John Dodd
Managing Director, Institutional Markets at Victory Capital Management Inc.
About
John Dodd is Managing Director, Institutional Markets at Victory Capital Management Inc., based in New York, NY, where he leads strategic sales initiatives targeting institutional investors. He specializes in raising and managing assets for corporate pension plans, healthcare systems, and other large institutional clients, with particular expertise across equities, fixed income, and alternative investments.
With over 25 years of experience in institutional asset management, Dodd has a track record of securing over $25 billion in assets. His career includes senior leadership roles at Paradigm Capital Management, Spouting Rock Asset Management, Levin Capital Strategies, and other leading firms, focusing on institutional sales and marketing strategies.
Dodd holds a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He is recognized for his deep relationships with institutional allocators, his breadth of product knowledge, and significant contributions to distribution strategy within the asset management industry.
Career History
| Organization | Role | Date Range | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victory Capital | Managing Director, Institutional Markets | Jan 2022 to Present | Strategic sales efforts and face-to-face meetings directly target Institutional Investors and Allocators on the East Coast primarily, as well as the Mid-West and West Coast- I focus largely on working... |
| Paradigm Capital Management | Head Of Marketing | Jan 2020 to Jan 2022 | Paradigm Capital Management has a long history as a leader in Small Cap Investing, using a consistent, disciplined, bottom-up investment approach with an emphasis on fundamental analysis and extensive... |
| Spouting Rock Asset Management | Head of Institutional Distribution | Jan 2018 to Dec 2019 | Spouting Rock Asset Management is a boutique investment management firm that is focused on finding inefficient strategies in the market and has created a suite of unique, differentiated strategies to ... |
| Levin Capital Strategies | Principal, Head of Institutional Marketing | Jul 2010 to Feb 2018 | Led the Sales/Marketing efforts of $8.95 billion private, investment management firm, specializing in domestic and global equity strategies, alternative investment strategies (hedge funds- long/short ... |
| Security Global Investors/Rydex (became Guggenheim Partners) | Managing Director- Institutional Sales and New Business Development | Mar 2008 to Jul 2010 | As senior institutional sales producer/manager and part of the leadership team at SGI, was integral in increasing and building out the global institutional marketing and new business efforts and raisi... |
| US Trust Asset Management | Managing Director- Head of Institutional Sales | Mar 2006 to Mar 2008 | Head of US Trust Asset Management’s Institutional Sales and Consultant Relations Groups for U.S. Trust Company. As primarily salesman/player-coach, focused nationally, with team, on growing assets in... |
| Friess Associates | Head of Sales | Oct 2001 to Mar 2006 | Head of Sales and primary producer at this boutique equity firm that specializes in growth equity strategies across all market capitalizations (Small Cap, SMid Cap, Mid Cap, All Cap and Large Cap). Si... |
| The Boston Company Asset Management | Regional Director and Vice President Asset Management - Marketing and Client Service | Apr 1996 to Oct 2001 | Senior Institutional Regional Salesman/Manager, with focus on marketing to U.S. corporate pensions and public funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and family offices, on the east coast... |
| New England Investment Associates (New England Investment Companies) | VIce President-Marketing and Client Service | May 1993 to Jun 1996 | Marketed for 6 subsidiary investment managers on centralized team to institutional investors (public funds, corporates, endowments, foundations and insurance) and investment consultants for most of ... |
| Goldman Sachs | Senior Associate and Institutional Sales | Jul 1987 to Jan 1993 | Institutional Mortgage-Backed and Derivatives Salesman in the Taxable Fixed Income Division, focused on selling Mortgage-Backed Securities, Derivatives (CMO’s, IO’s PO’s etc), Asset Backed Securities,... |
Education
Dartmouth College
Columbia Business School
Skills & Expertise
Others at Victory Capital Management Inc. (26)
| Name | Role | Location |
|---|---|---|
C Chris Dyer | Director of Fund Administration and President, Victory Funds | North Ridgeville, OH , United States |
C Cody Perkins | Senior Portfolio Manager - Money Markets | San Antonio, TX , United States |
 | Portfolio Manager and Analyst | Loveland, OH , United States |
M Michael Koskuba | Senior Portfolio Manager | New York, NY , United States |
 | Portfolio Manager and Analyst, Growth Group | San Francisco, CA , United States |
P Pete Carpenter | Senior Portfolio Manager | Wellesley, MA , United States |
 | Research Analyst | Avon, OH , United States |
S Steve Bishop | Portfolio Manager | San Francisco, CA , United States |
A Adam Mezan | Equity Research Analyst | Berkeley, CA , United States |
A Alexander Pham | Investment Partners | Los Angeles, CA , United States |