Ken Safian, the president of SIR, is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He started his career at Dreyfus & Co. where the legendary Jack Dreyfus served as his early mentor. Ken has served as a director of the NY Society of Security Analysts, as a member of the National Association of Business Economists and is currently on the Executive Committee of Edward Jones and Co. He was a major shareholder and investment policy director for Regent Investor Services, which managed $3 billion and was sold in the early 1990s to Alliance Capital.