Andrew W. Cumming

Director/Board Member at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Finance

Technology Services

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Prior to SD Baker, Dr. Cumming earned his Ph.D.
in Physics from M.I.T.
and completed his postdoctoral work at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
He was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award by President Bush Sr. after which he was a faculty member in Physics at the University of Florida.
He returned to his native Canada to run trading businesses in equity derivatives at Citibank, Deutsche Bank and most recently Scotiabank, where he was Managing Director and Head of the Equity Related Products group from 1998 to 2002.
He has extensive experience in modeling, trading and risk management.
In 2003 he was President of Titanium Corporation, a TSXventure-listed minerals processing company.
He currently serves on the advisory board of the Soulpepper Theatre Company and the National Canadian Research and Training Program in Hepatitis.

Andrew W. Cumming active positions

Companies	Position	Start
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Functions as a College/University	Director/Board Member	2002-02-28

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Companies	Position	End
SD Baker & Associates, Inc. SD Baker & Associates, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance SD Baker & Associates invests in North American listed stocks, bonds, ADRs and trusts. The primary investment goal of the company is to find high-quality, publicly traded businesses or assets that are trading at large discounts to their estimated fair value. SD Baker employs balanced and absolute return portfolio strategies. The firm's multi-dimensional risk management strategy is a fundamental component of their investment approach. They execute this strategy through short selling strategies, a flexible mandate, proprietary software, currency exposure and an equity risk premium strategy. Short selling is utilized to offset company specific, sector and commodity price risks in the portfolio. SD Baker's mandate allows them to move equity investments to cash or bonds to preserve capital during bear markets. The firm's proprietary software simultaneously identifies short-term fluctuations in sectors and asset classes and is used to reduce month-over-month volatility. SD Baker actively manages the Canadian/USD foreign exchange exposure to reduce currency risk in the portfolio. Market exposure varies throughout a market cycle; adjustments to net exposure are primarily driven by changes in the equity risk premium. SD Baker avoids speculative investments and concentrates investments on a small number of strong business franchises that serve a pivotal and growing role in their respective industries. The firm looks for companies with strong barriers to entry in a growing industry. Typical barriers include brand names, economies to scale, superior technology and engineering and regulatory protection. They attempt to purchase assets at large discounts to fair value and then hold the investments, often for 2-3 years or more.	Portfolio Manager-Equities	2009-03-30
COMNETIX INC.	Director/Board Member	-

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ComnetiX, Inc. ComnetiX, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides secure criminal identification & authentication hardware and software solutions	Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Functions as a College/University	Finance
SD Baker & Associates, Inc. SD Baker & Associates, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance SD Baker & Associates invests in North American listed stocks, bonds, ADRs and trusts. The primary investment goal of the company is to find high-quality, publicly traded businesses or assets that are trading at large discounts to their estimated fair value. SD Baker employs balanced and absolute return portfolio strategies. The firm's multi-dimensional risk management strategy is a fundamental component of their investment approach. They execute this strategy through short selling strategies, a flexible mandate, proprietary software, currency exposure and an equity risk premium strategy. Short selling is utilized to offset company specific, sector and commodity price risks in the portfolio. SD Baker's mandate allows them to move equity investments to cash or bonds to preserve capital during bear markets. The firm's proprietary software simultaneously identifies short-term fluctuations in sectors and asset classes and is used to reduce month-over-month volatility. SD Baker actively manages the Canadian/USD foreign exchange exposure to reduce currency risk in the portfolio. Market exposure varies throughout a market cycle; adjustments to net exposure are primarily driven by changes in the equity risk premium. SD Baker avoids speculative investments and concentrates investments on a small number of strong business franchises that serve a pivotal and growing role in their respective industries. The firm looks for companies with strong barriers to entry in a growing industry. Typical barriers include brand names, economies to scale, superior technology and engineering and regulatory protection. They attempt to purchase assets at large discounts to fair value and then hold the investments, often for 2-3 years or more.	Finance