Community Representative | Chair of the Finance Committee
Kal Salama has been responsible for investment strategy for The Headlands Group global, multi-asset portfolios since 1997. Mr. Salama has been at the forefront of global investing throughout his career. He served as Managing Director of Global Strategy for BME Investment Partners, which offered unique institutional, global asset class/market/currency absolute return portfolios. He was Founder/Director of Multiple Asset Strategies at INVESCO Institutional, President/Chief Investment officer of KS Global Advisors and KS Global Strategies, Partner/Senior Asset Allocation Analyst with Brinson Partners, Vice President with institutional consultant Dorn, Helliesen & Cottle. Mr. Salama began his investment career at the Pension Research Institute at San Francisco State University in 1985, where he worked under Dr. Frank Sortino as a Research Assistant field testing asset allocation approaches for pension funds.
Mr. Salama has spoken at conferences, published, taught CFA exam review courses, conducted IFE (Institute for Fiduciary Education) workshops and lectured graduate investment classes on global investing and asset allocation issues. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA with a concentration in Finance from San Francisco State University and a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) from the CFA Institute.