Financial Partners Capital Management

Advisors with deep experience, knowledge & focus

Meet your partners.

Actively engaged principals. For investors who want guides that know how to wisely and efficiently manage portfolios, manage risk, run a business. And tend clients well; with true humility, true loyalty.

Your Investment team

Aaron Cohen, Ph.D.

PRESIDENT

Partner, President, Portfolio Manager, Senior Client Advisor since 1992. Educated at The Wharton School, M.A., Ph.D. in Finance; M.B.A., I.E.S.A., Caracas; Civil Engineer, U.C.A.B., Caracas. He has lectured at the Wharton School and I.E.S.A. Aaron has been active as President, and Board member of several Jewish organizations in the Greater Hartford area. Aaron was born in Morocco, grew up in Venezuela; and has been living in the U.S. since 1982.

Craig Giventer, CFA

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Partner, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Senior Client Advisor since 2006. Educated at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, M.B.A, and the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts & Sciences, B.A. Formerly a Portfolio Manager/Analyst at Oppenheimer Capital and an Associate Portfolio Manager/Analyst at Pioneer Investments. Craig is a CFA charterholder; member of both the CFA Institute and CFA Society New York. Craig has served in various volunteer roles at the CFA Institute, and is the past Chair of the CFA Institute’s Disciplinary Review Committee. Craig is a past Director and member of the Executive Committee of the non-profit The Service Program for Older People, Inc.

Vincent J. Marsden

SVP OF FINANCIAL PLANNING

Partner, Senior Vice President of Financial Planning, Senior Client Advisor since 1994. Educated at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. Vince grew up in England and moved to the U.S. in 1980. Before joining FPCM, Vince was a financial planner and trust account administrator for Security National Bank & Trust Company of New Jersey.

Christopher Conway

PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Portfolio Manager, Client Advisor since 2008. Educated at Columbia University, M.B.A., and the University of Notre Dame, B.A.

Gray Stangler

Research Analyst

Research Analyst since 2019. Educated at Georgetown University, B.A. in Political Economy. Previously, Gray was an Equity Research Analyst at Williams Jones Investment Management, a New York based registered investment advisor. Gray began his career as an Analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase in New York in 2014, and previously interned at a Connecticut based hedge fund.

Maureen Matamoros, MSM/MBA

Sr. FINANCIAL PLANNING ADVISOR

Senior Financial Planning Advisor, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER TM , Client Advisor since 2015. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, M.S.M.; and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, B.A. in International Business. Maureen was born and raised in Boston, MA and early in her professional career spent five years working in Latin America. She has over 25 years’ experience in new product development and market research and has served as a senior executive across the financial services, manufacturing and consumer goods industries. Maureen has served as an adjunct professor at the university level, and is a member and former Education Chairperson for the Hispanic American Cultural Council of Hartford.

Simon Zaidman

Senior Advisor

Client Advisor since 2019. Educated at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada where he graduated with a B.A. in Arts and Contemporary Studies. After a short period as a coffee trader, Simon began his career in wealth management at Morgan Stanley where he served as a financial advisor and financial planning specialist, before moving to Switzerland to serve as a Vice President within the International Wealth Management division of Credit Suisse.

Alan Lerner

Senior Advisor

Client Advisor since 2020. Educated at New York University, Masters in Real Estate Finance, and the University of Bath, BSc (Hons.) in International Management and Modern Languages. Formerly, Alan was a Director at OurCrowd, an Israeli venture capital firm, and served as an investment advisor at both JP Morgan and Credit Suisse. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Alan also has lived in the U.K., France, Switzerland, and the U.S.

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Advisors with deep experience, knowledge & focus

Meet your partners.

Actively engaged principals. For investors who want guides that know how to wisely and efficiently manage portfolios, manage risk, run a business. And tend clients well; with true humility, true loyalty.

Your Investment team

Aaron Cohen, Ph.D.

PRESIDENT

Craig Giventer, CFA

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Vincent J. Marsden

SVP OF FINANCIAL PLANNING

Christopher Conway

PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Portfolio Manager, Client Advisor since 2008. Educated at Columbia University, M.B.A., and the University of Notre Dame, B.A.

Gray Stangler

Research Analyst

Maureen Matamoros, MSM/MBA

Sr. FINANCIAL PLANNING ADVISOR

Simon Zaidman

Senior Advisor

Alan Lerner

Senior Advisor

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