 Scott Erie |
Financial Intermediary Sales |
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612.376.7120 |
| Scott Erie is a member of our Strategic Relationships Group responsible for developing relationships with and representing our investment strategies to various financial intermediaries including consultants, sub-advisory programs, RIAs, and other platforms. Before joining RBC GAM (US) in 2003, Scott worked as a mutual fund product consultant at Piper Jaffray. He has worked in the financial services industry since 1993. Scott earned a BS in Business Administration from Southwest Minnesota State University. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses. |
| Ron Homer |
Client Service Portfolio Manager |
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617.236.7314 |
| Ron Homer is a member of our Client Service Portfolio Management Team. Ron communicates with our Access Capital clients and coordinates our efforts to ensure that each client receives the most appropriate investment solutions and service. He also serves as President of the Access Capital Community Investment Fund. Before joining RBC GAM (US) in July 2008, Ron served as the chief executive officer of Access Capital Strategies LLC. Prior to co-founding Access Capital, he was the president and chief executive officer of the Boston Bank of Commerce, New England’s largest minority-owned financial institution. During Ron’s tenure, the bank was a leading lender in affordable housing, home mortgages, small business, and community development in Boston. He also formerly served as a director at Sallie Mae and the Nynex telephone companies. Ron began his career in the financial services industry in 1969. He earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Ron also holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Cambridge College. He is a past chairman of the National Bankers Association and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Consumer Advisory Council. Ron was the founding chair of the American Bankers Association Center for Community Development. He is the Vice Chair and a founding board member of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. |
| Anthony Rust |
Client Service Portfolio Manager |
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617.722.4732 |
| Anthony Rust is responsible for business development and client service for our Access Capital Community Investment Strategy. Anthony joined RBC GAM (US) in 2010 from Newport Capital, Inc., a capital and private markets firm that specialized in serving institutional investors. As president, he was responsible for managing and operating the firm, which successfully structured and placed more than $4.5 billion in capital transactions. Anthony was also a senior managing partner of Newport’s private equity fund of funds investment management business, which specialized in socially responsible investing (SRI), and buyout fund and venture capital investments. As an SRI professional, Anthony invested more than $100 million into private equity and venture capital in low-to moderate-income (LMI) communities across the country, helping to create quality jobs and businesses, sustain and grow existing businesses, and generate double and triple bottom line returns that positively impacted the communities he invested in and the lives of the people who lived and worked in those communities. Before that, he was an investment banker at First Albany Corporation. Anthony earned a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University and an M.P.S. in Political Management from The George Washington University/SUNY Graduate School of Political Management. He is the founder and Chairman of The Last Shall Be First Foundation and is involved with the South Kingstown Senior Center and the Boys & Girls Club of Newport County. |
| Amy Buser |
Client Service Associate |
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612.376.7165 |
| Amy Buser coordinates client service activities for many of our institutional clients, including our Access Capital Strategies clients. Amy’s responsibilities include ensuring that our clients receive appropriate reporting and organizing meetings with clients and their portfolio managers. Before joining RBC GAM (US) in 2009, she worked in corporate finance for a major manufacturer of packaged foods, where she analyzed and interpreted competitors’ data and designed strategies for the company based on her research. Amy’s previous experience also includes investment analysis and client service at Harris Investment Management, Inc. and Mercer Investment Consulting. She earned a BS and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. |