Mr. Schall has over 35 years of finance, accounting cost management, systems integration and mergers and acquisitions experience. Since 2007, he has served as Chief Financial Officer of six private investment funds, representing a total of $105 million in assets under management, and is President of fund manager CCS Funds, LLC. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer for a number of newsletter publishing businesses, including Mauldin Economics, Risk Hedge, Jared Dillian Money, and Casey Research. Mr. Schaal has worked for multinational companies in California and the Midwest, including Rolls-Royce North America and FMC Corporation. In each, he held senior financial manager roles, focusing on cost management, systems integration, and M&A.

Mr. Schaal graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.