development, managing large software development efforts for John Hancock Insurance and State Street Bank in support of their mutual fund customers.
Mary received her BA from Bowling GreenStateUniversity.
William C. Fellows has over a decade of experience in the Middle East and North Africa, working with various finance and investment issues in both the public and private sectors. Since 2004, William has been engaged with a financial sector development project, funded by the US Government in Morocco, focused on improving financing opportunities for small and medium-size growth enterprises by boosting financial sector technical capacity, creating new products and improving the financing climate for SMEs. William also consults on private equity opportunities and developments in the Middle East - North Africa region with regional private equity groups.
Previously, William worked with the Inter Arab Investment Fund, an OPIC-backed private equity fund investing in Jordan and the Occupied Territories where he was an Investment Officer. Prior to that engagement, William worked with the Casablanca Stock Exchange on a project designed to boost portfolio investment flows to Morocco, notably from the English speaking investment community, and with the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce as an analyst on Arab region trade and investment issues. He also managed a White & Case (New York) project on intellectual property development and strategy management in biotechnology, in connection with genetically engineered organisms.
William holds a Bachelors degree from Vassar College in Diplomatic History, a Masters from Indiana University, Bloomington in Islamic History and a Masters in International Economics and Finance from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where he won a Center for Advanced Arabic Studies (CASA) Fellowship for advanced Arabic language studies in Cairo. William studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo-CASA, as well as Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, Université Moulay Ismaïl, Institut des Études Arabes in Meknès, Morocco, and the University of Chicago.
