Financial Professionals

Ted Wozniak serves as vice president and head of Retail Sales of American Beacon Partners and American Beacon Advisors. He is responsible for the sales and leadership of American Beacon’s team covering the retail sales channel. Before joining American Beacon, Mr. Wozniak served as managing director, head of U.S. Asset Management Distribution at SEI Investments Co. His professional background also includes leadership positions at RS Investments/Victory Capital Management and PLANCO/Hartford Mutual Funds. Early in his career, he worked at Lockwood Financial/BNY Mellon and Rittenhouse Financial/Nuveen Asset Management. Mr. Wozniak graduated from King’s College in Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.S. in Finance in 1996. He is a CFA^® charterholder and holds FINRA Series 7, 24 and 66 licenses.

Jay Schilling serves as vice president and national sales manager of Wealth & Institutional Sales of American Beacon Partners and American Beacon Advisors. He is responsible for leading the American Beacon Sales teams, supporting National Accounts, Institutional & Platform Sales, National DCIO Sales and ARK Invest. Mr. Schilling also supports consultant and advisory relationships and is a member of the companies’ Product Management Committee. Before his 2022 promotion to national sales manager, Mr. Schilling was vice president of Institutional & Platform Sales. Previously, he served as the company’s vice president of National Advisory Sales and Retail Sales, supporting the External Sales team’s relationships with registered investment advisers, banks and broker/dealers. Prior to joining American Beacon in 2014, Mr. Schilling served as an investment director of RS Investments, a subsidiary of Guardian Investor Services, where he was responsible for supporting advisory clients of the firm and representing investment strategies at various industry events and conferences. Mr. Schilling also served as a research analyst with Lockwood Advisors, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, where he performed due diligence for third-party money managers within the International Developed and Emerging Markets asset classes. Mr. Schilling earned a B.S. in Finance from State University of New York at Oswego. He is a CFA^® charterholder and holds FINRA Series 6, 7, 24 and 63 licenses.