RICK ASHBURN, Founding Principal
Chief Investment Officer

Education
Rick was graduated from the University of Maryland with High Honors in Economics, and attended the UCLA Graduate School of Economics under a University Fellowship. He has taken additional graduate and extension courses in accounting, planning, taxation and investments.

Rick holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. The CFA is granted upon completion of a rigorous series of exams taken over not less than 3 years that are focused on statistical analysis, investment management and securities valuation.

The CFA charter is the global standard for institutional-level investment managers.

Career
His investment career started by specializing in municipal bonds at First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles in 1985.

He served as Chief Investment Officer of a private investment firm in San Diego, and as a Managing Director at MBIA, Inc., an S&P 500 company specializing in financial guarantees and investment management. He founded Creekside's predecessor firm in 2003.

Rick has served clients as diverse as the State of California, the Rueben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, and members of the Scripps Clinic Medical Group.

Accomplishments and Memberships
In 1998, the California State Treasurer appointed Rick as a technical advisor to the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission. Rick also served as an expert consultant to the Securities and Exchange Commission on a landmark securities enforcement case. He has given expert testimony to a California State Senate subcommittee.

He has published over a dozen articles and has given talks and speeches for regional and national audiences. He has taught a number of finance courses for the University of California Extension system.

Rick is a member of the American Mensa Society and the CFA Society. He has served as a board member of the Financial Analysts Society of San Diego.

ANDY HEMPECK, Principal
Director of Portfolio Management
& Chief Compliance Officer

Education
Andy is a graduate of Oregon State University with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration. Andy also attended graduate school at Golden Gate University, San Francisco and has taken classes in planning and taxation at the University of California Extension, Berkeley.

Career
Andy has over sixteen years of investment industry experience. Most recently, Andy served as Vice-President at Fisher Investments where he focused on research, client relationship management and business development. Andy was directly involved in the portfolio construction of over 700 million dollars for private clients and foundations. During his nine-year tenure at Fisher, he was a part of the team that grew the firm's assets from 2 Billion of assets under management to over 43 Billion.

Earlier in his career, he worked for the Bank of San Francisco where he managed the trading department. In that capacity, he advised many C-level Fortune 500 company executives on trading strategies for their individual employee stock option plans.

Accomplishments and Memberships
Andy sits on the Board of Directors of the Saint Vincent's Day Home in Oakland, California.

Andy has also attained the Eagle Scout award within the Boy Scouts of America.

He has expertise with Non-qualified employee stock options, Incentive stock options, and restricted stock.