Oran's track record includes managing, up to 1996, five investment funds valued then at over $5 billion. These included pension funds, diversified multi-currency international portfolios, and unitized funds, all of which showed outstanding performance.  He priced, negotiated, and managed the purchase of NEM Jamaica Ltd’s stock to facilitate the takeover of the company by Jamaica M&N Ltd and managed the take over of Guardian Life by Mutual Life.  He was also responsible for developing Security Brokers Limited to become the dominant trader in Government securities between 1984 and 1987.

Oran has been a lecturer of Personal Financial Planning at the University College of the Caribbean since 2004 and is a regular financial columnist for the Gleaner, Jamaica's leading daily newspaper.

Oran gained his BA (Hons) degree with an Economics major from the University of the West Indies. His subsequent professional education and training include personal financial planning, wealth management, financial analysis, pensions, behavioural finance, investing during retirement, corporate governance, ethics, trusts, securities, investment management, money laundering, and AML compliance.  Most of his training was accredited by the Canadian Securities Institute from which he earned the following: Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI), Certified Investment Manager (CIM) and Financial Management Advisor (FMA), and the Financial Services Commission  He recently co-authored a popular book, “The Handbook of Personal Financial Planning”  (Actman Int.) for the Jamaican market.

Oran has been addressing church, community and employee groups on personal financial planning issues for over twenty years.