Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington is Chief Executive Officer of Gilman Hill Asset Management, LLC, a boutique investment management firm located in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Ms. Harrington is also Portfolio Manager of the firm’s flagship Equity Income strategy, which she created and has managed since its inception. In this capacity, she is responsible for an equity portfolio with a mandate of generating a 5% or higher aggregate annual dividend yield, with additional potential for capital appreciation.

Ms. Harrington has over twenty-five years of investment experience. Prior to joining Gilman Hill in 2006, she was a Vice President in Private Wealth Management at Neuberger Berman, where she originated the Equity Income strategy that she manages today at Gilman Hill. She began her career as an Analyst in Goldman Sachs’ Private Client Services group, where she worked with high-net-worth individuals and families on a range of investment matters. She subsequently worked as an Associate in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management division, where she served as a strategic liaison for the Investment Banking Division.

A sought-after expert on dividend investing, Ms. Harrington is a CNBC Contributor appearing on the Halftime Report. She is the author of Dividend Investing: Dependable Income to Navigate All Market Environments and the co-author of Investment Wisdom For Our Friends And Loved Ones.

Ms. Harrington serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for Economic Education, on the Sibley Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, where she chairs the Investment Committee, and on both the Johns Hopkins Health System Investment Committee and its Pension Investment Review Committee. Previously, she served as a Trustee of her alma mater, Hollins University.

She received her MBA from Columbia University and her BA from Hollins University, where she graduated cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Jenny lives in an 18th-century house in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals. In her spare time, she enjoys riding, skiing, reading, gardening, and backyard maple sugaring.