Hugh Lamle
Hugh R. Lamle
Hugh R. Lamle is President of M.D. Sass Investors Services, Inc. where he has been a Partner since 1974 and
heads its fixed income and alternative investment strategies activities (which includes starting and building 31
investment management businesses).
Among his many professional accomplishments are:
He currently serves as President and founder of M.D. Sass-Macquarie Financial Strategies
Management LLC, (FinStrat), which invests in new investment management company start ups and
buy outs.
From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Lamle was also President, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer
of Chase & MD Sass Partners, a joint venture between The Chase Manhattan Bank and M.D. Sass
Investors Services, Inc. that was formed to manage money market and short-term bond portfolios for
Chase and Chase’s largest corporate clients. M.D. Sass sold its interest in this $20 billion joint venture
to J.P. Morgan Chase after the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by Chase.
Mr. Lamle started Tax Advantaged Bond Strategies, a specialty municipal bond manager, which grew
to more than $7 billion in assets under management before he sold it to Eaton Vance. It became Eaton
Vance’s premier municipal bond strategy.
Mr. Lamle was formerly Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FINEX (a regulated
Commodities Exchange) and was on the Board of Governors at the New York Board of Trade (a
regulated Commodities Exchange) until it was acquired in 2007 by the Intercontinental Commodities
Exchange (ICE). He is now on the Board of ICE Futures US.
Through M.D. Sass Macquarie, Mr. Lamle was active in the formation of:
– AMERRA Capital Management LLC, which finances agricultural commodity produces in Mexico,
Central and South America,provides customized commodity finance solutions to producers,
processors and distributors.
– Taurus Resources Fund LLC, which finances post exploration but early stage minerals mining
companies around the globe.
– Waterfall Asset Management LLC, a specialty credit manager focused on high yield structured
credit and real estate debt strategies.
Mr. Lamle was a founder of Real Estate Capital Partners (RECP) in 1989 and served as its Managing
General Partner until 2005 when M.D. Sass sold its interest in this $5.5 billion real estate investor and
developer.
He has authored numerous articles for professional publications and is a frequent lecturer at
professional conferences and universities.
Mr. Lamle has 47 years of investment experience and has an MBA (Finance and Investments) from
Baruch College – City University of New York.