Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz is Chief Executive Officer and a founding partner of Trian Fund Management, L.P. (“Trian Partners”). Founded in November 2005 by Mr. Peltz, Peter May and Edward Garden, Trian Partners seeks to invest in undervalued and under-performing companies and to work closely with the management of those companies to enhance shareholder value through a…
Alex Klabin
Alexander Klabin is Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Senator Investment Group, a New York-based registered investment adviser founded in 2008. Senator manages private investment funds that pursue credit and equity investments in both public and private securities. The firm manages more than $3.5 billion in assets on behalf of pension funds, endowments, foundations,…
James Grant
James Grant, financial journalist and historian, is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the investment markets. His new book, The Forgotten Depression, 1921: the Crash that Cured Itself, a history of America’s last governmentally unmedicated business-cycle downturn, won the 2015 Hayek Prize of the Manhattan Institute for Policy…
Frank Brosens
Frank Brosens is a co-founder of Taconic Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy firm principally focused on event investing with $7 billion in assets under management. He is primarily involved in management and risk control, and oversees Taconic’s investment activities. Mr. Brosens spent 15 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was a general partner. While…
Kyle Bass
Mr. Bass is the principal and managing partner of Hayman Capital Management L.P. Hayman Capital Management, formed in December 2005, serves as the investment manager to private funds focused on global event-driven, residential mortgage-backed securities and asymmetrically priced “tail” opportunities. Previously, Mr. Bass co-managed private funds with strategies focused on sub-prime credit. Mr. Bass is…
Barry Sternlicht
Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm he formed in 1991 that is focused on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, energy infrastructure and securities trading. Mr. Sternlicht also serves as Chairman of Starwood Property Trust, the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the U.S….
Thomas A. Russo
Thomas A. Russo joined Gardner Russo & Gardner as a partner in 1989. Eugene Gardner, Thomas Russo and Eugene Gardner, Jr., as partners, each manage individual separate accounts and share investment approaches and strategies. In addition, Thomas Russo serves as General Partner to Semper Vic partnerships. Mr. Russo oversees $4 billion through separately managed accounts…
Michael Milken
Mike Milken is often said to have revolutionized modern capital markets, making them more democratic and dynamic. A Washington Post column said he “helped create the conditions for America’s explosion of wealth and creativity,” a process Business Week said “shook the defeatist Establishment out of its gloom.” Starting in 1969, he financed thousands of companies…
Marc Lasry
Marc Lasry is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager with approximately $12 billion in assets under management specializing in distressed debt investing. Avenue, founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York City, has 11 offices around the world. Avenue’s core strategies focus on distressed and…
John L. Keeley Jr.
John L. Keeley, Jr. founded Keeley Investment Corp., a FINRA Member broker-dealer, in 1976. Building on the success of Keeley Investment Corp., John founded Keeley Asset Management Corp., an SEC registered investment adviser, in 1982. KAMCO currently manages over $6 billion in assets, which are comprised of registered mutual funds, pension funds, private foundations and…
Michael Elrad
Michael Elrad co-founded GEM in 1994 with Barry Malkin and Norm Geller. Michael, Barry and Norm continue to be the Senior Managing Partners of GEM Realty Capital and are responsible for formulating GEM’s corporate strategy. GEM Realty Capital is a Chicago-based real estate investment company that manages over $4 billion in assets and invests in…
Leon Cooperman
After 25 years of service, Lee retired from his positions as a General Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management at the end of 1991 in order to organize a private investment partnership, under the direction of Omega Advisors, Inc. At Goldman Sachs, Lee…
Meredith Whitney
Meredith Whitney is the CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC, a macro and strategy-driven investment research firm. Well followed for her core research, Ms. Whitney and her team also focus on a broad section of financials including large, small, and mid-size banks, brokers, independent commercial and consumer finance companies. Prior to founding Meredith Whitney…
Doug Silverman
Doug Silverman is Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Senator Investment Group. Senator manages approximately $2.5 billion in assets with a focus on distressed, value, event, and special situation investments in credit and equity. Prior to founding Senator in February 2008, Mr. Silverman spent six years at York Capital Management where he was most…
Larry Robbins
Larry Robbins is the Founder, Portfolio Manager and CEO of Glenview Capital Management. In its tenth year of operation, Glenview manages approximately $4.5B in assets across three hedge fund products. Prior to founding Glenview, Larry spent six years as an analyst and partner at Omega Advisors on their US equity long/short team. He joined Omega…
David Herro
David Herro is the Chief Investment Officer-International Equities at Harris Associates L.P. and serves as the Portfolio Manager of The Oakmark International Fund, The Oakmark International Small Cap Fund, and The Oakmark Global Select Fund. He was named Morningstar’s International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year for 2006; and International-Stock Fund Manager of the Decade for…
Brian J. Feltzin
Brian J. Feltzin is the managing member of Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C., a Chicago-based long/short equity manager that employs a disciplined investment process designed to identify materially mispriced stocks. Sheffield adheres to a deep-value, contrarian investment philosophy and conducts in-depth fundamental research, primarily on companies in North America, Western Europe and Australia. Prior to founding…
Richard H. Driehaus
Richard H. Driehaus, born and raised in Chicago, is a multi-faceted individual. His business success is enhanced by his many philanthropic efforts in Chicago and around the world. As founder of Driehaus Capital Management LLC, Mr. Driehaus is sole architect of its highly successful investment style. The firm is guided by his commitment to excellence,…
William Browder
William Browder is the Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, a leading global asset management firm. After eleven years of investing exclusively in Russia, in April 2007 Mr. Browder launched Hermitage Global, a deep value public equity fund focusing on emerging and frontier markets. Mr. Browder is a leading shareholder rights activist and has…
William Ackman
William Ackman is the CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., a SEC registered investment adviser founded in 2003. Pershing Square is a concentrated research-intensive fundamental value investor in long and occasionally short investments in the public markets. Prior to forming Pershing Square, Mr. Ackman co-founded Gotham Partners Management Co., LLC, an…
Ricky Sandler
Ricky founded Eminence Capital in 1999. Today, Eminence is a ~$7.2B global investment management organization. As CEO and CIO of Eminence, Ricky is responsible for setting the firm’s strategic direction as well as directly managing its 20+ person investment team and diversified investment portfolio. Prior to launching Eminence, Ricky was co-founder and co- general partner…
N. David Samra
N. David Samra is a managing director and founding partner of the Global Value team. He is lead portfolio manager of the Artisan Non-U.S. Value strategy, which he has managed since the portfolio’s inception on 1 July 2002. In addition, he is the portfolio co-manager of the Artisan Global Value strategy, which he has co-managed…
John W. Rogers Jr.
John W. Rogers, Jr. is Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm offers six no-load mutual funds for individual investors and defined contribution plans as well as separately managed accounts for institutions and high net worth individuals. After working for 2½ years as a stockbroker…
Barry Rosenstein
Barry Rosenstein is the founder and Managing Partner of JANA Partners LLC, an event driven hedge fund located in New York. JANA Partners applies a private equity style research approach to the public markets, focusing on companies with a compelling valuation and a catalyst to realize value. In addition to fundamental investing, JANA has a…
Richard Perry
Richard has been CEO of Perry Capital since 1988. Prior to 1988, Richard was in the equity arbitrage area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He was also an adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he taught a course in the finance department. Richard serves on the board…
Steve Mandel
Steve Mandel is the founder of Lone Pine Capital, a long/short and long-only equity money manager which he started in 1997. Prior to founding Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel was managing director and consumer analyst at Tiger Management Corporation (1990-1997), mass-market retailing analyst at Goldman, Sachs (1984-1990) and consultant at Mars and Company (1982-1984). Mr. Mandel…
James Litinsky
Jim Litinsky is the Founder and Managing Member of JHL Capital Group LLC, a fundamental, value-driven, opportunistic investment firm. JHL’s goal is to provide superior risk-adjusted returns in any market environment, with a strong focus on capital preservation. Prior to JHL, Jim was a member of the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund at Fortress Investment Group…
Ken Griffin
In 1987, Ken Griffin, a then-19-year-old sophomore at Harvard University, started trading from his dorm room with a fax machine, a personal computer and a telephone. From this modest but ambitious beginning, Ken caught the attention of hedge fund pioneer and co-founder of Chicago-based Glenwood Partners, Frank Meyer, earning him the opportunity to establish what…
David Einhorn
David Einhorn is president of Greenlight Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight Capital is a value-oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss. Greenlight’s investment philosophy is to combine the analytical discipline of determining fair value with a practical understanding…
John A. Canning Jr.
John A. Canning, Jr. is Chairman of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC (“MDP”), which specializes in management buyout and special equity investing. MDP has raised investment funds with more than $18 billion in limited partner commitments from over 350 endowments, pension funds and other sophisticated investors. Prior to founding MDP in 1993, Mr. Canning spent 24…
Dmitry Balyasny
Dmitry Balyasny is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Balyasny Asset Management L.P (BAM), which was founded in December 2001. Dmitry is actively involved in daily firm investing, and chairs the Executive Committee. He began his trading career with Schonfeld Securities, LLC in 1994, has been an active investor in hedge funds since…
Sam Zell
Sam Zell is a global, industry-agnostic entrepreneur and investor. He has a long track record of turning around troubled companies and assets, leading industry consolidations, and bringing companies to the public markets. His current investments are in logistics, health care, manufacturing, agribusiness, energy, and real estate. Sam is the chairman of Equity Group Investments, the…