2010 AAII Baltimore Chapter Officers

• President: Susan Fanti
  (susanfanti@aaiibaltimore.com )

Susan is a retired Medical Technologist. She began investing in mutual funds in the 1980's. In 1996, when she and a friend founded an investment club, her focus became fundamental analysis and individual stocks.

Today, Susan is a student of Optionetics who hopes to use her interest in technical analysis and options to protect her portfolio and enhance its returns.

 

 

 

• Treasurer: Tom Harrington
  ( thomasharrington@ieee.org )

Tom is a native Baltimorean. He attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He received his undergraduate degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his Master of Engineering Administration degree from George Washington University. Hi is a Registered Professional Engineer.

Tom is a life member of AAII. He first joined AAII in the early 1990’s. His investments of choice are mutual funds. He is interested in branching out into exchange traded funds and using the internet and computers for investment analysis and investment decision making.

• Program Chairman: Rod Summerford
  ( Rod.Summerford@gmail.com  )

Rod is a semi-retired systems engineer. He received an Industrial Systems Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Rod is a life member of AAII and in its early days wrote the first software application for AAII which could be used to track stocks and estimate returns.

He is interested in investing primarily in stocks, ETFs, mutual funds,
and sometimes options.

• Vice President Communications: Michael B. Herr, M.D.
  ( rsvp@aaiibaltimore.com )

Dr. Michael Herr is a native Baltimorean. He received his undergraduate degree at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) and received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Maryland Medical System (Baltimore, MD). He maintains a private practice in ophthalmology in Glen Burnie, MD. He recently served as Chief of Ophthalmology at the Baltimore-Washington Medical Center and he is an ophthalmology consultant for the Washington Capitals (NHL).

Dr. Herr has always had an interest in statistics and the stock market. He has been making his own investment decisions for over 25 years. He is an avid reader and bases his 'growth at a reasonable price' investment style on the writings of William O'Neil, Burton Malkiel, and Martin Zweig. A member of AAII since 2002, he is now a lifetime member.
 

• Board Representative:  Harry Letaw
  ( letaw@verizon.net )

A native of South Florida, born into the strife of the pre-Depression land and housing crisis, Harry attended public schools in Coral Gables where he was a state champion debater and a leader in student government. After attending Emory University, Harry joined millions of his fellow citizens and became a sergeant in the Army of the United States. He and Joyce both served their country, were married after WW II, raised a family of eight children and celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in 2009. Harry completed his education with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Florida.

Following a tour in academic research at the University of Illinois, he entered Aerospace Electronic industry with a focus on semiconductor design and production, radar and, later, human factors engineering. He capped his business career as CEO of several small, publicly-owned, research-based enterprises. Now retired, Harry has redoubled his focus on family, the performing arts and philanthropy.
 


 

 

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