As a partner with AUM Partners, Fran regularly works with and makes presentations to senior leaders of Wall Street firms. As one of her clients said, “you’ve sat in a lot of our chairs - you speak our language”. She is co-author of the book "High Performing Investment Teams" (Wiley, 2006). In addition to her high-impact consulting work “developing leaders at every level” of firms, Fran is also a director on the corporate boards of Peoples Bank (ticker: PEBO) and Fenimore Asset Management, on the board of non-profit Women Investment Professionals, and a contributor to Barron’s since 2016.
Prior to returning to AUM Partners in 2019, Fran had finance, consulting, corporate board, and senior leadership positions with Mellon Bank, Allstate Investments, Focus Consulting and Diamond Hill Capital Management. From 2010 - 2018, Fran was an independent director on the corporate board of Diamond Hill Investments, a publicly-traded investment firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. She was Chair of the Compensation Committee from 2011 - 2017 and a designated Financial Expert member of the Audit committee from 2010 - 2018.
