BIOGRAPHY
Dean
G. Tanella has been a member of GunnAllen
Financial since December of 2004. At the firm, Tanella
established the Capital Markets Group, which manages
GunnAllen Financial’s Investment Banking, Venture
Capital, Institutional Sales, Syndicate, and
Alternative Products departments. He is now the
Executive Vice President of the Capital Markets Group.
Before GunnAllen Financial, Tanella established his own
fund-of-funds, HarborLight
Capital Management (HCM) in mid-2003. HCM is also
known as a branch of the firm that Tanella found in
1999, Safe Harbor Capital Management (SHCM).
SafeHarbor proved to be effective. Tanella’s company
managed over $180 million in assets for prosperous
families, individuals, foundations, and university
endowments.
From 1994-1999, Tanella served as Senior Managing Director,
where he headed the U.S. and European Institutional Equity
Sales for Raymond James & Associates, Inc. As the
Senior Managing Director, Tanella was in charge of
overseeing the domestic and international institutional
Equity Sales divisions. In addition, he also spent four
years as a partner and member of the Board of Directors of
Adams, Harkness and Hill; which is a Boston-based
institutional research and investment firm.
Dean Tanella has had experience managing institutional
equity and investments, both domestic and international for
years. He is a key member of several investment firms since
earning his MBA from Harvard Business
School. As a result of his years of experience, he
has accumulated an abundance of comprehensive
knowledge of investors, as well as a various
investment philosophies and styles.
To add on, Tanella was also a senior member of the
institutional equities team for CS First Boston in Boston,
and also previously worked as the assistant to the Chairman
of the Vangaurd, John C. Bogle. Throughout both his
sell-side and buy-side investment career, Tanella developed
thorough knowledge of mutual fund managers as well as
numerous private investment managers, including full
knowledge of their performance records, attributions of
returns, consistency of investment philosophy and operating
style, and importantly, insight into the quality of their
character, each being highly significant in the process of
selecting funds.
