Meet Tom Kutzen, a financial services professional and Trustee Emeritus at Oberlin College who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he shares the impressive experience and industry expertise that he’s amassed over the course of his career.
About Tom Kutzen
In 2021, Tom Kutzen launched TKSmartWorth.com, a site where visitors can receive up-to-the-minute information, highly informed insight about the capital markets, insight on financial literacy and finance issues, and more. Developed as an educational tool for general audiences to strengthen their financial literacy and build their own knowledge, it’s neither linked with any brokerage firm, financial institution, or bank nor is it designed to offer specific financial advice. Tom additionally has spent more than two decades managing his own capital management firm in Connecticut.
Tom Kutzen has also been involved with Oberlin College for more than a decade in a professional capacity. From 2010 to 2015, he served as Chairman of the Oberlin Investment Committee, where he worked to revise the College portfolio, developed tools to manage risk while improving financial results.
Before his current positions, Tom Kutzen worked as the Vice President for Lane Capital for four years, trading and managing portfolios. Prior to that role, He worked with Merrill Lynch as the Vice President of Merrill Lynch Fixed Income, where he managed the risk-controlled arbitrage group for two years; before that, he was Vice President of Morgan Stanley for a year. Tom also traded options and mortgages as the Vice President of Greenwich Capital Markets, and he got his professional start at Chase in 1980. Across his six years at Chase, Tom served as the Assistant Vice President of Commercial Paper, Treasurer for the Seoul Korea Branch, and Assistant Treasurer for Money Markets. During his time with the business, Tom enabled the first Puerto Rican public housing bond insurance.
Tom’s impressive career got its roots in his education. In college, he found he loved economics and had a high skill set in math. He attended Oberlin College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics. After graduating, Tom Kutzen attended the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, where he earned his MBA specializing in Finance.
When he’s not working, Tom Kutzen likes to relax with his hobbies, which include managing his personal wealth and playing a little golf whenever he has the chance.
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