James (Jamie) Kase
212-309-5920
Executive Vice President and Head of Distribution
James (Jamie) Kase joined ING Investment Management in October 2005 as Head of Distribution, joining the company's Management Committee and reporting to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. In this Executive Vice President role, Jamie has responsibility for overseeing the company's institutional sales, consultant relations and client service organization as well as its global sales and marketing initiatives.
Jamie has over 22 years experience in the investment management industry, holding senior sales leadership positions at several of Wall Street's top firms. He joins ING from Merrill Lynch Investment Management, where he was most recently chief operating officer of its U.S. institutional business. Prior to his tenure at Merrill Lynch, Jamie held several senior positions at Lehman Brothers, including head of equity sales and research, Asia. Throughout his career, he has also covered all aspects of the derivatives markets, working with clients on managing risk with sophisticated asset allocation and hedging techniques to optimize risk-return performance. At Swiss Bank, he was responsible for institutional fixed income derivative sales, and before that, he managed the US Derivative Sales-Pension group at Bankers Trust. Jamie graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science.
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Erica Evans
212-309-6552
SVP, Head of Institutional Product Management and Client Service
Erica Evans is the Head of Product Management and Client Service. In her role, Erica brings together all of the elements of relationship management, as well as the operational aspects of client service, in order to provide clients with seamless coordination throughout the organization. Erica recently joined ING after 22 years experience in the financial services industry. She spent the past 15 years at General Electric, with ten of those at GE Asset Management, where she held a number of positions, including Six Sigma Leader, Global Compliance Leader and most recently, Vice President of Client Investment Management Services. Her responsibilities included all client facing interactions, ensuring delivery of the highest levels of service.
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Leonard Oremland
860-275-3693
Senior Vice President and Head of Consultant Relations
Len Oremland is Head of Consultant Relations and has led the team responsible for fostering and maintaining relationships with institutional investment consultants since joining ING Investment Management in 1997. Len co-heads the company’s institutional business development effort and serves on the global business development committee in formulating strategic policy. Len also helps to direct the firm's activities in consultant and plan sponsor database maintenance as well as RFP responses and serves as relationship manager for several key clients. Previously, he was at Cowen Asset Management as director of marketing and client service. He began his career with Merrill Lynch as a plan analyst and financial consultant. He received a B.A. in business administration from Rutgers College and has passed the CFA Level 1 examination.
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