Rich is CEO and co-founder of Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC. Performance Trust trades and invests over $25 billion annually in fixed-income securities primarily for middle market institutions. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director with Clayton Brown & Associates, Inc. where he directed the Portfolio Analytics Group, a division of the company dedicated to providing and executing commercial bank client investment and funding strategies. Rich was a Contributing Editor for the ABA Banking Journal for five years and authored various feature articles in this and other banking and regulatory publications. He is a featured speaker at numerous banking, insurance and professional conferences and seminars. Rich was also one of the original faculty members of the highly acclaimed Principles of Performance course (formerly known as Bond Math University) and The Advanced Course. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV & Radio, MSNBC, Fox Business News, WLS, WTTW and Reuters. Rich received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Wheaton College and an MBA from Northwestern Universitys Kellogg Graduate School of Management.