Board of Visitors

Mr. Robert M. Ettinger
President
Flaherty and Crumrine Inc.

Bob Ettinger has over 25 years of experience managing preferred securities, twenty-two of those having been spent with Flaherty & Crumrine. Prior to joining F&C, he also worked at Scudder Stevens & Clark with Bob Flaherty and Don Crumrine on developing strategies to hedge preferred securities. Bob has developed a number of sophisticated tools for analyzing preferred securities. He serves as the primary liaison between Flaherty & Crumrine and the brokerage community. Bob also serves as President of the U.S. Flaherty & Crumrine funds. Bob has a BA in Economics from UCLA and was honored as the department’s Commencement Speaker in 2001. He received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.