management team

Dean Chamberlain is the CEO of Rampart Asset Management, LLC. He concurrently serves as CEO and Principal of Mischler Financial Group, Inc., a boutique investment bank/institutional brokerage and the financial service industry’s oldest minority broker-dealer owned and operated by service-disabled veterans. Prior to joining Mischler Financial, Mr. Chamberlain was Co-Head of Fixed Income/Americas for Nomura Securities International (NSI), where he also served as Head of Distribution in both North and South America.

Mr. Chamberlain was the senior American Representative for Nomura Holdings America and the firm’s sole American member of the Global Fixed Income Management Committee. Mr. Chamberlain sat on the Board of NSI and steered Nomura Securities profitably through the global credit crisis, and the process of becoming a Primary Dealer for US Treasury Securities.

Mr. Chamberlain joined Nomura Securities in 2005 from Bank of America Securities, where he was instrumental in business growth as Head of Structured Products distribution for the Midwest region.Mr. Chamberlain began his financial services career in 1992, trading mortgage and asset-backed products at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Prior to working in the financial services industry, Mr. Chamberlain served as an Army Officer in various leadership positions with the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. Mr. Chamberlain holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering Management from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Masters in Business Administration from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

---