Ivan was a senior vice president at AllianceBernstein where he worked for over 26 years as a portfolio manager and business development professional - most recently developing performance-based fees for mutual funds (called FlexFees at AB). This award-winning concept allows investors to pay low, passive-like fees unless the investment manager outperforms. Throughout his career, Ivan was at the forefront of developing new investment strategies and concepts - all designed to improve investor outcomes. From his initial work on the very first synthetic GIC (now known as Stable Value), to his most recent efforts to allow mutual fund shares to be bought and sold at NAV through a stock exchange, Ivan’s creative disruptions have all kept central the idea that investors must be the ultimate beneficiaries.