Jan, a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Darlington, Pennsylvania, founded Jumet Financial and brings over thirty-five years of investment industry experience to our team.
Prior to founding Jumet Financial, Jan most recently served as Chief Compliance Officer of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, a Boston-based investment firm managing over $100 billion in assets. Before GMO, he served on the Executive Management Committee of Babson Capital Management LLC, where he oversaw the firm's business strategy and held overall responsibility for its compliance program across a broad array of investment disciplines covering over $110 billion in assets under management.
Jan also served as President of Babson Capital Securities Inc., a limited-purpose broker/dealer. He joined Babson Capital from Mellon Institutional Asset Management (MIAM) in Boston, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of MIAM, Chief Compliance Officer of Mellon Institutional Funds, and CEO of Mellon Funds Distributor.
The majority of Jan's fourteen-year career at Mellon was in asset management, where he held management and senior management positions in relationship management for institutional and high-net-worth clients, as well as investment management sales and portfolio analysis roles across Mellon's thirteen investment subsidiaries, which managed equity, fixed income, hedge, and alternative assets across numerous strategies and products. Jan also served in the Air National Guard and Army National Guard for over eight years.
Jan is an alumnus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, with a B.B.A. in Finance, and of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with an M.S. in Tax and a Juris Doctor. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the American Bar Association and maintains his legal license with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jan is registered with LPL Financial (Series 7, 24, and 63), a full-service broker/dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC, and with Western Wealth Management (Series 65). He also holds various state insurance licenses for Life, Accident and Health, Long-Term Care, Disability, and Variable Annuities.
He is the Founder and former Chairman of the Board of the Jumet Charitable Foundation, serves as Managing Member of the McS Charitable Foundation, founded Jumet Financial Tax Services, and has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Viatronix, Inc. and as a Board Member of the American Cancer Society in Beaver County, Western Pennsylvania.