Advisors

Advisory Board

Sarah Donnelly

Sarah Donnelly joined GAMCO in 1999 as a junior research analyst working with the consumer staples and media analysts. Currently she is a senior vice president and the Food, Household, and Personal Care products research analyst at G.Research and a portfolio manager for Gabelli Funds, LLC and the Fund. In 2013, she was named the Health & Wellness research platform leader.

Sarah holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Fordham University.

Michael A. Gatto

Mr. Gatto was one of the first employees at Silver Point Capital, a credit-focused hedge fund. After joining the Firm in April 2002, he became the first non-founding partner in January 2003. He has helped grow the business from $120MM of assets under management in 2002 to approximately $13.5 billion currently.

Today, he is the head of the Firm’s Private Side Businesses. Prior to joining Silver Point, Mr. Gatto worked at Goldman Sachs as a senior member within the Special Situations Investing Business.

Mr. Gatto has served on numerous Boards, which have included specialty retailer Party City, New Cotai Holdings (a Macau gaming company), and he was Chairman of the Board of Quinn Industries, an Irish Industrial company.

Outside of Silver Point, Mr. Gatto is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, where he teaches courses on credit analysis, and distressed value & special situation investing.

Mr. Gatto received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from Cornell University.

James Russell Kelly, Chairman

James Russell Kelly, the chairman of the advisory board of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis, is also the founding director of the Center, serving in that position from 2013 until 2024.
He also is an adjunct professor in finance and economics at the Gabelli School of Business, where he teaches courses in value investing and the Student Managed Investment Fund.

Kelly has more than 30 years of experience in the international capital markets, including senior-level positions in international securities sales and trading at Merrill Lynch, where he was vice president of institutional sales; Deutsche Bank Securities, as senior vice president and manager of the international fixed-income sales and trading department; and Auerbach Grayson & Co., as executive vice president of equity emerging markets. While at Deutsche Bank, he also served as marketing director of Deutsche Bank Research, the bank’s macroeconomic research institute. He has been teaching finance at Fordham continuously since 2002.

Kelly holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.