Gabriel Hament joined Cumberland in late 2015 to assist with the firm’s Foundation and Charitable Accounts. Gabriel is an Investment Advisor Representative. In addition to serving the firm’s nonprofit institutional clients, Gabriel works with individuals to align client portfolios with their unique objectives. Gabriel was previously a political consultant in the Sarasota region, where he supervised and coordinated campaign messaging, fundraising, and field outreach programs. A native of Sarasota, he earned his B.A. in political science with a minor in history as a John V. Lombardi Scholar at the University of Florida. Gabriel is a graduate of the Connect Florida Institute, a sister organization of Leadership Florida. The mission of Connect Florida is to educate, engage, and inspire the state’s top emerging leaders. Gabriel is a member of the Programming Committee of the Sarasota Tiger Bay Club, which promotes community understanding of current political and social issues through public discourse and the free exchange of ideas. The Sarasota Tiger Bay Club is a nonpartisan political organization established in 1982.In March 2017 Gabriel was appointed by the Sarasota County School Board to serve as a member of the Financial Advisory Committee (FAC). The FAC was created to provide citizens’ oversight of the district’s use of operating funds from the 1-mill locally voted referendum that was originally approved in 2002 and most recently reauthorized in 2018. The FAC provides oversight for the use of capital funding generated by the district’s share of a one-percent county sales tax. The FAC also monitors the District’s investment accounts ($50 Million Core Portfolio). Gabriel has also served on the board of directors of the Pine View Foundation. Gabriel is a 2019 Level II candidate in the CFA program.