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Nick Trentmann joined ALM First Financial Advisors in 2020. As a Director for the firm, Nick partners with clients to develop successful balance sheet strategies that maximize performance. Supported by our experienced team, he interprets full balance sheet risk analytics and risk positioning to determine the best opportunities for each client to achieve their financial goals, providing advice and insights on loan pricing, loan transactions, investment portfolio management, funding strategies, hedging and more. Nick also coordinates internal collaboration to deliver analytics and timely reporting to assist clients throughout the entire process from strategy development through implementation and post-execution analysis. 

Prior to joining ALM First, Nick served as Director and Portfolio Manager at Detalus Advisors LLC, where he was responsible for portfolio and securities management of the firm’s $1.7 billion in institutional assets for clients including banks, insurance companies, high net worth individuals, and municipalities.  In addition, Nick provided advice to clients regarding economic environment, investment portfolio strategy, deposit pricing, lending rates, and proper balance sheet management.

Nick holds a M.B.A. in Finance from Missouri State University as well as a B.A. in History from the University of Missouri. 
 

Jim Abbott is the famed one-handed major league baseball player, who overcame a birth defect of having only one hand, to be an amazing pro pitcher and ball player. The first baseball player to win the Sullivan Award as the nation's outstanding amateur athlete, in 1987, Abbott spent hours as a youngster bouncing a ball off a wall to practice fielding as well as throwing. He was the starting quarterback on his high school football team, which went to the finals of the Michigan state championship, and he showed enough promise as a pitcher to be drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays shortly after graduation.

However, Abbott went to the University of Michigan on a baseball scholarship. He had a career record of 26 wins and eight losses at the school. As a member of Team USA in 1987, he became the first American pitcher in 25 years to beat a Cuban team on Cuban soil. The team won a silver medal at the Pan-American Games and Abbott won the US Baseball Federation's Golden Spikes award as the best amateur player in the country.

In the 1988 Olympics, Abbott was the winning pitcher in a 5-3 victory over Japan that brought the US its first gold medal in baseball. Chosen by the California Angels in the first round of the 1988 amateur draft, he went directly to the major leagues and had a 12-12 record, with a 3.92 earned run average, in 1989. In 1991, his best season to date, he won 18 and lost 11. Despite an ERA of 2.77, Abbott was only 7-15 in 1992, when the Angels scored an average of only 2.54 runs in games that he started.

He was traded to the New York Yankees after the season and had an 11-14 record with them in 1993. Among his victories was a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians on September 4th.

The Yankees traded Abbott to the Chicago White Sox early in 1995 and he returned to the Angels in mid-season. He became suddenly ineffective in 1996, losing 11 straight games and finishing with a 2-18 record. Abbott then retired for a season, but came back to try again with the White Sox in 1998.

Through stories, anecdotes, jokes, some self-deprecation, and even failure and pain, Abbott was able to overcome perceived limitations, and reach his dreams. Jim Abbott discusses these ideas and talks about what it is like to make it to the "big show."
 

Robyn Marsi is a solution driven executive with over 33 years of experience providing strategic direction and program oversight in developing and delivering large-scale enterprise and international solutions. Robyn has worked primarily in the Financial Services Industry where she has established a strong proven track record of successfully implementing GRC programs and technology platforms on an enterprise-wide basis. She was part of a team recognized by RSA as an Industry Leader in GRC 3 years in a row. Robyn has lead teams in successfully building and implementing Global Risk Management Programs providing governance, oversight, awareness and continuous monitoring related to third parties.