Chestnut Team

Amanda Tepper

Amanda co-leads Chestnut’s strategic advisory practice, partnering with asset managers and OCIOs across a diverse mix of asset classes and firm sizes to devise and implement successful growth strategies. Amanda’s custom market research expertise often shapes her advisory work.

Her early research into the OCIO marketplace on behalf of advisory clients led directly to Amanda serving as co-founder of the Chestnut Solutions Institute, where she leads the Institute’s research efforts.

Prior to founding Chestnut, Amanda served as a Global Director of AllianceBernstein’s senior portfolio management team, a group that crafted and delivered the firm’s investment insights to institutional and retail clients and consultants.

Previously, Amanda developed extensive sell-side equity research expertise as Associate Director of Equity Research at Bank of America and as an Institutional Investor All-American Team-ranked equity analyst at JP Morgan.

Before moving to the sell-side Amanda was an investment banker in JP Morgan’s retail industries group.  She began her career on a corporate bond trading desk.

Amanda holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Brown University.  Her past Board memberships include the Investment Advisory Committee for the Endowment of the Art Student League of New York, The Global Advisory Council for 100 Women in Finance, Girls of New York, and the Andover Development Board of Phillips Academy.

Mary Jane (“MJ”) Bobyock

MJ is a Senior Advisor at Chestnut and brings over 20 years of experience in asset management and investment consulting, as well as deep expertise in non profits. 

Prior to joining Chestnut, MJ spent over 11 years as Managing Director of Nonprofit Advice for SEI Investments’ OCIO business, where she supported institutional client relationships as a key resource providing custom advice and analysis.

She coordinated asset allocation reviews, governance training, spending studies, investment policy reviews, and financial risk and return analysis.  She has been a contributor to SEI’s thought leadership and social media publications regarding nonprofits since 2012.

Previous to SEI, MJ worked at Russell Investments as a Senior Client Executive, where she provided advisory and investment management services to nonprofit OCIO clients, and at Miller Anderson & Sherrerd/Morgan Stanley Investment Management as a Vice President on the Institutional Client Service team.

She is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and participates on their Nonprofit Planning Committee. 

MJ has her M.B.A in Finance from Temple University and her B.S. in Finance from Villanova University. MJ has served on the Board of Settlement Music School and is currently a member of their Investment Committee. 

She is also a Trustee for the Presser Foundation Board where she serves as the Chair for the Finance/Investment Committee and is on the DEI and Capital Support Committees.  She is also a participant in the Philadelphia Arts & Business Council’s “Business on Board”.

Marcel Miu

Marcel Miu, CFA, CFP, CAIA, CDAA serves as an Advisor and Senior Analyst at Chestnut. Marcel has spent 13 years in the asset management and alternatives space.

He held VP positions at Cohen and Steers, with coverage across Product Management/Development, Product Marketing and Investor Relations.

Additionally, he served as their Head of Alternative Income and Multi-Strategy Product Management and Development.

Most recently he has consulted to companies in product management, development, and analytics. He also operates an RIA specializing in financial planning for startup tech professionals.

Marcel holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in Finance from Ohio University and is a CFA Charterholder.