Dave Carson

Dave joined Ultimus in 2013. As Director of Client Strategies, Dave’s primary responsibility is to provide expert assistance to investment managers considering starting a fund. He provides guidance on strategic mutual fund issues such as product design, fund governance, distribution and pricing. He also consults with mutual fund clients and investment managers regarding new product development and regulatory matters. As the President of the Ultimus Managers Trust, he also manages the series trust product line. He is a graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Dave has been in the financial services industry since 1981, and has almost twenty years of fund and asset management experience. Dave has been Chief Compliance Officer for mutual fund families, registered investment advisors, and an ETF trust. He also served as Chief Operations Officer for a mutual fund family, and previously had senior management responsibility for fund and advisor marketing, fund wholesaling, transfer agency, shareholder servicing and advisor compliance. Earlier in his career Dave was a corporate IT audit manager, and managed holding company level credit quality reporting. Dave is co-founder and president of Advancing Fund Governance, a forum for fund trustees and senior officers. He is also a former trustee and secretary of the Greater Cincinnati Mutual Funds Association.