Greg Huston
Greg is an IAR and RR of Tessera Capital Partners, LLC a broker dealer and a member of FINRA and SIPC. All services and securities are offered through Tessera. Greg is the founder of Huston Associates, Inc. Prior to launching Huston Associates in 1997, Greg was Regional Marketing Manager at Wilshire Associates. He developed a regional marketing plan directed toward corporate pension funds, public funds, endowments and foundations. He marketed quantitative equity products which included: small‐cap growth, small‐cap value, midcap growth, mid‐cap value, large‐cap growth, large‐cap value, emerging markets and securitized real estate. In conjunction with this responsibility, he also assisted the Wilshire Consulting Group in marketing a private markets fund of funds encompassing U.S. and international buyout funds; U.S. venture capital funds and distressed securities. Before joining Wilshire Associates, Greg worked for a number of years in the in the high technology computer hardware and software industries. This included senior sales and marketing positions with Martin Marietta Corporation and Burroughs Corporation. At Martin Marietta, Greg sold multi‐million dollar financial analysis and manufacturing control proprietary software projects to Fortune 500 Companies. With Burroughs Corporation, Greg sold minicomputer hardware combined with financial software. Target markets were the banking and credit union industries.
Greg received his BA degree from Seton Hall University in 1978. He holds the Series 7, 63 and 65 registrations.
Donna Dimaria
Donna is the CEO and CCO of Tessera Capital Partners, LLC (“Tessera”). She is an IAR and RR of the firm and serves as a Relationship Manager when working with the firm’s manager clients. Prior to forming Tessera in 2004, Donna was the Director of Consultant Relations at West AM. During her tenure at West AM, the US Consultant Relations team worked with nearly 100 different traditional and specialty consulting firms. She was personally responsible for nearly 40 global, national, regional, and broker consulting firms. Donna coordinated West AM’s global consultant activities for the firm’s offices in US, Europe, Australia, Tokyo, Latin America and Hong Kong. She worked with all of West AM’s product offerings including International, Global, ADR, Emerging Market equity, US, Global and Emerging Market fixed income, US & Global Private Equity and Multi‐strategy Hedge funds. Prior to West AM, Donna worked at Forstmann‐Leff International as a Vice President in the Institutional Sales and Marketing group. Donna was responsible for all consultant related activities at the organization, as well as making new business and finals presentations to a variety of client types including corporations, endowments, foundations, public funds, family offices and high‐net worth individuals. She represented all the product offerings including domestic equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge funds and was responsible for servicing the new clients she brought to the firm. Prior to Forstmann-Leff, Donna was an Assistant Treasurer and Fixed Income Product Specialist at Union Bank of Switzerland Asset Management. She worked on fixed income marketing materials, RFPs and consultant questionnaires. Additionally, Donna coordinated due diligence meetings for potential clients and consultants. Prior to working in the investment management industry, Donna held the positions of Analyst in Kidder Peabody’s Investment Banking and Business Unit Controller’s Group and Staff Accountant for mortgage and asset backed securities at Prudential Securities
Donna received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Binghamton University in 1988. She graduated as a New York University Stern Scholar with an MBA in Finance in 1999 from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She holds the Series 7, 24, 63, 65, 79 and 99 registrations. |