Nicholas A. Caruso

Nicholas A. Caruso Jr. is Senior Vice President and Chief Wealth Strategist of
Wolverine Investments, where his duties range from portfolio management and
research to new business development. As a strategist, he designs and monitors
customized technical indictors to measure market momentum and investor
psychology. Prior to joining Wolverine Investments in 2005, he spent the
majority of his investment career with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where he was a
Vice President of the Private Client Group. Over his long career, Mr. Caruso
utilized both proprietary technical and fundamental investment strategies to
reduce exposure to risk while enhancing growth of principal opportunities. He
maintains that providing clients with portfolio protection and income
enhancement is the most common sense approach to producing more consistent
portfolio returns. After graduating from Sacred Heart University with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Business, he attended Bridgeport University where he earned a
Master of Business Administration degree. He also served in the Military
Intelligence division of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.