The FiduciaryVest Team
Philly Jones, CFA, CPA – Managing Director
Philly Jones has 15 years of experience providing investment advisory and fiduciary support services to qualified plan sponsors. Philly currently serves as the Primary Consultant to 16 corporate fiduciary committees that have oversight responsibility for approximately $4.5 billion of qualified plan assets representing approximately 100,000 participants. Philly typically serves his clients in a co-fiduciary capacity.
Philly is a Co-Founder and Director of FiduciaryVest, LLC. Prior to the formation of FiduciaryVest, LLC, Philly was a Vice President in Clark Consulting’s Human Capital Practice, where he managed the Atlanta office of Clark Consulting’s SEC-registered investment advisory subsidiary. During the six previous years at Arthur Andersen, Philly led the Defined Contribution unit of Andersen’s Institutional Investment Consulting Practice.
Philly’s specific, significant professional roles have included recurring and special consulting engagements with qualified plan sponsors involving: (a) defined contribution and defined benefit plan fee and expense audits, (b) investment policy design, (c) investment manager/fund selection, (d) performance measurement and evaluation, (e) plan administration/recordkeeping, (f) asset/liability forecast modeling and (g) ERISA compliance.
Harold Small, MBA – Director
Harold Small has 10 years of institutional investment consulting experience to employee defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans and institutional investment pools for hospitals and endowments. Earlier in his career he served in various leadership and consulting roles in commercial banking, corporate finance, hospital administration and venture capital re-structuring.
Prior to the establishment of FiduciaryVest, LLC, Harold was a Vice President in Clark Consulting’s Human Capital Practice, where he served as one of the three senior consultants to Clark’s institutional plan sponsor clients. He entered the institutional investment consulting field in 1996 as a Vice President and Senior Consultant with Kennedy Capital Advisors and then joined Clark Consulting in 2003.
Harold’s current practice profile at FiduciaryVest is comprised primarily of client directed asset pools that include six pension plans, four hospital funded depreciation pools, and three foundations. In addition he advises on five defined contribution programs. He is responsible to the client directed asset pools on the development and maintenance of investment policies, asset strategies, manager searches, performance analysis and performance reporting.
J. Gregg Buckalew, CFA, CPA – Chief Investment Officer
Gregg Buckalew has 36 years of experience consulting to the sponsors of all types of employee benefit programs and various specialized investment funds, particularly including foundations, hospitals and endowments. Clients have ranged in asset size from $10 million to more than $3 billion.
Prior to the establishment of FiduciaryVest, LLC, Gregg was a Senior Vice President at Clark Consulting, where he headed that NYSE-listed company’s SEC-registered investment advisor subsidiary. He held similar national-level positions during the previous 7 years at Arthur Andersen and 9 years at Watson Wyatt Worldwide Investment Consulting. The remainder of Gregg’s employee benefits-related career was 3 years as Executive Vice President-Employee Plans with an investment portfolio management firm and 9 years as Senior Manager, then Partner-in-Charge of Coopers & Lybrand’s Actuarial, Benefits & Compensation group, southern region.
Gregg’s specific, significant professional roles include recurring and special consulting engagements with client investment funds involving: (a) asset/liability forecast modeling, (b) investment asset allocation, (c) investment objectives and policy development, (d) investment manager selection, (e) performance measurement and evaluation, and (f) independent fiduciary assignments.
Jason Small, CFA, MBA – Senior Consultant
Jason Small has eight years of experience in investment management. Jason joined FiduciaryVest in 2011 as a Senior Consultant and a team member in the service of employee defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans and institutional investment pools for hospitals and endowments. Jason has opened our Philadelphia office of FiduciaryVest to expand the service capabilities to our clients. Jason typically serves his clients in a co-fiduciary capacity.
Prior to joining FiduciaryVest, Jason was a portfolio manager at Chartwell Investment Partners on the Large Cap Equity team. He assisted in the selection of investments and was directly involved in the marketing and client servicing of the strategy. He led client reviews and new business finals presentations with institutional clients and consultants. Jason was a guest commentator on various media outlets, and presented at investment conferences around the country. Prior to business school, he was a mechanical engineer with the healthcare division of Tyco International Ltd, now known as Covidien.
Jason earned his Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business, where he was awarded the North Carolina Treasury Management Fellowship. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jason is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Zack Sadler, CFA – Senior Consultant
Zack Sadler has 10 years of experience providing investment advisory and fiduciary support services to qualified plan sponsors. Zack currently serves as primary consultant to 6 corporate fiduciary committees with oversight responsibility for approximately $200 million of qualified plan assets.
Prior to transitioning with Philly Jones and his team to FiduciaryVest, LLC in 2005, Zack was employed as an analyst and junior consultant with the Human Capital Practice at Clark Consulting. He first began working with the team in 2001 as an intern with Arthur Andersen’s Institutional Investment Consulting Practice.
Zack’s specific, significant professional roles include, but are not limited to, recurring and special consulting engagements with qualified plan sponsors involving: (a) defined contribution and defined benefit plan fee and expense audits, (b) investment policy design, (c) investment manager/fund selection, (d) performance measurement and evaluation, (e) plan administration and recordkeeping, and (f) ERISA compliance.
Zack graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Finance. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2006. Zack’s publications include an article on investment portfolio design in Big Builder Magazine as well as several articles for various newsletters and websites on the topics of optimal 401(k) plan design and investment strategies for small business owners. Zack has also been quoted in Defined Contribution and Savings Plan Alert, a publication of Institutional Investor Magazine.
Mark Cline, CFP® – Senior Consultant
Mark Cline has over 10 years of financial services experience, specifically focused on relationship and operational management of defined contribution retirement plans for institutional clients. In addition, he has many years of experience in individual personal financial and retirement planning.
Mark currently consults with clients and their pension committees on plan review and due diligence, plan enhancements, plan design, investment offerings, and request for proposals (RFP). In addition, he assists clients in establishing FiduciaryVest’s award winning Personal Finance and Retirement Planning program.
Prior to his current position with FiduciaryVest, LLC, Mark spent seven years working in the Institutional Client Services Group at The Vanguard Group. In this role he consulted with large multi-national clients on regulatory compliance, plan design, operational efficiencies, investment policies and participant education. He also spent time as a Sr. Regional Representative for Davis Advisors. In this role, he leveraged his investment products knowledge to work directly with financial services professionals on the merits of the firms managed money and mutual fund solutions.
Mark is a graduate of the University of Arizona where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Finance degree. He has held series 6 and 63 licenses and is currently registered with the SEC as an investment advisor representative. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor. He has also completed American Society of Pension Actuaries Daily Valuation, Administrative Cycle, and Events Processing curriculums.