Jack Dowd, CFA joined Townsend in May of 2019 and serves as Vice President within the Advisory Group in San Francisco. His responsibilities include strategic and investment planning, portfolio analytics, investment recommendations, and performance reporting for Townsend’s West Coast clients. Other responsibilities include manager due diligence, modeling exercises, and project research.

Prior to his time at Townsend, Mr. Dowd spent 5 years with the Capital Group where he provided equity management and research support for Retail, Institutional, and Private Client portfolio managers. Prior to Capital Group, Mr. Dowd spent 3 years with First American Financial where he worked as a member the Investment Group which managed the fixed income investment portfolio for the company.

Mr. Dowd graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.