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Israel Englander
Millennium Management

Israel Englander is the managing member of Millennium Management LLC and Millennium International Management LP. He is also the general partner’s chairman and chief executive officer.

Israel has over 35 years of experience in securities and derivatives across a broad range of instruments and strategies. He worked as a floor broker and trader on the American Stock Exchange, has owned a specialist operation since 1982, is former chairman of the Specialist Association and has served on numerous American Stock Exchange committees, including Allocations, Allocation Procedures, Emerging Company Marketplace, Options and Special Allocations. He founded Millennium in 1989 with $35 million under management.

Israel graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Finance, and attended New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a member of the Investment Risk Committee of the General Partner. 

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Barbara G. Novick
BlackRock

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Paul Ruddock
Lansdowne Partners

Paul Ruddock is a co-founder and CEO of Lansdowne Partners.

Until he founded Lansdowne Partners in July 1998, Paul was, from 1992, managing director and head of the International Department of Schroder & Co. Inc. which he had joined in 1984. From 1993, he was also a director of Schroder Securities Europe Limited. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the executive committee of Schroder Securities Limited. From 1980 to 1984 he was an institutional equity salesman at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Paul holds a M.A.(Hons) and a first class B.A.(Hons) in Law from Mansfield College, Oxford University. Paul is Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford University and a director of the Alternative Investment Management Association.

Daniel Arbess
Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management

Daniel Arbess is a partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, where he serves as portfolio manager for its $1.2 billion distressed/multi-event driven Xerion strategy.       

The Xerion strategy invests opportunistically from the bottom-up across corporate capital structures and from the top-down with a global thematic perspective.  Perella Weinberg is an advisory and asset management firm with $4.9 billion under management and committed capital as of September 1, 2009.

Prior to joining Perella Weinberg, he was the founder and chief investment officer of Xerion Capital Partners, which was acquired by and joined with Perella Weinberg in October 2007. Dan has been involved in complex corporate reorganizations and special situations for most of his professional career.  He has participated in creditors' committees for companies such as Polaroid, Solutia and Chrysler.  Before moving to the principal side of the investment business in 1995, he was a partner and head of global privatization at law firm White & Case. He received law degrees at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and the Harvard Law School.

Timothy Babich
Fortelus Capital Management

Timothy Babich is the founder of Fortelus Capital Management LLP.

Fortelus Capital Management is a London-based, $550 million European corporate distressed and credit fund that Tim launched in 2007.

Tim was previously a day -1 investment professional at Silverpoint Capital which was founded in 2001 with an AUM of $70 million. The firm grew to $10 billion AUM, during which time Tim started the European business out of London and managed the European Portfolio with $1.5 billion in assets. Prior to that he was an associate at the $2.7 billion private-equity fund The Beacon Group (later part of JPMorgan Partners) and also worked for Goldman Sachs in the investment banking division. He graduated summa cum laude from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, achieving a MBA, BS Finance and BS Engineering in four and a half years.

Indrajit Bardhan
Credit Suisse

Indrajit Bardhan is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the investment banking division, based in New York. He is head of prime services risk as well as head of prime services Americas, and is responsible for funding and liquidity for the equity division.

Indrajit joined Credit Suisse in 2009 from Merrill Lynch, where he was COO of prime services responsible for risk, profitability and strategy, and head of funding, capital and liquidity for the equities division. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Indrajit spent 13 years with Goldman Sachs Securities Services in New York and London where he traded a range of products including convertibles, warrants, stock loan and delta one products.

Indrajit holds a Bachelors degree from IIT in Mumbai India, as well as a Masters and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He lives in New York with his wife and four children.

J Kyle Bass
Hayman Advisors

J Kyle Bass is the principal of Hayman Advisors LP, a SEC registered investment advisor. Hayman Advisors serves as the investment manager to the Hayman Capital Master Fund LP, a global macro fund based in Dallas. Kyle is also a member of Hayman Municipal Strategies LLC and Hayman Woods LLC.

Kyle was recently featured in CNBC’s documentary, House of Cards, concerning his investment analysis of the subprime crisis and the two funds that he co-managed, Subprime Credit Strategies Fund, LP and Subprime Credit Strategies Fund II, LP.  In September 2007, he testified as an expert witness before the House of Representatives Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee. Kyle is also a director of the ABS Credit Derivatives Users Association Inc.

Kyle graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate Finance from Texas Christian University in May 1992. 

Marc Blieden
Financial Risk Management (FRM)

Marc Blieden is head of risk at Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global fund of hedge funds group managing $9 billion for institutional and other sophisticated investors. Marc chairs the firm’s Risk Committee and is a member of FRM’s Investment Executive. 

He directs FRM’s assessment and monitoring of business, investment and liquidity risks in hedge fund investments and manages the firm’s business risk group as well as its risk managers. Previously, he worked as a product control manager at Cantor Fitzgerald Brokers and a finance manager at Chase Manhattan Bank.

Marc is a chartered accountant and holds an Accounting Science (Hons) degree from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Commerce from Rhodes University, South Africa.  Marc joined FRM in July 2000 to establish its business risk group and is based in New York.

Darcy Bradbury
D.E. Shaw

Darcy Bradbury is a senior vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and the director of external affairs for the D. E. Shaw group. 

Darcy is the firm’s primary representative to a number of industry associations and was elected chair of the board of the Managed Funds Association in September 2009.  She has over 25 years of experience in finance in both the private and public sectors; including serving as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury and deputy comptroller for the City of New York. She entered the alternatives industry in 2001 as a managing director and partner of Mezzacappa Management, LLC.  Darcy joined the D. E. Shaw group in 2007, after serving as a managing director of, and co-head of client relations and marketing for, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management L.P. 

She received a M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School and an A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University.

Henry Bregstein
Katten Muchin Rosenman

Henry Bregstein is a member of the financial services practice, chairman of the structured products practice and co-managing partner of Katten's New York office.

He advises on and offshore hedge funds, funds of funds, CTAs, investment advisors, commodity pools, banks, broker-dealers, and insurance companies on a broad range of regulatory, securities, tax, finance, licensing, litigation, and other legal matters. Henry has garnered many awards throughout his career, most recently being named to the Chambers 2009 Leaders in their Field in the National Investment Funds: Hedge Funds category; has authored numerous articles; and is a frequent and sought-after lecturer on hedge funds, investment management and related topics.

Frank Brosens
Taconic Capital Advisors
 
Frank Brosens is a co-founder of Taconic Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy firm primarily focused on event investing in the Americas and Europe with assets under management exceeding $6 billion. He is primarily involved in management and risk control, and oversees Taconic’s investment activities.

Frank spent 15 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a general partner. While at Goldman, Sachs & Co., he was head of the risk arbitrage area, the stock options business, the equity derivatives area, the Japanese warrants business (which he co-founded), as well as co-head of the energy trading business. He also served on several of the firm’s principal investment committees. Frank serves as a director of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO). He formerly served as Chairman of the Board of the Northern Westchester Hospital.

Frank received a B.S.E. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1979, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is married and has four boys.

John Burbank
Passport Capital

John Burbank is the founder, managing member and chief investment officer of Passport Capital, LLC, a San Francisco based, global hedge fund. 

The firm manages approximately $2.1 billion in assets. Passport’s investment process uses a combination of macroeconomic analysis to develop major themes and rigorous fundamental research on individual companies to create global portfolios.  The investment team focuses on the following industry sectors: Basic Materials, Energy, India, Global Capital Markets, Internet/Technology, Global Consumer, Healthcare/Biotechnology and Subprime Mortgage CDS. 

John has over a decade of experience investing in global equity markets. Prior to founding Passport Capital in 2000, he was a consultant to JMG Triton Offshore, Ltd., a $1 billion market neutral arbitrage fund. From 1996 to 1998, he was the director of research at ValueVest Management. John holds a B.A. degree from Duke University and earned a M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Business School.

Issac Corré
Eton Park Capital Management

Isaac Corré is a senior managing director at Eton Park Capital Management where he is responsible for the event-oriented activities. 

Prior to joining Eton Park, Isaac was a partner at Scoggin Capital Management, a New York-based multi-strategy hedge fund. Isaac clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law for more than nine years. His legal practice focused principally on complex commercial litigation, involving mergers and acquisitions, securities issuance, corporate governance and bankruptcy. He graduated with a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 1985 and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989.

Isaac serves on the Board of Trustees of the Yeshiva University business school. He is also on the advisory board for the Program on Corporate Governance for Harvard Law School, as well as a member of the board of advisors for the Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
 

Athanassios Diplas
Deutsche Bank

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Mark Enman
Man Investments

Mark Enman is head of global macro of Man Investments’ multi-manager solutions business and is based in New York. 

Prior to joining the company in 2008, Mark worked at Arden Asset Management, a New York-based fund of hedge funds, where he focused on relative value, credit and global macro strategies. Previously, Mark was global head of USD rates trading at Dresdner Kleinwort, responsible for the trading of treasury, agency and supra/sovereign debt, as well as IRS and options. From 1989 to 2003, Mark worked at Merrill Lynch & Co., most recently as managing director and head of equity ecommerce and trading technology in the Americas. Previously, he was head of European swaps trading and the global head of FX options trading in London. Mark was also head of Merrill Lynch’s Australasian fixed income business in Sydney, Australia.

Mark holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Economics from Lafayette College.

Edward Fishman, CFA
D. E. Shaw

Eddie Fishman is the managing director in charge of investor relations for the D. E. Shaw group’s alternative investment platform, and participates in the development of the firm’s private equity business strategy.

Prior to joining the D. E. Shaw group in 1995, Eddie served as an equity research analyst at the Spanish investment firm A.B. Asesores, now a unit of Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. He has been engaged in a number of business development activities at the firm and formerly had management responsibility for a multi-manager portfolio the firm once advised and shared responsibility for the operations of D. E. Shaw Research, LLC, which focuses on the conceptualization, early-stage development, and financing of technology-oriented ventures.

Eddie graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature.

John J. FitzGibbon
Lighthouse Investment Partners

John J. FitzGibbon serves as a managing director of Lighthouse Investment Partners LLC and a member of the Investment Committee as well chairman of the Lighthouse Global Trading Committee and acts as the lead investment analyst on several single-strategy and multi-strategy portfolios. John is actively involved in all levels of manager selection, due diligence, portfolio-construction and risk management, with a focus on managed accounts.

Founded in 1999, Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC is a fund of hedge funds investment adviser managing approximately $5 billion for institutional and private investors with offices in Florida, Chicago, New York, London and Hong Kong. The proprietary managed account program is the hallmark of Lighthouse’s investment process.

Since joining in 2001, John has been involved in managing fund of fund portfolios. Prior to Lighthouse, he traded as a full member of the CME in FX and equity index futures and options.

Ross Garon
S.A.C. Capital Advisors

Ross Garon is managing director, quantitative strategies at S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P.

From 2002 until early 2009, Ross was the co-founder and managing member of Tykhe Capital LLC. He began his career in quantitative finance in 1993 when he joined D. E. Shaw & Co. and was a member of the team that established the firm's London presence and successful customer business in equity-linked securities (now KBC Financial Products). In 1994, he moved to Tokyo to establish the Japanese presence of D. E. Shaw Securities International. In 1997, Ross joined Commerzbank's fledgling securities operation as the head of global business management. In 1998, he returned to New York to become responsible for Commerzbank's equities business in the United States. In 2000, he co-founded Blink.com, an internet technology company, which was subsequently sold.

Ross graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

Michael Geismar
Quantitative Investment Management

Michael Geismar co-founded Quantitative Investment Management with Jaffray Woodriff in 2003. As the president of QIM, Michael oversees the implementation of the firm's investment models and its portfolio management. Michael also manages investor relations and QIM's general business affairs.

Michael and Jaffray first worked together from January 1994 until July 1994, when Michael was an assistant trader at Blue Ridge Trading. Michael then worked as an actuary and benefits consultant for Towers Perrin from September 1994 until August 1996, Coopers & Lybrand from August 1996 until October 1997, and William M. Mercer from October 1997 until October 1998, when he joined Capital One Financial as an analyst. In February 2000, he re-joined Jaffray, assisting in the development of an equities investment program that led the two to co-found DHR.

Michael graduated from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a B.A. in Mathematics and a minor in Statistics.

Michael P. Hennessy
Morgan Creek Capital Management

Michael P. Hennessy is a co-founder and managing director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. Morgan Creek provides investment services based on the University Endowment model of investment management. Morgan Creek is a joint venture partner with Salient Partners and Hatteras Partners. Total assets are roughly $9 billion.

Prior to forming Morgan Creek in 2004, Mike was vice president and co-founder of UNC Management Company (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Prior to joining UNC in 1999, he was an investment director at Duke Management Company (Duke University). Before joining Duke in 1991, Mike was an associate at Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm.

Mike received his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and holds a B.S. in Philosophy, Psychology and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He is treasurer of Duke University Federal Credit Union, a member of the Carolina Friends School Board of Trustees, chair of the Carolina Friends School Investment Committee, and a member of the College of William & Mary Foundation Board of Trustees and its Investment Committee.

Christopher Hilditch
Schulte Roth & Zabel

Christopher Hilditch is an investment management partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (SRZ) and head of the firm’s London office. He advises institutional and entrepreneurial managers on structuring investment funds, especially hedge funds and provides ongoing advice on prime brokerage arrangements, investment transactions and investor relations, as well as on regulatory, corporate, securities and partnership law issues.

SRZ, a 450-lawyer multidisciplinary firm with offices in London, New York and Washington, D.C., is widely known for its representation of investment funds, fund managers, banks and insurance companies in connection with hedge, private equity and mutual fund formations, and for the regulatory advice it provides investment advisers, broker-dealers, commodity pool operators and trading advisory organizations.

Chambers UK, Legal 500, PLC Cross-border Investment Funds Handbook and The International Who’s Who of Private Fund Lawyers all list Christopher as a leader in his field.  He is a graduate of Oxford University.
 

Arzhang Kamarei
Thesys Technologies

Arzhang Kamarei is a managing partner and co-founder of Thesys Technologies, LLC, an incubator company for high frequency trading strategists. He is in charge of business affairs at Thesys, including development and sourcing of new managers in the high frequency space.

Arzhang’s experience also includes serving as the chief operating officer for Tradeworx, Inc., a quantitative hedge fund with expertise in medium frequency and high frequency trading. He began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the International Equities Division, where he served as a market-maker and proprietary trader in European, Asian, and Canadian shares.

Arzhang is a Chartered Financial Analyst and received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his masters from New York University.

Joel Katzman
Independent Consultant

Joel Katzman was previously president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Alternative Asset Management, Inc. from its inception in 1995 until his retirement in April 2005. In this role he was responsible for developing and managing hedge fund of fund products for JPMorgan Chase's institutional and private banking clients.

During his tenure the group grew from $7 million to over $9 billion in assets under management. At the time of his retirement the group had over 70 staff and invested with over 120 hedge fund managers. Joel was involved in the firm’s alternative investment business beginning in 1988 and became head of the group in 1993. Prior to his responsibilities in alternative investments he was involved in the bank's strategic planning, financial management and treasury functions, both domestically and overseas.

Joel received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Connecticut and a M.B.A. from New York University.

Marc Lasry
Avenue Capital Group

Marc Lasry is the chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager with over $19 billion in assets under management specializing in distressed debt investing. 
Avenue, founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York City, has 13 offices around the world.  Avenue’s core strategies focus on distressed and undervalued debt and equity opportunities in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Distressed investing has been the focus of Marc’s professional career for over 23 years. He also co-founded Amroc Investments, LLC in 1989 in association with the Robert Bass Group, Inc. as a distressed debt investment partnership. 

Marc graduated with a B.A. in History from Clark University and received a J.D. from New York Law School.  He also serves and will continue to serve on the board of directors/advisors of both for profit and not-for-profit public and private companies that are unaffiliated with Avenue, including Mount Sinai Medical Center, The Clinton Foundation, and the 92nd Street Y. 

Marina Lewin
The Bank of New York Mellon

Marina W. Lewin is a managing director at The Bank of New York Mellon. She heads the relationship management and new business development teams for Alternative Investment Services which includes hedge funds, private equity and fund of fund administration and custody.

Currently, BNY Mellon services over $200 billion for alternative asset managers. 

Marina is a frequent speaker at industry events and has also spearheaded three white papers in conjunction with Casey Quirk, most recently The Hedge Fund of Tomorrow: Building an Enduring Firm. Prior to working in the alternative asset arena, she was responsible for product delivery for exchange traded funds, which included the NASDAQ 100 Exchange Traded Trust (QQQ) and the S&P Mid Cap 400 Trust (MDY). Before joining BNY Mellon, Marina was with JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank and had a variety of roles in operations management, product management and product development. Marina graduated from Barnard College and received her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University.

Jeff Lisle
Albourne Partners

Jeff Lisle, CFA, is partner and head of U.S. operational due diligence for Albourne Partners.  He has 13 years of experience in financial operations and accounting in hedge funds, insurance, and pensions. 

Jeff currently manages the 10-person operational due diligence team in the U.S. with responsibility for over 430 hedge funds and 150 investors/clients with hedge fund investments of over $200 billion. Primary responsibilities are identification of systemic and idiosyncratic operational risk and reporting to clients with recommendations for moves to best practice. Responsible for various papers including counterparty risk, prime broker reviews, administrator reviews, best practice papers, etc.

Prior to joining Albourne in 2005, Jeff was senior consultant at Manulife Financial as advisor on the John Hancock integration. Responsible for implementation of private placement pricing/administration, data integrity, and process discovery/implementation. Prior to that, Jeff managed the back office at Canada Life Assurance, responsible for the investment accounting and operations in the Investment Division - comprised of seven departments, $50 billion of invested assets, and 90 staff with 12 direct reports. Assets included generic equities/bonds as well as $5 billion mortgages, $1 billion real estate, billions of notional on derivatives, $2 billion in privates. Jeff began his career at State Street in the offshore fund accounting department in 1996 progressing to senior manager in the pension group until 2002. 

Daniel Loeb
Third Point

Daniel Loeb is the chief executive officer of Third Point LLC, an event-driven hedge fund with $2.5 billion assets under management, where he leads portfolio management, risk management and research activities. Over its 14 year history, the fund has produced 21.0% net annualized returns.

Before launching the fund in 1995, Daniel worked on both the buy and sell sides for over a decade, gaining dedicated experience in high-yield credit sales at Citigroup, distressed debt at Jefferies & Co, and risk arbitrage at Lafer Equity Partners.  He graduated from Columbia University with an A.B. in economics in 1983, and began his career at Warburg Pincus in private equity.

Daniel sits on the boards of Prep for Prep and Third Way, a non-partisan political think tank.  He resides in New York City with his wife and children.

Theo Lubke
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Theo Lubke is a senior vice president in the bank supervision group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he heads the financial infrastructure department and oversees the New York Fed’s efforts to improve the resiliency of the OTC derivatives infrastructure. 

Prior to that, he managed the supervisory relationships with large, complex foreign banking organizations. Prior to joining Bank Supervision, Theo headed the electronic payments function, where he managed the New York Fed’s Fedwire operations.  Previously, he had been in the research group where his work primarily focused on risk management of wholesale payment and settlement systems. Before joining the New York Fed in 1995, Theo worked on the staff of the National Economic Council at the White House. Previously, he had worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers.
 
Theo holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Paul Mampilly
Kinetics Advisers

Paul Mampilly joined Kinetics Advisers, LLC in 2006 and is a managing director and senior member of the portfolio management team. In these capacities, he serves as co-portfolio manager for Kinetics’ alternative investment products, including Kinetics Institutional Partners, LP, Kinetics Partners, LP, Kinetics Fund, Inc. and Kinetics Small Cap Partners, LP. He also serves as co-manager for a number of Kinetics’ mutual fund products, including Kinetics Paradigm Fund (WWNPX), Kinetics Small Cap Opportunities Fund (KSCOX), Kinetics Market Opportunities Fund (KMKNX) and Kinetics Global Fund (WWWEX).

Prior to joining Kinetics, Paul founded The Capuchin Group, distributor of a behavioral financial newsletter for which he acted as author, editor and publisher from October 2003 through July 2006.  From January 2002 through May 2003, Paul held employment with ING Funds as a senior research and healthcare group head, responsible for managing a team of analysts covering healthcare related companies of all market capitalizations.

Paul graduated from Montclair State College, New Jersey in 1991 and received his M.B.A from Fordham University, New York in 1996.

Ross Margolies
Stelliam Investment Management

Ross Margolies is the founder and portfolio manager of Stelliam Investment Management LP which manages the Stelliam Fund, a U.S. long short equity fund with over $300 million of assets. 

Previously, Ross led a spin-out which sub-advised several hedge funds for Citigroup, a business he originally founded for Salomon Brothers in 1995 and managed for about 10 years. At Citigroup he was group managing director and head of the Salomon Brothers hedge fund team; he previously served as head of the Salomon Brothers Asset Management equity business and was a member of the Citigroup Asset Management management committee. Ross also managed the Salomon Brothers Capital Fund, a top rated U.S. equity mutual fund, for over nine years, as well as long convertible portfolios. 

Ross received a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a M.B.A. in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business. 
 

Jeffrey Matthews
Ram Partners

Jeffrey Matthews is general partner of Ram Partners, LP, which he founded in 1994 and where he is responsible for nearly everything. In 2008 McGraw-Hill published his book, Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha, a hedge fund manager's journey to the heart of Berkshire Hathaway -the most successful investment enterprise in modern history.

Ram Partners, LP is a long/short, equity only, value-oriented hedge fund, not to be confused with larger funds with similar names.  Reflecting its 15+ year history, Ram Partners, LP is old-school - i.e. the firm hedges its positions, uses minimal leverage and has no institutional investors.  The fund is closed to new investors.

Jeff started his investment career as a research analyst at Merrill Lynch in 1979, but writes for pleasure.  In 2005 he started a financial blog, JeffMatthewsIsNotMakingThisUp, that was recommended by Barron’s and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat.

James Melcher
Balestra Capital

James Melcher is the founder, chief investment officer and a partner of Balestra Captial, Ltd.

Jim started out as a stockbroker before shifting to venture capital in 1969. He formed Balestra Capital, Ltd. in January 1979. He has served on the boards of directors of more than 20 public and private corporations over the past 40 years.  He has substantial experience managing or investing in real estate, foreign securities and currencies, precious metals, leveraged buyouts, private placements, corporate finance, and of course hedge funds.

From 1974 to 1982 he was a member of the United State Olympic Committee’s Investment Committee. Jim was also a member of the 1972. U.S. Olympic Fencing Team and has competed in six World Championships, two Pan American Games and was twice U.S. National Champion in Epée fencing.  He received his B.A. degree from Columbia University.
 

Rishi K Narang
Telesis Capital

Rishi K Narang is the founding principal of Telesis Capital, LLC and manages Telesis’ investment activities. He founded Telesis Capital, LLC in January 2005.

Telesis manages a multi-advisor portfolio of liquid alpha strategies ($65 million AUM), with a focus on short term quantitative trading, implemented through separately managed accounts. The firm now employs seven full-time investment professionals and is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and successful investors in quantitative trading strategies. 

Rishi has been an investor in, and a practitioner of, quantitative trading strategies for the past 13 years. He speaks widely on the subject of quantitative and high frequency trading, including as a guest lecturer at Columbia University. He is the author of Inside the Black Box, a review of quantitative trading strategies, which will be released by Wiley Finance in September 2009.

Roy Niederhoffer
R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management

Roy Niederhoffer is the founder and president of R.G. Niderhoffer Capital Management.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1987 with a degree in Computational Neuroscience. After working for another hedge fund for 5 years, he founded R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. (RGNCM) in 1993. Since then, RGNCM has employed a quantitative, behavioral finance-based strategy to trade equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities to provide returns that are both valuable on a stand-alone basis and also negatively-correlated to its clients' portfolios.

Roy serves on the Board of several arts organizations. He is an accomplished classical and jazz pianist, plays violin with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, and is an avid skier.
 

Patricia Poglinco
Seward & Kissel

Patricia A. Poglinco is a partner in Seward & Kissel's Investment Management group.

Pat joined Seward & Kissel in 1986 and has been a partner since 1994. Her practice specialties include the representation of investment advisers and related regulatory compliance; the formation and representation of private investment partnerships, group trusts and various offshore investment vehicles; the formation and CFTC registration of commodity pools, commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors; the formation and ongoing representation of registered investment companies (open-end and closed-end funds) and their managers, distributors, underwriters and other service providers; and general securities and general corporate matters. 
 

Stephen Prince
Silver Creek Capital Management

Stephen Prince is a managing director and a member of the Investment Committee at Silver Creek Capital Management. His responsibilities include overseeing the firm's long/short equity managed account business. 

Silver Creek Capital Management LLC is an independent, employee-owned manager of alternative asset portfolios with approximately $7billion in assets under management. With offices in Seattle, New York and London, Silver Creek has a 15-year history of building an extensive book of liquid hedge fund and private investments.  

Prior to joining Silver Creek, Stephen was with Pivot Capital Advisors, a New York-based long/short equity hedge fund he co-founded in 2005. He also spent four years as a senior analyst with Claiborne Capital Group and three years with Tiger Management. Stephen holds a B.A. in English from Princeton University and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He lives in New York City with his wife, Hailey, and their three children.

Ananda Radhakrishnan
CFTC

Ananda Radhakrishnan is director of the Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight (DCIO) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

He is responsible for the CFTC’s oversight programs for futures clearinghouses, self-regulatory organizations, and intermediaries such as futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, commodity pool advisors and commodity trading advisors. In addition, he provides policy advice to the Commission that promotes an effective oversight environment that is responsive to continually evolving market conditions.
Ananda has testified twice before the United States Congress on clearing related matters and has made numerous presentations to foreign regulatory authorities on the CFTC’s program for the oversight of clearing organizations and intermediaries.

He has a M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and an LLB (Honors) from the National University of Singapore Law School.  He is admitted to practice law in New York and Singapore.

Geoffrey Sherry
Lucidus Capital Partners

Geoffrey Sherry is the co-CIO and co-founder of Lucidus Capital Partners.

He has spent 19 years in the credit markets in both New York and London. Prior to joining Caxton in April of 2005, Geoffrey was the co-head of North American Credit Trading at JPMorgan.

Geoffrey has a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from The University of Chicago. 
 

Bob Sloan
S3 Partners

Robert Sloan is the managing partner of S3 Partners, LLC, a New York and London-based balance sheet manager for top hedge funds globally, which he founded in 2003. 

He is the author of the forthcoming book Don’t Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History is Repeating Itself (McGraw-Hill/Fall 2009). In addition, Bob serves as a member of the board for MF Global Ltd., the world’s largest exchange traded derivatives broker. Prior to S3 Partners, Bob was a managing director, the global head of prime brokerage, equity finance and delta one products, and a member of both the securities division operating committee and the product managers committee at Credit Suisse First Boston. In 1998, Bob founded and chaired the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index. This was the first investable benchmark index for alternative investments. From 1989 until 1996, he worked at Lehman Brothers in the equity derivatives and central funding unit.

Prior to his career on Wall Street, Bob was a speech writer and translator for the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI), Tokyo, Japan. Bob holds a Bachelor of Arts from Washington & Lee University.
 

Charles Stucke
Guggenheim Investment Advisors

Charles Stucke is chief investment officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors (GIA) and head of its investment committee.  

GIA is the investment advisory practice of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, a global financial services firm. GIA currently advises on more than $50 billion in client assets through a number of registered advisors. Clients include a mix of high net worth families and family offices, foundations, and endowments. 

Prior to GIA, Charles served as an executive director on the portable alpha team at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, where he opened and managed the firm’s London-based European alternative investments research office. He has worked in alternative investments, private equity, mezzanine, structured debt, and interest rate derivative markets in London, Philadelphia, New York, Berlin, and St. Louis. He holds an A.B. and a M.B.A. (first in class) from the University of Missouri. He also holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  

Peter Thiel
Clarium 

Peter Thiel is president of Clarium, a global macro hedge fund.

Peter is also the founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies, a national security software firm, and a founding investor and board member of Facebook, which serves more than 200 million active users. He helps launch many other new technology companies as a founder and partner of the Founders Fund. Previously, he was founder and CEO of PayPal, which manages more than 175 million financial accounts. 

Peter has philosophy and law degrees from Stanford University, where he occasionally teaches on globalization and sovereignty and serves on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution. He funds research in artificial intelligence and life extension technologies. 

Grant Thompson
CQS

Grant is joint chief executive of CQS and he is a member of the CQS executive and operating committees.

Prior to joining CQS, Grant Thompson was head of leveraged solutions Americas – senior relationship manager at Barclays Capital in New York, where he had additional responsibilities across all capital markets products, as well as private banking, asset management and investment banking. While at Barclays Capital, he established the Global Hedge Fund Committee and was principal liaison for credit risk management. He joined Barclays Capital from HSBC, New York, in 2007. At HSBC, Grant was global head of hedge fund relationships with responsibility for hedge funds across all products and regions for HSBC markets and investment banking. Between 1994 and 2004, Grant was with UBS in New York and London, latterly as global head of prime services. Between 1982 and 1994, he worked in venture capital and in the software business.

Michael Thompson
Bay Harbour Management

Michael Thompson joined Bay Harbour Management in January 2008. He has been portfolio manager for all BHM funds since January 2009, with responsibility for all aspects of the research process and team. 

In 2008, Michael led Bay Harbour’s research and investment efforts in the financial and real estate sectors and was primarily responsible for its portfolio of short positions.  Additionally, he has managed several restructuring processes, including the successful debt-for-debt exchange executed by Trico Marine Services in May 2009.  Michael has an extensive background in trading, structuring and risk management of corporate debt and equity, structured finance and real estate securities.

Prior to joining Bay Harbour, he was a managing director at Wachovia Securities with management responsibilities for a proprietary trading book which exceeded $3 billion. Michael graduated magna cum laude with a B.B.A in International Finance from the Honors Program at the University of Georgia where he received Alumni, Governor’s and Hope Scholarships.
 

Eric Vincent
Ospraie Management

Eric Vincent is president and chief operating officer of Ospraie Management, LLC, an asset management firm focused on commodities and basic industries. 

Prior to joining Ospraie in 2004, Eric was chief operating officer of RHG Capital, LP and was a partner at Omega Advisors, Inc. He began his career as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 2007 until October 2009, Eric was chairman of the Managed Funds Association, a trade association representing the hedge fund industry. He is currently a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a member of the Investor Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). He is also on the National Advisory Board of Public Insight LP, which advises investment clients on regulatory and public policy issues. 

Eric holds a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. 

Riva Waller
Man Investments

Riva Waller is head of managers and managed accounts of Man Investments’ multi-manager solutions business and is based in New York.

Her team focuses on the structuring and implementation of Man’s managed account platform. Previously, she headed the investment structures group, performing legal due diligence on investments and allocations to third party managers. In 2004, following Man’s purchase of RMF, Riva was involved in the successful integration of various processes related to underlying managers and managed accounts into one combined business unit. In 2000, she worked with the new managers’ initiative team, helping build the implementation procedures for the managed account platform as well as operational trouble shooting. Riva initially joined the controllers group of a CTA division of Man.

Prior to joining Man in 1993, Riva was a senior accountant with J.H. Cohn LLP, an accounting and consulting firm. Riva earned her B.S. in Accounting from Rutgers.

Michael Weinberger, York Capital  

Michael Y. Weinberger is a senior managing director and a partner of York Capital Management, which he joined in July 2000 .

Michael is also the portfolio manager of the York Global Value funds. From 1996 to 1998, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers Inc. Michael received a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a M.B.A., with high distinction, from the Harvard Business School.
 

Michael R. Weisberg
Crestwood Capital Management

Michael R. Weisberg is the founder of Crestwood Capital Management and has managed the Crestwood Funds since 1995. He is responsible for co-managing all aspects of the business with Amit Mehta, including portfolio management, research, risk and operations. 

Crestwood is a $400MM long/short equity hedge fund with a fourteen year track record that has generated a compound annual rate of return of approximately 20% net of fees. Crestwood is a global fund, focusing on companies with high earnings growth and predictable business models. In July 2009, Crestwood spun out from ING Alternative Asset Management to become 100% employee owned.

Before launching the Crestwood Funds, Michael was a member of the operating committee and Director of Equity Research at Furman Selz LLC. Previously, he had been a partner, member of the operating committee and director of research at Robertson Stephens & Co. and a senior vice president at Prudential Securities where he held the positions of director of technology research and director of emerging growth research. Michael earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. 

Paul Zummo
J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management