Investment Committee

Brian C. Baker, President and Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Baker founded Vestor Capital in 1984. He is a principal of the firm and serves on its Board of Directors and Executive Management Committee. Mr. Baker's primary responsibility is chairing the Investment Committee. Prior to founding Vestor Capital, he was Vice President – Acquisitions with Balcor/American Express, Inc., one of the nation's largest syndicators of income producing property. He also served on the professional staff at Arthur Andersen and Company in both the Audit and Tax departments.

A licensed Attorney and Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois, Mr. Baker holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Accounting and Finance, from Georgetown University. He also serves as a director of numerous companies, as well as on various charity boards and investment committees.

Martin Buehler, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager

Mr. Buehler joined Vestor Capital in 1991. He is a principal of the firm and serves on its Board of Directors, Executive Management Committee and Investment Committee. Prior to joining Vestor Capital, Mr. Buehler began his career with The Illinois Company, a Chicago-based investment firm.

Mr. Buehler holds a Masters degree in Finance from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Michigan State University.

T. Lawrence Doyle, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager

Mr. Doyle joined Vestor Capital in 1991. He is a principal of the firm and serves on its Board of Directors, Executive Management Committee and Investment Committee. Prior to joining Vestor Capital, Mr. Doyle served as Vice President and head of the Personal Trust Company of the American National Bank of Chicago, and was a co-founder of the investment advisory firm Feldman Investment Group.

Mr. Doyle has been involved with various boards in Chicago. Currently he is on the board at the Wieboldt Foundation where he serves on the Investment Committee.

Mr. Doyle holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Cornell University.

Dennis J. Slott, Senior Vice President

Mr. Slott joined Vestor Capital as Vice President in 2001. He is primarily responsible for managing the firm's Lake Forest office.

Mr. Slott has been serving clients in the financial services industry since 1984. Prior to joining Vestor Capital, he served as an investment executive at John Nuveen and Co., Drexel Burnham Lambert, Paine Webber and, previously, as Vice President at Northern Trust Securities, Inc.

Mr. Slott is a Certified Financial Planner™. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brown University. Mr. Slott is a member of the Financial Planning Association. He has been involved with various charitable organizations and currently serves as a Director and Treasurer of the Redwings Hockey Organization of Barrington

Timothy Detloff, MBA, CFA, CPA Director of Research

Tim graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and earned his MBA in Finance from University of Illinois-Champaign. Tim is a CPA, CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Chicago.

Tim joined Vestor Capital in 2005. Prior to that he was employed by Monetta Financial Services in Wheaton where he was Vice President - Portfolio Manager/Analyst. Prior to his nine year tenure at Monetta, he worked at Amoco Corporation for eight years as Assistant Vice President - Amoco Venture Capital Company and as a Financial/Operations Analyst. Tim has also worked for National Bank of Detroit, Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook and Coleman, Epstein, Berlin & Company in Chicago.