Keating Crown
Keating focuses on new acquisitions and development, as well as strategic capital pursuits and relationships. He also oversees Sterling Bay’s retail merchandising portfolio. During his tenure at Sterling Bay, Keating has pursued and acquired Sterling Bay’s land portfolios in both Lincoln Yards and Fulton Market, successfully aggregating strategically located industrial land for mixed-use redevelopment at…
Andy Gloor
As CEO of Sterling Bay, Andy oversees a national real estate portfolio of $20B in existing and future real estate assets. In recent years, and under Andy’s leadership, Sterling Bay has strategically expanded its portfolio across the country, developing and managing world-class creative office, residential, industrial, and life science properties in over a dozen markets….
Ivelina Green
Ivelina Green is the Founder and CIO of Pearlstone Alternative, a London-based credit asset manager focused on special situations and distressed investing. Ivelina and her team seek idiosyncratic opportunities with high execution complexity in companies which have come under cyclical and structural pressure. Ivelina has over 19 years investing experience in Special Situations and European…
Tiffany Hsiao
Tiffany Hsiao, CFA, is a managing director of Artisan Partners and the founding portfolio manager of the Artisan China Post-Venture Strategy. In this role, she is the lead portfolio manager for the strategy. Prior to joining Artisan Partners in September 2020, Ms. Hsiao was a portfolio manager for Matthews Asia, where she managed the Matthews…
Henry Ellenbogen
Henry Ellenbogen founded Durable in 2019 and serves as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Prior to founding Durable, Henry served as a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and as T. Rowe Price Group Chief Investment Officer for U.S. Equity Growth. He was the lead Portfolio Manager for the U.S. Small-Cap Growth…
David Golub
David Golub is President of Golub Capital, a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced credit asset manager. As of July 1, 2023, Golub Capital had over $60 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. Golub Capital partners with institutional investors and family offices, offering tailored solutions for investors’ credit…
Peter Kolchinsky
Peter Kolchinsky, PhD, is a Founder of and a Managing Partner at RA Capital. He is active in both public and private investments in companies developing drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and research tools and serves as a board member for various public and privately-held companies. Peter served on the Board of Global Science and Technology…
Richelle Carey
Richelle Carey is an Emmy Award-winning American Broadcaster. She is a journalist, host and moderator specializing in international affairs and global politics. Carey occasionally anchors Al Jazeera’s hit DC-based show The Stream, which caters to a hybrid social and broadcast media audience. She was previously principal presenter at Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar where she…
Albert Rabil
Al Rabil is CEO of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., overseeing strategic initiatives, operations and asset management across Kayne’s investment platforms. In 2007, Rabil co-founded Kayne Anderson’s real estate private equity platform (KA Real Estate) and continues to serve as KA Real Estate’s CEO, setting strategic direction, overseeing overall investment activities, and leading fundraising for…
Collin Roche
Collin joined GTCR in 1996 and is currently a Co-CEO and Managing Director of the firm. Previously, Collin was an Associate at EVEREN Securities in Chicago and an Analyst with Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in political economy from Williams College. Collin…
Brant Rubin
Brant founded Vor Capital in 2017, a London-based equity investment fund manager. Prior to launching Vor, Brant was a Senior Analyst at Luxor Capital (2011-2017) in both New York and London, opening Luxor’s London office in 2015. Prior to Luxor, Brant was an investment analyst with Oak Street Capital Management in Chicago, and prior an…
Chris Keogh
Chris is co-head of the Chicago office and Midwest Region as well as head of Wealth Management Services in the Investment Banking Division. Prior to assuming his current role, he was the Midwest Region head for Private Wealth Management. Previously, Chris was global chief operating officer of the Third Party Distribution business in Asset Management…
Alaina Anderson
Alaina Anderson is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at William Blair & Company. Alaina joined William Blair in 2006 as a Research Analyst on the Global Equities team and has over a decade of experience covering stocks globally. She is currently a Portfolio Manager for William Blair’s International Leaders and International Leaders ADR strategies as…
Suzanne Yoon
Suzanne Yoon is a recognized private equity investment executive with nearly 25 years of experience investing in and advising middle market companies. Throughout her career she has led, sourced and closed over $3B of middle market deals and advised on global restructurings totaling over $10B in asset value. Suzanne currently serves as Founder and Managing…
Jacob Rubin
Jacob Rubin is the Founder and Managing Member of Philosophy Capital Management LLC. Philosophy invests long and short across the capital structure with a value-oriented approach targeting securities with asymmetric investment returns. After graduating with a BA in Economics-Philosophy from Columbia University (2006), Jacob began his career with three years of banking (JPMorgan, Macquarie) followed…
Scott Ferguson
Scott is the managing partner and portfolio manager of Sachem Head Capital Management, a value-oriented investment management firm based in New York. Prior to starting Sachem Head, he spent nine years at Pershing Square Capital Management, which he joined pre-launch as the firm’s first investment professional. Prior to Pershing Square, Scott earned an M.B.A. from…
Paris Wald
Paris Wald is a senior producer at Bloomberg Television and Radio in New York. She previously worked at CNN’s business news unit, and also on Wall Street in equity research at Kidder Peabody and UBS PaineWebber. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Maria Jelescu Dreyfus
Maria is the CEO and Founder of Ardinall Investment Management, an investment firm focused on climate change, energy access and sustainable energy infrastructure that she started in 2017. Prior to Ardinall Investment Management, Ms. Dreyfus spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director in the…
Rebecca Pacholder
Rebecca is the founder of Snowcat. She has 20 years of relevant work experience investing in high yield and distressed debt, across many different market cycles. Most recently, she was a Portfolio Manager and Partner at Omega Advisors from May 2012 through December 2018. From 2010 to 2012, she was a senior analyst at Anchorage…
Nadine Terman
Nadine Terman is a founder, CEO and CIO of Solstein Capital, a Silicon Valley-based investment firm that partners with institutional, family office and high net worth clients to construct tactical, global portfolios across asset classes. With over 25 years of investment experience, Ms. Terman oversees both investments and operations as the CEO and CIO of…
Neil G. Bluhm
Neil G. Bluhm is one of the founders and President of JMB Realty Corporation, Chairman of Rush Street Gaming, Chairman of Rush Street Interactive, Managing Partner of LAMB Capital Advisors, and a founder and investor in Walton Street Capital, LLC. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, receiving a B.S. in Accounting, and…
Steve Berg
Steve Berg is a founding partner at Lytical Ventures, a New York City based early-stage venture capital fund focusing on cybersecurity, analytics and machine learning. As a function of the investments he has made, he is a board director at multiple companies. Steve is also the founder and host of Intangibles Podcast, about the traits…
Chris Smith
Christopher Smith is a managing director of Artisan Partners and founding portfolio manager of the Antero Peak Group. Prior to joining Artisan Partners and founding the Antero Peak Group in October 2016, Mr. Smith was a senior analyst at Kingdon Capital Management where he managed capital directly for Mark Kingdon. Mr. Smith spent the majority…
Dan Morehead
Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S….
Amir Mokari
Amir is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Emerson Point Capital. Prior to EPC’s founding, Amir was a Partner and Managing Director at Conatus Capital, an equity hedge fund from 2010 to 2017. Amir previously worked in private equity as an Associate at Hellman & Friedman (2008-2010) and as an Analyst at Castle Point Capital…
Peter S. Lynch
Peter Lynch is Vice Chairman of Fidelity Management & Research Company — the investment advisor arm of Fidelity Investments — and an Advisory Board Member of the Fidelity Funds. Mr. Lynch was portfolio manager of Fidelity Magellan Fund, which was the best performing fund in the world under his leadership from May 1977 to May…
David S. Richter
Mr. Richter is Chair of the Absolute Return Strategies Investment Committee, Co-Head of Absolute Return Strategies Research and serves on the Global Investment Council and the ESG Committee. He is also a member of the Strategic Investments Investment Committee. Mr. Richter approves portfolio allocations prior to implementation and shares responsibility for the evaluation, selection and…
John Armitage
John co-founded Egerton in 1994. He is the Chief Investment Officer and portfolio manager for the firm’s equity long/ short and equity long-only strategies. Prior to co-founding Egerton, John worked at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, where he began his career in 1981, and became a director in 1991. He managed the Morgan Grenfell European Growth…
James S. Chanos
Jim Chanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates LP. As the world’s largest exclusive short selling investment firm, Kynikos Associates LP provides investment management services for domestic and offshore clients. Through investment funds, partnerships, corporations, and managed accounts – domestic and offshore – Kynikos Associates LP maintains private portfolios of securities for…
Jonathan Pollock
Jonathan Pollock is an Equity Partner, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Chief Trading Officer, and member of the Management, Risk, Valuation, Compliance and Operational Risk, and Allocation Committees at Elliott Management Corporation. Mr. Pollock is responsible for global situational investing, global trading, and operations. Mr. Pollock joined Elliott in 1989 as an Analyst, later…
Josh Resnick
Josh Resnick is the founder and managing partner of Jericho Capital, a hedge fund focused on investing in the global technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors. Prior to founding Jericho Capital, Josh was a key principal at TCS Capital, a global TMT hedge fund that he joined shortly after its launch in 2001. Prior to…
Mark S. Hoplamazian
Mark S. Hoplamazian was appointed to Hyatt Hotels Corporation’s board of directors in November 2006 and subsequently named president and chief executive officer in December 2006. Prior to his present position, Hoplamazian served as president of The Pritzker Organization (TPO), the principal financial and investment adviser for Pritzker family business interests. During his 17-year tenure…
Jean M. Hynes
Jean is one of Wellington’s three Managing Partners that are responsible for governance of the Wellington Management partnership, and has been since 2014. She has been appointed by the Managing Partners to succeed Brendan Swords as Chief Executive Officer of Wellington Management upon his retirement on 30 June 2021. Throughout her nearly 30 years at…
Joshua S. Friedman
Joshua S. Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC, a leading global alternative asset management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Canyon specializes in value-oriented investments for endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. Its investment strategies focus on distressed loans, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, securitized…
Lauren Taylor Wolfe
Lauren Taylor Wolfe is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital, an impact oriented active investing firm. Impactive Capital helps companies allocate capital effectively and ethically to drive more sustainable, profitable and valuable businesses for all stakeholders. Prior to founding Impactive she spent 10 years at Blue Harbour Group, a $3 billion activist investment firm,…
Edward A. Mulé
Edward Mulé is co-Founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Silver Point Capital, a private investing firm, focused on credit, distressed and special situations. Today, the Firm manages approximately $10.5 billion of invested and committed capital, across its Flagship distressed and special situations hedge funds, Distressed Opportunity private equity funds, and Specialty Credit Funds, which focus…
Jeffrey N. Vinik
Jeffrey N. Vinik. Mr. Vinik serves as Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Vinik Asset Management (the “Management Company”). He founded a predecessor to the Management Company (“VAM”) in 1996 and was its senior managing member. He wound down VAM in 2013 to focus on his ownership of the Tampa Bay…
Jay Kahn
Jay Kahn is responsible for Light Street’s public and private investments globally in the Internet and media sectors. In addition to managing Light Street’s public investments in Internet and media, Jay has led or co-led many of Light Street’s private investments including Slack, Pinterest (IPO), Toast, ezCater, Uber (IPO), Lyft (IPO), Harry’s (acquired by Edgewell),…
Arthur Young
Arthur Young is the Portfolio Manager and a Managing Partner of Tensile Capital Management, a firm he co-founded in San Francisco in 2012. He oversees the public equity investing process at Tensile and focuses on sourcing, researching and executing opportunistic value investments over a long-term horizon. With a focus on small and midcap companies, Arthur…
Scott Rupp
Scott Rupp is a Founding Partner of BITKRAFT Esports Ventures based in San Francisco. An interactive entertainment entrepreneur, investor and operating executive for over 20 years, Scott is also a senior advisor to Modern Times Group, a global leader in games and eSports, regarding their VC fund, M&A efforts & US expansion. Scott held co-founder…
Ron Suber
Ron Suber is the President Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Prosper. He wears many hats including entrepreneur, executive, sales, marketing, branding, mentor, student and coach. Ron acknowledges his success is from “Medium IQ, High EQ, High AQ (Adversity Quotient).” Ron’s background includes creating and executing successful strategies, raising debt and equity for fin-tech ventures, and…
Bruce Heyman
Ambassador (ret) Bruce Heyman is the co-founder of Uncharted LLC, an organization that convenes and connects diverse groups of Americans and Canadians for impact. There, he works on projects involving philanthropy, storytelling, and political activism. He is also the co-author of The Art of Diplomacy: Strengthening the Canada-U.S. Relationship in Times of Uncertainty, an in-depth…
Kevin Ulrich
Kevin Ulrich is the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager of Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C, a firm he co-founded in New York in 2003. In his role as Senior Portfolio Manager, he is primarily responsible for overseeing the firm’s portfolio management, risk management, asset allocation, and investment decisions. During his time leading Anchorage, the…
Hank Paulson
Hank Paulson is the founder and chairman of the Paulson Institute, which aims to advance sustainable economic growth, a cleaner environment and cross-border investments in the US and China. He is also the co-chair of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Paulson served as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, from…
Brad Keywell
Brad Keywell is a lifelong entrepreneur and co-founder of seven technology companies, a venture capital investor, a curator of cultural and innovation platforms, and a philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Uptake Technologies, an Industrial AI software platform harnessing predictive analytics to deliver outcomes of increased productivity, reliability, safety, and cybersecurity to global…
Philip C. Ordway
Philip C. Ordway is the Founder and Managing Principal of Anabatic Investment Partners, LLC, a concentrated, long-term investment partnership. Previously, Mr. Ordway was a Principal and Portfolio Manager at Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners, LLC. Mr. Ordway graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Education and Social Policy, and he earned his M.B.A. from the…
Constance Freedman
Constance Freedman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Moderne Ventures and the Moderne Passport, an early stage investment fund and industry immersion program which is focused on investing in technology companies in and around the multi-trillion dollar industries of real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance and home services. Constance has invested in more than 70…
Randall Rowe
Randy Rowe is Chairman of Green Courte Partners, LLC (“GCP”), a private equity real estate investment firm focused on niche real estate strategies. GCP currently has three active niche strategies: 1) near airport parking (“The Parking Spot”); 2) manufactured housing communities; and 3) active adult/independent living properties. Previously Mr. Rowe was a co-founder and Chairman…
Jeremy Schiffman
Jeremy Schiffman is a Managing Partner of Palestra Capital. Prior to founding Palestra, Mr. Schiffman was a partner at TPG-Axon Capital which he joined prior to launch in 2004. Previously, he was an investment professional with TPG Capital serving in its core private equity group since 2000. Prior to joining TPG Capital, Mr. Schiffman was…
Mark Lampert
Mr. Lampert is the founder and General Partner of BVF Partners L.P. (“BVF”), a San Francisco-based, private biotechnology investment firm established in 1993 that manages the Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. and related entities. Mr. Lampert has been active in the biotechnology industry since 1984, having served on the boards of directors of numerous public and…
Vivian Lau
W. Vivian Lau is the Managing Partner and Founder of One Tusk Investment Partners. Prior to One Tusk, Vivian was the Senior Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Serengeti Asset Management until January 2015, where she joined as a Founding Partner in October 2008. Serengeti was an opportunistic, value-based investing platform that was founded in…
Daniel O’Keefe
Daniel J. O’Keefe is a managing director of Artisan Partners and founding partner of the Global Value team. He is lead portfolio manager of the Artisan Global Value Strategy, which he has managed since the portfolio’s inception in July 2007. In addition, he is the portfolio co-manager of the Artisan Non-U.S. Value Strategy, which he…
Vivien Azer
Vivien Azer is a managing director and senior research analyst specializing in the beverage, tobacco, and cannabis sectors. Ms. Azer is the first senior Wall Street analyst to cover the emerging cannabis sector, resulting in notable press coverage across periodicals such as The Economist, Barron’s and Forbes. Ms. Azer’s coverage of the tobacco sector earned…
Seth Singerman
Seth Singerman is the Founder and Managing Principal of Singerman Real Estate, LLC (“SRE”), an opportunistic real estate investment firm that has deep experience executing complex transactions and unlocking embedded value through the ownership of properties, real estate loans and operating companies. SRE focuses on maximizing risk-adjusted returns through investments in both debt and equity…
Mathew Klody
Mathew T. Klody, CFA is the Founder and Managing Partner of MCN Capital Management LLC. MCN is a global, intrinsic value focused, long/short equity investment manager based in Oak Brook, IL. In addition to fundamental analysis, MCN employs an opportunistic, contrarian, behavioral based approach. At MCN, Mathew has developed an innovative approach to short selling,…
Bart Stephens
Bart Stephens is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in the blockchain technology sector and the first to raise a venture fund through an ICO. Bart Stephens is also a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Stephens Investment Management (SIM), a family owned and operated hedge fund…
Arne Duncan
As managing partner at Emerson Collective, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan returns to Chicago on a mission to improve the lives of young adults in his hometown. Through partnerships with local business leaders, community organizers, and nonprofit groups, Duncan aims to create job and life opportunities for disconnected youth between the ages of 17 and 24….
Alec Litowitz
Mr. Alec Litowitz is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Magnetar Capital, a leading alternative asset management firm. He also serves as Chairman of the firm’s Management Committee and is co-head of the Investment Committee. Litowitz began his financial services career in corporate finance at JP Morgan in New York focusing on the Financial…
Amos Meron
Amos Meron co-founded Empyrean Capital Partners in 2004. Mr. Meron has extensive experience spanning a 28-year investment management career overseeing a wide variety of investments in the special situations strategy. Prior to founding Empyrean, Mr. Meron was a Partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a member of the Arbitrage and Proprietary Equity…
Rajiv Jain
Rajiv is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of GQG Partners and also serves as the portfolio manager for all GQG Partners strategies. Mr. Jain joined GQG Partners in June 2016, with over 23 years of investment experience. Previously, Mr. Jain served as a Co-Chief Executive Officer (from July 2014) and Chief Investment Officer and…
Jimmy Levin
Jimmy Levin is the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Sculptor Capital and a member of Sculptor Capital’s Board of Directors. Mr. Levin joined Sculptor in 2006 and is the Chairperson of the Firm’s Portfolio Committee, the Chairperson of the Partner Management Committee and a member of the private investment committees. In his…
Arthur Kaz
Mr. Arthur Kaz is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Greenbriar Asset Management, LP (“Greenbriar”) an SEC registered Hedge Fund based in Chicago. Greenbriar focuses on opportunistic investing throughout the capital structure with an emphasis on stressed/distressed credit, event-driven, and special situations. Mr. Kaz has over 20 years of professional experience…
William Heard
William Heard is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Heard Capital LLC. Mr. Heard is a graduate of the Marquette University College of Business Administration with degrees in both Finance and Real Estate. Prior to starting Heard Capital LLC, Mr. Heard was a Special Situations Analyst for Stark Investments, a global alternative…
Matt Halbower
Matt is the Founder, CEO, CIO, and Portfolio Manager of Pentwater Capital Management. Matt’s experience in event driven investing comes from his years as a Portfolio Manager of event driven trading and distressed securities at Deephaven Capital Management, from his experience as the founder of the Deephaven Event Fund, and from his years of experience…
Josh Wolfe
Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and…
Debra A. Cafaro
Debra A. Cafaro is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ventas, Inc., an S&P 500 company with an enterprise value of $37 billion that owns 1,300 healthcare and senior living properties in North America and the United Kingdom. Under Ms. Cafaro’s leadership, begun in 1999, Ventas’s market capitalization rose to $26…
Ed Garden
Ed Garden is Chief Investment Officer and a Founding Partner of Trian Fund Management, L.P. (“Trian”). Mr. Garden, along with Nelson Peltz and Peter May, founded Trian in November 2005. Trian invests in under-performing and undervalued public companies and looks to work constructively with the management and Board of Directors to create lasting shareholder value….
John Lykouretzos
John T. Lykouretzos is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hoplite Capital Management, L.P. Founded in 2003, Hoplite is a global, opportunistic equity long/short fund focused on delivering attractive absolute returns through deep fundamental research and individual security selection. Hoplite manages approximately $2.8bn on behalf of its clients which include public pension plans, corporate…
Jonathan Gray
Jonathan D. Gray is Global Head of Real Estate and a member of the board of directors of Blackstone. He also sits on the firm’s Management Committee. Since joining Blackstone in 1992, Mr. Gray has helped build the largest real estate platform in the world with $94 billion in investor capital under management. Blackstone’s portfolio…
Leah Joy Zell
Leah Joy Zell is a nationally recognized expert in international investing, and a pioneer in the international small-cap category. She is the Founder and Lead Portfolio Manager of Lizard Investors LLC, an asset management firm that specializes in international small- to mid-cap equities. From 1992 to 2005, she was a co-founding partner and portfolio manager…
John Burbank
Mr. Burbank is the Founder, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Passport Capital. He oversees Passport’s investment activities and serves as Portfolio Manager of the firm’s flagship fund, Passport Global, as well as Passport Special Opportunities, Passport Long Short and Passport Liquid Long Short. Under Mr. Burbank’s leadership the firm has grown from US$800,000…
David Heller
David Heller is the co-Founder and a Portfolio Manager at Cloud Gate Capital, a fundamental long/short equity firm largely focused on US market opportunities. Launched in October 2012, the strategy takes a theme-based approach to target less crowded investment opportunities and has an explicit emphasis on generating alpha in the short portfolio. In addition, the…
Andy Greenberg
Andy Greenberg is the Managing Partner of Saker Management, LP, the investment manager for Saker Partners, LP, which was founded in 2013. Saker employs a fundamentally-based approach to event-driven investing in special situations and equity capital markets. He began his investing career at Citadel Investment Group, where he worked from 1996 to 2005 in risk…
Jonathan Litt
Jonathan Litt has over 22 years of experience as a global real estate strategist and an investor in both public real estate securities and direct property. Mr. Litt founded Land and Buildings in the summer of 2008 to take advantage of the opportunities uncovered by the global property bubble. Previously, Mr. Litt was Managing Director…
Steven A. Tananbaum
Beginning in early 2000, Steve Tananbaum founded and was instrumental in the building of GoldenTree Asset Management into an organization which is known for its bottom up value investment process, focused on the credit markets. GoldenTree has produced strong competitive returns broadly across product lines since its inception. Also known for its partnership culture, GoldenTree…
Soren Aandahl
Soren Aandahl is the Director of Research for Glaucus Research Group, the California based activist short seller. Mr. Aandahl has made many media and journalism appearances including CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Times, and Financial Times. Before joining Glaucus Research, Soren practiced law as an attorney for Kirkland and Ellis from 2008 to…
Andy Hall
Andrew J. Hall is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Astenbeck Capital Management LLC. Mr. Hall has been with Astenbeck since its inception in 2010. From 1991 through 2014 Mr. Hall was Chairman and CEO of Phibro where he worked for 32 years. Prior to Phibro, Mr. Hall was employed by British Petroleum. Mr. Hall…
Rupal J. Bhansali
Rupal is chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Ariel’s international and global equity strategies. In this capacity, she manages over $7 billion in portfolios for both institutional and retail clients. Her career and investment approach can be described in one word – “Unconventional”. Unlike most long-only managers, Rupal’s buyside career began over 20 years…
James E. Flynn
Jim is the Managing Partner of Deerfield. He joined Deerfield in 2000, focusing on pharmaceutical companies and gradually assuming broader responsibility throughout the firm. In 2004 Jim began co- managing the firm with Deerfield’s founder, Arnold Snider. Upon Arnie’s retirement in 2005, Jim assumed his current role overseeing Deerfield’s investment activities as well as the…
Nancy Prial
Nancy joined Essex in 2005. Prior to Essex, she spent six years at Burridge Growth Partners as Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer and four years at the Twentieth Century division of American Century Investors. She began her investment career in 1984 at Frontier Capital Management as a Fundamental Analyst and Portfolio Manager. Nancy…
Tim Hurd
Tim Hurd is the President & CIO of BlueSpruce Investments, a Chicago-based long-biased hedge fund manager with approximately $375 million in assets under management that launched in July 2013. Prior to founding BlueSpruce, Tim spent over 16 years at Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, where he was the Managing Director in charge of Madison Dearborn’s Financial…
Mike Wilkins
Michael Wilkins co-founded Kingsford Capital Management in 2001. Kingsford is a short-biased investment firm based in Pt. Richmond, CA. Prior to starting Kingsford, Mr. Wilkins was a partner at West Highland Capital, where he was employed from 1995-2001. He has also worked for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in corporate finance. Wilkins graduated from Stanford University…
Wally Weitz
Wally Weitz is the founder and president of Weitz Investment Management, Inc. A CFA charterholder, Wally is the portfolio manager of the Weitz Partners III Opportunity Fund and is co-portfolio manager of the Weitz Small/Mid-Cap Value (Hickory Fund), Large-Cap Value (Value Fund) and Multi-Cap Value (Partners Value Fund) strategies. After earning a BA in economics…
Michael Sacks
Michael J. Sacks is chief executive officer of Chicago-based Grosvenor Capital Management. Grosvenor is a leader in the alternative investment industry, specializing in public and private markets solutions that span hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure and real estate. Grosvenor currently manages over $47 billion for a globally diverse client base. Mr. Sacks joined Grosvenor in…
Mick McGuire
Mick McGuire is the Founder and Managing Partner of Marcato Capital Management. Based in San Francisco, Marcato manages a select number of passive and activist investments across all industries with a primary focus on opportunities in middle-market public equities. Mick has spent his entire career in private and public equity investing and holds an MBA…
Jonathan Kolatch
Mr. Kolatch founded Redwood Capital in August 2000. Prior to that, he worked for Goldman Sachs from 1982 to 1999. From 1997 through 1999, he was head of the Credit Arbitrage Group which was a proprietary trading group within the Fixed Income Department focusing on distressed securities, high yield bonds, leveraged loans and emerging market…
Mason Hawkins
Mason Hawkins is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Southeastern Asset Management, Inc., a $35 billion global investment management firm that employs a long-term, value approach to equity investing. Southeastern is the investment advisor to the Longleaf Partners family of mutual and UCITS funds, and also manages over 150 separate institutional accounts. Founded in 1975,…
Nehal Chopra
Nehal Chopra is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ratan Capital Management. Ratan seeks to identify mis-pricings in securities resulting from situations of corporate and structural change, including spin offs, transformational mergers, management change and bankruptcies. Prior to founding Ratan, Ms. Chopra managed a portfolio at Balyasny Asset Management, LP; where she focused on…
Peter Zaldivar
Peter Zaldivar is a principal and co-founder of Kabouter Management, LLC, a Chicago based international equities firm. Kabouter specializes in under-researched and/or misunderstood international small caps that are best positioned to benefit from long term secular trends. Kabouter also seeks to add value in a number of ways, most often by helping companies emerge from…
Stephen White
Stephen White is a principal and co-founding member of Castle Union LLC, a long/short hedge fund formed in 2012. The fund focuses on smaller distressed investments and other special situations that are prone to market inefficiencies. Immediately prior to co-founding Castle Union LLC, Mr. White was a portfolio manager at RMB Capital Management where he…
Dinakar Singh
Dinakar Singh is the founding partner of TPG- Axon Capital, a leading global investment firm. Through offices in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo, TPG-Axon invests across global markets and asset classes. The firm was founded by Mr. Singh in late 2004, in partnership with Texas Pacific Group. He was previously a partner at…
Rick Rieder
Rick Rieder, Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investments Sub-Committee. He is also…
Steve Kuhn
STEVE KUHN, PARTNER & HEAD OF FIXED INCOME TRADING. Steve is Head of Fixed Income Trading and is the lead Portfolio Manager for the Pine River Fixed Income Fund and Co-Portfolio Manager for the Pine River Liquid Mortgage Fund. Prior to joining Pine River in 2008, Steve was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at…
Mark Kingdon
Mark E. Kingdon is President and Founder of the Firm and a Member of the Executive Committee. He is also the Sector Head for Asia. Emerging Markets and Technology. Mark has 40 years of investment experience. Prior to founding Kingdon in April 1983, Mark worked for eight years at another investment firm, Century Capital Associates,…
Jeffrey E. Gundlach
Mr. Gundlach is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of DoubleLine. He was formerly associated with TCW where he was Chief Investment Officer and head of fixed income activities. He is recognized as an expert in bond and fixed income investments. His investment strategies have been featured in leading publications including The New…
Steve Eisman
Steven Eisman is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Emrys. Mr. Eisman has over 21 years of investing experience and has been a Portfolio Manager since 2004. Prior to founding Emrys, Mr. Eisman was a Partner and the Senior Portfolio Manager of the FrontPoint Financial Services Fund, which began operations in March 2004, and the…
Ari Levy
Ari Levy is the founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Lakeview Investment Group, a Chicago-based fundamentally driven long/short hedge fund formed in 2005 for the purpose of exploiting inefficiencies at the small and mid-end of the global equity capitalization spectrum. Prior to founding Lakeview, Mr. Levy served as a Vice President and Share Partner…
Kelly Cardwell
Kelly Cardwell is the sole manager of Central Square Management LLC. The flagship Central Square Capital LP fund was formed in 2007 as a concentrated, value oriented long/short equity fund. In 2009 Mr. Cardwell was named one of Institutional Investor News’ Rising Stars of Hedge Funds. Previously, he worked at Fidelity Investments as both an…
Jeffrey Ubben
JEFFREY W. UBBEN is a Founder, Managing Partner, and member of the Management Committee of Inclusive Capital Partners. Mr. Ubben is a retired Founder of ValueAct Capital, where he was Chief Executive Officer, member of the Management Committee, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Ubben also founded and serves as Portfolio Manager of the…
Steven Romick
Mr. Romick is Co-Managing partner of First Pacific Advisors, LLC, a Los Angeles-based investment manager with $19.2 Billion under management in equity, fixed income, and alternative strategies. Mr. Romick is a value investor with a proven ability to build strategies with an absolute return focus that have generated superior risk-adjusted returns over full market cycles….