Hayden Prescott

Hayden Prescott is an Alternative Investment Accounting Analyst at William Harris Investors, Inc, a privately-owned investment and wealth management firm. The firm provides accounting and bookkeeping services, estate and tax planning, insurance oversight, philanthropic grants management, tax planning and compliance, trust administration, and wealth transfer planning services to its clients.

Prescott holds a Master’s degree in Managerial Accounting, Finance, and Strategy Execution Valuation from DePaul University – Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. He was the former SEVAA Board President of Beta Gamma Sigma, an organization that recognizes academic excellence in business studies.

Prescott earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in Economics, Operations Management, Information Systems, International Business, 3.3 from Loyola University of Chicago – School of Business Adminstration.

Prescott serves as Business Volunteer for the Arts of Arts & Business, which aims to help non-profits forge Strategic Plans and Strategic Visions to maximize value for their constituents and donors through efficiency of structure and vision.

About William Harris Investors, Inc

William Harris Investors, Inc. (WHI) is a privately-owned investment and wealth management firm that serves as the family office for the Irving B. Harris family. Founded in 1976 by Irving B. Harris to manage his own family’s capital, WHI today provides investment and wealth management services to four generations of the Harris family.

WHI’s overall investment goal is to achieve attractive long-term, risk-adjusted returns while protecting capital during volatile markets. They invest in a broad array of strategies including public and private equities, fixed income, venture capital, hedge funds, and real estate. WHI also provides the family a broad range of professional and wealth management services including financial and estate planning, trust services, cash management, accounting and administrative services, tax preparation, and a variety of philanthropic services. In addition, their affiliate WHI Trust Company, LLC provides trustee and trust administration and other services for Harris family trusts and a select group of other clients.

WHI provides its services to individuals, high net worth individuals, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, families, endowments, and foundations. The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It also invests in investment vehicles. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to create its portfolios. It obtains external research to complement its in-house research.

WHI strives to maintain the high levels of integrity, loyalty, and excellence that Irving B. Harris expected when he began the company nearly a half a century ago, and which enabled their founder to leave behind a strong legacy of fairness, intelligence, and service for the benefit of others.