Team
Asset Management Team:
Charles P. Deeds
President & Chief Investment Officer
Chuck is a recognized thought leader in the finance and capital markets world, with expertise in the precious metals and mining sector. With over 27 years of professional experience in investment management and trading, Chuck’s deep industry insight and contrarian perspective provides clients with value added service. Chuck launched Deeds Select Advsiors, Inc. in 2008 to take advantage of what he sees as the global deleveraging and transfer of wealth from fiat currencies to real assets, a shift he identified in 2000 and has since promoted.
Prior to founding DSA, Chuck spent 10 years with Waddell & Reed Investment Company as the Vice President of Institutional Sales, during which time he led the equity management teams’ growth in assets from less than $300 million to over $3 billion. In the early 1990’s, Chuck worked for Vogelzang & Associates in Denver, working directly with portfolio managers from Meridian Capital Management, Neumeier Investment Counsel, Oberweis Asset Management, Sarasin Asset Management, and Target Investors. In the late 1980’s, Chuck founded Deeds International Securities LTD, a non-clearing broker/dealer. Chuck graduated from Colorado State University in 1984, where he studied Finance. Chuck currently holds the FINRA Series 65 license.
Chuck sits on the boards of several Christian missions organizations and is involved in the leadership at his local church. He is a frequent speaker at ministry and investment related events. Chuck lives in Leawood, KS with his wife, Carolyn, and their three boys.
Robert K. Draper
Chief Operating Officer
Robert joined Deeds Select Advisors as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in May of 2008. He has been in the investment and securities business since 1989 and has known Chuck since 1993. Most of the 20 plus years has been spent in the institutional arena,working as a third-party sales and marketer or directly for several investment advisors in Colorado and Texas. During this time he was able to glean insight from some of the best investment minds in the world and apply that to his own investment philosophy.
Before joining Deeds Select Advisors, he worked for Schwab Institutional in trading and investment advisor service roles, assisting clients and advisors with trading and back-office issues. Robert met Chuck in 1993 when they were colleagues at Vogelzang & Associates.
Robert worked for the State Auditor’s Office in Colorado after graduating from college, working mostly in the oil and gas royalty area. He entered the investment business in 1989 when he joined International Collectors Associates as a Registered Representative and precious metals broker.
Robert received a B.S. in Accounting from Denver University and holds the FINRA Series 65 license. He lives in Leawood, KS with his wife, Robin. They have three grown children.
Gregory C. Pulver
Director of Research & Strategy
Greg brings over a decade of financial industry experience to DSA. A fan of the stock market since he was eight, Greg managed private portfolios in Richmond, VA from 2003 to 2008. He moved to Kansas City in 2008 to serve as the Sr. Investment Office at Royal City Funds, where he was responsible for the trading desk, operations, and compliance at a global macro hedge fund. Next he transitioned to State Street Corp. as a Manager of Fund Administration and led the PIMCO team with over $500 billion in fixed income assets. He most recently served as Managing Partner for Millo Global Advisors.
Prior to investment management, Greg served 6 years in the U.S. Marine Corps Infantry, including a combat tour of Iraq in 2003. He graduated with honors from the University of Richmond and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds the FINRA Series 65 license.
Greg is also involved in local government service, having served as the Vice Chairman of the Transportation Committee, and a member of the Planning Commission, TIF Committee, and Transportation Tax Committee for the City of Grandview, MO. He and his wife, Mary Beth, live in Kansas City with their daughter.
George L. Charles III
Director of Trading & Portfolio Analytics
George brings 15 years of product development and portfolio trading to the DSA team. After playing basketball on scholarship at Amherst College in Massachusetts and graduating in 1997 with a degree in history, George worked as a Marketing Manager at TPA Holdings S.A. in Guatemala. George then worked as a Product Manager with SourceTrack before enrolling in the MBA program at the University of Florida.
He followed his MBA with a Masters of International Business from Thunderbird in 2003 before heading to GE Healthcare as a Global Product Manager. After GE, George was the Vice President of Marketing for Body Ecology followed by an operations and strategic planning consultant for CF Bean and Silverman Construction.
In 2008 George transitioned to the finance industry as a financial advisor with Intersecurities (now Transamerica) and learned futures, forex, and commodities trading under the tutelage of Doug Geckle and John Needham, with extensive training in technical analysis, trade development and execution, and portfolio analytics.
George recently moved from the Cashier/Highlands area of North Carolina to Kansas City with his wife and three sons.
Wealth Management:
Zachary R. Miller
Wealth Management Advisor – Midwest
Zack brings a wealth of operations and manufacturing management experience to DSA, resulting in a deep understanding of the needs of entrepreneurs, executives, and family owners/operators. Before joining the team at DSA, Zack was the Director of Operations and Strategy for Quality Industrial Products, a specialty manufacturing firm, where he managed the operations and sales of the Midwest division. Prior to that he served in a lead team development role with an international non-profit.
Zack graduated from the University of Central Missouri where he was an All-American in track and field. He is a registered investment adviser representative with DSA and holds the FINRA Series 65 securities license. He lives in Lee’s Summit with his wife, Naomi, and four children.
He can be reached at:
zackmiller@deedsselect.com
Office: 913-708-8070
Cell: 816-588-5382
John A. Whitney
Wealth Management Advisor – West Coast
John brings over two decades of real asset operations and market experience to DSA. As a seasoned sales manager in the real estate industry, John held leadership positions at Bellettini, Polygon, and Conner Homes, where he had P/L responsibility for a $100 million sales organization. He is a registered investment adviser representative at DSA and heads up the West Coast region.
John is a graduate of the University of Denver with a B.A. in Business and holds the FINRA Series 65 license. He lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife, Karen, and their three children.
He can be reached at:
johnawhitney@deedsselect.com
Cell: 425-417-5858