ELF Trust Board Home ELF Members of the Board of Trustees J. Garrett Stevens President J. Garrett Stevens is the Chief Executive Officer of Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC where he oversees and is actively involved in the firm’s daily operations. He is also CEO of Exchange Traded Concepts Trust and holds the position of Chairman of ETC’s Executive Committee. Prior to the ETC endeavor, Mr. Stevens founded FaithShares in 2009 where he served as CEO, launching the first family of faith-based ETFs in the marketplace. Stevens began his professional career in 2000 as a stock broker and investment advisor at T.S. Phillips Investments, Inc. serving as vice president. Mr. Stevens is becoming a nationally recognized ETF specialist and has appeared in a wide variety of financial media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Index Universe and the Wall Street Journal. An Oklahoma native, Garrett holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Oklahoma State University. Timothy J. Jacoby Independent Trustee Timothy J. Jacoby is a retired partner from the Deloitte & Touche Investment Management practice having served many of Deloitte’s premier clients. Tim has over 35 years of combined public accounting and industry experience bringing a unique blend of investment management advisory experience, as well as hands-on involvement with the day-to-day challenges of leading investment management businesses. Prior to Deloitte Tim was CFO and Senior Vice President of Liberty Financial’s asset management business and had been a Senior Vice President at Fidelity Investments and a former partner at EY and its predecessor entities. Tim was a 10-year member (three as chair) of the Investment Company Institute’s Accounting/Treasurers Committee and served on the American Institute of CPA’s Investment Companies Committee that revised the Investment Companies Audit and Accounting Guide. Tim holds MBA and Bachelor’s degrees from State University of New York at Buffalo. Linda Petrone Independent Trustee Linda Petrone is the Founding Partner of Sage Search Advisors, a search firm focused on hiring both investment talent at all levels as well as C-Suite business managers for hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks.Linda’s career includes fourteen years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in the Equity Derivatives Group. During her tenure at GS, her responsibilities included trading single stock options, selling derivatives to a wide variety of institutional clients and managing the derivative sales team for North America. In addition, she built and led a derivative strategy team that leveraged equity research to generate and publish trading ideas for the institutional client base. In 2004, Linda joined UBS as a Managing Director, co-managing the Prime Brokerage Sales effort for the Americas within the Prime Services Group. There she cultivated relationships, initiated new business and led the accounts of several of the firm’s most important hedge fund clients. After her departure from UBS in 2008, she joined SAC Capital as a Derivative Strategist to work with the Equity Long/Short Portfolio Managers. She identified opportunities in the options markets and executed trades on behalf of the various portfolios. She departed from SAC in June 2012 to launch her career as an executive recruiter. Linda graduated with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and as Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in Economics from Emory University. David M. Mahle Independent Trustee David M. Mahle began his career working for a Wall Street law firm with financial services clients. He joined international law firm Jones Day as a partner in 1988 and is currently of counsel to Jones Day. Dave has worked on a wide variety of financial services matters, including the launch of and the continuing representation of the Powershares QQQ Trust, formerly the Nasdaq 100 Trust, a $20 billion exchange traded fund, where he represented the original sponsor of the trust, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., and the current sponsor, Invesco Powershares Capital Markets LLC. Representative clients include the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., State Street Bank & Trust Company, Invesco Powershares, and Citibank, N.A. Dave is an Adjunct Professor Law at Fordham University School of Law and received his undergraduate degree at Boston College, his law degree at Fordham University School of Law and a Master of Law (in taxation) degree at the New York University School of Law. Jay Baker Assistant Treasurer Mr. Baker joined Exchange Traded Concepts (“ETC”) in September 2011 and serves as Director of Capital Markets, focusing primarily on new Business Development. Jay played a lead role in the creation and successful launch of the Yorkville products - one of which being the first ETF launched on ETC’s platform in 2012 - which was acquired by Van Eck in early 2016. Prior to his partnership with ETC, Jay spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President of ETF Business Development for their Electronic ETF Trading Group. Jay previously worked at the American Stock Exchange in the ETF and Options department and was involved with marketing of the SPDR, the first ETF launched in the United States. The SPDR trades 200 million shares a day and has approximately $200 billion in AUM. Jay graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BA and received an MBA in Finance from Pace University. Richard R. Hogan Secretary, Interested Trustee Richard R. Hogan began his professional career as an Independent Options Trader on the floors of the New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange and was recruited by Spear, Leeds & Kellogg (“SLK”) as a Specialist in early 1987, later becoming a Limited Partner and a Managing Director in 1992. As Managing Director of the Index Derivatives Group, Rich established trading operations and nurtured Exchange Traded Funds (“ETFs”) as a Specialist in SPDRs, WEBS, Sector SPDRs, iShares and other ETFs. Rich worked closely with Exchange staff, issuers, index providers and others in conceiving, designing, developing, launching, marketing and trading new ETFs. Notably, he championed the idea of a fixed income ETF. In 2000, Rich became a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs when SLK was merged and has been actively managing his own portfolio since 2002. Rich was a Founder and Managing Member of Yorkville ETF Advisors, a sponsor of the Yorkville exchange traded funds, which were acquired by Van Eck in early 2016. He graduated from Villanova University in 1983 with a degree in Bachelor of Arts, Honors. Are You Ready? If you are thinking about or are ready to launch your ETF, contact us right away. Contact Us Lets Talk © Copyright 2021 ETC 1-844-880-ETFS (3837) Contact Us Links Home ETF Platform PM Fund Marketing Funds Media Contact Us Careers About ETC ETC Trust Board ELF Trust Board ESS Trust Board Privacy Notice ETF-In-A-Box™ ETC provides an efficient and cost-effective method to bring your exchange-traded fund to market with the operational and regulatory experience necessary. ETC provides a full service turn key platform to launch and manage your etf.