OUR PEOPLE
Our firm has three investment counselors and a six-person operations team dedicated to providing exceptional client support.
Joel R. Mogy, CFA
President
Brad A. Stelzer, CFA
Vice President
Daniel A. Inlender
Vice President
Tom Crecelius, MBA
Investment Counselor
Joel R. Mogy, CFA
President
Joel R. Mogy’s career represents 62 years of investment experience. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Professional Licensed Fiduciary in the State of California. He began his professional career working with Peter L. Bernstein, followed by seven years with Lehman Brothers in New York. Joel subsequently returned to California to serve as a principal with the Beverly Hills investment counseling firm of Clark, Mogy and Browne. He established Joel R. Mogy Investment Counsel in 1976. Providing investment counsel on a continuous basis since 1963, Joel has invested during periods of business expansion and contraction, moderate and rapid rates of inflation, high and low interest rates, speculative booms and busts, war and peace, and political crises. With first-hand experience in a large international Wall Street firm, as a principal in a successful independent investment counsel firm, and as the principal of his own firm, he has had the opportunity to implement and evaluate the efficacy of differing investment philosophies, policies, and strategies. As Joel possesses experience with both large and small investment management organizations, he has shaped the firm to provide clients with customized, scalable investment counseling services throughout the client’s lifetime. Joel Mogy is a member of IKAR’s Advisory Board, a former member of the Board of Governors of the AJC – American Jewish Committee and is a past Chairman of Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services. Joel is an elected member of the Stanford Associates.
Brad A. Stelzer, CFA
Vice President
Brad joined the firm in 2004 after graduating from Stanford University. Over the course of his career, Brad has been involved in every aspect of investment counseling, including developing investment policy and strategy, portfolio management, equity and fixed income research, trading and financial planning. Brad is a member of the Firms’ management committee. Brad earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Stanford University and in 2006 earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles.
Tom Crecelius, MBA
Investment Counselor
Tom joined the Firm in the fall of 2019 after spending six years at the Capital Group Companies and earning his MBA from UCLA. During Tom’s career, he has had broad experience in asset management including portfolio design and construction, trading, applied quantitative finance, equity and fixed income research, and client account management. Tom earned a Bachelor of Science in International Political Economy from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and holds an MBA with a specialization in Finance from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Daniel A. Inlender
Vice President
Daniel originally joined the Firm in 2001 after graduating from UCLA. He spent the first 9 years of his tenure at the Firm focused almost exclusively on investments and investment counseling. Daniel now manages the business affairs of the Firm and also supports clients and their families as appropriate. Daniel works to ensure that the Firms infrastructure remains robust and that its mission, vision and strategic goals are realized. Daniel is a member of the Firms’ management committee. Daniel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from UCLA and is active in several philanthropic causes in the Los Angeles community.