Konstantin “Kostya” Etus began his career at CLS in 2011. Mr. Etus is currently a co-manager on two mutual funds and lead manager on various separate account strategies. Prior to working at CLS, Mr. Etus worked as an Associate Financial Analyst at ConAgra Foods, Inc., managing the company’s global cash network. He graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and obtained Master’s degrees from Creighton University in Investment Management and Financial Analysis, as well as Business Administration. He holds the Series 65 securities registration and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Mr. Smith joined CLS in 2015 as a Senior Market Strategist. Prior to joining CLS, Mr. Smith worked at Russell Investments, where he served as an analyst responsible for asset allocation research, portfolio construction, optimization design, and risk management research and Russell ETFs as Manager of ETF Product Research & Development, a role in which he developed quantitative indexing strategies implemented as ETFs.

Mr. Lee joined CLS in 2014 as an Investment Research Analyst. Prior to joining CLS, Mr. Lee worked as an analyst for Orion Advisor Services, an affiliate of CLS. Mr. Lee graduated from Creighton University in Omaha with a degree in Business Administration.