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| Assette's professionals
can relate to the challenges and pressures you face each day. Like
you, they have led initiatives at buy-side firms to enhance marketing
and client service, streamline presentation creation and client
reporting, and maximize information availability. |
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| Drawing upon their firsthand
experience, Assette's business and technical experts can analyze
your needs more effectively and responsively than anyone else. They
know how to apply Assette technology in ways that make it easier
for your firm to communicate with prospects and clients, leverage
up-to-the-minute information, and safeguard your client data. Put
Assette's asset management expertise and technology know-how to
work for you. |
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Thusith
I. Mahanama, CEO Marc Filipkowski,
Director Mihindu Senanayake,
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Michael
Cavarretta Jim Colgan J.
Michael Greata Nalin Kulatilaka
Thusith I. Mahanama |
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| Mr. Mahanama, Assette's
co-founder, is responsible for the company's overall strategic direction
and marketing plan. Mr. Mahanama brings over 10 years of technology
management and applications development experience to Assette. Before
founding Assette, he was manager of information technology at Frontier
Capital Management Company in Boston , which manages over $4 billion
in assets. At Frontier, Mr. Mahanama helped to create one of the
industry's first online client reporting systems, which provided
daily portfolio data to clients. |
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| Mr. Mahanama has a B.S. in
Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Superior
and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from Boston University's
Graduate School of Management. Mr. Mahanama is also a member of the
Boston Security Analysts Society. |
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| Mr. Filipkowski oversees sales
and business development for Assette. With an 18-year track record
of success in the financial services industry, Mr. Filipkowski brings
to Assette experience in consultative sales and relationship management.
Before joining Assette, he served as vice president of sales and marketing
in the managed accounts outsourcing division at Mellon Financial Corporation.
During his tenure, Mr. Filipkowski generated $1.5 million in new business
revenue and oversaw business growth from 15,000 to 60,000 accounts
processed and from $3 billion to $22 billion in assets. Previously,
he was responsible for selling performance measurement and attribution
systems as a senior account executive at Thomson Financial in Boston.
At Thomson Financial, Mr. Filipkowski negotiated and closed both the
largest transaction and the largest perpetual license in the history
of the company. |
| Mr. Filipkowski holds a B.S.
in Business Management from Bentley College and an M.B.A. with marketing
concentration from Bentley College Graduate School. |
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| Mr. Senanayake directs
the Software Engineering and Quality Assurance groups at Assette.
He draws upon more than 10 years of diverse consulting projects
and 20 years of development experience to execute the delivery of
new products. As a consultant, he designed, developed, and implemented
client-facing applications for Microsoft, Business Benefits Corporation,
and LexisNexis. Before working as a consultant, Mr. Senanayake served
as a program manager at Microsoft, where he managed development
projects and coordinated with development, testing, and user-education
teams. |
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| Mr. Senanayake holds a
BSE in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Mr. Cavarretta, a chartered
financial analyst, brings hands-on asset management expertise to
Assette’s board of directors. He is the president of Frontier
Capital Management Company in Boston, which manages over $4 billion
in assets. Mr. Cavarretta serves as portfolio manager for Frontier
Capital Appreciation Portfolios and co-team leader for Frontier
Research Portfolios. Before joining Frontier, Mr. Cavarretta was
a financial analyst for General Electric. |
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| Mr. Cavarretta
holds a B.S. from the University of Maine and an M.B.A from Harvard
Business School. |
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Mr. Colgan is a technology
equity analyst and portfolio manager at Frontier Capital Management
Company in Boston. Since 2001, he has managed a portion of the firm’s
$2.5 billion small-to-mid-cap portfolio. Mr. Colgan specializes
in creating innovative investment ideas, monitoring existing equity
holdings, collaborating with sell-side analysts, and building quarterly
financial models for long-term holdings. He has also held management
positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and United Technologies
Corporation. |
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Mr. Colgan holds a B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from the University
of Connecticut, an M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from the University
of Massachusetts, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A.
from MIT. |
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Mr. Greata has spent 39
years in the computer systems industry. He is currently the president
of Opera Systems. Before joining Opera, Mr. Greata was a founder
and chief technology officer at Apollo Computer (now part of HP).
Previously, Mr. Greata held positions with PR1ME Computer and Honeywell's
minicomputer division. At PR1ME, he served as director of software
development and director of advanced systems development. |
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Mr. Greata holds a B.S.
in Electrical Engineering and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge
, Massachusetts . |
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A professor
of finance at the Boston University School of Management, Professor
Kulatilaka studies issues of risk management, firm valuation, and
real options. He serves as the Research Director of Global Mobility
Innovations and Insights, a multi-university research consortium
on mobile communications. Professor Kulatilaka's current research
examines issues related to the valuation of real options and their
use in forming an economic foundation for corporate strategy. His
book on this topic, Real Options: Managing Strategic Investments
in an Uncertain World is published by Harvard Business School
Press. Professor Kulatilaka has published extensively in top academic
journals as well as influential managerial publications. He has
received the Association for Investment Management and Research's
Graham and Dodd Award in recognition of outstanding feature articles
published in the Financial Analysts Journal. Outside academia, he
frequently addresses executive audiences and consults for investment
banks, corporations, and governments. |
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Professor Kulatilaka received
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London,
an S.M. in Decision Sciences from Harvard University, and a Ph.D.
in Economics/Finance from MIT. |
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