Michael G. Trotsky, CFA is an investment management professional with over 20 years of experience.  Prior to joining PRIM as its Executive Director, Mr. Trotsky was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Care Security Trust (“HCST”), the state government agency charged with the dual responsibility of 1) managing and investing payments Massachusetts receives from the tobacco litigation settlement, and 2) managing and investing the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund (“SRBTF”), the fund that invests assets allocated by state and local government agencies to fund the health care benefits of retired government employees. Prior to joining the HCST, Mr. Trotsky was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for 5 years at PAR Capital Management, a Boston-based absolute return strategy fund, where he was directly responsible for investment decisions, research, trading, and administration of an investment fund.

Before that, Mr. Trotsky spent nearly 5 years at Greenberg-Summit Partners in Boston, serving as Senior Analyst responsible for technology investments. Before that, that Mr. Trotsky spent over 7 years as Principal and Senior Vice President at Independence Investment Associates in Boston, where he served as both a portfolio manager and senior analyst, and also served on the firm’s valuation committee. Mr. Trotsky entered the investment management profession in 1990 after 6 years at Intel Corporation, where he was a Senior Field Sales Engineer.

Mr. Trotsky received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, and his MBA (with a concentration in Finance) from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1990. Mr. Trotsky has served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee at the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2007. Mr. Trotsky earned his Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) charter in 1994. Mr. Trotsky lives in Belmont with his wife, Amy, and their son, Benjamin. Mr. Trotsky also serves on the Finance Committee at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge.

Hannah Commoss is responsible for PRIM’s Public Markets investment programs, which includes oversight, monitoring and due-diligence for the PRIT Fund's Domestic Equity, International Equity, Emerging Markets Equity, Core Fixed Income, Value-Added Fixed Income and Hedge Fund of Funds asset classes.  Prior to joining PRIM in August of 2004, Hannah was with HarbourVest Partners, a global private equity investment firm, in Boston.  Hannah graduated cum laude from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, and received her MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, MA. 

David Gurtz is responsible for the risk monitoring of PRIM, which includes monitoring and due diligence of investment managers as well as monitoring of internal processes.  David is also responsible for the implementation of the risk measurement system. Prior to joining the PRIM Board in 2008, David was a Senior Manager at KPMG auditing clients such as hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds. Prior to KPMG, David was a Controller for 2 years at Capstone Investments, a NASD broker/dealer that specializes in servicing hedge funds.  David earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Bucknell University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

As PRIM’s Chief Financial Officer, Tom Hanna oversees the PRIM Board’s finance operations.  He  is responsible for accounting and reporting for PRIT’s investments, overseeing annual audits, documenting and maintaining internal controls, monitoring the master custodian’s work, cash management and reporting for PRIM’s clients, and general office operations such as payroll, human resources, and administrative support. Tom joined PRIM as a Senior Investment Analyst in May of 2000 and moved through the ranks as Director of Accounting and Director of Finance before being promoted to Chief Financial Officer in May of 2011. Prior to joining PRIM Tom worked as an investments auditor for the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Mr. Hanna has over 16 years’ experience in the accounting and finance field and over 13 years’ of experience working in the public pension fund arena. Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Stan Mavromates joined PRIM on February 1, 2000. His responsibilities are to provide the overall investment strategy and asset allocation for the fund and to evaluate, select, monitor and manage external investment managers. As CIO, he supervises internal investment professionals, support staff and outside consultants and advises the Investment and Real Estate/Timber Committees and Board. Prior to joining PRIM, Stan was an investment consultant for John Hancock Financial Services, responsible for investment oversight, due diligence, and selection of investment managers for Hancock's variable products, 401K, and pension plans. He is a graduate of Bentley College’s MBA program and a graduate of Northeastern University, with a concentration in international business and finance, and is an IEEE Investment Committee Member At Large. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 5 years.

Tim Schlitzer directs the investment activities for PRIM’s allocation to real estate and timberland. Tim’s responsibilities include portfolio oversight and manager selection for PRIM’s direct real estate, REIT and timberland investments. He also oversees 13 current manager relationships in both the private and public real estate and timber markets.  Tim joined PRIM in 2005 and was previously employed by Grubb & Ellis, a publicly traded commercial real estate services company. He has received an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston, MA and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

Chris Supple joined PRIM as its General Counsel after more than 20 years of law practice divided almost equally between the public and private sectors. Chris’ government experience includes over 5 years as a federal prosecutor and 6 years as legal counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts and to the Secretary of Administration and Finance. Chris also spent over 10 years in a private law practice focused on government and litigation, where his clients included businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and government agencies (including both PRIM and also the MA Health Care Security Trust, where Chris served as outside legal counsel for 10 years).  Chris has litigated in state and federal courts throughout the country, and has successfully tried over 25 cases to jury verdict, tried dozens of cases to judges sitting without juries, argued hundreds of evidentiary and non-evidentiary motions, and settled hundreds of cases by negotiated agreement.  In addition to practicing law, Chris served two 5-year terms on the Board of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and taught a course in Federal Criminal Prosecution at Suffolk Law School.  Chris has also been very active in autism advocacy.  Chris earned his law degree with honors from Duke University, and his BA from Holy Cross College.

Paul Todisco returned to the PRIM staff on September 15, 2008 after a six-year hiatus. During that time, Paul served as the Executive Director of Health Care Security Trust (“HCST”), the endowment created by the Commonwealth to invest a portion of the annual payments Massachusetts receives from the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement that arose from a class action suit between 46 states and the big tobacco manufacturers. Between his service at HCST and PRIM, Paul has four decades of experience in the public investment fund arena. Having originally joined PRIM in 1984 as a seminal member of the staff, Paul played an integral role in developing PRIM’s modern client service program, in particular, working on legislative strategy that led to the passage of a bill that created the highly successful “Segmentation” program. Prior to joining PRIM, Paul served as Staff and Research Director for the Joint Committee on Public Service in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1982-1984, where he advised the Committee members on legislation concerning public pensions, collective bargaining, civil service, and state and municipal administrative matters. He is a graduate of Suffolk University (B.S. cum laude 1976).