BSBA in Investment Management

Ronald H. Muhlenkamp, CFA
Founder, President and Portfolio Manager

Ronald H. Muhlenkamp is founder and president of Muhlenkamp & Company, Inc., established in 1977 to manage private accounts for individuals and institutions. In 1988, Muhlenkamp & Company launched a no-load mutual fund as an investment vehicle for all investors, no matter their asset size.

A top-rated investment manager, frequent guest of the media, and featured speaker at investment shows nationwide, Mr. Muhlenkamp's entire business career has been devoted to the professional management of investment portfolios. His work since 1968 has been focused on extensive studies of investment management philosophies, both fundamental and technical. As a result of this research, he developed a proprietary method of evaluating both equity and fixed income securities, which continues to be employed by Muhlenkamp & Company. In addition to publishing his quarterly newsletter, Muhlenkamp Memorandum,

Mr. Muhlenkamp is the author of Ron's Road to Wealth: Insights for the Curious Investor. Mr. Muhlenkamp received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from M.I.T. in 1966, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in 1968. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He and his wife, Connie, make their home on a farm near Pittsburgh, but travel extensively to meet and talk with companies and clients around the country.

The majority of Mr. Muhlenkamp's long-term investment assets are invested in the company's self-named mutual fund.

Michael D. Weiner, CFA
First Vice President
Director of U.S. Equities, Director of Equity Research

Michael D. Weiner is the director of U.S. equities and the director of equity research. He is also a member of the Investment Policy Committee and the Investment Strategy Committees for BNY Mellon Wealth Management.  

Mr. Weiner joined the firm in 2004 and has more than 22 years of investment experience. Previously, Mr. Weiner was a managing director of Banc One Investment Advisors where he directed the diversified strategies team which managed mutual funds, institutional accounts and private wealth equity portfolios. He was also the director of equity research, building a team of 18 analysts and a disciplined equity valuation process. Prior to his affiliation with Banc One Investment Advisors, Mr. Weiner had been a director of EI DuPont Pension Fund Investments, where he combined the traditional roles of director of research and head of U.S. equities. He built a team and an equity process that was global in scope.  

Mr. Weiner earned a bachelor's degree from Duquesne University and his master of business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Weiner is a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Financial Analysts and is a CFA charter holder.

Deborah A. Cunningham, CFA
Senior Vice President/Chief Investment Officer

Deborah A. Cunningham is a Senior Vice President/Chief Investment Officer, Taxable Money Markets, and Senior Portfolio Manager, with additional responsibility for the Tax-Exempt Municipal Investment Group. Previous associations: Head of Taxable Money Market Group, Performance Analysis Supervisor, Performance Analyst, Federated Investors.

B.A., Duquesne University
M.B.A., Robert Morris College

Personal affiliations: Director and Former President, Pittsburgh Society of Financial Analysts. Joined Federated 1981; Investment Experience: 20 Years.

William (Bill) Donovan, J.D., CFA
Vice President, Investments, United States Steel

Bill graduated from Grove City College in May 1981 with a B.A. in Accounting.  He received a Juris Doctorate degree in May 1985 from Duquesne University's School of Law.

Bill joined USX in June 1981 as an accounting trainee.  Through 1984, he served in the accounting organization of five different steel plants all in the Pittsburgh area.  In November of 1984, Bill began a series of assignments in the USX Tax Department, first as an analyst and then as a tax attorney.  In 1987, he was assigned as an analyst and subsequently as a senior analyst on USX=s Corporate Staff, writing speeches for executive management, consolidating corporate forecasts and preparing SEC submissions.

In March of 1989, Bill became the administrative assistant to W. E. Swales, Vice Chairman of USX.  Bill joined Marathon Oil Company, a subsidiary of USX, in 1990 as the Supervisor of the State and Local Tax Section and was appointed Manager of the U.S. Income and Franchise Tax Section in 1992.  In March 1994, he transferred to United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund as an Investment Analyst.  Bill progressed from an analyst covering financial stocks to a portfolio manager and currently the Vice President – Investments.  Responsibilities included overall portfolio management of a single fund, administrative responsibilities with respect to all funds, and a continuing responsibility for analysis of financial stocks. The United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund manages in excess of $10 billion retirement assets for six different accounts. The fund that Bill manages has approximately $1.8 billion in assets.

School of Business Faculty

• Philip L. Baird, III, Ph.D.
• Vashishta Bhaskar
• James Burnham, Ph.D.
• William Carlson, Ph.D.
• Ryan Garvey, Ph.D.
• Thomas McCue, Ph.D.
• Thomas Nist
• Thomas Rourke, Ph.D.