Title:

President

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.

Title:

Chief Learning Officer

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.

Title:

Senior Director, Securities Education

Biography:

Dave is currently Senior Director of Securities Education for Kaplan Financial Education. He has also served as Director of Securities Training and Development for Kaplan Financial. In this position he was instrumental in creating virtual classroom offerings for Kaplan Financial. Prior to assuming management positions Dave was the Training Manager of the Midwest Region for Kaplan Professional Schools. In addition to his training duties Dave taught pre-licensing classes for Series 6, 7, 63, 65, 66, 27/28, 26, 53, 51, 3 and 4.

Dave started his career in the securities industry in 1979. During the next twenty plus years he served as senior management for four regional Broker/Dealers in the Midwest. Positions included CFO, COO, President and CEO. During that time Dave accumulated extensive industry experience and knowledge and has passed that on to future participants in the industry through his teaching and input into the content of our pre-licensing texts.

Dave has also been a member of the Board of Directors of three Broker/Dealers as well as a Michigan based Credit Union with reporting functions to a Fortune 500 company.

Dave received his undergraduate degree in Literature and his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from The University of Michigan. He continues to be a loyal fan of the maize and blue. In addition to having held most of the major licenses in the securities industry, Dave also received his CFP designation in 1986.

Title:

Senior Editor, Securities / Subject Matter Expert

Biography:

In 1987 Mr. James began his career at Kaplan Financial as a Series 7 and Series 8 instructor in the Northeast Region. He was shortly thereafter appointed National Training Director to oversee the recruiting, training and continuing education of securities instructors throughout the US. He has been a guest lecturer on commodity futures and securities brokerage licensure and supervision in Canada, Hong Kong, the Philippines and India.

Mr. James has been a guest on financial talk radio in the Philadelphia-New York listening area. He has lectured widely to C-level participants at firms such as CIBC Oppenheimer, Legg Mason, Crédit Lyonnais and American Express on anti-money laundering, private placement and compliance issues. He was an early entrant into webinars and webcasts, teaching principal level courses in Asia.

Mr. James is currently a senior writer/editor for Kaplan Financial and is responsible for the ongoing development of Kaplan’s Series 3, Series 31, Series 4, Series 9 Series 51 and Series 53 product lines.

Mr. James is a member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals and currently holds the Series 4, 7, 12, 14, 24, 27, 53 and 55 licenses. He is an allied member of the Philadelphia, American and New York Stock Exchanges. Prior to his Kaplan involvement he worked as a compliance officer and financial and operations principal for Intervest Financial and consulted for such firms as the NYSE specialist firm Susquahanna International Group as well as ABN AMRO of the Netherlands and the UK investment Bank J Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Mr. James lived in Europe for several years and is fluent in Finnish and German.

Title:

Content Specialist and Project Management

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.

Title:

Senior Editor, Securities

Biography:

Chuck is currently the subject matter expert for the Series 63, Series 65 and Series 66 examination courses. Prior to that, he served as regional training director for the Southeast Region.

Chuck earned his B.S degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Vermont in 1963. In 1967, after a stint in the military, Chuck entered the securities training industry. He formed the Investment Training Institute, Inc. in 1969 after serving as vice-president of sales and registered principal for a broker/dealer subsidiary of a major life insurance company. In the early 1970’s representing the training industry, he was one of the authors of the initial Series 6 test bank of questions. While CEO of ITI, Chuck initiated a training program with the Russian Academy for the Economy in Moscow and the Shanghai Institute of Finance in China establishing operations in both locales.

Chuck is one of the four original life members of the Financial Planning Association and has served on that organization’s national board as well as the Board of Regents of the College for Financial Planning. During his long career, it is estimated that Chuck has personally trained over 100,000 students and continues to share his extensive experience and knowledge with both student and instructor alike.

Title:

Vice President, Securities & Insurance

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.

Title:

Director, Securities Content Development

Biography:

Mr. Prine has 15 years of experience in the securities industry, as an account executive, compliance and sales supervisor, and developer of training and consulting materials.

Mr. Prine has held various positions at Kaplan Financial Education and plays a key role in the development and maintenance of Securities Exam Preparation and Firm Element Training products. This includes the development, maintenance, delivery, marketing and sale of securities training products. Mr. Prine has assisted in the development of multi-media computer based/Web based training products as both an instructional designer/subject matter expert and as a project manager. He has been an author or contributing author on various topics including Asset Allocation, Retirement Planning, Suitability of Margin Accounts, Multi-Class Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund Switching, Insider Trading, Outside Business Activities, Margin Accounts, Option Strategies, Supervisory Procedures, Electronic Communications with the Public and Anti-Money Laundering. Mr. Prine also served as the project manager for a custom consulting project for the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Ray has also supervised an Instructor-Led Training staff, who delivered 80-100 classes per month around the country.

Prior to joining Kaplan, Mr. Prine was Director of Training and Compliance for the Specialized Investments Division of FSC Securities where he facilitated introductory training classes for investment representatives, including all aspects of sales, operations, compliance and software applications. He was responsible for the compliance supervision and annual audits of all financial institution representatives. He was one of four departmental relationship coordinators for product sponsors and investment representatives.

As an instructor, Ray has developed study materials for a broad rage of topics such as regulatory considerations, options and futures contracts, and packaged products. More than 3,000 students from NYSE and NASD member firms have benefited from Mr. Prine's teaching of Series 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 24, 26, 62, 63, and 65.

Mr. Prine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Auburn University. He has previously held Series 4, 7, 24, 63, and 65 securities licenses.

Title:

Senior Editor, Securities / Subject Matter Expert and Securities Project Lead

Biography:

Mark Sanchirico is a Senior Editor of Securities and Instructor for Kaplan Financial. His areas of expertise include securities license training content development and market trading strategies.

Joining Kaplan Financial in 1997 Mr. Sanchirico began his career as a securities license instructor. During the next several years he conducted training classes for both representative and principal designations including the Series 3, 4, 6, 7, 9/10, 24, 26, 52, 53, 63, 65 and 66. Mr. Sanchirico is currently responsible for all content development of Kaplan Financials Series 7 General Securities Representative exam preparatory material.

Featured with his Series 7 class in a Fortune Magazine article titled “Wanna be a Stockbroker? Good Luck” Sanchirico is characterized by the author as a “mentor” and someone who “clearly likes his work.” Mr. Sanchirico has also appeared as a guest on the Bloomberg Financial News Network program “Market Pulse”.

As part of his editorial duties Sanchirico works closely with other Kaplan securities editors as coordinator of the Securities Issues Log, an in house resource for industry changes relative to securities license testing.

For his content development and licensing classes he draws on over 25 years of experience in the securities industry. Joining the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1980 as an examiner he later moved to the equity options trading floor serving first as a floor broker and later as market maker for Seemala Corp. the trading arm of Ivan Boesky Corp. Moving to the currency options trading floor in 1989 he managed a retail currency options desk for Chase Bank.

Sanchirico still maintains his own securities representative and principal licenses to manage a small book of retail business and has approximately $4 million under management.

Apart from the securities industry he was able to hone his business skills while owning and operating a small restaurant. As a former Mayor of Mount Laurel, NJ he currently serves as a Councilman which affords him the opportunity to work with and give back to his community.

Sanchirico holds a BA in Finance from Villanova University with areas of concentration in economics and insurance.

Title:

Securities Instructor

Biography:

Richard is currently an instructor of insurance and securities courses for Kaplan Financial Education. He teaches pre-licensing courses in addition to continuing education for both industries. Richard conducts live classroom and virtual classes for Life, Accident and Health, Series 6, 63, 7, 65, 66, 24 and 26.

Prior to becoming an instructor, Richard was a Regional Sales Manager for Kaplan covering Michigan and Ohio. Richard met with banks, broker dealers and insurance companies and helped penetrate markets by creating education programs to meet needs.

Richard began his career in 1990 as a financial planner. He was in personal production for over 8 years. Richard attained his CLU and ChFC designations as well as LUTC and served as a moderator for LUTC courses during this time. Richard also was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors – Michigan and served two terms. He chaired the Field Council and Education during his terms.

Richard received his B.B.A. from Eastern Michigan University in 1987.