Client Relations Team

Client Relations Leadership

Tom Humphrey

senior Partner

President
38 Years Experience | Located in Greenwich

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Mr. Humphrey has over 30 years of financial markets experience spanning sales, trading, research, capital markets, and investment management. He is responsible for Gramercy’s commercial and capital formation strategy including origination, sourcing and structuring of differentiated investment opportunities, further developing relationships with key sell-side counterparties, enhancing the firm’s existing high quality global investor relationships and accelerating new client acquisitions, and implementation of strategic initiatives to solidify Gramercy’s position as an industry leading global investment manager. Additionally, Mr. Humphrey is a Senior Partner and serves as a member of Gramercy’s Management Team.

Prior to Gramercy, Mr. Humphrey has served in several business management leadership roles. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1986 and was named Global Head of Fixed Income Sales in 2003 and was responsible for distribution across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. During this period, he oversaw the growth and management of one of the industry’s top-ranked global capital markets businesses and served as a member of Lehman Brother’s Global Management Committee. After the integration of Lehman Brothers with Barclays Capital, he was Partner and Global Head of Business Development for GoldenTree Asset Management. Mr. Humphrey also served as Head of Corporate Banking and Securities Americas, and CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities U.S. Mr. Humphrey then joined Guggenheim Securities as Senior Managing Director where he built out the firm’s corporate credit businesses. He was also a Managing Director at BTIG, where he helped Gramercy launch their litigation finance investment strategy and worked with Gramercy senior management and portfolio management teams.

Mr. Humphrey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Fordham University and is a member of the Fordham University Presidents Council Executive Committee. He is Chairman of the American Junior Golf Association ACE Grant Foundation.

Lacie Smith, JD

Partner

Head of Investor Relations
16 Years Experience | Located in Greenwich

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Ms. Smith has 15 years of industry experience. At Gramercy, she is a primary contact person for current and prospective investors. Ms. Smith manages new investor onboarding and is responsible for marketing collateral. Additionally, Ms. Smith works on strategic projects aimed at organizing and optimizing client materials and interfaces with service providers such as legal counsels and administrators to ensure regulatory compliance and client-facing process efficiencies.

Prior to Gramercy, Ms. Smith completed her Juris Doctor at Seton Hall University School of Law. From 2006 to 2008 she was employed at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft where she fulfilled the responsibilities of senior paralegal on a team that handled complex CDO and commercial paper transactions. She also gained valuable writing, research and project management skills working with a New Jersey Superior Court Judge and a New Jersey based law firm.

Ms. Smith received a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law and a BA in Political Science and Communications from Muhlenberg College.

Joseph Griffin

Managing director

Head of Business Development
24 Years Experience | Located in Greenwich

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Mr. Griffin has 24 years of industry experience. At Gramercy, he focuses on new business development and client service across a diverse set of institutional investors, including pensions, endowments & foundations, insurance companies, private banking platforms, and family offices. He is also a member of Gramercy’s Management Team.

Prior to joining Gramercy in September 2009, Mr. Griffin was employed by Lazard Asset Management for nine years where he was a Senior Vice President in the Institutional Marketing Group. He was responsible for developing new relationships and servicing existing clients in the corporate pension market segment.

Mr. Griffin received a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in 2000. Additionally at Wesleyan University, Mr. Griffin played four years of Men’s Varsity Basketball.

Business Development

Bill Foley

Partner

Senior Business Development
31 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Mr. Foley has 31 years of experience with an extensive career in investment banking and global financial markets. He is a Managing Director and a senior member of the Gramercy Business Development Team. He is responsible for helping build out the firm’s strategy in diversifying its capital base and strategic initiative while expanding the firm’s family office client acquisition plan.

Prior to Gramercy, he was Vice Chairman, Senior Managing Director, and Global Head of Equity Sales at Evercore/ISI. He served on the Investment Policy Committee and the Operating Committee. Prior to Evercore, he was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. In that role, he built and managed the Alternative Asset sales effort. Prior to these roles, Bill was Head of Global Institutional Sales at Deutsche Bank. Most recently Bill was also Managing Director at BTIG and a member of the firm’s Senior Relationship Management.

Mr. Foley holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Villanova University. He serves various foundations including The Navy Seal Foundation and St. Ignatius Loyola School.

Gavin Maxwell, CFA

director

Business Development
19 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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John Ebeling

vice president

Business Development
10 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Michael Mozian

associate

Business Development
3 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Michael Mozian joined Gramercy 2023 as Associate, Investor Relations.  Michael’s main responsibilities will be providing support for various IR initiatives including preparing marketing presentations, completing due diligence questionnaires, generating client reports, producing quantitative analytics and assembling various web-based content.

Prior to joining Gramercy, Michael worked at NorthCoast Asset Management as a Client Service Associate.

Michael graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor’s in Economics.

Investor Relations

Tim Mahoney

partner

Applied Analytics
25 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Ed Beshlian

partner

Investor Relations | Head of ESG
31 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Amanda Geitz

director

Investor Relations
8 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Ms. Geitz joined Gramercy in November 2016. At Gramercy, Ms. Geitz has numerous responsibilities for the investor relations team including preparing marketing presentations, due diligence questionnaires various web-based content, generating client reports, production of quantitative analytics and the request for proposal process.

Prior to joining Gramercy, Ms. Geitz interned at U.S. Probation & Parole in White Plains, New York, where she was responsible for organizing database information for pre-sentencing officers. Ms. Geitz also interned at the Pelham Police Department in Westchester County, New York, where she assisted detectives with researching and analyzing facts for various causes.

Ms. Geitz received a MBA in Financial Management from Iona College. She also received a BA in Criminal Justice and a minor in Security Threat Assessment from Iona College.

Chase Ames

associate

Investor Relations
3 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Chase Ames joined Gramercy in 2024 as Associate, Investor Relations. Chase’s main responsibilities will be providing support for various IR initiatives including preparing marketing presentations, completing due diligence questionnaires, generating client reports, producing quantitative analytics, and assembling various web-based content.

Chase graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor’s in Government in 2021.

Administration

Gina Kabula

associate

Administration
26 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich

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Ms. Kabula joined the firm in 2023 as Executive Assistant for the Business Development Team. Ms. Kabula has 26 years of executive assistant experience in the Industry. Over the years, she has worked with senior executives providing comprehensive support at BTIG, Guggenheim, Deutsche Bank, GoldenTree and Lehman Brothers.

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