About Us

Gregory Stumm is president and CEO of American Beacon Partners and American Beacon Advisors, and holds additional senior leadership positions with other affiliated organizations, including president of the American Beacon Funds complex. He also serves as a member of the companies’ Product Management Committee. During his tenure with American Beacon, Mr. Stumm has served as a senior vice president and head of Distribution. He has also held two national sales manager positions, separately managing Institutional & Platform Sales and Retail Sales. Mr. Stumm joined the organization in November 2012 as a vice president of National Advisory Sales. Prior to joining the organization, Mr. Stumm was an investment director for RS Funds, a subsidiary of Guardian Investor Services, where he was responsible for supporting their advisory clients and representing investment strategies at industry events and conferences. Earlier in his career, Mr. Stumm was a product specialist for the Investment Research Group at PLANCO, a division of The Hartford Mutual Funds, where he was responsible for internal manager research and competitive analysis, supported national key accounts and advisory relationships, and delivered training programs for The Hartford Mutual Funds’ sales representatives. Mr. Stumm earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Philosophy and Politics with a concentration in Economics. He holds FINRA Series 6, 7, 63 and 24 securities licenses. He also is a CFA^® charterholder and a CAIA^® charterholder.

Rebecca L. Harris is the senior vice president and chief operating officer of American Beacon Partners and American Beacon Advisors. In that role, she has oversight responsibility for the Fund Solutions, Information Technologies and Product Solutions departments. Ms. Harris also serves as vice president of the American Beacon Funds complex. In addition, she is a member of the companies’ Product Management Committee. Previously, Ms. Harris was a senior vice president and the head of Product Management, Corporate Development and Affiliate Relations for American Beacon. Since joining American Beacon in 1991, Ms. Harris has held other leadership roles, including those of chief financial officer from 1995 to 2010, mutual fund treasurer from 1995 to 2010, and director of Product Management from 2010 to 2015. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Harris was a financial analyst at Sabre Travel Information Network from 1990 to 1991. She began her career at Ernst & Young after receiving a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University. She is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

Paul B. Cavazos serves as senior vice president and chief investment officer of American Beacon Advisors. He also serves as vice president of the American Beacon Funds complex. In addition, he also is a member of the companies’ Product Management Committee. Mr. Cavazos is responsible for overseeing the investment sub-advisors to the American Beacon Funds and corporate pension plan investments. His comprehensive background includes leading defined benefit and contribution plans, conducting investment manager searches, due diligence and risk-control oversight. Before joining American Beacon in 2016, Mr. Cavazos served as chief investment officer and assistant treasurer at DTE Energy Company in Detroit. He was responsible for the development of asset allocation strategies, as well as fiduciary oversight for DTE’s $10 billion in retirement trust assets. In 2014, Mr. Cavazos received the prestigious CIO Industry Innovation Award of the Year from Chief Investment Officer magazine. Previously, Mr. Cavazos served as chief investment officer at Navistar, where he was responsible for all investment aspects of the company’s $5 billion in retirement trust assets. His experience also includes investment and finance roles at The Boeing Company and Chrysler Corporation. Mr. Cavazos is a member of the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, which is a plan sponsor organization representing more than 120 of the country’s largest pension funds. CIEBA’s members manage more than $2.5 trillion of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets on behalf of more than 16 million plan participants and beneficiaries. Mr. Cavazos served as chairman of the CIEBA Board of Directors from October 2020 to October 2022. He previously served a two-year term as its vice chair. In those roles, he assisted CIEBA on a number of defined benefit and contribution issues. He continues to serve as a director on the CIEBA Board of Directors. Mr. Cavazos earned an MBA in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a B.S. in Finance from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.