Paul Dietrich
CEO and Co-CIO
Paul Dietrich is the CEO and Co-CIO of Foxhall Capital Management, Inc. (Foxhall) located in Orange, Connecticut.
Foxhall currently manages investments for private investors, union pension funds, mutual funds and large private institutions throughout the United States.
Paul Dietrich is also the investment advisor to a publicly traded mutual fund.
He is an international corporate attorney and was formerly associated with two Washington, DC law firms, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, and Jones Day. As an attorney, he has been an advisor on privatization and economic development issues to the World Bank, as well as several governments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Before entering the practice of law, he served as Publisher and Editor in Chief of Saturday Review, one of the United States’ oldest cultural magazines. He also served for four years as an elected State Representative (Republican from St. Louis County) in the Missouri General Assembly.
Mr. Dietrich has been a frequent contributor to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the London Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Singapore Times . From 1994 to 1997, he was editor of both the Reuters Emerging Markets Guide and the Reuters Asian Stock Sourcebook. He is also President of the Institute for International Health and Development (founded in 1982 by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, David Morse). He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, was a member of the National Advisory Board of Harvard University’s School of Public Health’s AIDS Institute and a member of the Advisory Group on International Health Systems Assessment of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation. He has also served as a member of the Development Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and as a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the American-European Community Association. He is also the Editor of the award winning book, A Guide to American Foreign Policy (1982).
Ed Oberholtzer
Director
Ed Oberholtzer has a proven track record of building successful financial product distribution businesses. He is a respected leader with a history of training and mentoring young people in (and outside of) the industry. He has produced significant revenue for companies including Integrated Resources, Prudential Financial, American Skandia and several smaller companies. He has repeatedly developed new markets and new products, including three start-up mutual fund families, one of which held the distinction of reaching $1 billion in assets under management more quickly than any other.
Mr. Oberholtzer’s experience ranges across marketing, development of training functions, operations infrastructure plus the development and maintenance of critical relationships and strategic alliances.
Prior to partnering in the launch of E2, Mr. Oberholtzer served as the Head of Sales and Interim President of US Allianz, then the variable annuity strategic business unit of Allianz Life. Particular challenges included elevating the level of professionalism within the external wholesaling team and guiding the culture through the re-engineering of the ‘strategic business unit’ organizational design into an ‘enterprise-based’ system.
From 1993 through 2003, Mr. Oberholtzer was with American Skandia where he was a perennial top-decile wholesaler and Western Divisional sales manager under Hayward Sawyer. During that time, he assisted in the development of the American Skandia Advisors Funds (ASAF), American Skandia’s entry into the mutual fund business. ASAF reached $1 billion in assets more quickly than any other fund family.
In 2000, he was asked to develop a business line targeted at third party investment advisors and to lead 112 internal wholesalers and business development wholesalers. During the next three years, business related to third party investment advisors grew to represent 40% of total sales. A 2001 budget reduction mandate reduced the internal wholesaling staff by 50%. Personnel selection, training and a difficult process of ‘cultural alignment’ with the external wholesalers resulted in an increase in work product, even with half of the people.
Prior to joining Skandia, Mr. Oberholtzer helped build what is known today as the "One Funds," successfully introduced specialized fixed annuity products to several "entities" not eligible for tax deferral and was a leading wholesaler in the introduction of annuities and single pay life insurance to wirehouse stock brokers in the Southwest. His experience also includes wholesaling and product development of oil and gas, real estate and equipment leasing partnerships with Integrated Resources and others.
Ed graduated in 1973 from Colorado State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and from Pepperdine University in 2000 with a Master’s of Business Administration.
General Crosbie E. Saint
Director
Crosbie Edgerton Saint is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group (NATO) from 1988 to 1992.
Military Career
General Saint was born at West Point, New York on September 29, 1936. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1958, receiving his commission in armor. General Saint served two tours in Vietnam, and had five tours with U.S. Army, Europe. In addition to commanding U.S. Army Europe, his commands include Commander, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; Commander, Seventh Army Training Command; Commander, 1st Armored Division; and Commander, III Corps and Fort Hood, Texas. He retired from the army on September 1, 1992.
His military and civilian education includes the Armed Forces Staff College, Army War College, and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from American University.
Post Military Career
After retiring from the military, General Saint established a consulting firm specializing in foreign relations and national security issues.
He has served on the Army Science Board; and most recently was Senior Vice President and General Manager, International Group for MPRI, and recently completed serving as Chairman, for the Vice President's National Performance Review on Intelligence Support to the Ground Forces. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Land Warfare of the Association of the United States Army. He works for PEO Aviation on issues related to US Army Aviation.
He currently provides consulting services to Boeing, as well as Assurance Technology. He has served as a senior counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Hayward L. Sawyer
Director
A multi-faceted leader, skilled at blending sales / marketing expertise with operations experience, Mr. Sawyer has a record of developing new business in strategic domestic and international markets. He has generated significant revenue for industry giants including Prudential Financial, Allianz Life, American Skandia Life Assurance and AIM Management Group. He has an extensive history of increasing profits by targeting and opening new markets and channels, by crafting and implementing strategic sales campaigns and assisting in new product development.
He has a solid foundation with varied experiences in the financial services industry. His expertise encompasses specific investment products including Variable and Fixed Annuities, Life and Long Term Care Insurance Products, personal asset management (Separately Managed Accounts), oil and gas exploration, and the banking and real estate industries.
Mr. Sawyer is proficient at identifying key strategic partners and establishing long-lasting favorable alliances. An impactful speaker, he is adept at communicating with producers, employees, CEO level senior management, policyholders, shareholders and the media. He is skilled at building and mentoring strong professional cross-functional teams. Throughout his career, he has combined talents in sales, marketing, product development and operations to increase market share and profitability, while improving efficiencies and reducing expenses.
Most recently, Mr. Sawyer served as Senior Vice President for Allianz Life where he acted as Director of Sales and Distribution and subsequently Chief Distribution Officer. He was responsible for the consolidation of the multiple business units within the enterprise into "One Allianz." His responsibilities included distribution, strategic account management, enterprise marketing, product development and communications.
Mr. Sawyer was affiliated with American Skandia Life Assurance and its purchaser, Prudential Financial, from 1994 to 2004. As Senior and Executive Vice President, he expanded distribution within the independent financial planner, wirehouse, regional and bank channels. Following the acquisition, he was retained by Prudential to maintain continuity of the wholesaling sales force, strategic key account relationships, and to convert business practices to the Prudential model.
Earlier, Mr. Sawyer built distribution and market share for AIM Distributors as Northwest Region Vice President. His tenure as National Sales Manager of the Capital Markets Group at
Public Storage, Inc., expanded his expertise in real estate investment trusts (REIT). He also has experience in the oil and gas industry with firms such as Apache Corporation, Minoco and Angeles / Quinoco. Mr. Sawyer was recruited from the US Marine Corps to join Ross Perot’s special task force in the takeover of the struggling brokerage firm F. I. DuPont Glore Forgan, Inc.
Hayward graduated from Southern Nazarene University (Oklahoma) with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Following graduation from Officers Candidate School he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Upon completion of The Officers Basic School, he served as a combat infantry platoon commander in Vietnam where he received numerous honors for his service. He was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Captain.
Hayward plays an active role in the following organizations: United States Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, Sovereign Military Order of the Purple Heart, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Knights Templar), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Trustee USA Luge Federation, Chair of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports and former member of the 2002 United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation Team.
James Auffenberg, Jr.
Director
James (Jamie) Auffenberg, Jr. has 35 years experience in the automobile business. After receiving a B.S. from the University of Santa Clara and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, he began his career in the hospital management business. Two years later, he left to become involved in Auffenberg Ford with his father and Jamie is still active in that dealership.
Jamie opened St. Clair Auto Mall in O’Fallon, Illinois in 1989. The current franchises in the Auto Mall are Auffenberg Mazda, Auffenberg Mitsubishi, Auffenberg Kia, Auffenberg Nissan and Auffenberg Volkswagen. Auffenberg Ford North, which is located on I-64 in O’Fallon, Illinois, is approximately ½ mile east of St. Clair Auto Mall. Auffenberg Hyundai, originally in the Auto Mall, has been relocated to another high traffic area near Auffenberg Ford North.
Jamie is a past director and is a founder of the political action committee, Americans for Free International Trade (AFIT). He represents Illinois franchised new-car dealers on the National Automobile Dealers Association’s board of directors. He is also a member of the Dealer Election Action Committee (DEAC) President’s Club, and is a past chairman of American International Automobile Dealer Association (AIADA) in Washington, D.C. He is the past chairman of the St. Louis Ford Dealers Advertising Fund, and past national vice-chairman of the Hyundai National Dealer Council. He is the past president of the St. Louis Zone Chrysler/Jeep Dealers Advertising Association.
In addition to his auto-related activities, Jamie is a founding member of the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the board of the Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois. He is also on the boards of McKendree College and United Way of Greater St. Louis, in addition to the St. Louis Regional Business Council which covers the 16 counties that comprise the St. Louis Metropolitan area. He was formerly on the boards of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Southern Illinois, Belleville Economic Progress, Proud Partners of St. Clair County and the St. Louis Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
William F. Sittmann
Director
May 1st, 2007, William Sittmann was appointed to the position of Senior Counselor, APCO Worldwide Communications, after serving as President of The Fuller Company LLC, a consulting firm. He has an extensive background in corporate management and international affairs in both the private and public sector.
Prior to joining The Fuller Company LLC., Mr. Sittmann was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, a trade association representing the pharmacy industry.
Mr. Sittmann served as the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council under President George Bush; was Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Henry Kissinger Associates Inc; was Executive Vice President for Michael Deaver and Associates.
In 1982, Mr. Sittmann served as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier, as a Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Sittmann served in the offices of the Executive Director of the Foreign Service, the Office of Protocol and Diplomatic Security in the United States Department of State.
Mr. Sittmann has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Richmond and is a graduate of the Foreign Service Institute.
He also served on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation and The Forum for International Policy.
