Noel F. Bennett received a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He founded Bennett Developments, Inc., a sole proprietorship developing and managing commercial real estate in Boulder County, Colorado. In 1990 he formed Bennett Investments, Inc., an investment advisory service which provided portfolio management to individual clients in partnership with Money Strategies, Inc., a Boulder-based investment advisory firm. In 1999 he became a principal and portfolio manager at Peak Asset Management, LLC., in Louisville, Colorado, and continues in this position. Noel is a board member of The Bennett Office, Inc., in Minneapolis, and serves on the board of Cascade Mining, LLC., in Hibbing. He is a member of the CFA Society of Colorado and the CFA Institute.