Firm Biographies

For the past 30 years, his area of responsibility is in the management of Defined Contribution Plans and Defined Benefit Plans.  He is actively involved in the design, installation and ongoing asset management of retirement plans.  He currently represents public and privately held corporations throughout the East Coast.  Mr. Ohanesian employs an extensive list of rigorous standards and practices in managing pension plans as established by the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies. 

In addition Mr. Ohanesian advises numerous Trusts and Foundations assisting them in establishing Investment Policy Statements and setting up monitoring policies and practices that encompass their stated investment objectives.  As an (AIF) Accredited Investment Fiduciary Mr. Ohanesian is also a co-fiduciary of the plans he advises.

Prior to joining Ohanesian / Lecours,  Mr. Ohanesian worked at major Wall Street firms including Paine Webber and E.F. Hutton where he traded institutional corporate and municipal bonds.  Mr. Ohanesian is a graduate of Kenyon College.
 

Ronald G. Lecours, CFP

Ron Lecours is Sr. Vice President and partner of Ohanesian / Lecours.  He has helped to build the investment firm where he now manages over $100 million of retirement assets for his clients.

Ron has come to specialize in the unique rules, investment management, distribution, and estate planning considerations for IRAs and other assets for retirement income planning.  http://www.thelecoursreport.com

Mr. Lecours is a Certified Financial Planner and has been a Board Member of the International Association for Financial Planning and the Institute of Certified Financial Planners. In his effort to refine his education and training, Ron has been designated as a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, and most recently, he was named to Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor Group^®, a national network of IRA specialists. Ron is a member of the Connecticut Chapter of The Financial Planning Association, and The Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford.

He graduated from the University of Connecticut where he majored in Psychology and he pursued a M.Ed. from Boston College

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Sandra L. Hart

Sandy Hart is a Vice President with Ohanesian / Lecours. She is currently responsible for managing the operational and administrative support staff as well as developing and implementing company policy in these areas.  She oversees the communications and equipment technologies along with managing the office space and its furnishings.

She has been with the Firm since its inception in 1989.  Her role at Ohanesian / Lecours has taken her through all facets of the business from the front desk to licensing to payroll and benefits to operations and to management.  Prior to helping start the Firm, Mrs. Hart worked at Paine Webber.

Clifford B. Backes

Clifford Backes is a Principal and Senior Vice President of Ohanesian / Lecours.  Mr. Backes has been in the investment business sine 1982. His focus is long-term building of wealth for individual investors. He utilizes a proprietary system of investment analysis drawing from strict top-down fundamental analysis and his experience as a technical analyst and stock market historian.

Prior to joining Ohanesian / Lecours in 1992, Mr. Backes worked with First Investors Corp., Mosley Securities and Fahnestock & Company. Mr. Backes is a Registered Options Principal.
 

Clifford Jarvis

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