Client Services

Joined Van Eck in 2008
Responsible for growing Van Eck's institutional business through sales of existing actively managed long, long/short and private equity products as well as through new product development. Responsibilities also include support of international sales expansion efforts for Van Eck's Market Vectors^® exchange-traded funds
Earlier career experience includes a focus on alternative product development as Global Head of Hedge Fund Sales at Bear Stearns Asset Management and as Managing Director at VegaPlus Capital Partners. Prior to that, held corporate finance positions at Lehman Brothers (New York), Arral & Partners (Hong Kong) and The World Bank (Washington)
Holds FINRA Series 3, 7, 63 and 24 licenses
MBA, Finance and Public Policy, The Wharton School; BA, Political Economy, Williams College

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Phone: 800.826.2050
Email: bbest@vaneck.com

Joined Van Eck in 2005
Responsible for business development and all aspects of investor relations
Earlier career experience includes Account Executive at international consultancy firm AGG International, counseling European and multinational clients on a broad array of communications aspects
Holds FINRA Series 3, 7 and 63 licenses
BA, Foreign Affairs and French, University of Virginia

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Phone: 800.826.2050
Email: fchildress@vaneck.com

Joined Van Eck in January 2008
Responsible for investor relations and business development for the firm’s institutional relationships in North America and Latin America
Since joining Van Eck, specialized in Van Eck’s alternative investment funds and mutual funds, as well as Van Eck’s Market Vectors^® exchange-traded funds
Earlier career experience includes Associate at Select Access Management, a global, multi-strategy fund of hedge funds, where he was responsible for marketing, investor relations and business development initiatives
Holds FINRA Series 3, 7 and 66 licenses
BS, History and Political Science, Northeastern University

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Phone: 800.826.2050
Email: jdaniels@vaneck.com

Joined Van Eck in 2012
Responsible for pension plans and maintaining existing consultant and endowment & foundation relationships
Institutional Investment Management experience includes responsibility for institutional client and consultant relations at Snyder Capital Management, Rothschild Asset Management, MFS Asset Management and Bee & Associates over the past 20 plus years
Earlier career experience includes strategic planning and marketing at ARCO and PacifiCorp as well as corporate finance, marketing and sales at General Electric
Completed CFA Level II
MBA, Finance, University of Wisconsin-Madison; BS, Economics and Political Science (with honors), University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Phone: 212.293.2196
Email: jharding@vaneck.com

Joined Van Eck in 2012
Responsible for business development and client service related to the Van Eck Tracker suite of Hedge Fund Beta strategies
Earlier career experience includes the commercial development of “liquid alternative beta” strategies, True Alpha^® Trackers, at Lyster Watson, an alternative investment business development at Meridian Capital Partners, Inc. and The Archstone Partnerships, two fund-of-hedge fund managers. Prior to that, worked as a Senior Consultant for Yanni-Bilkey Investment Consulting, a manager of the New York Euro CD trading desk for Credit Suisse First Boston, and as a money market trader for Pittsburgh National Bank
CFA charterholder; member of the New York Society of Security Analysts
Holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses
MBA, Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University (Beta Gamma Sigma); BS, Business Administration, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Phone: 212.293.2214
Email: mhurrell@vaneck.com