Mark P. Hurley
President & CEO

Prior to co-founding FN, Mark Hurley was Chairman and CEO of Undiscovered Managers, LLC, a mutual fund company he founded in 1998 and sold to J.P. Morgan/Chase in 2003. Before starting Undiscovered Managers, Hurley was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Co. and a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. His last assignment was as Managing Director and Head of Worldwide Marketing, Client Service and Product Development for Merrill Lynch Capital Management Group. He also served from 1990 through 1992 as a Presidential Appointee in the United States Treasury Department during the first Bush Administration at the Office of Thrift Supervision, the agency responsible for regulating the nation's savings and loans.  Additionally, he was an officer in the United States Army from 1980 to 1985.  Hurley is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Yvonne N. Kanner
Executive Vice President & COO

Yvonne Kanner has spent the last decade working with wealth management firms including publishing original research on issues confronting this industry. Prior to co-founding FN, Kanner was Chief Operating Officer of Undiscovered Managers, LLC, where she was responsible for all of the organization's administration, regulatory and mutual fund activities, research and intellectual capital origination, and business and financial operations. She also had responsibility for managing the firm's relationships with each of the major custodians that service wealth management firms. A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Kanner previously worked in the Latin American institutional asset management group at Merrill Lynch Capital Management Group.

Steven E. Cortez
Executive Vice President

Cortez, a co-founder of FN, directs the firm's marketing activities. In this capacity, he manages projects ranging from financial modeling for prospective investments to growth initiatives for current clients. Cortez began his career at Strong Funds. He then served as Director of Marketing at Undiscovered Managers, where he worked extensively with wealth managers, organizing and directing the marketing of the firm's products and services as well as creating new marketing and growth strategies. Cortez, who has worked with wealth management firms for more than 10 years, created the industry's first 1940's Act Registered Fund of Hedge Funds vehicle customized to wealth management firms during his tenure at Undiscovered Managers. He also played a key role in the organization's research and publication effort while managing the company's internal wholesaling staff. Cortez earned a B.A. from Arkansas State University.

Benjamin J. Robins
General Counsel

Ben Robins is responsible for all legal matters related to transactions with wealth management organizations. He also manages FN's compliance program. Prior to joining FN, Robins worked as an attorney at Boston-based Ropes & Gray, LLP, where he specialized in private equity mergers and acquisitions and also gained experience counseling mutual funds on various regulatory matters. Robins graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his law degree from New York University School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the New York University Law Review.