Key People

Mr. Day is a proven financial services executive and entrepreneur. From 2003 to 2007, he was President and CEO of Engagement Systems LLC, which created, developed and tested SkillWeighted Portfolio, a turnkey asset management technology platform.

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From 1982 to 2003, Mr. Day was President and CEO of Capital Vectors International (CVI). CVI was one of the premier marketing consulting companies in the financial services industry, serving many of the nation’s top financial firms. Mr. Day served as the lead consultant in the areas of new product development, marketing and distribution. Through his leadership, CVI was a contributor to new products and platforms that have raised over $200 billion in assets under management.

Mr. Day began his career with Connecticut General. He then served as a Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co. where he headed up product development and marketing for alternative investments. 

Mr. Day is a graduate of Lafayette College, where he earned a BA in Economics. After graduation, he served in the US Army and achieved the rank of Captain before entering the business world.

Todd Peters

Chairman - Investment Committee

Mr. Peters’ specialty is the identification, due diligence and application of emerging institutional and non-style box investment strategies. His experience includes being the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lyndhurst Investments. Previously Todd was a Vice President and Senior Market Analyst for Wachovia Securities where he was a senior member of the Consulting Services Research Group providing research oversight to client assets totaling over $26 billion, including discretionary investment management on a $3 billion mutual fund program. He has also worked at Anderson and Strudwick, Inc. and Mercer Investment Consulting.

Mr. Peters maintains NS Capital’s manager database and has personally conducted over 3,500 investment strategy research meetings in the course of his career. ​

Mr. Hahn has been a Registered Investment Advisor Representative for NS Capital since its inception and became a Director in 2013. Mr. Hahn is responsible for the trading and analytical functions within NS Capital. In addition, Mr. Hahn provides investment advisory and portfolio management services for clients. Mr. Hahn’s prior experience in financial services includes his employment with Wedbush Morgan Securities as a trade associate. Mr. Hahn holds a series 65 license and is continuing his pursuit of extended industry excellence.

Mr. Hahn has served on the Board of Directors for the Greenwich YMCA where he focused on membership and programming. Mr. Hahn is a graduate of Bucknell University where he earned a BA in Legal Studies.

Ms. Blair comes to the NS Capital team with over 20 years practical experience in Accounts Services and Operations Management, including Human Resources Management, Computer/IT Management and Marketing Coordination. Prior to her post with NS Capital, Ms. Blair headed up Operations and Investor Services for a multi-subsidiary corporation specializing in Private Placement Offerings and Capital Funding. Prior to that, Ms. Blair spent several years as Human Resources Director for leading construction companies in both Seattle, WA and Scottsdale, AZ, and over a decade as Operations Director for one of New Jersey's largest horticultural nurseries.  

Ms. Blair works out of the Florida location and attended Farleigh Dickinson University.

Mr. Brachfeld has extensive investment experience, both on and off Wall Street. Prior to joining NS Capital, he was a private investor while serving his community as an elected member of the Fairfield Board of Finance from 2009 until 2014 and is currently serving as the vice-chairman of the town’s pension board. His responsibilities to the nearly 300 million dollar pension fund include investment allocation and asset management. He is also involved in the presentation of investment concepts and strategies.

Starting in 1986, he was responsible for primary issuance and secondary market trading of fixed-income securities at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. From 1990 until 1999, Mr. Brachfeld was senior managing director and member of the board of directors at Hilliard Farber & Co., where he managed the trading desk for CMO and asset-backed securities. In 1999 Mr. Brachfeld co-founded and served as president of West Side Capital LLC, a New York based firm specializing in the trading and sales of all fixed income products.

Mr. Brachfeld sits on the finance boards of the Mercy Learning Center in Bridgeport, CT and the High School Scholarship Fund of Fairfield. These boards select and monitor investment assets to support their charitable missions. He also runs a scholarship program for Fairfield students that receive special education services.

Mr. Brachfeld is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BS in economics, majoring in Finance.

Prior to joining NS Capital Mr. Hart was the CEO of Value 401K Advisors, consulting to small and medium size businesses  on plan design, compliance and investments. Previously he had a distinguished three-decade career on Wall Street in institutional trading and sales.

Mr. Hart was a senior executive at two of the industry’s largest institutional fixed income brokers. As a Senior Vice President, Asset Backed Securities at ICAP Securities USA where he was responsible for developing and managing the company’s key strategic relationships with institutional clients. At Cantor Fitzgerald he managed institutional transactions of mortgage-backed, asset-backed and commercial mortgage- backed securities. 

Mr. Hart is a founding member of the Highland Lacrosse Program which fosters youth and high school lacrosse teams. Mr. Hart is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he received a B.A. in Liberal Studies.

Mrs. Ash has an extensive background in marketing and advertising spanning over more than 25 years. She began her career in New York at Ted Bates, Inc., then continued to BBDO where she rose to the position of VP Account Supervisor directing the team on major package goods brands including Gillette and Lever Brothers. After leaving BBDO, Mrs. Ash co-founded Strong & Ash Research, a qualitative research company catering to many Fortune 500 clients. Mrs. Ash joined the NS Capital team in 2009 as a free-lance marketing contributor, and now, as Marketing Manager, leads the company's marketing, branding and promotional efforts, as well as educational and marketing events sponsored by the company.

Mrs. Ash is a graduate of the University of Delaware.

NS Capital Security Team

NS Capital recognizes the importance of not only client privacy and informational integrity, but also the safety of on-site documents, assets and personnel. For this reason, our firm employs only the best (and most adorable) "muscle" to keep us safe!