Mr. Hammond has over 45 years of experience in the investment management industry, including founding, owning, and managing as CEO, for over 25 years, a 120+ person institutional consulting shop providing investment consulting services to over 350 institutional clients. He owned and managed a hedge fund and, more recently, was part-owner of a firm providing faith-based direct indexing. His expertise includes institutional investment policy creation, quantitative asset allocation, traditional and alternative investment manager selection, and performance measurement. He currently provides guidance to institutions aligning their portfolios with their faith. He has served as curator and board member on several endowment, foundation, educational, and charitable boards over the past 40 years, and has authored numerous papers, including fifteen peer-reviewed articles published in national journals. Mr. Hammond received his Masters in Tax Law degree from Washington University Law School, his law degree from Villanova Law School, and his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Kansas.