ABOUT OUR CHAIRMAN - David Kusin
 David Kusin is the founder and president of Kusin & Company, an institutional economic research firm focused exclusively on the trade issues involving the movement of fine art, decorative art, and antiquities; and on the portfolio risk characteristics of fine art, decorative art, and antiquities as a special asset class. Though highly specialized, his firm serves an international array of clients typical of economic research firms in general: banks, central banks, governments (both cabinet ministries and agencies), trade associations, and institutional investors. Kusin comments frequently in the media and lectures on a range of related topics. For further details, go to www.kusin.com. Prior to founding Kusin & Company in 1998, Kusin began his career in 1974 as head of the Department of High School Programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leaving after three years to attend business school. From 1979 until 1986, he worked as an investment banker in New York (Ehrlich-Bober & Company) and San Francisco (Birr Wilson & Company), and was COO/CFO in New York of the American subsidiary of Phillips Son & Neale during 1986-1987, also serving as the firm's expert in classical antiquities. From 1989-1998, Kusin worked on a number of financings on his own account and for others, and also was the last named art critic of the Dallas Times-Herald up to the time of its demise in December 1991. As a teacher, during his tenure at the Metropolitan, Kusin served as adjunct professor of Art History during 1975-1977 at New York University teaching a required degree course, "Research Methods in Art History." He next taught as Visiting Professor of Finance in the MBA Program during 1988-1989 at Texas Christian University, teaching introductory and advanced corporate finance and risk arbitrage. His education is from the University of Texas where he earned a BA with special honors in Plan II and in Classics as the William J. Battle Scholar in Classics; from Gonville & Caius College (Cambridge) where he spent a year studying Etruscan metalwork and fourth century Attic iconography; and from Harvard where he earned an MBA. Kusin lives in Dallas with his wife and teenage son. He chairs the board of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library and serves as economic adviser for The Texarkana Independent School District Foundation. |
Officers: Chair: President, Kusin & Company Vice Chair:
Treasurer: Douglas Nichols Assistant Treasurer: Secretary/Counsel Pollock Investments Corp. Secretary: Community Volunteer Assistant Secretary: Executive Director, Rosewood Foundation Director of Libraries: Director, Ex-Officio |
Board of Directors:
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