Jay Nakashima

Jay Nakashima has been involved in the international sales and marketing of investment products as a senior manager for 30 years, many with major global investment management firms who are leaders in their field. Jay joins Atlantic Financial Partners from Ivy Global Investors (IGI) where he was Regional Vice President responsible for sales to International Financial Advisory network. IGI is the international division of Ivy Investment Management, managers of Ivy Funds and a wholly owned subsidiary of Waddell and Reed Financial Services of Overland Park, Kansas. Ivy acquired Emerging Managers Group (EMG), an independent investment manager responsible for creation of the Ivy offshore platform where he was a partner. Prior to EMG, Jay was a founding partner of the first Atlantic Financial Partners (AFP) which represented number of well-known and respected Swiss investment managers and their funds on the global broker-dealer and banking platforms. AFP was acquired by EMG. Jay was also Vice President at Global Asset Management (GAM) with responsibility for sales and relationship management of International Financial Advisors. Jay began his career with Chase Investors as Vice President in the International group, followed by UBS Asset Management (UBSAM) where he continued his responsibility for Asia-Pacific and joined senior members of the international institutional sales group responsible for strategic planning, relationship management and new product development for institutional clients worldwide.