New York, New York, United States
As an accomplished product leader with extensive experience, Delano excels at driving growth and innovation within the investment product landscape. His career spans all major asset classes including equities, fixed income, and alternative investments. Delano's leadership responsibilities include end-to-end product ownership, competitive research, and crafting comprehensive roadmaps for products with over $250B in assets serving more than 4M clients. Key Strengths: Analytical Problem Solving: Proficient in quantitative research and portfolio analysis, Delano leverages data and analysis tools to gather customer insights, drive product strategy, market positioning - all to keep key stakeholders informed and ultimately drive product adoption. Leadership: Known for leading cross-functional teams, Delano is a collaborative leader with an eye towards strategic planning and execution, customer centric research, and thought leadership development. Customer Focus: With a keen understanding of customer behavior and trends, Delano creates and develops compelling narratives, training and educational content that resonate with both individual and institutional clients.
Led End-to-End Investment Product Management of the $250B CREF Lifetime Income Product Suite Drove $20B+ asset growth, $3B+ net flow improvements and customer adoption of the CREF Annuities Executed on CREF’s investment strategy and product positioning objectives with buy-in and approval from the Board of Overseers, Sr. Management and key stakeholders Conducted investment research and analysis assessing product competitiveness, customer perspectives (VoC) and customer insights (i.e., customer behavior, trends and demographics research etc.) Led the development of technical and “plain-language” marketing collateral and sales support content hub; resulting over 50 new pieces for both individual and institutional audiences with avg. annual page view growth of 92% and unique visitor count growth of 89% and over 15,000 internal downloads Trained and educated Sales & Distribution teams; resulting in over 3,000 meetings with institutional clients and investment consultants; 20+ internal training presentations and webinars with over 7,000 attendees
The ECNY Fellows Program is a customized year-long program that introduces rising executives with great promise to thoughtful discussions and debates on the complex issues of the day. These issues range from pressing economic, social, and political issues to public policy debates and the role of corporations in society to economic regulation, tech disruption, and much more.
Finance: - Budget Analysis & Reporting - Vendor Management Strategic Planning: - Business Performance Metrics (KPIs) & Reporting - Investment Performance & Reporting o Multi-Asset Class Portfolio Solutions o Alternative Asset Classes o Traditional Asset Classes - Investment Advise & Guidance Tracking and Analysis Technology: - Portfolio Management Tools – Evaluation & Implementation - Internal Website Design & Deployment
Alternative Investments Advisory Services Provided full spectrum client portfolio investment advice and guidance across alternative asset classes. Which included asset allocation modeling, investment performance analysis and client/investor presentations.
Hedge Fund and Private Equity research and analysis Alternative Investment asset allocation advisory services