Craig Wietz, Managing Director, Service Bureau

Craig Wietz, Managing Director of Service Bureau, has been part of First Rate since 1995. His main responsibilities include overseeing the teams of analysts responsible for monthly and daily production cycles, developing and maintaining client relationships, coordinating cross-department resources for Service Bureau clients, and strategic planning for all Service Bureau operations.

Among Wietz's many accomplishments, he has overseen an annual growth rate of 50% in revenues and number of portfolios processed over the past six years in the Service Bureau area. Application improvements such as statement processing, model portfolios and benchmark

services have all been embraced and implemented by the Service Bureau area in the past six years.

Before coming to First Rate, Wietz gained several years of performance measurement experience at SEI. Beginning in 1988, Wietz served SEI as a performance analyst and worked as a client support representative. He then moved on to become the manager of the First Rate Service Bureau department and manager of multiple custom programming teams.

Wietz graduated from the University of North Texas in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, majoring in finance.