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Massey Quick brings together a group of seasoned and talented professionals to shepherd, protect and perpetuate the wealth of high net worth individuals, endowments and foundations. The experience and dedication of our team ensures that all of our clients receive outstanding service and a meaningful amount of value. We take great pride in our ability to spend quality time with each client.
Chief Investment Officer/Founding Partner
Mr. Massey co-founded Massey Quick in 2004 after a 24 year career on Wall Street. He joined Morgan Stanley’s Private Client group in 1983 after four years with Dean Witter Reynolds. From 1988 through 1993, he led Morgan Stanley’s private client businesses in Asia, Australia, and Japan. Mr. Massey was Head of Japanese Equity Sales in New York from 1993 through 1996, and returned to Tokyo as Head of Institutional Equity Sales and Global Head of Japanese Equities in 1996.
Mr. Massey served as President and CEO of Robert Fleming, Inc. in 1997 and 1998. At Flemings, he had regional responsibility for equity sales and trading, research, capital markets, investment banking, and asset management in the Americas, serving on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the parent company in London. Mr. Massey returned to Morgan Stanley in September of 1998 as a Managing Director and Head of Institutional Sales, Marketing, and Product Development for the firm's prime brokerage business.
Mr. Massey holds a BA degree in History from The College of Wooster. He is an Emeritus Life Trustee of the College. As a member of Wooster’s Board of Trustees he was Chair of the Investment Committee and a member of the Executive Committee for 15 years. Mr. Massey serves on the investment committee of the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills. He is a director of Team Capital Bank, First Santa Fe Wealth Advisors, and Innodata Isogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: INOD)
Chief Compliance Officer/Founding Partner
Mr. Quick began his career in 1975 as the fourth employee of Quick and Reilly Inc., the first New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) member to offer discount stock brokerage to the investing public. Over his 28 years with the firm he served in many capacities. He was a key member of the management team that built the branch network, started and grew a major clearing firm, acquired and ran a major NASDAQ market making firm, made many acquisitions of NYSE SPECIALIST firms and built one of the first electronic internet trading platforms in the industry. Mr. Quick was the company liaison when it offered stock to the public in 1983 and became a listed company on the NYSE. Mr Quick completed his tenure as Chairman of Fleet Securities, Inc. after Quick and Reilly Group, Inc. was acquired by Fleet Bank in 1998.
Mr. Quick has served on many industry boards and committees, including the NYSE Hearing Board, the Board of Governors of the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry Association and District Committee #10 of the NASD. Currently, Mr. Quick serves on the boards of St. Bonaventure University, Oak Knoll School, Bishop's Finance Council for the Diocese of Metuchen and the Finance Council for Our Lady of Perpetual Help. He also serves as the Chairman of the Campaign for the Heart at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Quick is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Flame of Charity's Man of the Year and holds an honorary degree from St. Bonaventure University.
Partner
Mr. Belfatto joined Massey Quick after a 23 year career on Wall Street. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Senior Executive Vice President at HSBC and served as a member of the Executive Committee for Corporate, Investment Banking, and Markets. In 2007, he established the Executive Client Coverage Group to leverage the bank’s capabilities with key clients across commercial and investment banking, markets, and private banking. In 2006 he assumed responsibility for the Markets business in the Americas, which included sales, trading, capital markets and risk management across equities, fixed income, commodities, foreign exchange, futures and derivatives.
Prior to this role, he was the Global Head of Equities, based in London and New York, and was responsible for restructuring this business, integrating cash and derivatives and developing a risk management platform. He joined HSBC in 2002 as Head of Sales for the Americas, during which time he played a key role in the build-out of the sales organization across products in Canada, Latin and South America and the US.
He began his career in institutional sales at Merrill in 1984. During his seventeen years at the firm, he held various positions in sales, sales management, and capital markets, including Global Head of Convertible Bond Sales, Global Head of Equity Sales, and Global Head of Fixed Income Sales.
Mr. Belfatto graduated from Seton Hall University summa cum laude in 1976 with a major in Economics at Harvard Business School in 1978, with a concentration in Marketing. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, North Jersey Affiliate, and chairs the Development Committee. He is also a member of the Seton Hall University Advisory Committee, and the Planning Board in Summit, NJ. Previously he served on the Board of Trustees for Oak Knoll School and the North Jersey Affiliate of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Founding Partner
Mr. Massey joins his son, Stewart, as a founder of Massey, Quick, and Co. After a 30 year career in the commodity markets, he purchased a minority interest in a money management concern in 1986. Mr. Massey helped to build the Ridgewood, NJ-based firm, to over $300 million under management.
After serving as a Lieutenant in the US Navy's Civil Engineer Corps ("Seabees") during the Korean Crisis, Mr. Massey joined the Rionda Group, an American-based owner of Cuban sugar plantations. After Rionda's properties were expropriated by the Castro regime, he was instrumental in the conversion of Rionda into a world class marketing firm, functioning as both merchant and broker to sugar producing and consuming countries around the world. His principal areas of activity were in Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the countries comprising the former British Commonwealth. Mr. Massey and his partners constructed one of Wall Street's first leveraged buyouts, purchasing a successor to Rionda, restructuring the company, and selling it to an Asian buyer. After the sale of the company, Mr. Massey served as Managing Director of Rionda's European subsidiary for three years. Mr. Massey served on the Board of Managers of the (then) New York Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange.
Mr. Massey graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a BSME degree in 1953. He went on to attend New York University School of Business Administration to earn his MBA in 1962.
Mr. Massey served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology for 13 years. Until recently, he served on the Board and Executive Committee of Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts. His principal area of interest in his board work was oversight of the schools' endowments through the trustee investment committee which, at Lasell, he chaired for 5 years.
Partner
Mr. Kemp joined Massey Quick after an expansive 40-year career at Morgan Stanley where he rose through the ranks to eventually become President and Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management Distributors.
Mr. Kemp served as a Captain and company commander in the US Army Alaska in the mid-1960s. There, he was a paratrooper jumpmaster and northern warfare specialist. He received the Army Certificate of Achievement and expert infantryman badge.
Mr. Kemp began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor where he was named one of Wall Street's Top Ten Brokers by Financial World Magazine in 1975. In 1978, Mr. Kemp went on to become Director of Institutional Bond Sales. In 1983, he was named Director of Sales for the Sears Financial Network, encompassing 325 branch offices and over 1,300 financial advisors.
In July of 1985, he became Director of Sales and Management Training for the company. In 1987 he joined the asset management division as Director of Sales. In this capacity, he developed and implemented programs that raised over $100 billion in new assets. His responsibilities included sales management, marketing, performance analytics, mutual funds, separately managed accounts and managed products both for retail and institutional clients. He was promoted to Managing Director of Morgan Stanley in 1998.
In January of 1999, Mr. Kemp was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Distributors, Inc in the asset management division. He managed both institutional and retail sales efforts. From 2002 to 2004, as Director of Global Wealth Management Sales, Mr. Kemp was responsible for product sales for Morgan Stanley's retail division of 13,000 financial advisors in 500 branch offices. He was responsible for the realignment of the sales strategy that placed client needs on a level playing field with product department goals.
Mr. Kemp earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Colorado in 1964. In 1988, he earned a degree in financial services management from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Kemp is a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Colorado as well as a 15 year member of the Foundation Investment Committee. He served on the Boards of the Forum for Investor Advice and the Provident Bank of New Jersey. He also served on the NASD Business Conduct Committee and the Investment Committee of the Security Industry Association.
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