Team Biographies

Darian H. Chen, CFA

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager
darian@firstfiduciary.com

As a managing director and portfolio manager, Mr. Chen is part of a team that evaluates and monitors companies for inclusion in First Fiduciary’s portfolios. He began his career in investment management in 1996 as an analyst with Gelfand Partners where he researched and valued equities for the firm’s value-oriented portfolios. He then worked for five years as a portfolio manager at First Fiduciary where he managed accounts and continued to focus on bottom-up analysis of companies for First Fiduciary‘s conservative, value-oriented portfolios.

Mr. Chen later served as a Managing Director at Gratry & Company where he focused on international equities employing a top-down macro-oriented research investment process. Most recently, he was Chief Investment Officer at Sequoia Financial Advisors with primary responsibilities for asset allocation and manager selection.

Mr. Chen is a CFA charterholder and teaches portions of the CFA Review curriculum at Cleveland State University. He is also a member of the CFA Society of Cleveland and has a B.A. in Economics with honors from Yale University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Mr. Chen’s hobbies and interests include playing the piano, attending live theater, running, and cultivating orchids and aquatic plants.

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