Director, Alternatives Portfolio & Risk Manager
Mr. Hummer joined Ancora in 2008 and serves as a Portfolio Manager in the firm’s Alternatives group for the event-driven multi-strategy fund. He is also responsible for risk management for the alternatives funds. Ryan previously worked as an equity analyst and portfolio manager at a boutique large-cap value RIA in Cleveland. He performed due diligence on potential equity investments including management interviews, site-visits, competitive sustainability research, and financial statement analysis. Ryan also built complex financial models to assign intrinsic values to these equities based on diligence findings. He began his career in the financial industry in Chicago where he spent three years working at proprietary trading firms trading derivatives, primarily options and futures.
Ryan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-Professional Studies from The University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration degree in Investment Management & Corporate Finance from The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.