Biography:

Andrew Temte, Ph. D., CFA, is President of the Kaplan University School of Professional and Continuing Education. Dr. Temte began his financial education career in 1990 as a teaching assistant and graduate student at the University of Iowa, working with Dr. Carl Schweser, CFA, to build Schweser Study Program into the global leader in CFA^® (Chartered Financial Analyst^®) exam review. Upon Dr. Schweser's retirement and the company's acquisition by Kaplan, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Washington Post) in 1999, Dr. Temte assumed leadership of the new Kaplan Schweser organization.

Dr. Temte collaborated with some of the industry's most respected business leaders and academicians to research, develop, and implement new courseware for other designations in the financial, insurance, and accounting disciplines, and grew Kaplan Professional into a leading global provider of innovative, efficient, and effective professional education solutions. Under Temte's leadership in early 2011, Kaplan University's School of Professional and Continuing Education added Information Technology and Health Care Certifications and Certification Preparation to its portfolio of educational assets.

Dr. Temte earned his doctorate in finance at the University of Iowa with a concentration in international finance and investment theory. He holds the CFA designation and has over 16 years of university teaching experience in the areas of corporate finance, investments, and international finance.

Biography:

Tim Smaby is Chief Learning Officer of Kaplan Schweser and Kaplan Financial Education, divisions of Kaplan Professional. Smaby joined the company in 2002 as the manager of the Level 2 CFA study materials. In his current role as CLO, Smaby oversees all content development and production for Kaplan Professional's insurance, securities, and advanced designations product lines.

Prior to joining Kaplan, Smaby was an associate professor of finance at Penn State Erie. Previously he held various positions in the banking industry with Bank One in Cincinnati, Ohio and First Republic Bank in Dallas, Texas.

Smaby is a CFA Charterholder and has also been awarded the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Cincinnati, an MBA in finance from the University of Wisconsin, and a BS in economics from the University of Minnesota.

Biography:

Steve is the Director of Insurance Product Development and leads the team responsible for the Insurance Continuing Education, Professional Development, Professional Development curriculums, and Insurance Achievement product line. Before taking on a leadership role, Steve specialized in writing insurance continuing education courses for Kaplan in the areas of estate planning, retirement planning, and business planning. Prior to Kaplan, Steve was a senior writer analyst in taxation at CCH, Inc. He also wrote popular tax advice columns and small business planning features carried in the online editions of the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Long Island Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, and other major newspapers. Steve has the ChFC, CLU, and CASL advanced designations and is currently enrolled in a Masters Degree program in online education. Steve earned his law degree at Ohio State University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.

Biography:

Kevin is currently involved in the areas of content and project management for both securities and insurance. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Education from the University of Nebraska and has a professional background that includes more than twenty years of field experience. This experience includes agency, sales training and 16 years as a district manager. As a district manager he was responsible for all areas of his district’s operations, including the training of the agents in the various aspects of their agency operations. His industry licensing background includes all of the major lines of insurance - Life, Health, Property and Casualty - and the Series 6, 63, and 26 securities registrations, all in multiple states. Kevin initially joined Kaplan as an instructor in 2005 and has taught over 20 different courses in a number of states. These courses cover a broad range of subject matter, including a number of the securities series, all the major lines of insurance and many different continuing education courses.

Biography:

Jeff is currently Vice President of Securities and Insurance Education for Kaplan Financial Education. He has also served as Vice President and Level 1 Manager for Kaplan/Schweser's CFA Study Program. Jeff started teaching finance and developing financial education materials in 1988 while earning his Ph.D. in finance and operations research at Kent State University. As an associate professor of finance at Ohio University, he taught investments, portfolio management, and managerial finance in MBA and undergraduate programs, both domestically and abroad. His research has been in the areas of pension management, asset valuation, and instructional technology. Jeff has published articles in several academic and practitioner journals and has developed study guides and course presentation software for various financial textbook publishers. Prior to his current role with Kaplan Financial Education, Jeff held the rank of Professor of Finance at Florida Tech, where he was instrumental in the development and implementation of an online undergraduate business degree program.

Biography:

Jennifer Martin has been with the company since 1991. She began her Kaplan career as a Legal Editor before moving into the continuing education area. She is now the Senior Editor for Property-Casualty Product Development and is responsible for all titles in the property-casualty continuing education course library.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Purdue University and has earned the Chartered Property-Casualty Underwriter designation.

Biography:

Bob Redman has worked as a writer and editor in the financial services industry since 1996. He is responsible for developing and maintaining an array of print and online training courses for insurance and other financial professionals. He has developed courses on the insurance and financial needs facing senior citizens, including courses on long-term care and senior needs planning, and he has developed courses on Section 529 plans and anti-money laundering.

Before entering the financial services industry, he worked as a writer and editor for a national healthcare accrediting organization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. As a health policy analyst, he wrote speeches, position papers, and articles for the president, other officers, and board members of the Joint Commission. He also conceived and developed many publications on quality improvement in various types of healthcare organizations, and he wrote the standard history of the company, which was published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). While in health care, he managed editorial, production, desktop publishing, and graphic arts units that produced books, journals, and newsletters. Bob has his BA and MA from Loyola University and is a NEDA Fellow (National Defense Education Award).