W2 Freedom, LLC manages the Community Bank Strategic Equity Fund, LLC. The W2 Freedom team is comprised of experienced professionals in the financial services industry, who, on an aggregate basis, have over 90 years of experience in bank management, bank investments, bank acquisitions and investment banking.
Chip Dickson served as Chief US Strategist, Associate Director of Research and Co-Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee for Lehman Brothers, Inc. He ranked among the top Portfolio Strategists in the 2004 and 2005 Institutional Investor All-American polls and was voted an Institutional Investor All-American Analyst five times.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2000, Chip was a Senior Bank Analyst at Salomon Smith Barney and was ranked as an Institutional All-American Analyst. His Bank Analyst career started at Kemper Securities and McDonald & Company Securities from 1986 to 1993. Chip banking career also includes serving as a lending officer for both Central National Bank of Cleveland and First National Bank of Chicago.
Chip Dickson received both a BS in Business Administration and a MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Cutler Investment Center of Babson College.
