2010 Capital IQ Investor Leadership Forum (New York)

Andrew is responsible for the US equity portfolios as well as the Flex (130/30) equity long-short strategies managed by the Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Previously, Andrew was the group’s Director of Equity Research. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1998, Andrew was an accounting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and then the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He has also served as an academic fellow in the Office of Economic Analysis at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington DC. Andrew has a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, and an MBA and a PhD from the Booth Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

 

David A. Andelman is the Editor of World Policy Journal. Previously he served as Executive Editor of Forbes.com. Earlier, he was a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, as Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as Paris correspondent, traveling through and reporting from nearly 60 countries. There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and Business Editor of the New York Daily News. He also served as senior vice president of  Burson-Marsteller in New York and Washington.  He is the author of three books, "The Peacemakers", published by Harper & Row, and "The Fourth World War", published by William Morrow, which he co-authored with the Count de Marenches, long-time head of French intelligence. His third book, "A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today” was published in November 2007 by John Wiley & Sons.  He is also an adjunct lecturer at New York University. Andelman has written for such publications as Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Harvard Club of New York, the National Press Club and the Grolier Club. In August 2010, he was elected President of the Overseas Press Club.

 

Mr. Boneck is managing director of Capital IQ’s Quantitative Research Group which specializes in uncovering new anomalies and differentiated stock selection strategies that investors can exploit to outperform the market. Previously, he was a director and senior quantitative analyst at Quantitative Services Group and a quantitative analyst at Schwab Soundview Capital Markets and its predecessor firm, where he constructed stock selection models used by more than 100 institutional investment managers. Mr. Boneck began his career in investment management as a manager of a boutique investment consultancy which performed third-party equity valuation for investment banks, investment managers, and Fortune 100 companies. He serves as chairman of the Candidate Services Advisory Group of the CFA Society of Chicago. Mr. Boneck holds a BA degree in finance, international business, and Spanish from Indiana University.

 

Janet Campagna is the CEO of QS Investors, a 100% employee owned, majority woman-owned investment management company, based in New York. Founded in 2010, QS Investors manages money for institutional investors across a broad spectrum of strategies including Global Tactical Asset Allocation, US Active Equities, Global and International equity strategies and Strategic Asset Allocation.

Prior to her current role, Janet was a Managing Director for 11 years at Deutsche Asset Management, the investment management arm of Deutsche Bank. She was appointed to the Global Operating Committee of DeAM in 2006, named Global Head of Quantitative Strategies in 2004 and was the Head of Asset Allocation from 1999-2003. Prior to that, Janet was a Principal at Barclays Global Investors where she headed the Asset Allocation Strategies Group from1994-1999. From 1989-1994, Janet worked as an Associate at First Quadrant and the director of Asset Allocation research.

Throughout her career, Janet has fostered creativity and diversity in many aspects of both her work and personal life. Janet is an active participant in both academic and professional circles. She is currently on the Curriculum Steering Committee for the UC Berkeley Haas School’s Master of Financial Engineering program. Her leadership and involvement extends beyond the financial services arena to include community and non-profit organizations. Janet is presently a Board Member of the Mott Haven Charter School in the South Bronx, a charter school specifically designed to meet the needs of at-risk students in the foster care and child welfare system.

Janet’s academic background includes a Bachelor of Science at Northeastern University in 1980, a Master’s of Science in 1985 from California Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 1990.

 

Nicolas Chaput is the CIO for BNPP AM Fixed Income. He guides the management process and the investment policy of the investment teams (Money Markets, Eurozone Core, Global Credit, Alternative FI) and two transversal teams (Risk Management & Structuring). Nicolas supervises six investment centres (Paris, London, New York, Milan, Amsterdam & Tokyo) with approximately 120 investment professionals and €207 billion under management. He joined BNPP AM in 2005. He initially took responsibility for the Credit & Structured Finance management team. In 2007, he joined FFTW, a 100% owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas dedicated to managing fixed income portfolios for a large number of international institutional clients. He was named Head of Fixed Income in November 2008. Nicolas brings to the team a wealth of technical knowledge acquired over 15 years in investment banking. He worked for Credit Lyonnais in New York, London and Paris. As a fixed income specialist, he was in charge of research, sales, structuring credit products and for proprietary investments.

Nicolas graduated from the Institute of Political Studies, Strasbourg (1984, France) and holds a postgraduate diploma in Corporate Law from the University
of Paris II (1987).

 

Michelle Clayman, CFA, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer, is the firm's Chief Investment Officer. Ms. Clayman received a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1975 from Oxford University, England (MA (Oxon) 1979), and an MBA in 1979 from Stanford University.  Ms. Clayman became a CFA Charterholder in 1983.

Prior to founding New Amsterdam Partners in 1986, from 1979 to 1986 Ms. Clayman was at Salomon Brothers where she was a Vice President and Supervisory Analyst in the Equity Research Department.

Ms. Clayman has been published in the Financial Analysts Journal; her articles are One-Time Charges: Never Having to Say You’re Sorry? (Sep-Oct 1995), Falling in Love Again - Analysts’ Estimates and Reality (Sep-Oct 1994), Excellence Revisited (May-June 1994), and In Search of Excellence: The Investor’s Viewpoint (May-June 1987), all of which have gone into improving our investment process.  She is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, has appeared as a special guest on Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street Week, and is a frequent commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg News.  In addition, Ms. Clayman is a past President of the Society of Quantitative Analysts and is currently on the Society's Council of Advisors. She is a past Chairperson of the Equity Curriculum Committee of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFA).  Ms. Clayman continues to be actively involved in this organization.  
An active volunteer in her community, Ms. Clayman serves as a Director of Children of Bellevue, a charity providing services to children at New York's Bellevue Hospital.  She was a Girl Scout Leader for 17 years and has acted as a Course Director in Finance and Entrepreneurship for the East Harlem Tutorial Program.  Ms. Clayman is also Chair of the National Advisory Panel of Stanford University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender, as well as a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.

 

Vladimir de Vassal, CFA, is director of quantitative research for Glenmede Investment Management LP. He provides proprietary research and analytical support to  institutional funds, The Pew Charitable Trusts and high net worth clients of the parent company, The Glenmede Trust Company, N.A. (GTC). Mr. de Vassal and his team manage several quantitatively based equity portfolios, including five mutual funds and long / short strategies.

Mr. de Vassal joined GTC in 1998 after serving as vice president and director of quantitative analysis at CoreStates Investment Advisors and as vice president of interest rate risk reporting/analysis, at CoreStates Financial Corp.

Graduating with highest honors from Drexel University in 1982, Mr. de Vassal received a B.S. with dual majors in Finance and Accounting. At that time, he was given the Outstanding Student in Accounting and Finance Award. He received an M.B.A. from Drexel University in 1987. In 1992, he earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

He is three-time winner of the Philadelphia Prize awarded by the Financial Analysts of Philadelphia for articles addressing investment insight. In addition, Mr. de Vassal has published in periodicals such as Barron's, The Journal of Wealth Management, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Worth and The Journal of Fixed Income. He is a frequent speaker at investment conferences and universities, including the Wharton School, Princeton, Penn State and Drexel.

Mr. de Vassal resides in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children. He is a member of the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR, the Association for Investment Management and Research). He is a board member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and the Bond Club of Philadelphia.

 

Jeremy Diamond operates as the director for Capital IQ’s Central Region, located in Chicago.  Jeremy has been with Capital IQ since the launch of its platform in 2000, leading multiple areas of client development including the establishment of a Midwestern presence and coordinating team integrations after the sale of Capital IQ to Standard & Poor’s in 2004. Jeremy left Capital IQ briefly from 2006 to 2008 to help build another financial technology firm named finEye, where he was the executive vice president and responsible for all client development and marketing. Previous to joining Capital IQ, Jeremy served as director of Aon’s Mergers & Acquisitions group, providing consultative services on a pre-acquisition basis with a focus on risk mitigation and liability issues. Jeremy began his career at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies as an underwriter manager. Jeremy holds a B.A in Communications from Gustavus Adolphus College.

 

Sebastian Echavarria is a Managing Director of HCM and Head of Family Office and Bank Platform Business. Before joining HCM in August 2009, Mr. Echavarria was a Partner at Renaissance Technologies, co-heading its $17 billion dollar Family Office and Bank Platform Business. Prior to Renaissance, Mr. Echavarria served as co-head for a family office investment and advisory group within Citigroup’s Private Wealth Management Division. He has also worked as a Financial Consultant with Bank of America Corporation and Merrill Lynch advising high net worth individuals, families and corporations. Mr. Echavarria serves on the Board of Directors of the Corona Foundation. Mr. Echavarria received a B.A. in Political Science and History from Tufts University.

 

Brian Golob is global chief compliance officer for Russell Investments. Brian is responsible for providing strategic direction for Russell’s global compliance function and for leading a global team of compliance professionals. In addition, Brian is a member of Russell’s global leadership forum.

From 2007 to 2008, Brian was managing director of strategic development for Russell’s implementation services, where he was responsible for business intake, new products and service development, and the business’s control functions including unit governance, compliance, and operational risk management.

From 2004 to 2007 Brian was managing director of business services for Russell’s institutional business group, with responsibility for overseeing development and management of Russell’s U.S. institutional business infrastructure, including plan administration, risk management, policy development, product management, compliance and finance.

From 2000 to 2003, Brian was representative director for business and corporate services, responsible for overseeing the development and management of the business infrastructure in Russell’s Japan office.

Prior to his posting to Japan in 2000, Brian was associate general counsel, responsible for advising the Russell companies in connection with corporate finance, transactions, general corporate matters, and Russell’s alternative investments, in addition to supporting Russell’s operations in Japan. He joined Russell in July 1998.

Before joining Russell, Brian was a senior attorney with Bogle & Gates P.L.L.C. in Seattle, where his practice focused on corporate finance and international transactions. Between 1994 and 1996, Brian was seconded from Bogle & Gates to Nagashima & Ohno in Tokyo, where he worked as a foreign legal consultant on international corporate transactions, joint ventures, and securities and banking matters.


 

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, Mr. Hennessy was an Investment Director at Duke Management Company (Duke University). Before joining Duke in 1991, Mr. Hennessy was an Associate at Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm.

Mr. Hennessy 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. Mr. Hennessy 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.

 

Max Holmes founded Plainfield Asset Management LLC in February 2005, and has been the Chief Investment Officer of all of its funds since inception. Prior to founding Plainfield, Mr. Holmes was the Head of the Distressed Securities Group and a Managing Director of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., where he served as Co-Portfolio Manager for D. E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios, L.L.C. from its inception in February 2002 through February 2005.

Prior to joining D. E. Shaw & Co., Mr. Holmes from 1986 to 2002 had a variety of jobs involving high yield and distressed securities at RBC Capital Markets, Gleacher NatWest Inc., Salomon Brothers Inc, and the Beverly Hills office of Drexel Burnham Lambert.

From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Holmes was a practicing attorney with Vinson & Elkins in Houston, Texas, and he remains a member of the bar in New York and Texas.

Mr. Holmes graduated from Columbia Law School in 1984, Columbia Business School in 1984, and Harvard College in 1981. Since 1993, he has taught "Bankruptcy and Reorganization" at New York University Stern Graduate School of Business, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of Finance.

 

Bruce Kraus is Co-Chief Counsel of the SEC’s new Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation.  Risk Fin provide quantitative and qualitative policy analysis that integrates economic, financial, and legal disciplines.  The Division’s responsibilities cover three broad areas: risk and economic analysis; strategic research; and financial innovation.  Its responsibilities include providing economic analyses of proposed Commission actions and making the Commission’s enforcement and examinations programs more cost-effective.  SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro has said that Risk Fin “is helping us keep pace with Wall Street” and “helping to bore through the silos that for too long have compartmentalized, and thereby limited, the impact of our institutional expertise,” while working behind the scenes when fresh, interdisciplinary insights are vital to good decision-making.”

Prior to joining the SEC, Mr. Kraus was a corporate and securities law partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York for nearly 20 years.  After graduating from Yale Law School, Mr. Kraus clerked for the Chief Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. 

 

Mr. Krowas has an extensive product development background and significant experience using cutting-edge quantitative investment management and equity trading software. In his role as Vice President of Quantitative Products, he oversees the continual analysis, development, and enhancement of Capital IQ’s quantitative investment management and research solutions.

Prior to joining Capital IQ, Mr. Krowas was the Director of Advanced Trading Solutions at Macgregor where he was responsible for assisting clients in integrating algorithmic and analytical trading technology into Macgregor’s Trade Order Management System. Mr. Krowas also held several senior-level management positions at Investment Technology Group (ITG). As a member of ITG’s Analytical Products and Research group, he led the Client Service team in supporting optimization and risk control software for portfolio construction and program trading.

Previously, Mr. Krowas was at Charter Oak Investments Systems, and before that, he worked for Control Systems Analysis, Inc. as part of the Independent Software Nuclear Safety and Analysis team for the US Navy’s submarine-launched nuclear Tomahawk program. Mr. Krowas holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology. He also studied materials science and engineering as part of a graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

 

Eric Leng is a Senior Portfolio Manager of Quantitative Equities Group. He is responsible for QE’s global product line at UBS including global long only and global market neutral. He is also responsible for QE’s business in China.

Prior to joining UBS Global Asset Management, Eric was a senior portfolio manager at Credit Suisse Asset Management responsible for a number of mutual funds and client portfolios. Prior to that, Eric founded Clotho Investment Group, an external manager for the multi-strategy firm Millennium Partners, LC. His previous roles also include portfolio manager for the market neutral strategy at DuPont Capital Management and senior investment analyst at American Century Investment. Eric started his career as an intern at Morgan Stanley Asset Management.

Eric is a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance and a CFA charter holder.

As a biomedical researcher, Eric has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and co-authored a chapter in research book.

 

Simon M Lorne has served in a wide variety of public sector, academic and private sector positions during the course of his career.  In the public sector, he was most notably General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, that agency’s principal legal position, with responsibilities that included advising the Commission on all matters that came before it.  He served in that role from 1993 to 1996 under Chairman Arthur Levitt.  In the academic sphere, he is currently the co-director of Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College, the United States’ premiere institution for the education of independent directors of publicly held corporations, and is an adjunct professor at the New York University Law School and the NYU Stern School of Business.  He has previously held positions on the faculties at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Southern California Law School.

In the private sector, Mr. Lorne has since 2004 been the Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Millennium Management LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager based in New York, with offices throughout the world.  Prior to joining Millennium he was a partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (from 1972 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2004); the global head of internal audit at Salomon Brothers (now a unit of Citigroup) (from 1996 to 1998); and the global head of Compliance at Citigroup (1998-1999).  He also serves on the Board of Directors and audit committee of Teledyne Technologies, Inc.

Throughout his professional career Mr. Lorne’s endeavors have involved the complementary fields of securities regulation and internal organizational controls—including, in the latter case, the roles of the legal, compliance and internal audit functions within organizations, and the supervisory role of boards of directors and their committees, primarily the audit committee.  He has studied and evaluated those activities from a regulatory and an academic perspective, as well as from an advisory perspective in his practice as a lawyer in the private sector.  He has also personally overseen the execution of those functions, having served as a corporate head of compliance, a corporate head of internal audit, a chief legal officer and on the audit committees of  publicly held corporations.  As a result of the breadth and depth of his background, both theoretical and practical, he is often asked to review and comment upon principles regarding corporate controls and the efficacy of different organizational control models.

Mr. Lorne has authored two books (“Acquisitions and Mergers: Negotiated and Contested Transactions,” and “A Director’s Handbook of Cases”), three practitioner-oriented monographs and a number of articles in law reviews, magazines and other publications.  He is a frequent speaker at academic and industry symposia dealing with issues in the areas of securities regulation, ethics and internal controls.

Mr. Lorne is a graduate of Occidental College, with an A.B. (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., magna cum laude).


 

David Martin is a Senior Vice President at AllianceBernstein.  He is currently responsible for global legislative and regulatory developments.  Mr. Martin joined the firm in December 2001 and was responsible for the risk management function until 2010.  He began his career at Price Waterhouse & Co. in 1972 in the audit and consulting practices.  In 1979 Mr. Martin joined Citibank and held numerous positions during his 20-year tenure.  He was a senior risk officer responsible for the global windows on risk processes that were used to proactively manage the entire risk profile of Citigroup.  From 1999-2001, Mr. Martin was the CEO of Knightsbridge Capital Management LLC, an incubator of hedge funds.

Mr. Martin, a Certified Public Accountant, holds a B.B.A. degree from Baruch College and an M.B.A. degree from New York University’s Graduate School of Business.  He was the founding Chairman of the Investment Company Institute’s Risk Committee and Co-Chair of the Buy-Side Risk Managers’ Forum.

 

Mr. Morris is the Chief Executive Officer of HAGIN Investment Management.  He has 15 years of investment experience and began his career at Pillette Investment Management. He continued his career at Deutsche Bank, Pulse Trading, and Natexis. His experience includes quantitative research, analysis, marketing, and sales. He has a BA from Syracuse University and a Masters in Political Communication from Emerson College. He is an expert commentator on hedge funds and has been featured in numerous financial media outlets, such as HFM Week, Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, and Fox Business News. Mr. Morris is also a member of the Professional Association for Investment Communications Resources (PAICR), the Amsterdam American Business Club and he is a founding member of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). He holds FINRA series 7, 24, 30, 63, and 65.  In addition, Mr. Morris is the executive producer and film financier of independent films, American Teen, The Cake Eaters, I Bring What I Love, August, and the yet to be released Choose.

 

Roy Niederhoffer 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. Mr. Niederhoffer also 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.

 

Josh Parrott is the Director of Public Investments for Hatteras Funds, a leading provider of alternative investment solutions for financial advisors and their clients.  As an investment committee member for the Hatteras Multi-Strategy Funds, Mr. Parrott’s responsibilities include portfolio management, hedge fund due diligence and working closely with our investment advisory partners and underlying hedge fund managers.  He has been with Hatteras Funds since 2004 and has 13 years of investment experience.  Mr. Parrott received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont and attended international schools in Zimbabwe and Kenya.  Mr. Parrott has also earned his designation as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

 

Mr. Pope is an investment professional with over 17 years of experience conducting quantitative research, and managing both equity and fixed income portfolios.  Currently, he serves as the Managing Director of Quantitative Research for Capital IQ.  Most recently, Mr. Pope was an Associate Partner and Vice President at Wellington Management Company LLC, where he constructed quantitative stock selection models and managed international equity portfolios.  Prior to working at Wellington, he was a Vice President at Colonial Management Associates, where he conducted quantitative research and managed four open-end, municipal mutual funds.  Mr. Pope began his investment career at Fidelity Management and Research in 1993 as a quantitative portfolio analyst in the municipal bond group.

Mr. Pope received his MSF from Boston College, and BS in Finance from Bentley College, and is a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, the CFA Institute, and the Boston Security Analyst Society.  He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate classes as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Bentley University.

 

Matthew Rothman, Ph.D., is the global head of Quantitative Equity Strategies at Barclays Capital. He previously held the same role at Lehman Brothers prior to its purchase by Barclays Capital in September 2008. In his current capacity, he is responsible for U.S., Europe and Asia stock selection models, as well as sector selection and country selection models.  Dr. Rothman and his team also contributed to the development of equity risk models in POINT.  He is a member of the Firm’s Investment Policy Committee within the Global Research Division.  

Prior to joining the Firm in 2006, Dr. Rothman held Quantitative Equity positions at Sanford C. Bernstein, Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Dr. Rothman serves on the board of directors for the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Accounting Research and Education and is the co-chair of the Development Committee for the Innocence Project.  In addition to his responsibilities at Barclays Capital, Dr. Rothman is a visiting professor of economics at Brown University where he co-teaches a course on Empirical Asset Pricing in Financial Markets.  In the past, he has taught a similar course at the Johnson Business School at Cornell University. Dr. Rothman received his B.A. in Philosophy from Brown University before completing his Masters in Statistics at Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Chicago.  

 

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, which is a fund of funds and hedge fund incubation company. The firm now has $7.4 billion in assets.   

Mr. Scaramucci was a Partner and Founder of Oscar Capital Management LLC, responsible for overseeing compliance and research for four hedge funds and separately managed accounts with assets totaling over $1 billion.  In November of 2001, Oscar Capital was sold to Neuberger Berman.  Mr. Scaramucci, a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman/Lehman Brothers, served from 2003 – 2005 on the Investment Committee of Neuberger’s Premier Portfolio, which his group originated, and worked on the Neuberger Berman/Lehman integration team.  He was also responsible for distributing Private Asset Management products into Lehman’s private client service division.  Prior to that, Mr. Scaramucci was a Vice President in Goldman Sach’s Equities Division. He is the author of Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How To Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul. (Wiley, 2010)

Mr. Scaramucci earned a BA in Economics, summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1986.  He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society.  He graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989.  He is a Board Member of The Lymphoma Foundation, and The Brain Tumor Foundation.  Mr. Scaramucci is also on the Board of Overseers for the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University and a member of the NYC Financial Services Advisory Committee.  He is also a member of BENS (Business Executives for National Security).

 

Mr. Shea has worked in the investment industry since 1995. He is the Director of Quantitative Research at Cadence Capital Management. Cadence manages Large Cap, Mid Cap, Small Cap and Micro Cap Growth strategies. Prior to joining Cadence, he was a Portfolio Manager at Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc., as well as Founding Partner, CIO, and Portfolio Manager of DA Capital Management, LLC. Earlier positions include Portfolio Manager at Invesco Capital Management and Quantitative Analyst at John Hancock Funds.

Mr. Shea holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame, a Master’s in Biology from Harvard University and an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Boston College. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analyst Association, QWAFAFEW, and the Q Group.

 

Michael is responsible for manager selection, market risk and operational due diligence for all hedge fund strategies. In addition, he monitors portfolio-level and fund-specific risk across J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank hedge fund portfolios. Michael has a BA in Physics from St. Olaf College (summa cum laude, Physics Department academic distinction), an MBA specializing in quantitative finance from NYU Stern and a Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University. His dissertation and research focus was quantum information theory. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan he was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Wabash College from 2002-2004. Michael joined J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank in 2005 working on hedge fund portfolio construction. He has also specialized in quantitative risk modeling, front and back office due diligence and market research across various asset classes.

 

Heidi Thompson is currently Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Daiwa Asset Management, where she helped start up the Latin America Equities Team.  Within two years the team’s assets under management grew to $1.9 bn across five different funds.  Ms. Thompson manages two Brazil equity funds with $1.4 bn in assets.  She serves as analyst for the materials, telecoms, and utilities sectors for Latin America and also covers the materials sector for North America.  She started her career as a fixed-income analyst for Latin America at Offitbank.  She served as municipal bond product manager at the JP Morgan private bank before returning to work with Latin American and European equity markets variously in research sales at Santander Investment Securities, BBVA Securities, and Dexia Securities.  She holds a B.S. and an M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.  Ms. Thompson is a CFA charter holder.

 

Tim Wilson has been Chief Risk Officer for the investment management company Caxton Associates LP for over seven years.  As the head of risk management for Caxton hedge funds, Mr. Wilson develops strategies and methods for performing risk analysis and performance measurement, managing the allocation of capital across portfolio managers, controlling tail risk and improving return relative to risk.  Prior to joining Caxton, Mr. Wilson worked in the firm-wide risk function at Morgan Stanley including heading the market risk function for Europe and Asia.  Mr. Wilson had previously served as an Economist in the Division of International Finance of the Federal Reserve Board and as a Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.  He studied engineering as an undergraduate at Harvard College and economics in the doctoral program at Stanford University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions.